Carling Cup: Hammers 4 - 1 Maccas
Aug 27, 2008 Macclesfield, Matches, West Ham News
Youngsters Kyel Reid and Zavon Hines rescued West Ham from Carling Cup
embarrassment against Macclesfield but the pressure still appears to be on
manager Alan Curbishley at Upton Park.
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The visitors, who had Izak Reid
sent off, had been leading through Gareth Evans’ effort five minutes into the
second-round tie and the boos for Curbishley had started long before Lee Bowyer
headed an equaliser to force extra-time.
Carlton Cole also scored with
his head and Hines then Reid then netted, but the result will do little to
change the appearance of the Hammers being in crisis, sparked by conflicting
sounds from Curbishley surrounding Anton Ferdinand’s departure to Sunderland
this week.
Cole’s strike came in the 10th minute of the added 30, with
Ashton nodding back across goal and the substitute heading in.
Hines then
tapped in at the far post after Ashton had flashed across goal. Reid cut in and
fired a fourth from outside the box before the end.
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West Ham v Wigan - Like New Signings!
Alan Curbishley will be feeling the presure today as the West Ham start their season opener against Wigan
Curbishley and Manchester City’s Mark Hughes are the favourites in the Premier League sack-race, with Curbishley’s position coming under scrutiny amid financial uncertainty at Upton Park.
The Hammers’ board expected more than a 10th-placed finish last season after Curbishley splashed out £22.5million on Craig Bellamy, Kieron Dyer, Julien Faubert and Freddie Ljungberg last summer.
But captain Lucas Neill has urged for patience from the West Ham board given the injury woes that hampered their hopes of a European push last term.
“I think he’s been a victim of a board that’s come in, given him a lot of money and wanted success immediately,” said Neill.
“Time stood still for us for a year because everyone we tried to bring in, in terms of knowledge and experience, was injured. That’s not his fault.
“I think he’s got to be judged on what happens from now. You can’t just buy success in one season, it takes time.
“Somebody’s got to be the favourite to get the sack first and unfortunately it’s him because of the demand at West Ham for success.
“But the odds on him going will soon change if we stick two or three quick wins together.
“There’s a determination to go where we wanted to go last season before it went wrong,” he added.
“You want your biggest weapons out there because you know at any stage of the game Kieron Dyer or Craig Bellamy’s pace could get you a goal.
“I think there’s been less activity in the market this summer because we’re yet to see our transfers from last year play their part.
“Having them back, alongside Dean Ashton and Scott Parker, will be like new signings.”
Bellamy will miss the first month of
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Biggest laugh of the Day!
Aug 3, 2008 West Ham News
I had to write this post, to share with you what i found to be one the most hilarious articles i have read today.
The article was written by Tom Williams at Eurosport, it states about Dean Ashton and Anton Ferdinand the following:
West Ham have vowed to turn down a quite clearly invented £18m bid for Dean Ashton from Spurs .
The Ashton rumour prompted Hammers chief executive Scott Duxbury to completely lose all sense of perspective by claiming
“Hell would have to freeze over for us to sell Dean to a major rival”,
overlooking the fact that West Ham’s major rivals this season are likely to be West Brom, Hull and Stoke.
We close with a quote from Anton Ferdinand, rejecting transfer speculation linking him with a move away from West Ham:
“I’m sure if you asked the fans about me when they see me playing, I don’t look like I’m thinking about other things, other than playing for West Ham.”
Having watched a fair few Hammers matches last season, TT would actually argue that playing for West Ham is often quite literally the last thing that appears to be on Ferdinand’s mind.
Ok, so the guy probably supports Spurs and it must hurt when Juande Ramos is searching high and low for another striker good enough to fill Robbie Keane’s boots, but is getting turned down left, right and centre.
This morning it was reported that Spartak Moscow striker Roman Pavlyuchenko would only consider a move to Arsenal or Chelsea if he came to London, and now Atletico’s Diego Forlan has said no, but more politely.
I will be interested in reading his articles in June 2009 when Tottenham finish in 7th place just behind us Hammers again.
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West Ham Squad - Sale on!
BG wants the squad cut down to 27 players, which means we will still need to get rid of a few below, getting rid of around 8 players would save us about £7m a year in wages, who would be your choice? and what price tag would you put on them?
1 Robert Green
2 Lucas Neill
3 George McCartney
4 Daniel Gabbidon
5 Anton Ferdinand
6 Matthew Upson
7 Fredrik Ljungberg
8 Scott Parker
9 Dean Ashton
10 Craig Bellamy
11 Matthew Etherington
12 Carlton Cole
13 Luis Boa Morte
16 Mark Noble
17 Hayden Mullins
18 Jonathan Spector
19 James Collins
20 Julien Faubert
21 Valon Behrami
22 Tony Stokes
23 James Walker
26 Nigel Quashie
27 Calum Davenport
28 Kyel Reid
29 Lee Bowyer
30 James Tomkins
31 Jack Collison
32 Kieron Dyer
33 Fred Sears
34 Marek Stech
Holmar Orn Eyjolfsson
Jack Jeffery
Jordan Spence
Junior Stanislas
Joe Widdowson
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Newcastle and Sunderland Battle for £7m Ferdinand
Jul 30, 2008 Transfer Rumours, Transfers
Sunderland boss Roy Keane is reportedly interested in Anton Ferdinand. The West Ham United defender 
has been linked with a move away from the club for over two months; the Black Cats are set to make a last ditch effort to bring the England Under-21 defender to Wearside.
Sunderland will be expected to pay in the region of around £7 million for Ferdinand, who had been hotly tipped to join Tottenham earlier in the summer.
It does now appear that Sunderland have jumped to the head of the queue, after Spurs apparently opted to sign midfielders as opposed to defensive signings.
Newcastle’s Keegan will also be monitoring Ferdinand’s position very closely, and are expected to make an offer for the player very soon which may outbid the Black Cats.
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Peterborough 0-2 West Ham United - Result
Jul 29, 2008 Matches, Peterborough FC
Its fantastic to see Bellamy back to his old form scoring 2 goals, 1st was in the 3rd minute and the second was in the 42nd, a few possibilities to score more came and went.
Peterborough a recently proted side from League 2 to League 1, have a great deal to be proud of even though there was 9000 empty seats, their player George Boyd was named man of the match.
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Full Result & Stats: Columbus Crew 1-3 West Ham United
Jul 21, 2008 Columbus Crew, Matches
West Ham United vs. Columbus Crew
Scoring:
WHU — Dean Ashton - Asst (Julien Faubert )
CC — Jason Garey - Asst (Cory Elenio )
WHU — Own Goal (Brad Evans)
WHU — Kyle Reid - Asst (Craig Bellamy )
It was only 4 minutes into the game when Craig Bellamy had a shot at goal just missing wide of the left post, and then in the 6th minute a
great pass from Julien Faubert to Dean Ashton scored from just outside the penalty area, and then a shot from Anton Ferdinand in the 8th minute was deflected away from goal, West Ham was clearly in control of the match and the Crew hardly making any headway, in the 15 minute Dean Ashton took his 2nd shot at goal from 20 yards out for it to fly just past the right post, in the 20th minute a clumsy foul by Lucas Neill against Eddie Gaven gave Crew the chance to equalise with a pass from Cory Elenio to Jason Garey who scored just inside the penalty area, bang on 26 minutes a clumsy defensive error saw Brad Evans score into his own net making it 2-1 to the Hammers
In the 2nd half 2 subs were made West Ham Carlton Cole for Dean Ashton and for Crew Brian Carroll for Eddie Gaven.
It took only 8 minutes for West Ham to score its 3rd goal by Kyle Reid from a pass by Craig Bellamy inside the penalty area.
A great game and second pre season friendly win for the Hammers, Confidence will be abundant for the West Ham players leading up to the MLS All Stars game in Toronto on Thursday.
Game Stats
West Ham United Columbus Crew
Total Shots: 13 12
Shots on Goal: 4 3
Total Saves: 3 1
Fouls: 8 6
Offsides: 4 2
Corner Kicks: 7 6
West Ham United Starting Lineup
1 - Robert Green (GK) 76
2 - Lucas Neill
5 - Anton Ferdinand 84
8 - Scott Parker 71
9 - Dean Ashton 46
10 - Craig Bellamy 87
16 - Mark Noble 57
20 - Julien Faubert 76
27 - Calum Davenport 71
28 - Kyle Reid 57
40 - Joe Widdowson
Substitutes
23 - Jimmy Walker (GK) 76
11 - Matthew Etherington
12 - Carlton Cole 46
17 - Hayden Mullins 57
22 - Tony Stokes 76
31 - Jack Collison 71
44 - Bondz N’Gala 84
45 - Jordan Spence 71
46 - Junior Stanislaus 57
48 - Ashley Miller 87
Columbus Crew Starting Lineup
30 - Andy Gruenebaum (GK)
3 - Brad Evans 71
8 - Duncan Oughton 71
9 - Jason Garey 64
12 - Eddie Gaven 46
13 - Andrew Peterson
23 - Ezra Hendrickson 64
24 - Jed Zayner
26 - Cory Elenio 76
27 - Ryan Junge 64
32 - Steven Lenhart 64
Substitutes
18 - Kenny Schoeni (GK)
6 - Andy Iro 64
10 - Alejandro Moreno 64
14 - Chad Marshall 64
15 - Stefani Miglioranzi 71
16 - Brian Carroll 46
21 - Ryan Miller 71
25 - George Josten 76
29 - Ricardo Pierre-Louis 64
Referee: Ben Chouaf
Referee’s Assistants: Michael Salyers; Jeffrey Mellen
4th Official: Mikael Lundqvist
Time of Game: 90:00
Weather: Partly Cloudy -and- 90 degrees
Attendance: 9,117
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You want the truth? Here it is!
Jul 18, 2008 Featured Article, West Ham News
Alan Curbishley speaks out about the future for West Ham and his squad.
His reply to was there any bids from Aston Villa and Newcastle for Anton Ferdinand and Turkish giants Galatasaray and Manchester City for Lucas Neill and was he looking to sell them, was simply:
NO NO NO NO
Curbishley has been ordered to cut the squad from 42 to 27, finding clubs for that many players is quite a task on its own, so when asked about his plans to bring in more players, his reply was:
“West Ham were crippled by injuries for large parts of last season, with a number of key players missing chunks of the campaign.
After so many injuries last season with key players such as Faubert, Bellamy, Dyer etc etc Curbishley is happy to have what he calls his OLD/NEW signings, and any new signings will be dealt with at the right pace, Curbishley said :
“I think everybody is jumping up and down and coming to their own conclusions. Let’s just wait and see what happens to us.
“I did say at the end of the season that it was the size of the squad which held us together, because we had tremendous (injury) problems.
“There’s a long way to go before the window closes and we want to improve the squad.
“I feel that if I get my best XI out there we’ve got a decent side. I want to add a little bit more to that to get a bit more competition and we’re working very hard to do that.”
Asked if he was happy with result 4-2 from the game with Hampton and Richmond Borough. his answer was:
“Of course i am, this was a friendly match to test our teams fitness and style, some of these players we put out today have barely played any games together.
“Our main concern with friendlies is unnecessary injuries and i was very pleased that none occurred tonight.
I have to agree with Curbs, last night was just a friendly and more important, no injuries to our versatile players.
Sundays game should be interesting and more demanding on the West Ham squad. The MLS All Stars game next Thursday will be played on a plastic pitch, which when wet can be very slippery and prone to causing many injuries.
And well done WHUFC.com for putting our minds at rest regarding Robert Green.
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Newcastle Deal: Duff for Ferdinand plus Cash
Jul 13, 2008 Transfer Rumours
Keegan has his eyes on Anton Ferdinand according to Geordie Websites and may be trying to come to some sort of deal to exchange Damien Duff for Anton Ferdinand + a fee for the H
ammers defender.
West Ham are said to be asking for as much as £10m for Anton, a price that was much too high for Tottenham to consider, but Newcastle have come up with a solution that may be of interest to both clubs depending what fee West Ham are asking included in the deal.
Keegan is keen to build a central defensive partnership based on English under 21 players and Anton would be ideal to partner Steven Taylor.
Newcastle fans on the NUFC blog sites seem to be 50/50 about such a deal saying Anton would be great for the Magpies regarding his youth and style, but some would rather Duff stayed and was given a chance to prove his worth, as we did with Dean Ashton.
Personally i would want to give Ferdinand the same chance and with a full fit squad this season he may prove to be worth more than £10m as his brother was.
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Don’t make us Hate You!
Jul 8, 2008 West Ham News
If the rumours turn out to be true and 2 of the players leaving West ham turn out to be Anton Ferdinand 
and Lucas Neill then so be it.
With Anton he has been linked to a few clubs, but the main interest seems to be from Tottenham and Villa, so out of the two, i hope it turns out to be Aston Villa, you may well ask why? the obvious reason is, I don’t want to see him in a Spurs shirt and we will have to put up with the chants that we are their feeder club, as if, but the main reason is, i, like many Hammers fans, hate Spurs and i don’t want to hate Anton for making them a better team than us, again, as if, so lets hope its villa he goes to.
As for Lucas Neill, well his options only seem to be galatasaray, so good luck to him, to be honest, he is a good player (defender) and is on the verge of going back to OZ, and will always get an applause from the Hammers fans, if and when he ever came back to Upton Park.
But for now its all hearsay and they might just be with us for another season or so, lets hope so as West Ham in 08/09 will be a Team that are going places.
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