Barclays Premier Asia Trophy - Day 1

After Day One of the Barclays Premier Asia Trophy competition being held in Beijing, China it will be a Tottenham v Hull City final on Friday.

Tottenham beat West Ham 1-0 in the first game and West Ham's day was made worse when Luis Boa-Morte was stretchered off after damaging his cruciate knee ligaments. It is expected that Boa-Morte will be out of action for the next six months.

Tottenham's winner was scored by Jermaine Defoe.

In second game, Hull City drew 1-1 with the hosts Beijing Guoan. Geovanni opened the scoring for Hull and Beijing equalised just after the second-half restart from Midibo.

Hull eventually won 5-4 on penalties.

So the line-up for Friday is West Ham v Beijing (for 3rd and 4th place) and Tottenham v Hull (Final).


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FA Cup 4th Round. How Did Your Team Do?

Man Utd beat Spurs, Chelsea beat Ipswich, West Ham beat Hartlepool. The shock of the day was Swansea beating Portsmouth at Fratton Park.

Fulham EVENTUALLY beat Kettering (a non-league side) at Rockingham Road and there are two more games tomorrow, Sunday.

Cardiff take on Arsenal and for the 2nd time in a week, Everton travel to Anfield to take on Liverpool.

The draw for the 5th Round of the Cup is Sunday evening, 6.15pm UK time.

In League One news, The Real Latics got back to winning ways, beating Stockport County at Boundary Park, 3-1. The win puts The Real Latics into third place in the League One table, three points off an automatic promotion place

The Transfer Window is OPEN

First and foremost to everyone that has visited this blog in 2008, wishing you a Happy and Successful 2009.

To all new readers I wouild like to take this opportunity to wish you a Happy and Successful 2009.

Thank you all for your support.

The transfer window opened at midnight and who will be the first club to get the cheque-book out?

Will it be Man Citeh who have millions and millions to spend?

Will it be Chelsea who desperately need new players to revitalise their Premiership title challenge?

Who will be the first club to offload players to raise much needed funds - West Ham?

The next 32 days will be very interesting indeed.

The transfer window closes at 5pm on Monday 2nd February.

Steven Gerrard - The Best Midfielder in England?

From tonight's game at Anfield versus West Ham which ended 0-0, Gerrard expressed the desire to change his boots to Nike Air.



Check it out and have a chuckle



I know I did when I saw it.

LA LA ZOLA

West Ham's new manager and assistant both Chelsea legends, Gianfranco Zola and Steve Clarke got off to a winning start this afternoon at Upton Park when they beat beleagured and under-seige Newcastle Utd 3-1.

Franco and Clarkey got one over Wisey. Wonder if they are sharing a glass of wine at this moment and regalling the 'good old days?'

ICF Are Calling.....

I got asked this question this morning. Why is David Beckham playing for the MLS All-Stars against West Ham tonight?

Well.... my answer started, "Because he plays for LA Galaxy in the MLS."

What else could I to say?

Yep Beckham is due to play against West Ham. The club that he turned his nose up to when growing up not a mere couple of miles away in Leytonstone and instead joined Man Utd at 14 some 200 miles away. Football is indeed a 'funny old game.'

This entry isn't about Beckham, its about West Ham and the ICF. The 'infamous' ICF (Inter-City Firm) who caused somewhat of a chaos at the weekend in Ohio when West Ham beat Columbus Crew 3-1.

Will the 'real' ICF turn up tonight? Doubt it - the real protaganists of the ICF are probably at home in their armchairs willing on the 'new' generation to do the biz tonight.

Trust me I have faced and seen the original ICF in action - back in the good old days!!

West Ham boys today have nothing on the originals!!

We Got Champions League, Championship, League One, League Two

Whatever you want we have got it. Just follow the comments for as many score updates as is possible in a really short space of time - or 90 minutes!!!

All to kick off soon!!!!

But before all that, Frank Lampard won his appeal for his sending off at West Ham at the weekend and Andy Griffin of Stoke City won his appeal as well. Neither player will serve bans for their sending-off's.

The 'Real' Latics are in action at home to Hartlepool - My man 'up norf' is there, and the shirt in my profile pic is making its debut down south at Dartford goals.... a hang out of Portsmouth's Glenn Johnson.

So COME ON THE LATICS!!!

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Three Red Cards and a West Ham Funeral

Only a week after the unfortunate (and I can only describe it as unfortunate) injury to Arsenal's Eduardo, this weekend AGAIN saw the inconsistencies of match referees.

First up: We have Chelsea's Makelele's ankle high challenge on West Ham's Julian Faubert. No Card - Should have been at least a yellow

Next up: Andy Griffin of Stoke City, his tackle which TV cameras showed he won the ball fair and square get the straight red card by ref Andy D'Urso - a Premiership referee - relegated to the Championship for one weekend - NEWSFLASH. Stoke City has appealed.

Then we have: Real Madrid's Arjen Robben, almost getting one of his 'glass' ankles broken in a clumsy challenge by Recreativo's Quique Alvarez - Red Card. No arguments, Alvarez has since apologised. Robben will be out for how long he wants to be!!

And here comes the funeral part: Frank 'Super Frank' or 'Fat Frank' (depending where your loyalties lie) Lampard getting the red card on the advice of the assistant ref, for pushing down West Ham's Boa 'constrictor' Morte after a rough and tumble on the edge of the Chelsea penalty area - At worst a yellow card. NEWSFLASH. Chelsea has appealed.

Dangerous ground Chelsea, look at what happened to Middlesbrough and Aliadiere last week - appeal and get an added one match ban.