Upton Park, East London
West Ham Utd. 1 Newcastle Utd. 2
It has been a long time since I saw the Hammers playing so abjectly, and you might be excused for thinking that I might have a lot of previous games to choose from. We started well. I saw the initial team sheet and was immediately in buoyant mood, seeing strikers Carlton Cole and Frédéric Piquionne up front, supported by striker Victor Obinna right behind, and it seemed a masterstroke when after 11 minutes the latter slid the ball across the face of goal for the latter to guide it home at full stretch. It was a well-taken goal, and Cole's first for the club since the invention of the Rubik's cube, seemingly. Then, things went—to use the footballing cliché—pear-shaped. To say we turned off, would be akin to saying that the hen party had high hopes but the stripper turned out to be Iain Dowie. Not a nice thought. Not a nice last 80 minutes. Newcastle controlled nearly everything in midfield, despite Valon Behrami's best efforts, and Piquionne limped off with a bruised shin that kept him out of the next game. Obinna is a great footballer, but he seems unable to hit a barn door at two paces. West Ham remain at the bottom of the division.
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