Strangely, when we played them in the FA cup the barriers on their terraces in the away end at least were painted claret and blue. I think West Ham must have donated the paint to them. Presumably to save them some money. It wasn't done just for that match. 

I wanted Potter as I thought he was level headed and offered decent hope as a longish term solution. In reality we have been no better off than we would have been with Lop. In some ways I warmed to Lop more and wanted him to do well. All in all, we are under-achieving shockingly with some significan...

What a day to be alive! 

I'm a happy man tonight. Totally unable to compete in a semi final. Hopefully they will continue their downward spiral. 

Well, at least we were 20% faster and more determined while buggering it up.

Sometimes you have to accept that brilliant play is going to undo you otherwise Messi wouldn't score any goals. A couple of goals yesterday were because of that. The first penalty should never have been given as Paqueta would have headed the ball if he hadn't been blatantly fouled. The second wouldn...

Now, if Lizz Truss had chosen to be a football manager, it would look something like this. Doing random things that aren't going to work (also see Labour Party as an example). 

I want him to succeed and I see some hope that overall we are better generally. There have only been a couple of strange tactical decisions. Playing seasons players in the first game in preference to the new signings wasn't a great idea. Putting Alvarez in the back line against Chelsea lost us the g...