Is it Christmas already?

I'm forever blowing bubbles,

                               Pretty bubbles in the air,

                                                           They fly so high,

                                                                                       Nearly reach the sky,

                                                                                                                          Then like my dreams,

                                                                                                                                                             They fade and die.

Fortune's always hiding,

                                            I've looked everywhere,

                                                                                           I'm forever blowing bubbles,

                                                                                                                                           Pretty bubbles in the air.......

UNITED!!!!!!!!!!!UNITED!!!!!!!!!!!UNITED!!!!!!!!!!!

Is it Christmas already?

The last couple of days have had me in stitches

Yesterday we discovered that due to a current tenant on the land that Spuds have had a CPO (Compulsory Purchase Order) they placed have thrown a spanner in the works. This have left The 4x2's board to say "[that] decision was being challenged in the High Court and the club fear they will not able to move into the new stadium for the start of the 2017-18 season."

Tottenham did try and get the use of the Olympic Stadium & Challenged West Ham in a courtroom showdown, which West Ham won.

A source within The Boleyn has said,  

“We have precedence as the anchor tenants and the first season at the ground is incredibly important from many points of view.“It’s incredibly important that West Ham United and nobody else is associated with our new home.“We would not allow it. We simply wouldn’t entertain any request whatsoever. It’s ours – we want it for ourselves.“In some circumstances you may be tempted to help a Premier League club out if they are in trouble but not these.“The Olympic Stadium is our stadium and no other club will be using it.” (Hugh5outhon1895)

Arsenal fans have thrown their two pence into the matter to in a joking manner, offering alternatives to The Spuds situation, as seen below.

Arsenal Fans React via 101greatgoals.com

I personally prefer this place. (LOL)

Bloomfield Stadium ISRAEL.

But hold your horses guys, it gets better.

Spurs is up for sale !!!!

According to the Press today.
What The Mirror is saying.

It is a great day to be a Hammer, The 2 David's have said we will be debt clear by the time we move into the OS, we have had a superb transfer window. Added to this QPR are possibly being kicked out of the League due to FFP, and Now Spuds are going to become homeless & Owner wants rid. 

COYI

Hammerdad's Blog

I'm forever blowing bubbles,

                               Pretty bubbles in the air,

                                                           They fly so high,

                                                                                       Nearly reach the sky,

                                                                                                                          Then like my dreams,

                                                                                                                                                             They fade and die.

Fortune's always hiding,

                                            I've looked everywhere,

                                                                                           I'm forever blowing bubbles,

                                                                                                                                           Pretty bubbles in the air.......

UNITED!!!!!!!!!!!UNITED!!!!!!!!!!!UNITED!!!!!!!!!!!

I am delighted for be given the opportunity to write for "We Love You West Ham" and post my latest on what is actually happening at the club on their Facebook page.

OK Lets get some housekeeping out of the way. Who is in?

We all know him as "THE TERMINATOR"

Julian Dicks has been appointed as West Ham United Ladies first-team manager.

The former Hammers left-back became a legend in Claret and Blue during two highly successful playing spells that saw him score 65 goals in 326 appearances.

Following his retirement, Dicks managed Essex non-league clubs Wivenhoe Town and Grays Athletic and has recently been coaching youngsters alongside former West Ham team-mate Ian Bishop in the United States.

Mauro Zarate has completed his move to West Ham United, after signing a three-year deal. The 27-year-old has now passed his medical and put pen-to-paper on a three-year deal which also has an option to extend it.

The move is Zarate's second to England having spent time on loan at Birmingham City in 2008 and he is delighted to be at Upton Park.

"My reaction is that I am very happy to be at West Ham," said Zarate, who becomes the fourth Argentine to represent West Ham following Lionel Scaloni, Javier Mascherano and Carlos Tevez.

Cheikhou Kouyate completed £7million West Ham move from Anderlecht.The defender made 145 appearances in the Belgian league for Anderlecht, after signing from Brussels in 2008, scoring three times in the process,and he will to join fellow Senegalese international Mohamed Diame at Upton Park.

Sam Allardyce will be hoping he can be a key part of the team that helps them push for a top-half finish next season.

Kouyate was delighted to make his witch to the Premier League confirming that he is looking forward to progressing with the East London side.'I am very happy, because today West Ham have given me the chance to play in the Premier League, Kouyate told West Ham TV. 'So I'm very happy to join such a club and that gives me great pleasure.

Teddy Sheringham has been appointed attacking coach.

The 48-year-old former England international Sheringham, who enjoyed a three-season spell as a player at Upton Park, can bring a cutting edge to the team and work well alongside the manager, who sustained a third campaign in the Barclays Premier League following promotion via the 2012 play-off final.

"Yes, we suggested the idea, but Sam liked it. We didn't undermine him at all," Sullivan has said.

And finally....

Tony Henry is poised to start as West Ham’s new Director of recruitment. 

The delay has been imposed by Sunderland, demanding he serve his notice, so he is on what they call Gardening Leave, after resigning at The Stadiun of Light.

 Henry has overseen player recruitment at Goodison Park in recent times as they have moved to a stylish brand of football under Roberto Martinez. Henry used to work as an agent with Paul Stretford’s Formation Group and helped Super agent Jorge Mendes to establish links in England.

I'm forever blowing bubbles,

                               Pretty bubbles in the air,

                                                           They fly so high,

                                                                                       Nearly reach the sky,

                                                                                                                          Then like my dreams,

                                                                                                                                                             They fade and die.

Fortune's always hiding,

                                            I've looked everywhere,

                                                                                           I'm forever blowing bubbles,

                                                                                                                                           Pretty bubbles in the air.......

UNITED!!!!!!!!!!!UNITED!!!!!!!!!!!UNITED!!!!!!!!!!!

It's Unbelievable

I'm forever blowing bubbles,

                   Pretty bubbles in the air,

                                          They fly so high,

                                                            Nearly reach the sky,

                                                                                 Then like my dreams,

                                                                                                        They fade and die.

Fortune's always hiding,

                                   I've looked everywhere,

                                                                I'm forever blowing bubbles,

                                                                                                    Pretty bubbles in the air.......

I don't know about you guys, but, I don't understand how we went from Brilliance & Class, A la Barca in the 1st half of the Norwich game, to complete dross in the 2nd half.

I do not for one reason we can blame Jussi for the turn in the game, I believe it was a tactical error on BFS behalf, we had the right players on the pitch, all we needed to do was alter the formation, and catch The Canaries of guard.

I don't even think that that was a free kick, even!!!

We are lacking up front for sure, I am glad Young Jack Collison is back, and with Big Carlton, we have the ability to score, they did it before, they can do it again. Maiga, is the sub if we take a loss upfront, let him prove himself worthy of a game, he got games due to his fitness and training ground abilities. However come Saturday afternoon he seems to have forgotten where he was and why. I am delighted by Morrison, he tracked back, looked up, ran into space, everything you want from a player.

Andy Carroll ain't coming back anytime soon, especially after getting a tummy bug, & Mladen Petric is another striker we lose to injury. I was considering, forget moving to the Olympic Stadium lets get out of Chadwell Heath, is destroying our players.

New news is Felipe Caicedo may join in January, the ex-Man City player is out of position at Lokomotiv Moscow, due to the new managers 4-2-3-1 format. He should be Ideally suited to our style, especially if BFS reverts to the Long Ball again, which I can no doubt almost guarantee.

The International break has come at the wrong time for us again, I just pray to God, that we don't get an International call up, for say Morrison, and end up crippled again, as per Dean Ashton, (sorry to here his news today).

We have Chelski at home next on 23rd, we shafted the Spuds, Cardiff (TWICE) & Burnley. Most of our wins have been at home which is in contrast to last season. 
Chelski are beatable look at the form.

D W W W L D

Finally I wanna send my heart felt sympathies with a man that has taken the mantle off a legendary position thats held in high regard at The Boleyne, that of full back. "The Terminator" Mr. Dicks held the title for many a year, we had some fine replacements, such as Tomas Repka, who sadly left the fold, due to family reasons abroad, but now! we have THE KIWI! I am gutted he is injured, usually he shakes them off, he gets into tough tackles and sometimes loses. This latest one is serious. I don't know at this present time how long he is out, but I and I know you too, wish him a speedy recovery. This is my photo from the CORK CITY v WHUFC game, thats Rat in bottom left.

I'm forever blowing bubbles,

                   Pretty bubbles in the air,

                                          They fly so high,

                                                            Nearly reach the sky,

                                                                                 Then like my dreams,

                                                                                                        They fade and die.

Fortune's always hiding,

                                   I've looked everywhere,

                                                                I'm forever blowing bubbles,

                                                                                                    Pretty bubbles in the air.......

Disappointment & Financial Fair Play

I'm forever blowing bubbles,

                   Pretty bubbles in the air,

                                          They fly so high,

                                                            Nearly reach the sky,

                                                                                 Then like my dreams,

                                                                                                        They fade and die.

Fortune's always hiding,

                                   I've looked everywhere,

                                                                I'm forever blowing bubbles,

                                                                                                    Pretty bubbles in the air,

UNITED, UNITED, UNITED. 

No doubt as I did, you sat in front of the television watching Sky Sports News for the best part of the day awaiting The Silver tongued Silver fox that is Jim White, expecting movement on the West Ham Squad, i.e. players out in order to sign the elusive Striker we missed out on pre season.
Well as you know by now we did nothing in the last few hours of the window. In Fact all we did was sign Downing weeks ago, who is NOT A STRIKER.

We came so close at few moments of the window with news that Cardiff were interested in Ricardo Vaz Te, which came to nothing, due to the fact they only wanted to pay him 40% of his West Ham wages & expecting us to pay the balance, 60%, yes more than half and he wouldn't even play for us. A liberty is an understatement with regard to that offer, but then Norwich step in 1st bid rejected out of hand, but they came back unfortunately they came back with 27 mins left of the window, which left us with the impossible task of signing a striker.

I do hope that DS, DG & SA have a trick up their sleeve with regard to addressing this issue, as we have no actual first team striker, as Carroll is still injured, and we are bound to end up playing Sams famous 4-5-1.
It may seem unfair of me to finger out our Portuguese winger/striker, he was actually a striker when he came to us, but Sam played him out of position from day one. However stories & gossip have lead the board & the fans to believe he has been tapped up by another club, forcing himself to throw in a transfer request on the penultimate day of the transfer window. 

Previously we were linked with

Zapata, Demba ba, Kuzmanovic, Trejo, Salomon Kalou, Shaun Maloney, Oliveira, Gary Hooper, Varela, Matej Vydra, Joel Campbell, Loic Remy and now Quagliarella.

Quagliarella remained on the radar as nothing seemed to be happening especially after the Honduran Rojas who was considered later failed a medical. So with the FFP rules as they have been set out and no chance of breaking a £52m wage bill,West Ham had to offload players even to get a loanee.

Enter now SBObet our old shirt sponsors, with a package of financial benefit to handle our Asian betting, this would only add to the coffers, as per FFP rules, so we are even stronger financially to make decent offers for a player on loan.

But you saw it tonight we did NOTHING!!!!!

Are we, as I thought last weekend, (Beat Stoke by 2 and Top of the League) contenders for the top half of the table, or are we back to the old day's of our fabulous song.....

Then like my dreams,

They fade and die. 

Fortune's always hiding......

God I hope I am wrong.

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I'm forever blowing bubbles,

                   Pretty bubbles in the air,

                                          They fly so high,

                                                            Nearly reach the sky,

                                                                                 Then like my dreams,

                                                                                                        They fade and die.

Fortune's always hiding,

                                   I've looked everywhere,

                                                                I'm forever blowing bubbles,

                                                                                                    Pretty bubbles in the air,

UNITED, UNITED, UNITED. 

Who's a Happy Hammer?

I'm forever blowing bubbles,

                   Pretty bubbles in the air,

                                          They fly so high,

                                                            Nearly reach the sky,

                                                                                 Then like my dreams,

                                                                                                        They fade and die.

Fortune's always hiding,

                                   I've looked everywhere,

                                                                I'm forever blowing bubbles,

                                                                                                    Pretty bubbles in the air,

UNITED, UNITED, UNITED. 

I am for one, and I know there are loads more out there despite lacking another striker.

I have had a great laugh on Facebook recently mocking all the Liverpool fans that I am friends with or that subscribe to me. I have had endless amounts of joy wallowing in the demise, and misfortunes that have beset Liverpool, namely the Suarez Saga.

They in turn have been mocking me with regard to Carroll. Cole & now Downing. You will glad to say I have been able to turn this around in our favour. Initially the fact that we are far better at signing players in the market than Liverpool are, They paid £35 million for Carroll, £20 million for Downing & got Joe Cole for free, however he later admitted according to Sky, "he was wrong to join Liverpool, but is happy again at West Ham United and intends to see out his career at Upton Park.". So this means a spend of £55 million, while Joe Cole commanded £90 k a week, on a four year contract. 

West Ham in turn paid £15 million & £6 million respectively, a grand total of £21 million, leaving a shortfall of £34 million, but wait it gets better, Liverpool Bought and sold Torres making a reported profit of £25 million. 

              Lets do some mathematics;

              Liverpools dealings:                   55m-21m=                                    34m (Liverpool lose 34m)

              Torres deals:                              34m+25m =                                   59m (Liverpool gain 4m)

              Joe Cole wages:                         90k x 38 <weeks minimum> =     3.42m

              Total P&L for Liverpool:           4m - 3.42m =                                 580k           

OMG Liverpool are in profit, Just over half a million quid when selling 4 players, Think about it, the players agents make more than that.

As you can see it is quite entertaining to see that, but better still is the fact that I can now Proudly say Liverpool have become West Ham United's official Feeder Club. ( It brings a smile to my face everytime I say that.)

The Club is on a new high, I haven't felt like this since '80's.

Now we are upto date lets talk about what it means to the Club. Well obviously it is very early to talk about Europa League & Champions league, but the table speaks Volumes.

1. Barclays Premier League

   Standings

   #	Team	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	PTS
   1	Man United	1	1	0	0	4	1	3
   2	Aston Villa	1	1	0	0	3	1	3
   3	West Ham	1	1	0	0	2	0	3
   4	Fulham	1	1	0	0	1	0	3
   5	Liverpool	1	1	0	0	1	0	3

Yesterday Big Sam had this to say;

Sam Allardyce was brimming with pride after West Ham United started the 2013/14 Barclays Premier League campaign with a 2-0 home win over Cardiff City.

The Hammers defeated the Championship title winners for the fourth match in succession thanks to a goal in either half from Joe Cole and Kevin Nolan.

After bossing a first half highlighted by Cole's smartly taken turn and finish on 13 minutes, Big Sam's side weathered a spell of Cardiff pressure before making the game safe through Nolan's first-time shot 14 minutes from full-time. Speaking to West Ham TV, the manager was rightly happy with his team's strong start to the new campaign.

"It is a fantastic start, was great entertainment from the fans and a really positive display by ourselves," said Big Sam. "In a game of football over 90 minutes we do many things but the one thing we did do was dominate the game, dominate possession and create chances.

"I was delighted with Joe's goal but then Joe told me at the end of the game that he should have had a hat-trick before half-time! I wasn't really going to bring that up because we had done enough and we won the game. We may talk about it later in the week, but it shows you his disappointment. He said two of his easier chances were a header on the far post from a cross from Jarvis and when he went one-on-one with the 'keeper and he made the wrong decision by trying to chip him.

"We were probably a little disappointed it was only 1-0 at half-time, then we had to work it out because Cardiff changed the way they played. Then we lost a little bit of control in the second half, but defended the way we know we can without the opposition creating any chances in that spell.

"Then, of course, we started playing out on the break a bit more and we came up with a quality second goal. The ball into Maiga from Mark Noble and he controls it, back into Stewart Downing, to Noble to Nolan and he puts it into the back of the net as we all know he can do. That's him one in one again and he got five in ten at the start of last season.

"It was excellent and just what we were looking for and at the defensive end we were so good, Cardiff only had one shot on goal in the entire 90 minutes."

The manager said Saturday's display was the result of a pre-season that saw his side not only play some great football, but also escape without suffering any major injuries whatsoever.

"I'm often pessimistic that a decent pre-season can have an adverse effect on you, because that's what you do as a manager, worry about everything," he explained, with half a smile on his face.

"Last season was horrendous. We got turned over in Germany and at Ipswich and looked a million miles away from the Premier League. The lads were scared that they were going to start the season and not be able to cope, but we started with 14 points from the first eight games.

"This pre-season has been excellent. We have had no injuries and the players are 100 per cent fit physically and mentally, which meant that with the abilities they have got, the capability to beat Cardiff.

"If our fitness had been worse than Cardiff's, it would have been a struggle because we'd have faded away and they might have got back in the game, but that didn't happen and our technical ability was far better than theirs', and hence we won the game 2-0 comfortably."

Big Sam ended by praising the contribution of Modibo Maiga, who made his first  Barclays Premier League start since Tottenham Hotspur away on 25 November 2012.

Maiga worked hard, led the line well, held the ball up and put the Cardiff back four under pressure in the absence of the injured Andy Carroll.

"I've got to give a special mention to Modibo because I don't want the West Ham fans going away thinking he hasn't made a massive contribution.

"While it wasn't flair in the same way Jarvis, Cole and Downing produced, he held the ball up, led the line and put the centre-backs under pressure and played a part in the second goal.

"He's shown a bit of what he can do and why we bought him from Sochaux last year. It was a very difficult season for him last year and a difficult transition but he's had a full pre-season with us and has started every game up front and that fitness level he has got to has started to show us the ability he has got."

I'm forever blowing bubbles,

                   Pretty bubbles in the air,

                                          They fly so high,

                                                            Nearly reach the sky,

                                                                                 Then like my dreams,

                                                                                                         They fade and die.

Fortune's always hiding,

                                   I've looked everywhere,

                                                                I'm forever blowing bubbles,

                                                                                                    Pretty bubbles in the air,

UNITED, UNITED, UNITED.