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We're playing a football match on Wednesday against West Ham.
The kick off is at 19:45.
It should last about 90 minutes.
Hopefully we'll see more of this:
Have a good week everyone. Stay safe, work hard and enjoy the football.
Love you all lots and lots xoxoxo
The kick off is at 19:45.
It should last about 90 minutes.
Hopefully we'll see more of this:
Have a good week everyone. Stay safe, work hard and enjoy the football.
Love you all lots and lots xoxoxo
West ham coaches begin to arrive near the ground:
This " best team for years" lost to Bournemouth, only just drew with Norwich and struggled against Sunderland all at home.
I thnk today is when they are all getting their suits made and starting their pre cup final build up.
This is all they have in their sad existence, they have won fuck all for 36 years. They actually celebrated getting into the Europa qualifiers via the fair lay league. Look how " the best West Ham team for years " did in that.
They are just a shit stain on society, they are the most irrelevant being in existence, they are run by people who make their wealth from animal and dwarf porn, they are lead by a clueless Pug faced Trout who clams she is the best business woman in the country and yet lead a project which saw them owning their own ground and swapping it for a rented unfit for football stadium.
The most Pointless, pathetic, Oxygen stealing, classless bunch of uneducated Wankers that ever walked Gods earth.
Oh and 2-1 to the mighty Spurs..
I thnk today is when they are all getting their suits made and starting their pre cup final build up.
This is all they have in their sad existence, they have won fuck all for 36 years. They actually celebrated getting into the Europa qualifiers via the fair lay league. Look how " the best West Ham team for years " did in that.
They are just a shit stain on society, they are the most irrelevant being in existence, they are run by people who make their wealth from animal and dwarf porn, they are lead by a clueless Pug faced Trout who clams she is the best business woman in the country and yet lead a project which saw them owning their own ground and swapping it for a rented unfit for football stadium.
The most Pointless, pathetic, Oxygen stealing, classless bunch of uneducated Wankers that ever walked Gods earth.
Oh and 2-1 to the mighty Spurs..
SSBilly coming to upton park
smash those cunts!!
smash those cunts!!
I've never got over them singing Woolwich songs on lasagna-gate day. I expect more small time fuckwittery from them Wednesday.
I want their fun spoiled early doors....0-3 in ten minutes. I don't want this to go the wire. Partly because my heart can't take much more of this but every second of hope they have of ruining the party is like a dagger in my heart.
Fucking small time eal munching, pikey cretins.
I want their fun spoiled early doors....0-3 in ten minutes. I don't want this to go the wire. Partly because my heart can't take much more of this but every second of hope they have of ruining the party is like a dagger in my heart.
Fucking small time eal munching, pikey cretins.
This is a particularly difficult line-up to predict. I don’t get to watch the players train – I don’t even know if that’s today, yesterday or both. I don’t get to ask the players how they’re feeling in terms of fatigue. And I don’t get to run late fitness tests on those returning from injury.
What I’m pretty sure on is our back 6, our front 1 and that there will be some, but not much, rotation. Here’s about as good a guess as I can manage:
Onomah, Carroll and Bentaleb continue to threaten for game time.
So once again I’ve predicted that Alli will be rested and time and time again I’ve been wrong. I didn’t think he’d start last Thursday against Fiorentina and then he spent 84 minutes endlessly hounding Fiorentina’s defence. But, although he did once again start against Swansea, despite me suspecting otherwise, he did finally look tired. So, I’m doubling down and saying that this is finally the game he gets a nice sit down for – at least until he comes on as a sub. ***Team news now says he's a doubt, so I'm feeling more confident about this
Does that mean Eriksen starting his 3rd consecutive game with a 4th (giant) game to come soon? Maybe he’ll be rested and Lamela or Son will get a stint in the middle.
Moving on to Eriksen: he played as a ‘deep-lying playmaker’ (the ‘2’ in a 4231) against Swansea and as a heartbroken Luka Modric fan it’s something I’ve been hopefully waiting for, for a long time. (With a renewed anticipation following Eriksen playing deeper and deeper since we last played West Ham.)
I thought he played very well in the role, especially in the second half, but even though his defensive play was impressive I suspect it’s a party piece that Poch will save for playing against teams that will set up to play defence-first rather than his main role going forward.
Although West Ham would be stupid to play their usual attacking game I don’t think they’ll go as far as playing defensively enough to count as that ‘parked bus’ style that would see us play Eriksen deeper, especially as they’ll be at home. Instead I expect them to play more of a pro-active counter-attack; desperate to win the ball and break forward in numbers at every opportunity.
When we played West Ham before they were missing Dimitri Payet. He’s become more than the excellent player he is for West Ham, he’s a talisman that has come to represent the change to exciting, attacking football under Slaven Bilic. The difference in West Ham’s performances with and without Payet are night and day even to the extent that his returning substation against Liverpool seemed to lift the whole team in a way that made made me think they might overcome their 2 goal deficit.
It might be tempting to think suffocating West Ham is as simple as man-marking Payet but we must be careful of other attacking influences such as Lanzini and Antonio – although the latter may well be forced to play at right back due to an injury crisis there.
I think West Ham will use something of a 4321 (not entirely different to our own shape). This will help them to flood the centre in attempt to match our narrow attacking overload. They’ll have a lot of creativity, centrally, between Payet, Lanzini and Song and will look to use that to supply the full-backs as they in turn try to put early crosses into Carroll.
Before the 4-1 victory over West Ham earlier this season I wrote about Tottenham’s difficulty dealing with target men like Andy Carroll. We silenced Carroll that day by cutting off the supply but I doubt we’ll be entirely successful in that at The Boleyn Ground. Instead we now have the aerially dominant Kevin Wimmer.
Wimmer’s been so impressive in Vertonghen’s absence that the question of who takes the role upon Vertonghen’s return isn’t entirely preposterous. Okay, so Jan is still the favourite but I wonder if Wimmer might get a look-in for games, like this, against tall forwards or if one of the three CBs will be considered an option in defensive midfield in order to rest Dier. What a predicament to have.
Davies and Trippier will have their work cut out as they try to pin back and beat Cresswell and Antonio whilst staying mindful of Payet and Lanzini. Eriksen, or whoever starts in the 10 role, will bet set to mark Song.
Last time against West Ham we pinned Noble and Kouyate back into very defensive roles and if we can do that again (but this time with Song too) whilst finding a way to encourage Payet and Lanzini to stay forward we will create a gap in the midfield area from which we can dictate our play and isolate their attack.
Find more on Twitter: @TTTactics
What I’m pretty sure on is our back 6, our front 1 and that there will be some, but not much, rotation. Here’s about as good a guess as I can manage:
Onomah, Carroll and Bentaleb continue to threaten for game time.
So once again I’ve predicted that Alli will be rested and time and time again I’ve been wrong. I didn’t think he’d start last Thursday against Fiorentina and then he spent 84 minutes endlessly hounding Fiorentina’s defence. But, although he did once again start against Swansea, despite me suspecting otherwise, he did finally look tired. So, I’m doubling down and saying that this is finally the game he gets a nice sit down for – at least until he comes on as a sub. ***Team news now says he's a doubt, so I'm feeling more confident about this
Does that mean Eriksen starting his 3rd consecutive game with a 4th (giant) game to come soon? Maybe he’ll be rested and Lamela or Son will get a stint in the middle.
Moving on to Eriksen: he played as a ‘deep-lying playmaker’ (the ‘2’ in a 4231) against Swansea and as a heartbroken Luka Modric fan it’s something I’ve been hopefully waiting for, for a long time. (With a renewed anticipation following Eriksen playing deeper and deeper since we last played West Ham.)
I thought he played very well in the role, especially in the second half, but even though his defensive play was impressive I suspect it’s a party piece that Poch will save for playing against teams that will set up to play defence-first rather than his main role going forward.
Although West Ham would be stupid to play their usual attacking game I don’t think they’ll go as far as playing defensively enough to count as that ‘parked bus’ style that would see us play Eriksen deeper, especially as they’ll be at home. Instead I expect them to play more of a pro-active counter-attack; desperate to win the ball and break forward in numbers at every opportunity.
When we played West Ham before they were missing Dimitri Payet. He’s become more than the excellent player he is for West Ham, he’s a talisman that has come to represent the change to exciting, attacking football under Slaven Bilic. The difference in West Ham’s performances with and without Payet are night and day even to the extent that his returning substation against Liverpool seemed to lift the whole team in a way that made made me think they might overcome their 2 goal deficit.
It might be tempting to think suffocating West Ham is as simple as man-marking Payet but we must be careful of other attacking influences such as Lanzini and Antonio – although the latter may well be forced to play at right back due to an injury crisis there.
I think West Ham will use something of a 4321 (not entirely different to our own shape). This will help them to flood the centre in attempt to match our narrow attacking overload. They’ll have a lot of creativity, centrally, between Payet, Lanzini and Song and will look to use that to supply the full-backs as they in turn try to put early crosses into Carroll.
Before the 4-1 victory over West Ham earlier this season I wrote about Tottenham’s difficulty dealing with target men like Andy Carroll. We silenced Carroll that day by cutting off the supply but I doubt we’ll be entirely successful in that at The Boleyn Ground. Instead we now have the aerially dominant Kevin Wimmer.
Wimmer’s been so impressive in Vertonghen’s absence that the question of who takes the role upon Vertonghen’s return isn’t entirely preposterous. Okay, so Jan is still the favourite but I wonder if Wimmer might get a look-in for games, like this, against tall forwards or if one of the three CBs will be considered an option in defensive midfield in order to rest Dier. What a predicament to have.
Davies and Trippier will have their work cut out as they try to pin back and beat Cresswell and Antonio whilst staying mindful of Payet and Lanzini. Eriksen, or whoever starts in the 10 role, will bet set to mark Song.
Last time against West Ham we pinned Noble and Kouyate back into very defensive roles and if we can do that again (but this time with Song too) whilst finding a way to encourage Payet and Lanzini to stay forward we will create a gap in the midfield area from which we can dictate our play and isolate their attack.
Find more on Twitter: @TTTactics
Boom, my niece was just born.
Three points are in the bag!
Three points are in the bag!
Don't the ref had anything to do with it at all. We got outplayed. Sometimes you have to take that on the chin.
And the irony is that their chairman is Jewish.I really fucking hate West Ham and their racist, anti-sematic fans.
I so wish, I had got a ticket a ticket to this match, as I know the atmosphere will be absolutely incredible and our support will be out of this world. As my mateSouthStand Billy would say, we are so much better than this tin-pot outfit and we can beat them again.
1-3 Spurs
COYS!!!!
The average West Ham fan is a moron. There are nice ones too of course; I work with a couple who are top blokes but even they admit that they're embarrassed by the state of some of their fans. Apparently there's one guy who's a regular at their pub who has a tattoo of 'Death too Jews' on his chest (yes, he managed to misspell 'to') and on his back he has a big tattoo of Jesus with a halo (the king of the Jews).
He sounds like a real light bulb.
I am just going to get pissed to steady the nerves. If we win, great, if we lose I will kick the cat in the bollocks and have drunken sex with the girlfriend *
* No I do not have any pics (of cat or girlfriend).
* No I do not have any pics (of cat or girlfriend).
A missed opportunity rather than a demoralising loss.
Might be a blessing in disguise that we didn't go top with so long still to go, but we should've got a point at least.
A few points:
Davies - Everything he touched went to shit tonight. He's had good performances in the past so still has more than enough credit in the bank.
Wimmer - A fine replacement, but I can't wait for the return of Vertonghen now. We just aren't as solid without him.
Chadli - Has proven time and again he's useful off the bench but shouldn't be starting - especially in big games like this.
Kane: Has been woefully out of form for some weeks now but unlike the beginning of the season, nobody has picked up on it because he's kept ticking over with penalties. A 2/10 performance tonight. Didn't hold the ball up at all, and missed 2 sitters which could've won us the game. He's been missing a lot of scorable chances lately and his dip in form is alarming with the business end of the season coming up now. If it wasn't for his legendary status I'm sure more people would be questioning him.
Not a knee-jerk, we're still in with a very good shout, and given the other results, we haven't really lost any ground in the race. On the balance of things we still played our game tonight but West Ham had a plan and executed it perfectly. Woolwich on the other hand look a shambles right now, and I'm optimistic we'll give them a right hiding on the weekend. COYS
Might be a blessing in disguise that we didn't go top with so long still to go, but we should've got a point at least.
A few points:
Davies - Everything he touched went to shit tonight. He's had good performances in the past so still has more than enough credit in the bank.
Wimmer - A fine replacement, but I can't wait for the return of Vertonghen now. We just aren't as solid without him.
Chadli - Has proven time and again he's useful off the bench but shouldn't be starting - especially in big games like this.
Kane: Has been woefully out of form for some weeks now but unlike the beginning of the season, nobody has picked up on it because he's kept ticking over with penalties. A 2/10 performance tonight. Didn't hold the ball up at all, and missed 2 sitters which could've won us the game. He's been missing a lot of scorable chances lately and his dip in form is alarming with the business end of the season coming up now. If it wasn't for his legendary status I'm sure more people would be questioning him.
Not a knee-jerk, we're still in with a very good shout, and given the other results, we haven't really lost any ground in the race. On the balance of things we still played our game tonight but West Ham had a plan and executed it perfectly. Woolwich on the other hand look a shambles right now, and I'm optimistic we'll give them a right hiding on the weekend. COYS
i feel pretty sure that this match will be our toughest of the season. It's the last EVER game at Upton Park and West Ham will be throwing everything at us. The crowd may well be the most aggressive that our players will play in over their entire career as well. "Big game" doesn't come close to defining this one.
I'm having a big tarmaccing job done Wed so UP will be half empty.
We will win this.
We will win this.
The Bobby moore 1966 statue has been boarded up for safety reasons for tomorrow night..
That's one less thing I have to do tomorrow..
Sorry to ask mate, but do you have a weight problem?