West Ham are complete failures! Let's all laugh at 'em!

[thebish]

Let it drop man

ok - if you do.

[Lofthouse Lower]

Anyway, time for the mods to clean up your mess I think.

Back on topic.

[thebish]

just drop it, eh? (your post count is healthy enough)

meanwhile - let's all laugh at west ham...

from KUMB... looking forward to saturday..

Kevin Davies will score.

with our record against Bolton, I reckon we might as well just give them the 3pts now and save a long journey.

bolton definately do not want us to go down. why? becos they see us as their regular 4 points a season team.i think this is a *kin joke.west ham boltons soft touch, if grant and downes dont drum this fact into our players and set them up to lay this ghost forever they need shooting. this has become a pride thing now and the players need to realise they owe us fans especialy those who travel up for the game a shift and half.more than ever this season our boys need fireing up this week by grant and co to lay this joke to rest!!

This lot have won 8 of their home games this season, losing only 2, to Chelsea and Liverpool and have won more games in the last 10 minutes of a match than any other team in the country ! No wonder I am absolutely dreading this match

they're confident then!

[Zulus Thousand of em]

Now you're talking Bish! More of this please. I looked at that thread the other day and it's a rich vein of humour.

It also reminds me why I would like to see the bastards go down.

[Lofthouse Lower]

We can't afford for them to go down, we need the six points each season

[Prufrock]

Aye, "We are Bolton's four point team". You should be so lucky.

[Lofthouse Lower]

Back on the subject of racialism

Quote of year so far, from David Sullivan, West Ham's co-owner: "I happen to be small and I've been subjected to many years of 'heightism' so I know how people feel when they are subjected to this sort of abuse."

[James B]

bad bad result for them today. chelsea and city away coming up next. only glimmer they have is two decent home games toward the end of the season but could be too late by then.

[jaffka]

Blackburn are their home banker

[hisroyalgingerness]

The manner of the defeat yet again points towards the R-word

[hisroyalgingerness]

Just seen the other kerfuffle.

R-word I mean relegation, not racism

[bobo the clown]

I just wish that it's not the hope that kills us ... as them & Wolves going under would be almost too much to bear !!

Really, you can only laugh so much.

[seanworth]

Not looking so good. Couple more weeks of this and I might have to bookmark the Kumb page.

[TANGODANCER]

Can't believe this is about that Academy of football, "we won the World Cup", bubble-making factory and legendary big cockernee club that is West Ham United. What's football coming to? Shocking.

[Gravedigger]

Not looking so good. Couple more weeks of this and I might have to bookmark the Kumb page.

I have done. Same old same old, week in week out no-matter the team.
"Come on you Irons, we can do this. Here's the line up Grant should be playing."
"Oh feck!!!!"
" We played so well, we didn't deserve to lose 4-0."
"If Grant doesn't get to grips we're domed!!!!!!"
"Fecking Northern c***!"
"I feckin hate that c*** Davies"
"Davies doesn't play for (Insert team, except BWFC)"
"Yeah. Well I still feckin hate the c***""

After match is just as predictable and repetitive. Such poor losers and so inward looking that they don't need windows. So good to watch them squirm. And what an advert for English football, Championship football being played at the Olympic Stadium. Wonder if there's a Stratford End. Makes one feel good.

[bobo the clown]

West Ham's Scott Parker wins Football Writers' award

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13167837.stm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

... and to be fair he's played very well. Not sure the best in the country, mind, but well.

This guy seems to be showing his underwear somewhat however ...
FWA chairman Steve Bates, chief football writer at The People.

"He has been an inspirational figure for the Irons and hopefully his professionalism will be rewarded with West Ham staying up at the end of the season."

Just so we are under no illusion then !!

[Zulus Thousand of em]

"It's the hope that kills you" is a reassuring phrase which appears on a regular basis in this thread.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Hoping WHam will stay up means hoping someone else will go down. Are not sports journalists supposed to be impartial on these matters? Do they not have an ethical code? Oh, never mind.

[bobo the clown]

From KUMB.

Interesting ! Though it does show the Spammers have always been whinging scrotes.

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The story of Billie the grey

Filed: Thursday, 28th April 2011
88 years ago today West Ham faced Bolton in the first ever FA Cup Final staged at the new Wembley Stadium.

Delayed for over 40 minutes due to the massive crowds estimated to be in excess of 200,000 (the stadium had a capacity of 127,000) - and by a compulsory, rousing and heartfelt 'three cheers' for the attending King George V - the game was eventually - and controversially - won by Wanderers courtesy of goals from David Jack and Jack Smith.

Jack gave the Trotters an early lead amidst farcical scenes; West Ham half-back Jack Tresadern became entangled in the crowd, pushed right up against the touchline after taking a throw-in and Bolton profited from the resulting space; Jack's shot was hit so hard that it rendered a supporter, standing behind the net, unconscious upon impact.

More farce followed on the quarter-hour mark as a crowd surge behind one end led to another charge from the mounted police in order to clear the playing area. After the Red Cross had attended to a number of injured fans, play resumed; Dick Richards' shot was cleared off the line as Bolton clung on to their slender advantage.

The crowd problems - and obvious threat to public safety - forced West Ham captain George Kay, ironically a former Bolton player, to request an abandonment of the game; a request Kay persisted with throughout the match, to no avail. Half-time followed - and went after just five minutes, as the players were forced to take refreshment on the pitch as the heaving crowds rendered access the the changing rooms impossible.

Vic Watson - United's biggest attacking threat on the day who remains, to this day, the club's greatest goalscorer of all time - failed to take advantage of any half-chances afforded him which proved to be the Irons' ultimate undoing. The game was won after Wanderers added a controversial second as referee David Asson adjudged a Smith shot to have carried over the line.

West Ham protested bitterly; initially the ball had been kept from leaving the field of play by a spectator on the touchline to Bolton's advantage before hitting the post and bouncing clear of goal, according to them. Asson insisted that the ball had instead crossed the goal-line and rebounded off a spectator, much to the Irons' annoyance.

Charlie Paynter, West Ham's manager was left to rue the impact police horses had had on the pitch: "It was that white horse thumping its big feet into the pitch that made it hopeless. Our wingers were tumbling all over the place, tripping up in great ruts and holes," he reflected.

Despite going home as the losing team, West Ham United's part in football history was cemented by the appearance of the aforementioned and now-legendary mounted 'white horse' that appeared amongst the vast throngs in order to disperse the crowds.

However a little known fact is that the horse - Billy* - was actually grey, and only appeared white due to the quality of the film used to record the event.

Billy's mount, PC George Scorey of the Metropolitan Police later recalled how his job on the day was made easier by the massive crowd's 'good nature'.

Sadly our equine friend passed away just seven years after the match with which he will forever be remembered; former partner Scorey was subsequently presented with one of Billy's hooves, mounted, in memory of his former companion.

Meanwhile, West Ham had to wait another 42 years before finally getting their hands on the FA Cup...

[Zulus Thousand of em]

1. All "white" horses are grey.

2. So, presumably the Bolton players "were tumbling all over the place, tripping up in great ruts and holes," as well.

3. "West Ham's part in football history was cemented by the appearance of the aforementioned and now-legendary mounted 'white horse' that appeared amongst the vast throngs in order to disperse the crowds." So was the bloody horse on West Ham's payroll too?

West Ham United fans - being tossers since 1923.