West Ham Fans Born to be Claret and Blue

Without Tevez possibles include Gudjohnson, Viduka, Ashton and Zamora. And remember a lot of coin will be amount. There are plenty of happy songs to be sung amongst that lot!

confidence is high, whu are going places.... funny though, it doesn't feel right, im used to yo yoing divisions and losing to teams we should beat and winning against "bigger teams". Im sure i'll get used to it. Anyway NRC, i think im with the other posters, im not bothered if he goes or not, he put in the request..his decision, he probably thought curbs would beg, tough luck son, now youve made yer bed, lie in it. ive said it once, i'll say it again, im right behind EGGY. TEVEZ and EGGY the best hammers all season !!

When my brother was 13/14 (around 1990) he decided he was tired of supporting West Ham and started supporting Leeds United (!). He had no reason to choose Leeds in particular, we have no family from Leeds and none of us had ever been there. I think he thought that West Ham was a bit of yoyo team and Leeds were on the up and maybe it was a bit of a teenage rebellion thing. I remember he had a picture of Eric Cantona on the wall that he used to literally worship. A year or so later Leeds won the league and it all seemed a good idea. My brother tried to get me to convert and as an 8 year old influenced by his older brother I almost wavered, but I held firm. Even at that tender age the likes of Ludo, Potts, Parris Bishop, McAvennie and Morley had already made their mark. There was something that couldn’t be changed. My blood was already Claret and Blue. I remember writing Judas! on bits of paper and hiding them all over his bedroom, in the pockets of his clothes and in pages of random books (he kept finding them years later!). I endured years of belittling and almost pity from my Judas brother while Leeds won the league title and had their heady champions league runs. He was smug thinking he'd made the best decision of his life. BUT NOW!! OH YES!! Leeds in the old THIRD division, in debt up to their eyeballs and in Administration, while we have a multimillionaire backer, just had the most unbelievable, unprecedented escape from the drop and THE APACHE, the modern day Eric Cantona. I suppose I feel a little bit for him and Leeds now but he definately deserves everything he gets , I mean what self respecting boy changes clubs. WEST HAM THEN, NOW and TIL I DIE!!!!!!!

Benayoun signing shows that he has obviously seen the ambition around the club and wants to be a part of it. I suspect that Curbs and Eggy have shown him who's on their summer hitlist and that would have convinced him that he's going to be a part of big things at Upton Park (or the Bobby Moore Stadium for that matter!).

Ady II see reo coker has handed in attransfer request

I really just can't understand how anybody can stand up for Reo-Coker. 'Oh, he helped get us out of the relegation scrap'... But he was one of the main reasons why we were at the bottom of the league in the first place. He's clashed with his own fans, refused to accept criticism for his dreadful form at times and sulked when he wasn't told about interest from Arsenal and Liverpool last August. Frankly, his attitude sucks. He can get the hell out of here... None of the 'big boys' will come in for him now though.

I think he shouldn't go he is an amazing back up keeper to have in your squad.

Regarding the Reo Coker situation. Reo hands in the request and West Ham accept. Then the agent says he is surpirsed that West Ham will let the Captain of the club leave? He handed in the request didnt he? That in itself says he is not dedicated to the club. I think personally the fact that Reo has not been able to accept the abuse he got as his part of the crap season we had shows he either isnt mature enough to handle the position and/or he didnt want to be here in the first place. Sounds like he expected West Ham to plead with him to stay cos he's so great and it didnt work out for him. As Eggy said, if a player doesnt want to be part of West Ham then they can go. Eggy and Curbs have seen first hand what a destructive dressing room does to the team and they are definately making sure they have committed players this year. Also, whilst Reo Coker is very strong on the ball, has a great engine and is a decent tackler, he cant pass a ball more than 10 feet thats why he often runs with it so often and doesnt scrore enough goals, certainly isnt a play maker. Yet he isnt really considered a defensive midfielder either, hence Mullins played with him. That was a lot of our problem last year, we had no creativity in the middle and Yossi and Matty werent playing that well on the wings so we were f88ked. Anyway, i applaud Curbs for saying addios if he has handed in a transfer request. But the good thing about this that is that if we are letting him go we MUST have a replacement lined up, otherwise they wouldnt do it. Parker could be on his way???

Has curbs got a history of good signings, inc at charlton??