English Premiership, Saturday, October 16, 2010

Molineaux, Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 West Ham Utd. 1

Five games now without a loss, but again…well, you can see, and we sit rooted at the bottom of the division. That said, two wins could take us half way up the table, and only Chelsea looks as though it is coasting things this season. Again, West Ham went 1-0 down, and some people might blame Rob Green for punching the ball out; he might have had no choice, but the ball landed right on the foot of a Wolves play, who still had to do well to control it into the net. Our equaliser (I am getting bored writing that and also changing the “z” to a “s,” after the automatic spelling-“corrector” on my computer changes it back) was from the penalty spot, Mark Noble blasting the ball home—it was a penalty, I think, although other referees might have waved play on. We came close to winning on two occasions, a warrior of a shot from Frédéric Piquionne that shook the cross bar after another Luis Boa Morte threaded pass and a one-two between Israeli player Tal Ben Haim (I never thought I’d write the words “”Ben Haim played excellently” but he did, happily surprising me) and Piquionne that ended in a perfectly good goal that the referee, who had no clear view, stated had hit the striker’s arm. It did not. In other words, we were robbed. The last time West Ham won away from its ground was 14 months ago, at Wolves, something that clearly has to change. - Terance B.