en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/751516 Comments by Birlo http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2010/02/01/player-performances-v-blackburn/#IDComment55018208 I am concerned that, despite the undoubted quality of our best players, they still do not recognise that one of the most successful ways to score goals is the pass PULLED BACK from the goal line. Even the brilliant Scot Parker, after having dribbled along the goal line, smashed a pass accross the goal, that even Batman could not have reached. All the top teams score many of their goals by understanding that the chances of scoring are greatly increased by the pass pulled back from the goal line. Remember Marlon Harewood putting the chicken-run in severe danger of structural damage from the power of his passes accross the goal. Please give it some thought and ease my frustration a little Tue, 2 Feb 2010 13:41:18 +0000 http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2010/02/01/player-performances-v-blackburn/#IDComment55018208 http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2010/01/30/west-ham-0-blackburn-0-match-report/#IDComment54803259 It doesn't get any uglier than the 'football' played by any of Alydyce's teams. It is retrograde football that has prevented us from ever being a force in international football, by that I mean we don't win anything. This style ensures that the best you can achieve is a quarter final. No Alydyce style for us please. Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:06:54 +0000 http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2010/01/30/west-ham-0-blackburn-0-match-report/#IDComment54803259 http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2010/01/30/west-ham-0-blackburn-0-match-report/#IDComment54802634 Make no mistake Scot Parker is among the best in the premiership but he suffers the same failing, as almost all of our players over the years, it is that when we get to the goal line our players persist in smashing the ball across the face of goal at a speed that even batman couldn't get on the end of. How is it that our coaching staff have never watched the preferences of the best teams in the premiership. All the best teams score goals from passes PULLED BACK from the goal line. This is certain to provide the best opportunity to score, but we don't do it. Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:59:40 +0000 http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2010/01/30/west-ham-0-blackburn-0-match-report/#IDComment54802634 http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2010/01/13/fernandes-in-pole-position/#IDComment51879450 So West Ham have been found guilty over the Millwall game crowd problems. If there is to be the punishment of playing a game behind closed doors then let it be a cup game. How strange that the powers that be always manage to find us guilty. Have they failed to notice that there has not been a problem in any other game played at Upton Park in recent memory? Drunken louts, who surely cannot be described as Hammers supporters, are endemic in society they are constantly to be found in every high street throughout the nation not just at West Ham v Millwall games. Societies problems cannot be levied at any Football Team. Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:44:52 +0000 http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2010/01/13/fernandes-in-pole-position/#IDComment51879450 http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2010/01/07/cry-god-for-zola-west-ham-and-fortress-upton-park/#IDComment51025138 Hi RomeHammer What a wonderful idea to combine Teddy Sherigham's football brain with Marlon Harewood's athleticism. But just supposing, such a child, had Marlon Harewood's brain and Teddy Sheringham's Athleticism Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:25:46 +0000 http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2010/01/07/cry-god-for-zola-west-ham-and-fortress-upton-park/#IDComment51025138 http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2010/01/07/cry-god-for-zola-west-ham-and-fortress-upton-park/#IDComment50994918 Hi Ray My dad was caught climbing the gates of Wembley at the 1923 cup final. He told me that the police caught him and made him get back in! Yes we lost 2-0 to Bolton. David Jack scored both. It was called the 'white horse' final because a policeman, on a white horse, was seen to be clearing the crowd away from the touchline because there were too many people in the ground. some estimated the crowd as 126,000! Fri, 8 Jan 2010 12:15:26 +0000 http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2010/01/07/cry-god-for-zola-west-ham-and-fortress-upton-park/#IDComment50994918 http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2010/01/07/cry-god-for-zola-west-ham-and-fortress-upton-park/#IDComment50991977 Andy you are correct about the mail. It sees it's job as selling as many papers as possible and to do that it needs to be contraversial. In press circles it's known as the lying mail and it keeps up to that promise better than most. Fri, 8 Jan 2010 12:05:49 +0000 http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2010/01/07/cry-god-for-zola-west-ham-and-fortress-upton-park/#IDComment50991977 http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2010/01/07/cry-god-for-zola-west-ham-and-fortress-upton-park/#IDComment50990534 I agree with all the comments that refer to getting behind the players, with plenty of applause and no booing. The management should not, however, make our attempts to support the players too difficult by buying Marlon Harewood. I'm sure he means well, and no doubt about his committment, but sad to say he will never be of Premiership quality and will only make our task to stay up more difficult. Fri, 8 Jan 2010 11:59:51 +0000 http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2010/01/07/cry-god-for-zola-west-ham-and-fortress-upton-park/#IDComment50990534 http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2010/01/07/cry-god-for-zola-west-ham-and-fortress-upton-park/#IDComment50894734 I Loved the version of 'IF' in a recent 'comment' Perhaps Rudyard Kipling was an 'Irons' fan. He certainly was a writer,poet and optimist, just like the rest of us. As a hammer since the day I was born there is one thing that I am certain about and it is: You can never double guess West Ham. They are full of surprises. Long may it be so. Thu, 7 Jan 2010 16:45:37 +0000 http://www.westhamtillidie.com/2010/01/07/cry-god-for-zola-west-ham-and-fortress-upton-park/#IDComment50894734