Archive for April 2, 2023
Saturday Fever
How football used to be. Includes clips from Spurs v Man City in the 1960 season. Also snippets of Wolves, Cardiff and Celtic fans arriving at their games.
WHU Goal Given by VAR
Nayef Aguerd headed a free-kick into the Saints’ goal in the 25th minute of Sunday’s relegation “six pointer”. The goal was given after a lengthy VAR check. Assist: Thilo Kehrer. It was Aguerd’s first Premier League goal!
West Ham 1 Southampton 0
The goal made the nervy Hammers team stronger and play with more confidence for the rest of the first half. But in the second half the Saints were the better team again and West Ham were sitting deep and somehow getting the win over the line.
Knowing that the loser of this game would finish the day bottom of the Premier League, David Moyes’s approach was very cautious and the Hammers played quite passive in a very anxious London Stadium.
Very important 3 points, but an unconvincing performance which won’t win over Moyes’s critics. “I would still sack Moyes today and appoint Rodgers [who got sacked recently at Leicester] before an other team take him,” a West Ham fan tweeted after this important win.
And a Leicester fan suggested a manager swap: the West Ham fans would be happy with taking Brendan Rodgers, he said, and he would take Moyes for the rest of the season, too.
That won’t happen of course. Well it was a win, but not a victory that has brought much relief to the London Stadium. The relegation fight is still on and West Ham now are hoping for a point or another three in the next game against Newcastle at home on Wednesday.
Come on you Irons!
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