Sheaf Saint

Penalty for Reading!

Have to laugh. West Ham have been completely on top for the entire half, and now find themselves 2-1 down having expected to go into HT in the lead.

Reading equalise!

Not looking likely at the moment... http://www.hahasport.com/v-2/18/86/v-388726.html WHU are all over them - they just can't get the ball out of their own half.

I did find it a little cringeworthy that he decided to use his victory speech as yet another opportunity to take a massive swipe at Labour over the war in Iraq.

Wwwwwibble

My brother is currently living and working in Doha - he reckons it's a sh*thole. In all seriousness though, these opportunities don't come up all that often so you should take them when they do. I moved to Sheffield for work in 2004 initially for a year, and I'm still here. Not quite as adventurous as Qatar admittedly, but so many things that I take for granted in my life now are all as a result of making that decision

Actually, I think if I was going to see it at The Smithsonian i would prefer to see it in its worn state and showing its mileage. Would seem a lot more authentic then.

It's a wonderful thing to have such a good academy that continuously produces excellent prospects, but it would be even better if we actually got to see the fruits of it for ourselves rather than Arsenal/Spurs etc... Maybe if/when we return to the PL we might get a few more of the emerging starlets sticking around a while longer. It's worth noting that of all the names mentioned so far on this thread, the only one who went on to produce the goods for us instead of bailing out at the earliest opportunity of a bigger payday was MLT. Although that's probably more of a reflection on football in general than it is on the the club and/or academy.

Excellent windmilling from the Bradford keeper I thought

I've already said we will need to score two or more goals to win on saturday, because I am fully expecting him to score at least one against us.

Why boo him at all? He did a decent job for us I thought, and his supposed slagging of us after he left has been massively exaggerated. I thought his comments were perfectly fair. The abuse he has received from some quarters about it has been nothing short of disgusting IMO.

He probably would have had Alonso if he didn't lose his concentration and run wide. Stunning drive from the lad though.

I think I love Billy Sharp!

Diouf really is a nasty ***** isn't he!

West Ham have equalised

Cov 1-0 Pompey

Barnard on for De Ridder.

Ooooh. close from Sharp

The script was written... Billy Sharp: Take a bow son

And comfortably dismissed Barnsley as well.

Burnley 2-0 WHU!

I very much doubt it. Our game is only 3 weeks away and even if he does miraculously recover from a torn hamstring in that time and plays against us, I doubt he will be as effective as he has been during their recent run.

After lastnight's showing, there really can't be a single decent argument in favour of starting Puncheon ahead of De Ridder. Punch was so one-dimensional and gave the ball away so much we may as well have been playing with 10 men. As soon as De Ridder came on and moved to the right, he started to cause their defence all sorts of problems. I know Adkins likes to use him as an impact sub, but given his recent performances from the bench I really feel it's time to give him a start because I reckon he could tear a new one out of the Donny defence.

Indeed. I couldn't see many empty seats from where I was sat and we made a fair bit of noise at times. I would guess at more than 800 as well.