Latest transfer gossip is that Matty Etherington is in talks with Stoke City. I hope this is not true as I am a bit of a fan of Mr Etherington. But his off field activities and injuries may have led to Zola losing patience with him. I hope that is not the case. He is [...]

The cup tie versus Hartlepool will be shown on ITV1 on Saturday 24th at 12.40pm.
      

The papers are full of reports that West Ham have rejected an 11 million bid for Matthew Upson from Aston Villa and are holding out for 15 million for Scott Parker from Manchester City. Parker is said to be on 70,000 a week at West Ham!
But Arsenal are also said to be interested in Upson, [...]

Reports tonight suggest that Scott Parker has agreed personal terms with Manchester City and will sign within the next 48 hours. However, Sky Sports News says that the two clubs have yet to agree a fee. I hope we do not accept anything less than 10 million.
      

West Ham have drawn first division Hartlepool away in the FA Cup fourth round. Just the sort of match we normally come a cropper in. Not this season, though, I feel. Mind you, Hartlepool are no mugs, as they showed against Stoke. They are 15th in League one, but have a few useful players.
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A job well done. It wasn’t pretty at times, but it was a gritty, effectiove performance from the Hamers which put us into the fourth round draw. bearing in mind how often we have fallen to teams like Barnsley at this stage in the Cup, a comprehensive 3-0 victory has to be seen as highly [...]

Seeing as I shall be out delivering Conservative propaganda important information to the voters of Dagenham & Rainham on Saturday morning, I thought I had better do the Barnsley preview now
I think there might well me quite a few changes in our line-up tomorrow. Scott Parker is banned so I imagine that means [...]

The hot transfer rumour of the day is that West Ham want to offload Lucas Neill, even if they don’t get a transfer free. Favourite destination appears to Galatasary and West Ham would even pay part of his wages.
I am not sure I see the Galatasary move as likely, although I certainly wouldn’t put [...]

Which of these statements matches your view of what we should do about the Sheffield United situation?
West Ham should come to an out of court settlement as soon as possible - 39%
West Ham should continue to fight Sheffield United all the way to the full extent of the law - 59%
West Ham should just allow [...]

Do you think Zola will still be manager of West Ham at the end of the season?
Yes 84%
No 16%
If West Ham sell one of their star players in January do you think Zola will resign?
Yes 41%
No 59%
Do you think Zola is the right man to lead West Ham through this period of instability within the [...]