Forever Blogging Hammers

Dear loyal Flyer-Hammers supporters,
We've kicked the ball high into the air of a new era of VIWHUI blog. "We're forever blogging Hammers" to paraphrase the West Ham United anthem, but this new epoch starts with bad news...
English Premiership; Saturday, March 6, 2010; Upton Park, East London

West Ham Utd. 1 Bolton Wanderers 2

After a not-unexpected loss away at league leaders Manchester Utd., the Hammers were expected to continue their home run of two wins in a row with another win against lowly Bolton, whose away form is awful...well, of course they'd turn that around against us, wouldn't they. In the first half we were simply awful, especially our defense, which could not do anything well. Normally solid James Tompkins tried to shield the ball over the touchline, only to see a Bolton player scoop it off him and to an unmarked attacker; the first goal showed the lack of marking that a better team like Manchester was able to simply manipulate, but so was rubbish like Bolton. Julian Faubert, who has shown great strides in performance in the last week, also looked paltry, and while we improved in the second half, our one goal came far too late (the 89th minute). We almost got a point when a shot from Junior Stanislas rocked the crossbar, but Bolton were worthy winners and leapfrog us in the standings. As out next two games are against Chelsea and Arsenal, we could soon be in trouble and look to the clubs below us—Wolves, Burnley, Hull, etc.—to remain even worse than we are. Our goal, from Alessandro Diamanti, was excellent, and if it had been the winner, we'd be talking about it from now until humans stopped talking, but it wasn't, so....