The final match at Upton Park was delayed 45 minutes as West Ham supporters outside the ground attacked Man United’s bus upon its arrival. A hailstorm of bottles and other objects showered the bus, breaking windows and halting the vehicle’s progress towards the stadium.
Tag: West Ham
Mark Noble carries time-wasting Ander Herrera off the pitch
Down 2-0 to Man United in the FA Cup quarterfinals and with time starting to run out, West Ham’s Mark Noble grew impatient as Ander Herrera received treatment. Instead of letting him milk the clock, Noble decided it was time for action and carried Herrera towards the touchline.
Arsenal fans want everyone out as fourth-place dream proves elusive
Some fans want their club’s manager out, others want their club’s owner out, but Arsenal fans want both out. That was the message they committed to time-honored banner form and held aloft as they watched their team surrender a 2-0 lead to West Ham and finish with a 3-3 draw because they let Andy Carroll nearly double his goal tally for the season.
Everything goes wrong for Chelsea in first half against West Ham
Look at that! That’s how close Chelsea were to an equalizer after West Ham opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Amazingly, things only got much, much worse for the struggling Premier League champions after this.
Cesc Fabregas then had a goal disallowed for being offside and Nemanja Matic was sent off after his second yellow just before halftime. In the frustration of all of this, Diego Costa and Fabregas were also shown yellows for dissent, while Jose Mourinho (who was already on a suspended one-match ban for his comments about the referee after Chelsea’s loss to Southampton and assistant coach Silvino Louro were sent off.
Sky Sports News reports on Charlie Austin’s dick ligaments
QPR’s Charlie Austin is in the middle of an increasingly desperate search for a new club before the transfer window shuts despite finishing as the Premier League’s fourth highest scorer last season. And his pursuit has been dealt a blow by West Ham owner David Sullivan, who claimed that his club wouldn’t sign Austin in part because the striker “has no ligaments in his knee.”
Football Shirt Friday: Real Madrid, Arsenal, Porto, and West Ham retro beauty
Another week, another batch of new shirts. I’m starting to think they keep releasing them just so we can keep filling this space. Yes, that’s definitely it.
West Ham owner announces signing of one player with picture of entirely different player
West Ham owner David Gold used his personal Twitter account to announce the signing of Spanish midfielder Pedro Obiang from Sampdoria on Wednesday. Except he welcomed Pedro by including a picture of Juventus defender and entirely different human being Angelo Ogbonna.
A West Ham fan threw a mangled ear of corn on the pitch
West Ham held a 1-0 lead against Stoke from the seventh minute all the way until the fifth minute of added time, when Marko Arnautovic equalized to salvage a point at Upton Park. For one West Ham supporter, there was only one possible response to this type of frustration: throwing an ear of sweet corn, that may or may not have been partially eaten, onto the pitch.
Yelp Match Review: Arsenal v West Ham
Arsenal beat West Ham 3-0 on Saturday, giving them eight consecutive Premier League wins at home. Josh Getman provides his Yelp review for the match.
Nemanja Matic injured himself while celebrating Chelsea’s cup win
Nemanja Matic wasn’t available for Chelsea’s 1-0 win at West Ham since he was finishing out his two-match ban for shoving the man who went unpunished after nearly snapped his leg in two. But after the game, Jose Mourinho revealed that he couldn’t have played even if he wasn’t suspended because he injured himself while celebrating Chelsea’s Capital One Cup final win on Sunday…a.k.a. the other match in which Matic did not play.