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14 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - Happy Endings · 1 reply · +1 points

I think I may be missing the point. Games are played for 90 minutes so what position we'd be in if we stopped games at 45 minutes is irrelevant.

I've just done some analysis and if we had scored 10 goals in every game we'd have a 100% record and be clear at the top of the league. I'm also working on some extrapolation of the data which is likely to show that if games were played for 18 days instead of the standard 90 minutes we'd be bottom of the league - but then we all know that extrapolation is the devil's work.

I had a sense that Sam loved this crap when we were seeing stats on the official site about possession against crystal palace at the start of October - http://www.whufc.com/articles/20111004/big-sam-se.... The article seemed to suggest that despite the draw WH were the true victors as they had far more of the possession. I suppose this had its place in keeping the players mentally right after what might have been a disappointing result at that point in the season but beyond that it means nothing.

14 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - In Conversation With D... · 4 replies · +1 points

One observation:

"he [Zola] said 'You get me Benni McCarthy and I will keep you up'."

Now, they got him Benni McCarthy and true to his word he (Zola) kept them up

#justsaying

14 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - Match Thread: West Ham... · 0 replies · +1 points

bugger

14 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - Match Thread: West Ham... · 1 reply · +1 points

When sharp kicked noble for the penalty Taylor steamed in and pushed sharp over. Straight red.

15 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - Kovac: Not Missing You... · 1 reply · +1 points

Can someone explain how you can fight for back-to-back promotions when you are a championship club? Surely you'd need to be league 1 or lower to achieve such a feat?

Has he assumed that if he had stayed we'd be relegated next season as well and he would have been happy to have signed a 3 year contract?

15 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - Demba, Demba, have you... · 2 replies · +1 points

Demba ba song:

to the tune of Do The Conga by Black Lace

Instead of the Chorus: Do-do-do. Come on and do the conga.

Try: Dem-ba-ba. Come on and score a go-al.

No? End of brief foray into football chants.

15 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - Jonathan Spector: An A... · 0 replies · +1 points

Iain,

I'll stick a tin of alphabet soup in the post thus enabling you to eat your words.

15 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - Thrashed, But it is Ap... · 0 replies · +1 points

I suppose the good news is we wont get Luton or Oldham in the semi.

15 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - 48 hours and Counting! · 0 replies · +3 points

WRT the stepping stone comment I think it was the club rather than player/agent who made that statement. I read something about them being happy with the deal as the player had signed a 4 year deal and 'will' be sold after 2 maybe 3 years.

EDIT: I found the quote in a link - http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6254...

I took this to mean that there was a sell on clause and they were expecting his value to rise within those two years. I also drew parallels with previous deals.

15 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - New Away Kit Unveiled · 1 reply · +1 points

I've just posted about this on the previous thread.

Forget the kit, what do people think about the captain not being used in the promotional pictures? Should we be reading anything into this?

Maybe he's on the home kit pictures; I suppose we'll have to wait until 22/7 to see.

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