Jimmy_D

First save for Forster! Did well to make it look comfortable to be fair.

Contact outside the box and the touch from his hands wasn't a foul. Should have been a foul just outside the box I reckon.

Weathered the early storm after half time well, but need to hold on to possession a bit more really...

Adams recovering from concussion in the last game, Romeu picked up a knock in training at the weekend.

That's a properly special finish from Ings for that goal... IF he meant it!

Decent half there, slightly disappointing we didn't take a chance to make it 2-0 though

Oh Ings, take a shot there!

Never mind the foul shove on Bertrand then eh, commentators?

Ooooohhhhhh... really close from Tella

Guh, he plays that through ball the step before and he'd have put him clean through.

Oh... decent chance there... Ings could have bought it down for himself

About time Ings broke his drought 😀

Starting to wonder if West Ham will ever beat Brighton in the Premier League lol

That was an example of one that would never have been given by VAR if it hadn’t been given on the field.

Bad game, terrible commentary, worse officiating, but all in all a half decent point.

We’re being absolutely ****ed over by the officials here.

Ahhhhh... unlucky Long there

That should have been a penalty this season...

Fulham pretty limited against us. Changes are obviously affecting us but feels like we still edged that half.

Adams was actually massively unlucky with the spin on the ball there

Won’t be easy with the spine of the team out but we’re still a decent side.

I remember when he played for us at right-back. Merry Christmas everyone ^_^

Indeed. With the data coming through about how kids don't have the same resistance with the new variant, I'd be shocked if schools reopen after Christmas during this lockdown.

Have to be honest, I wouldn't want to be making that call, but locking down would probably be the lesser of two evils. It's a choice between people suffering because of their lives being turned upside down, or people suffering because of a virus. Both have the potential to severely impact people's lives, including causing deaths. There's no good option, but in the case of the virus, the worse it gets, the faster it keeps getting even worse. Locking down was never meant to be a permanent solution, but was meant to buy time for the research to find a way to stop the virus.

Trouble with that is that, for every individual person, the risk is low. Everyone can justifiably make the judgement that they'll probably be ok and get on with behaving as normal. Unfortunately with millions of people making that same judgement, it adds up to a big problem overall. In the USA, for example, they have some lockdown measures, but they also have millions of people making the judgement that the risk is low enough for them to ignore it. It's enough people making that judgement that's adding up to them suffering more than 9-11 every day at the moment. It's likely to get worse there before it gets better too.