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Looks to me like Zola could be going after this weeks game against Stoke. I thinnk it's sickening some of the things the board have done to him. Recently Sullivan posted on teh club's website and article calling West Ham 'shambolic', an article that was also emailed to many supporters. (Could you imagine Kenwright or Elstone, doing something like that!?) LINK Apparently, Zola had to ban him from a team meeting, trying to stick his nose in too far in my opinion. LINK ] It's obvious they don't want him there. You can see Zola's not enjoying it there now with the new owners. For me it's not a question if if but when he's gonna be given the boot/walk out/leave under mutual consent. A quick search gives odds of 6/5 that he's gonna be sacked. _________ As an aside, although this is a purely made-up story, here's an article which goes someway to paint a picture as to what's happening there LINK __________

Funny story really, excellent chant ;D That Bellamy story sounds strange though, wonder what went on there.

For me Distin. Can't remember how many blocks he put in, but for me without his presence they might have troubled our goal a bit.

Great result! (btw..Anyone know why there's no MOTD today, there's been five matches these last two days, surely that warrants a show)

Get in Moyes and Mancini fighting

GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We need to start getting a foot on the ball, otherwise they're going to equalise soon. and then we could end up losing this one.

Looks like Tim Howard's about to come off. I hope it's not serious.

cahill should have hit the target there :/

Tevez was breaking and Arteta brought him down. Whole of CoMS wanted a yellow for Mikey. Given ran half way down the pitch to remonstrate with the ref.

Good half. Hopefully, we can keep a tight ship in the second half. Distin's been solid at the back the first half, we look a bit weak down teh right though, would be nice to bring Donovan on in the second half. :/ if only!

Too scared to predict this one. Not sure which way it's gonna go, but I'm hoping, sooooo much, that we win.

Yeah, sounds like a right numpty!

Just watched the replay on MOTD2 and I don't know if anyone noticed but Billy is lying on the floor like he's having a picnic when the second goal goes in. I wonder if you can buy season tickets where he's sitting cos they'd be great seats.

I read somewhere (maybe on the OS) that Arteta was targeting 7 wins form 9 games (make that 6 from 8 now). that's 18 points on 45, finishing 63. Will that be enough for Europe, maybe in past seasons, this year, I'm not so sure. We're in a position now (through no fault but our own) where we need to win pretty much every game until now and the end of the season and rely on other teams (I think mainly Villa and City) to drop points. City have the hardest run in I think with us, Manu, Arseanl, Villa and Spurs to play. Villa have it slightly easier with only us, Chelsea and City of note (though they do have Brum as well where the could also potentially drop points), Do I think we'll finish in a European place yet? Well, 18 points from the rest of our games - no, we'll just finish maybe a single point outside the top 7. If we win all of our next 8 games - yes, and we'll finish just a couple off points off a Champions League place. I think it's going to be very close for these positions this year, and my prediction for places 4-8 is as follows (numbers are rough estimates): Spurs (69-71) Liverpool(67-69) Villa (66-68) City (64-67) Everton (63)

I think we were a little lucky yesterday to come away with all three points. Up until the sending off we were having no joy breaking them down, Bolton defended doggedly and I think if Mikel hadn't have scored the free kick, they'd have just tried to keep everyone behind the ball and make it even more difficult for us. As it was, with the free-kick going in, I think Owen Coyle thought ok let's at least try and get something out of this game, and that maybe helped us get the second. However, saying that Ossie did make a difference when he came on and it was a nice little piece of play for him to find the space and put Pienaar in.

Arteta Pienaar Jagielka Neville Cahill Fellaini

Hope we come out a bit better in the second half, could be a good day for us, villa dropped points earlier and brum are 2-0 behind at Sunderland. We haven't looked that threatening though, saying that Bolton have kinda parked the bus in the first half.

I think he's half decent to be honest, but... I think he's a similar player to Osman, except I'd prefer 'ar Ossie. I'm sure it's just paper talk anyway. I'd hope if we did offload Yobo, and the two lads (Jutkiewicz & Ruddy), then I'd hope the cash would be going towards someone like Donovan - ie attacking winger/striker.

I think 8th still. To get any higher, we're going to have to win all if not most of our remaining games - which calls for consistency, which sadly we don't have much of, and we're going to have to rely on other teams dropping (a fair few) points, which is to rely on the unreliable. Add to that the fact that by the end of March most of the teams above us will have a game in hand over us, so are potentially an extra three points ahead of us, it doesn't look rosy. I was really disappointed after the Brum game, not because we didn't win or played badly, I think it was just because it meant our season has pretty much come to an unsuccessful end. Now, I've resigned myself to the fact that we won't finish higher than 8th. In fact, I would put money on the fact that we definitely will finish 8th. But who knows, I may be wrong.

We were good in the first half up, and up until they scored I thought we might walk away with it. I'm pretty disappointed that we've thrown away a good chance to move a little up the table. I still think we'll finish higher than these guys but anything more than 8th is looking more and more unlikely.

What's a salittile? Is it the system for processing pork?

This for me sums it up. Until, I see concrete proof, and the contracts have been signed, I'm not getting my hopes up.

Must win game! Got to move above these come Saturday night. COYB!

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