West Ham Fans Born to be Claret and Blue

Well it had to happen, despite showing some long lost passion West Ham were undone by Tottehaham at the Boleyn eventually losing 3-4 after having led by 2-0 at half time.

I have been the editor of this site since it's conception in 2000, and am obviously aware of the rivalry between all the London clubs, but I don't understand what gives between West Ham and Tottenham.

Last Season West Ham were champions at coming back from being down, next season they will be down in the Championship hoping to get back up. OK so there is a mathematical chance that salvation from the drop is still possible despite the 4-0 drubbing by fellow relegation strugglers Charlton at the Valley but realistically most fans will now have accepted the inevitable.

West Ham line up against Charlton at the Valley for this massive match without the services of new signings Lucas Neill and Mathew Upson.

This match had everything except for 3 points, time and fixtures are definitely running out for Alan Curbishley to turn things around.

Graham Poll surpassed his World Cup ineptitude's with a seven yellow and one red card performance that beggared belief, to compound this woeful attempt at being a referee, he then added on 5 minutes of injury time which enabled the visitors to draw level on the 93rd minute to make the score 3 - 3

He came, he saw, he altered, OK so it was only a victory over Brighton but it was still a win, ask other London supporters, namely Alan Pardew's Charlton, how important it was to get through to the next round against lower opposition.

Alan Cubishley has selected a team with five changes from the one that was humiliated by Reading last week. The most notable absentees are Nigel Reo-Coker, Marlon Harewood Mathew Etherington and Paul Konchesky, none of whom even make the bench.

Hammered - Where To Now For West Ham? To the Fizzy League more likely than not, for the first time in years we didn’t review a match, namely the home defeat on Boxing Day against Manchester City, the reasoning was that there was no point in writing a negative article ahead of another crucial game.