THE STIFFMEISTER 16,798 Posted May 11 Report Share Posted May 11 17 hours ago, WILF said: What you mean is, when I stop kidding myself on ! lol You should have said that 10 years ago 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NEWKID 28,420 Posted May 11 Report Share Posted May 11 2 hours ago, WILF said: I was trying to be polite and keep quiet ! lol That's not like you! Lol Not much to gloat about these days, beating UTD is almost a given...17 league losses!! WTF.. I've said for ages it's not (for me anyway) a question of not winning trophies, it's the whole way the club is being ran, the chopping of managers, the constant awful recruitment of players..the turning decent players into shit then loaning them out only to watch them become world beaters, selling McTominay and keeping casimero on £375k a week.. the list goes on.... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 49,667 Posted May 11 Author Report Share Posted May 11 2 hours ago, NEWKID said: That's not like you! Lol Not much to gloat about these days, beating UTD is almost a given...17 league losses!! WTF.. I've said for ages it's not (for me anyway) a question of not winning trophies, it's the whole way the club is being ran, the chopping of managers, the constant awful recruitment of players..the turning decent players into shit then loaning them out only to watch them become world beaters, selling McTominay and keeping casimero on £375k a week.. the list goes on.... I think for those of us of a certain age, we look on in disbelief at Utd now…..just when you think it can’t get worse, it does ! I don’t think this Radcliffe bloke is the answer either, I think he is in there looking for meat off a corpse…..just doing what the Americans have done and using Utd to advance his own opportunities. Spurs are the same, all be it better run, but in so much as I don’t think the owner gives two fucks about football….its just a thing that football gave birth to and is now attached. We have that little midget ourselves who, if he hadn’t made a gazillion quid selling pictures of Mary Millingtons gash would be pugged up in some council gaff in Dagenham with those fake Greek pillars outside the front door holding up the porch ! lol We all know what should happen with these lovely grounds and great facilities (all be it yours is falling down by the looks of it? lol) and the things proper football people should be doing with such assets…..but they don’t seem to give a f**k ? Im saying that like I should be shocked but I don’t suppose any of us are……it all comes home to roost eventually when they realise that at football clubs, being a football club that does proper things matters. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 31,310 Posted May 14 Report Share Posted May 14 (edited) Sitting indoors cheering the O's on tonight id love to see them back in the Championship after all these years.....6 years ago Leyton Orient were struggling along in the National League it was a bad time for the club.....got promoted to League 2 spent a few years there then got promoted to League 1,now in the play off's for the Championship......be a smashing little story if they can do it. Stands at 2 - 2 at the moment.....come on the O's !! Edited May 14 by gnasher16 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pardus 1,610 Posted May 15 Report Share Posted May 15 Talk about a freak accident, he suffered a ruptured intestine after this clash with the goalpost, must have hit it with some serious force. Instagram WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM 29K likes, 165 comments - itvnews on May 14, 2025: "Awoniyi collided with a post late on against Leicester City and... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pesky1972 5,634 Posted May 15 Report Share Posted May 15 Duncan Ferguson has a book out so doing the rounds on some of the podcast thingies. Type of player who probably wouldn’t fit with the style of play in the EPL now but was effective back in the day. Lifestyle and discipline maybe held him back a wee bit, but still a hero with the blue half of Liverpool. Be a handy lad to have by your side if you got into a bit of barney, but you maybe wouldn’t want him in your quiz team. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 49,667 Posted May 16 Author Report Share Posted May 16 12 hours ago, pesky1972 said: Duncan Ferguson has a book out so doing the rounds on some of the podcast thingies. Type of player who probably wouldn’t fit with the style of play in the EPL now but was effective back in the day. Lifestyle and discipline maybe held him back a wee bit, but still a hero with the blue half of Liverpool. Be a handy lad to have by your side if you got into a bit of barney, but you maybe wouldn’t want him in your quiz team. I watched him on the “Stick to football” thing, he came across as a very modest ordinary lad…..I liked that. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eastcoast 4,500 Posted May 17 Report Share Posted May 17 FA cup final today. Not a good game to watch other than the underdog being victorious. But, how bad does Guardiola look? Arms like pipe cleaners. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 31,310 Posted May 18 Report Share Posted May 18 Good day for Palace yesterday good for them......i wish my Hammers could be more like that instead of all this romantic " loyalty " stuff with players like Cresswell,Coufal,Fabianski all pledging eternal love to the club saying what a wonderful family the club is....f**k all that we've moved grounds to be a big club thats going to win stuff bollocks to going back to the morally upstanding righteous local club we was before....or else what was the point in moving in the first place id like to see us a little bit more ruthless in our dealings. The only saving grace this season is that Spurs and Mancs were seemingly just as bad/worse than us ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 49,667 Posted May 19 Author Report Share Posted May 19 11 hours ago, gnasher16 said: Good day for Palace yesterday good for them......i wish my Hammers could be more like that instead of all this romantic " loyalty " stuff with players like Cresswell,Coufal,Fabianski all pledging eternal love to the club saying what a wonderful family the club is....f**k all that we've moved grounds to be a big club thats going to win stuff bollocks to going back to the morally upstanding righteous local club we was before....or else what was the point in moving in the first place id like to see us a little bit more ruthless in our dealings. The only saving grace this season is that Spurs and Mancs were seemingly just as bad/worse than us ! I don’t take all that too seriously myself mate, as in, it’s like going to a retirement do….its a nice thing but it’s all a charade really, so you smile and join in and say what a lovely chap old Fred Bloggs was and then f**k off and forget him. Everyone feels all warm for 5 minutes then it’s business as usual. The only one I liked from yesterday’s outpouring of made up solidarity and friendliness was Vardy getting his send off……the lad came from local football, ended up the record goal scorer and has the trophy’s to back it up…..perfect ! That deserves a bit of recognition in my book. Happy with that Palace result, I think most of us would have been rooting for any small club against those bunch. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 31,310 Posted May 19 Report Share Posted May 19 3 hours ago, WILF said: I don’t take all that too seriously myself mate, as in, it’s like going to a retirement do….its a nice thing but it’s all a charade really, so you smile and join in and say what a lovely chap old Fred Bloggs was and then f**k off and forget him. Everyone feels all warm for 5 minutes then it’s business as usual. The only one I liked from yesterday’s outpouring of made up solidarity and friendliness was Vardy getting his send off……the lad came from local football, ended up the record goal scorer and has the trophy’s to back it up…..perfect ! That deserves a bit of recognition in my book. Happy with that Palace result, I think most of us would have been rooting for any small club against those bunch. Thats the problem though mate it is serious....especially in a small squad like ours.....we're giving away millions in wages on players with no future at the club....Cresswell hasnt been a regular for 5 years odd,Nobles legs had gone 5 years before we stopped paying his wages,Antonio was already on his way out now we've got all sentimental over the fact he cant drive in a straight line....its all small club " local lads " mentality that a lad like Paqueta comes to the club as a brilliant talent,sees how easy it is to just " coast " and ends up an average player.......the club has to rid itself of these niceties and develop a ruthless edge off and on the pitch. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bosun11 537 Posted May 19 Report Share Posted May 19 We did OK yesterday... UTFT Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Astanley 11,630 Posted May 19 Report Share Posted May 19 56 minutes ago, Bosun11 said: We did OK yesterday... UTFT The golden vision ,probably my favourite ever player 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 49,667 Posted May 19 Author Report Share Posted May 19 2 hours ago, gnasher16 said: Thats the problem though mate it is serious....especially in a small squad like ours.....we're giving away millions in wages on players with no future at the club....Cresswell hasnt been a regular for 5 years odd,Nobles legs had gone 5 years before we stopped paying his wages,Antonio was already on his way out now we've got all sentimental over the fact he cant drive in a straight line....its all small club " local lads " mentality that a lad like Paqueta comes to the club as a brilliant talent,sees how easy it is to just " coast " and ends up an average player.......the club has to rid itself of these niceties and develop a ruthless edge off and on the pitch. Agree with all that 100% mate, but you and I know it’s been that way for a long time….like, as long as I can remember. You're a bit older than me and obviously a born and bred local lad so you probably remember when there was a few quality boys who stuck around….but for me it’s almost always been that, we always sold all the class stuff. You are absolutely spot on that the “bang average” mentality has to change but realistically do we think it will ?……you just live with it don’t you mate. I’ve said for a long time (and it wasn’t out of disloyalty or wanting to be something we ain’t) that we are two bob about everything…..the training ground from what I read and have seen is embarrassing at premier league level……it’s just who we are. Is it right ?, no, not at any level…..excellence, and by excellence I mean being as good as you can possibly be at everything and looking like that’s what you want, should be standard. But let’s face it, who the f**k is taking anything seriously when your owner is pulling up dressed like a miget version of a cross between Micheal Jackson and a Russian Dictator and doing things like putting his son in charge of the women’s team because he can…..like, give the boy a job type stuff ! lol it’s funny mate, but funny in that usual West Ham way of if you didn’t laugh you’d cry. lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pardus 1,610 Posted May 19 Report Share Posted May 19 I would be grateful if we could all have a minutes silence for our very own Gary Lineker after he was forced to resign from the BBC over an offensive Tweet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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