Remember Alex Ferguson starting Rio when he came back from his drugs ban.  Too much is made of 'match fitness'.   

Won't happend but I would start him against Burnley.  

Nobody really knows what the delay was with Disasi or what his assurances were that he was demanding.  He may have said "Look, I ain't playing at Chelsea. I want to play, but I ain't. It is what it is. So, for me, what's the point of going from Chelsea where I don't play, to West Ham where I w...

Agree with Stubbo. C + is about right.  

A win against Burnley and we will be on the coattails of either Leeds or Forest or both if they draw on Friday evening.    

Maddison.

The upturn in form for me is largely due to the new lads up top. Their energy up there and pressing from the front means we are winning the ball much higher up the pitch allowing us to get our dangerous players in dangerous areas more often and also allowing us to create more up the right end of th...

The upturn in form for me is largely due to the new lads up top. Their energy up there and pressing from the front means we are winning the ball much higher up the pitch allowing us to get our dangerous players in dangerous areas more often and also allowing us to create more up the right end of th...

Was Nuno proving a point as he felt he had his nose put out of place by Paco the week before.   Baffling to bring Kilman on when we needed fresh legs in midfield.  

We aren't dead and buried yet but fail to beat Burnley we will be.  

Looks like an NFL player. 

I like Todibo and don't blame him for doing what he did, shows he cares and shows he was hurting.

That IT crowd Chelsea manager is an annoying fucker.

What a load of cսnt.

Kilman sub was odd. Why not bring Potts or Magassa on who can at least keep the ball?

Agree with Monsieur, it's a slow painful watch, even at 2-0 up and most of us knew the outcome because we've all seen it so many times before.  

 

  I'm angry but you can't keep blaming managers.  Chelsea squad cost is on a different level to ours.   I knew when they scored we would be lucky to scrape a draw. 

Pablo and Taty, what a difference they have made to our team.  

Westham67 wrote: ↑31 Jan 2026, 17:17 Having two centre forward-like players up front now, who can hold the ball up and have a physical presence, means we have more attacking options than we had before they came

I am wary of VAR and the ref. I have high hopes for our match today

Narrow defeat or be may nick a draw of we don't get screwed by VAR or Anthony Taylor.

Use West Ham as a scapegoat for a complete lack of strategic planning by Seb Coe and his Olympic cronies when it comes to the 'legacy' of the OS. Only other interested parties wanted to bulldoze it.  When all is said and done that was the biggest mistake right from the very beginning. To be so pig-...

Use West Ham as a scapegoat for a complete lack of strategic planning by Seb Coe and his Olympic cronies when it comes to the 'legacy' of the OS.

Only other interested parties wanted to bulldoze it. 

Can't wait for this, envy those who are going.   Should be a great day out.

goose wrote: ↑28 Jan 2026, 20:08 Raheem Sterling has got Crystal Palace written all over him. Metaphorically speaking.

Must be getting someone in.  Guido, Paqueta and JWP going so we need a couple in.

We do need a CB, but I don’t know what’s happened to Todibo and Mavropanos in the last 2 games, playing really well.  Todibo almost seems like a rolls Royce at the back, or have I got my C&B glasses on? Todibo has been superb in the last few games, more like a you would expect a French Internat...