Olympic Stadium: How Far Away Will We Sit?

Regular readers will know I have concerns about our proposed move to the Olympic Stadium. One of my really nagging frustrations is how far away from the pitch we will be.
Kindly provided by a user on Twitter, @simonjcole, here is a table outlining the distance from the pitch at the Olympic Stadium compared to other large football [...]

The Ann Summers Arena

The Ann Summers Arena
The deal is done and the seed sewn.   On Monday it was announced by the Club that the Two David’s and Newham Council had submitted their blueprint for ‘Life after the Olympics’, claiming that football and athletics can be “the best of neighbours” at the Olympic Stadium.  Also adding, albeit in [...]

Vote in the World’s biggest Football survey

FoobtallUnited.com are running the Global Football Monitor this year, in partnership with Hattrick.org
Last time the survey was run was for the Euro 2008 championship and it was the biggest ever football survey…now they’re rolling it out again for this year’s World Cup. You all know I love a survey or poll so I figured I’d [...]

Parker, Green and Upson in 30-man England Squad

Scott Parker, Rob Green and Matthew Upson have all been named in Capello’s 30-man provisional World Cup squad. Carlton Cole has missed out, which judging by his recent performances, is pretty understandable.
Other players to have been included are Joe Hart, Jamie Carragher, Stephen Warnock, Adam Johnson and Darren Bent. Amongst the usuals.
Zamora and Hargreaves miss out.
Here’s [...]

Zola Sacked [LIVE CHAT & POLL]

According to the BBC, Zola has been sacked – although there are no further details as of yet
Is sacking Zola the right thing to do? Use the box below to chat more…

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Here’s a quick poll for you – who do you want to see brought [...]

Gareth Barry OUT of World Cup

So with the news today coming through that Gareth Barry is going to miss the World Cup as a result of an ankle injury, I was wondering if anyone can think of a suitable replacement?
Maybe…
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Just a thought
IRRRROOONNS!
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New Season, New Era, New Squad? [FROM ADAM]

I received this email from AdamWHUR last week, but didn’t unfortunately get round to posting because I was already running my poll. However, here’s how Adam values our current squad…do you agree?
(please bear in mind that this was sent to me before we played Fulham and before Spurs beat City last night to qualify for [...]

10,483 votes cast. Who do you most want to see the back of?

Last week I ran a poll asking you to vote on who you most want to be sold at the end of the season. A massive 10,483 votes were cast and the results are below.
What delighted me the most was to see the list of players that we all least want to leave. I think [...]

Who should stay and who should go? [POLL]

So, as we’ve heard from SuGo, the whole squad is up for sale – except Parker.
Based on his performances so far this year, I’m pretty sure we could just play him on his own and we’ll do pretty well.
But anyway, here’s a list of our entire first team squad – who should stay and who [...]

We’re not going down, but will SuGo take us forward?

The latest from SuGo is that we will listen to offers for every single one of our players apart from Parker.
So, in a nutshell that includes the following:
- Rob Green (England’s number one)
- Valon Behrami
- Carlton Cole
- Mark Noble (West Ham through and through)
- Jack Collison (he’s off to Arsenal)
- Junior Stanislas (great prospect)
- [...]