Spurs and Palaces
Two games in, just how is the brave new world of expansive football under Allardyce going? Over the summer, West Ham owners Gold and Sullivan charged manager Sam Allardyce with […]
Category Archives: English Premier League
Visualize That
With the season winding down, the end-of-season reflection mill is cranking up production. A week and a half ago, the New York Times published a collaboration between their graphics editor […]
Chelsea’s Tangled Webb
Reaction to Liverpool at Chelsea A surprising amount of the reaction to the Chelsea – Liverpool game centered on the performance of referee Howard Webb. Gabriele Marcotti summed up, in his […]
Relegation Saturday
The big games were scheduled for Sunday, in Liverpool – Chelsea and to a lesser extent Newcastle United – Arsenal, but Saturday featured key clashes that are already looking like […]
Diving In
Only had time to catch the Manchester United – West Ham game today, due to holiday “fixture” congestion in real life. It wasn’t much of a game to be honest, […]
Gunners in the Lock-up
I was so tired finishing my post Sunday night that I forgot to talk about the magnificent game between league-leading Arsenal and Roberto Martinez’s new look Everton. Fortunately, lots of […]
Hammers and Nails
You know the old saying that, when you’ve got a hammer, everything looks like a nail? It certainly seems relevant for recent accounts of West Ham’s new strikerless system. Since […]
Hammers’ Seventh Joy
Or, Big Sam’s Barcelona Tryout Jacob Steinberg must have had an inkling. On Twitter, he described Friday’s Joy of Six article on great Spurs-Hammers tilts (written with Paul Doyle) as […]
West Ham U(pda)ted
If you don’t understand what this pick-up truck has to do with West Ham, check out my previous post on the Irons. One of the wonderful things about the football […]
Real Mourinius
Or, You Don’t Have to Agree with the Special One to Respect Him I’m back after an unwanted delay with some quick thoughts on José Mourinho spurred by today’s Tottenham […]
Stoopid American 