West Ham v. Rotherham 1-31-04 (R)

[pething101]

No live audio from West Ham I think.

[pething101]

Starting 11 for the Irons

Bywater
Repka
Dailly
Mullins
Harley
Carrick
Reo-Coker
Etherington
Connolly
Harewood
Deane

[pething101]

Game on. Listening through the Rotherham site ... what an annoying pair of twats so far.

[panicfc]

I'll follow via the chatroom.

[panicfc]

1-0 to the claret and Blue

Deano from Carrick corner

[pething101]

West Ham 1, Rotherham 0

Deane header in the 15th minute or so.

[panicfc]

Pants!

1-1

you are in the chat now - cool

[pething101]

Originally posted by panicfc
Pants!

1-1

you are in the chat now - cool

Crap own goal by Repka

[pething101]

2-1, Irons.

Dailly with the header off an Etherington corner.

[panicfc]

Originally posted by pething101
2-1, Irons.

Dailly with the header off an Etherington corner. two goals off corners! Who are we?

[pething101]

Come on, hurry up and blow the whistle.

[pething101]

Full time. Three points earned at home.

Sounded like it should have been a 3-1 or 4-1 scoreline but three points is three points.

[El Toro]

Excellent!

I was singing "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" to my 1-year old because I thought it was cute and my wife told me to quit because the song is depressing.

[pething101]

The Table

1 Norwich 29 20 56
2 West Brom 29 18 54
3 Sheff Utd 29 12 49
4 Sunderland 28 12 47
5 Ipswich Town 29 10 47
6 Wigan Athletic 29 9 47
7 West Ham Utd 29 12 45
8 Reading 29 0 45
9 Preston 28 8 43
10 Millwall 29 5 43
11 Cardiff City 29 9 42
12 Stoke City 29 2 42
13 Crystal Palace 30 -1 41
14 Crewe 29 -2 39
15 Coventry City 29 3 37
16 Gillingham 28 -9 36
17 Walsall 29 -7 35
18 Rotherham Utd 29 -10 34
19 Burnley 29 -10 31
20 Watford 29 -12 30
21 Derby County 29 -16 30
22 Nottm Forest 28 -3 29
23 Bradford City 30 -21 23
24 Wimbledon 29 -29 18

[El Toro]

The top two are looking increasingly remote, but we are in easy striking distance of the third spot.

[panicfc]

I think we can make up the 9 points, just need a magical run, plus the teams above have to hit a bad patch.

[pething101]

Where is Dazza and his review?

[Dazza WHUFC]

Excellent!

I was singing "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" to my 1-year old because I thought it was cute and my wife told me to quit because the song is depressing.
DIVORCE HER!!!!!

Fully deserved the win, in difficult windy and wet conditions. 2 goals from corners, which is almost unbelievable. Rotherham came and made it hard for us (like almost every team has this season)
Pollitt made a good save at the feet of Connolly while at 0-0, but it wasnt long until we took the lead with Deano heading in from 6 yards or so from a corner.

They equalised and it was a case of 'oh no not again' but unlike many other games this season we managed to break them down and get a winner.
To be honest, depsite the Millers being difficult to break down, they never offered much attack wise. Dailly redeemed himself with some of the booboys by scoring the winner with a diving header after good work from Etherington to force a corner. Previously Dailly had a couple of wayward shots from 30 yards out that ended up nearer Charltons goals than those at Upton Park!!!!

Reo-Coker was unlike in the dying minutes, a lovely little chip over the keep looked goalbound until it hit the post and bounced out, not to worry we thought as Connolly and Deano were charging in unmarked, but somehow, and I do not know how the ball evaded them both and bounced to safety.

So, the customary nervous last few minutes were played out, with Rotherham not threatening much.
Overall fully deserving of the points, despite it not being the spanking we all hoped.

[panicfc]

How were the pies?

[JTorres]

Sausage was good.