Ashley17

Sick of hearing how much Henderson has improved. He's obviously a decent player, but since all their injuries he's played in a free role with no responsibility and he's done well. Fancy that.

Felt it was a bit of a false position in many ways, when you consider for matches 18 and 19 they faced City and Chelsea - who everybody else had played already. Now we're half way through and they're 5th it is more realistic. They'll beat the shit teams but they don't have enough about them to beat the top teams, especially not with Sturridge out.

We played ok, probably didn't do enough to win it but harsh to lose. Very similar to the Chelsea game really except Arsenal scored from a soft set piece rather than conceding. Other than the 4-4, this fixture is practically the same every year. 0-0 or 1-0 either way in a tight affair. Same old. Arsenal are the same every year aswell, you think they're great to watch, which is true in patches, the rest of the time they are a bunch of play acting cunts. They win every second ball and their shape makes them very difficult to break down - the wingers come infield a lot so the full backs can provide the width. They end up dominating the centre of the park and even if we win it back, there's nowhere to go.

Considering it's exactly the same as last year's I can't believe it took 4 months to release

Mackems going to be out of the bottom 3 with a win

Dzeko scores

They've thrown on Nasri and Negredo for Fernandinho and Boyata

Fucking Welbeck

Also, Sam making more friends: More from West Ham boss Sam Allardyce to BBC Sport: "Cups don't mean anything any more. We worked our way to the League Cup semi-finals. It doesn't matter, what does is our Premier League status and getting points. They are secondary in our plight, especially with our injuries. "I think the deciding factor [of staying up] will not be what January signings we make, but how quickly our injured players come back. If the players missing were fit, we'd have won the game. When you have six, seven players injured it's too much to cope."

Think he means at Villa Park but fuck knows.

He just re-iterated it...

My two players on the pitch today? James Chester and Danny Gabbidon. FML.

West Ham could be bottom by 7.30pm tonight

Diame's a bit of a dick really. Seems to have a lot of talent but doesn't give a fuck

The guy I'm playing in the cup hasn't touched his team since the beginning. He has Kompany as captain which is a real concern now. Bent and Crouch up front (well, Aguero too..) so christ knows how this will end up. Single figures each probably.

Toure will probably get on for the last 20 minutes and score a pen and a free kick

With Rooney out and Nasri a sub it's a double whammy for me because it means Danny Gabbidon will come into the team

No Rooney and hopefully no RVP, come on Norwich

But Wilkins said he wasn't an ounce of trouble! Now I don't know what to believe.

Aye well I often run with my forearm at face height.

It's come up before. He's my favorite player though I'll defend him no matter where I am. Cynical, professional foul but Rob Lee wouldn't have missed and we needed that point. Solskjaer is a hero. A heroic, humble gentleman. Where do you stand on his forearm smash on Aaron Hughes in the 5-3 in 2002?

It needs to be a midfielder as I've got 4 injuries and 2 of them are midfielders, so I've done Nasri for Ramsey. Will probably regret it.

Considering he got subbed off with "fatigue" (Pellegrini's words, not mine) I'd be amazed if he played tomorrow. I want to put a City player in but can't afford Yaya and everybody else is at risk. Might go for Nasri and hope for the best

He'll probably still play, just too much of a risk for me. Pellegrini has pretty much said Dzeko will play either against Palace or Swansea as they only have the two strikers fit.

Brave going for Silva, he's on 4 yellows and they'd probably like him away to Swansea rather than at home to Palace if they had to choose.