I didn't say it was a West Ham player. Didn't mean to suggest it was either.

I just had a look at players from that era and decided to list them here as I thought it was interesting. Some of our players who were average at best got in the England team that decade.

A list of current and ex-West Ham players who played for England in the 2010s: Joe Cole Matthew Upson Carlton Cole Rio Ferdinand Matt Jarvis Bobby Zamora Robert Green Andy Carroll Scott Parker Frank Lampard Glen Johnson Stewart Downing Michael Carrick Danny Ings Jack Wilshere Joe Hart Jermain Defoe ...

If that sort of financial mismanagement was occurring in a PLC with shareholders that hold voting power the Chairman, Managing Director, Financial Director and one or two others would soon be getting their marching orders. Sadly the only way we’ll be rid of the poison in our boardroom is if a) they...

Pub Bigot" wrote: ↑21 Nov 2025, 07:48 The only good thing about in Birmingham is Villa Park and the architecture of the ground created by Archibald Leach. 
 

claypole wrote: ↑19 Nov 2025, 08:31

Didn't realise Gilligan was involved with this

I've just been looking at how Sparta Prague have been doing since Kretinsky became President there in 2004. Prior to his arrival Sparta Prague totally dominated, winning 8 of the 11 seasons since the formation of the Czech league. They've won 6 out of 21 since then. Apparently Sparta fans view him a...

That's true enough. The last promoted team to win the 1st division was of course managed by Clough himself at Forest. Even into the 80s there wasn't a massive gap between the two divisions but the Premier League money changed all that. When we got relegated in the 70s it was easier to keep the likes...

I reckon that Paqueta would piss all over his stats if he was playing for Betis in La Liga instead of with us, and let's not forget that Fornals didn't pull up any trees in the Premier League even when Pellegrini was here (1 goal and 3 assists in 18 games).

Seeing as Clough only scored ONE single solitary goal in the top flight he'd have probably had to play into his 40s to have beaten Shearer's record.

It's more to do with using cubicles, Mr Anon. People go in there to shit, or to take gear, or to sit down piss. I do none of them on a night out. I doubt very much that many men go into a public cubicle to do a sit down piss. How would you know anyway unless a) they're doing it with the cubicle ope...

Yeah, you're missing the fact that Clough played all but a few games in the old 2nd division, so not really comparable to players like Greaves.

Even Savio Nsereko managed to contribute more with around the same amount of minutes than him producing 1 winning assist for Collison. 😬 Bit unfair to compare the two. Nsereko's game time was all during that brief 4 months or so when Zola was doing great, whereas Guilherme has played in a team that...

Wonder if they'll ship Guilherme - been here 18 months come January, not showing much sign of breaking through. The fact that Bowen is rarely injured and nearly always plays the full 90 means that Guilherme doesn't get many opportunities to break through. He'd be better off out on loan, but what if...

The form suddenly dipped when it coincided in the Team having to put up with Roberto in goal. First few games he was still assisting goals then when Fabianski was out long term the whole teams form suffered greatly. Shame it fizzled out in the end. Yeah. People forget about how much Fabianski's los...

No surprises though the shortfall in the squad is pretty clear from that bench - basically only Soucek and Guilherme as a potential goalscorer or attacking option.   I was thinking the same myself, but looking on the bright side, a few weeks ago we'd have probably had Summerville and Wilson on the ...

A salutary lesson in why people shouldn't go on fucking Twitter for news. Or if you do, just keep it to yourself.

He's a kid with one the best right-wingers in Europe to learn from, so hopefully he does and we have a gem on our hands.  Yeah sure, and he's still only 19 so probably doesn't have to be playing regularly at this stage. It might be a bit of a confidence killer if when he does play it's mostly in a ...

Just how back must Guillherme be to not be deemed good enough to replace this Championship level player. Guilherme is left footed and mainly played as a right winger at his previous club, so I wonder if he's just not suited to playing on the left, same as Kudus wasn't. With Bowen playing 90 mins of...

And Rebrov.

Shevchenko was another one, although he was brilliant at Milan, and Chelsea have had a long habit of turning top strikers into shit players.

Yeah, but the point I was making was that we couldn't have known that Yarmolenko would turn out to be made of glass based on his career up to then. I reckon he'd missed far fewer games through injury than the majority of players we've signed in their late 20s. We shouldn't have bought him anyway tho...

Oh, I see what you did. That article you linked had a paragraph about Konoplyanka, who did play for Schalke and Sevilla, and you conflated the two players.

Reading comprehension - you just can't beat it.

He never played for Sevilla. Or Schalke. You seem to be confusing him with someone else.

Well, I wasted a few minutes reading that article which goes on about how he wasn't good enough for Dortmund (exactly I said) and made no mention at all about his fitness (why would it, seeing as he'd never had an injury in his whole career at that time), so I don't know what made you put that link ...

He got bombed out of Dortmund for not being fit enough to play Bundesliga so I don't know why anybody expected his body to consistently hold together in the Prem.   Where'd you get that from? He missed about 8 games for them with a foot injury the season he was there. Prior to that he'd never had a...

Ashley Fletcher was shit for us but we got him on a free and sold him for £6.5m a year later. In the current regime that puts him as one of our best signings.