SPECTOR:West Ham vs. Arsenal 11/5/06 (R)

Excellent. How many in a row is this?

 

I think this will be his second consecutive start. He missed the recent Totts and Chesterfield games.

 

Spector with a yellow for a studs up challenge.

 

Spector with a yellow card after taking down van Persie.

0-0 19th minute.

 

Spector involved in a good chance by the Hammers as a Lehman goal kick sucks ... Yossi heads the Spector, I think, cross wide.

 

Spector and Van Persie are having a real battle today. A couple of tangles already.

 

Spector is a marked man today it seems. A tackle from Clichy (?) leaves Spector flat out. Clichy(sp?) booked for the challenge.

 

Van Persie with a yellow for a deliberate hand ball.

 

Anton Ferdinand is off. McCartney is on. Still, 0-0.

 

Van Persie got hit with a coin, according to the BBC. Two incidents in two days.

 

Sounded like it was in the back of the noggin. Just like JFK.

 

Halftime, 0-0.

 

Second half KO.

No changes for either side.

 

Spector should go the full 90 as Pards has made his three subs already.

Have not heard his name mentioned too much in the second half.

 

Just as I type that Spector gets cross in that is headed away by Clichy.

Arsenal break on the counter.

 

Henry with a shot from 20 yards out. Green with the save.

 

Tks for the PbP!

 

Spector gets forward, gets a cross into the box for Teddy. The 40 plus year old Sherringham is called for a shove.

 

Marlon with a 1 v 1 and Lehman comes up huge to deny the Irons.

 

Free kick deep in the Arsenal end ... deflected out for a Hammers corner.

Headed behind for another Hammers corner.

Would be nice time for a Spector goal to open his account.

Alas, not to be ... yet.

 

Arsenal with a couple of decent changes to nick one late on the road but they have not connected with that final pass.

 

Henry has woken up. This can't be a good development.

Spector with a tackle that disposses Henry though.

 

1-0.

Hammers.

Marlene!!

 

Harewood!!!