Massive West Ham On Stairway To đ
West Ham United showed that their place in the Premier League’s top four was fully warranted as they outmuscled Liverpool for a memorable 3-2 victory at a rocking London Stadium on Sunday. With this victory the Hammers leapfrogged the Reds in the PL table and are third now, level on points with Manchester City! “West Ham are massive, everywhere we go!”
(From The Telegraph) Victory for high-flying West Ham ended Liverpool’s 25-match unbeaten run in all competitions and lifted them above Juergen Klopp’s side into third place in the table.
An own goal by keeper Alisson gave West Ham a dream start, but Liverpool went in level at halftime thanks to a superb Trent Alexander-Arnold free kick.
Craig Dawson hit the bar for West Ham early in the second half as Liverpool wobbled at the back, before Pablo Fornals restored West Ham’s lead in the 66th minute when he was played through and his shot evaded Alisson.
Alisson was found wanting again eight minutes later when Kurt Zouma headed in West Ham’s third in the 74th minute.
The man who scored what proved to be the match-winning goal, declared after the match that West Ham were like one big âfamilyâ. Now itâs five years that this family has moved to the new London Stadium, but during these five years now in Stratford, rarely has a win been more ecstatically celebrated.
Though there was a late lifeline for Liverpool when Divock Origi made it 3-2 with a shot on the turn in the 82nd minute, but the hosts clung on for a memorable victory and could rightly celebrate that they have shown relentless consistency in seven games within three weeks (since the last international break) with six wins and one draw.
West Ham boss David Moyes, speaking to Sky Sports:
âIt is a brilliant victory against a really good team. We played Thursday night too and to put in a performance with the energy to hang in at the end is great for the players. At the moment I’ve got really good players who play with incredible character.”
âWe are still growing the seeds a little bit â but I think we are there [top three] on merit,â Moyes said. âI wanted to challenge whoever the teams will be in the top four. I hope one will be us. Iâm hugely proud of the players. These players were close to relegation, now weâre pushing for Europe.â
By Europe, Moyes meant the Champions League, The Telegraph writes, and it was further to his and the playersâ credit that this performance followed Thursdayâs 2-2 draw against Genk.
It is now four league wins in a row for Moyes’ side and with the Hammers also in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals and the knockout phases of the Europa League, fans can rightly dream of more magical moments to come this season, BBC said in their match report. And thatâs the new West Ham Way of David Moyes winning team (according to The Times):
Ultimately, you see that West Ham players reflect their manager, Moyes, a hard-working, grounded football man. These are Moyesâ men, a team united, following their managerâs instructions perfectly. Moyes, who celebrated his 1,000th game as a manager on Thursday, was managing against Liverpool for the 36th time and this was only his sixth win, and it felt so sweet that he celebrated Zoumaâs goal with a jig on the touchline. It was hardly the Dashing White Sergeant but his joy and pride were understandable. He certainly had Liverpool reeling. Moyes and his staff drill the players extensively on set-pieces and two of their goals came from corners. His tactics of a low block and countering also paid off.
There are no egos in claret and blue, just good characters. Mark Noble, the club captain, embodies that. So does the current team captain, Rice, an established England international who would walk into any midfield in the country, yet is as down to earth as they come.
Where some players elsewhere copy-and-paste club-approved messages on social media, Rice types out his own heartfelt, emoji-filled posts, including a celebratory picture of him and a beaming Tomas Soucek, his midfield accomplice, after this famous win.
Goals: http://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2021/november/07-november/goals-west-ham-united-3-2-liverpool
Extended highlights: Extended Highlights: West Ham United 3-2 Liverpool | West Ham United (whufc.com)
Five Things We Loved About the Liverpool Win (WHUFC): Five things we loved about West Ham United’s Premier League win over Liverpool | West Ham United (whufc.com)
Celebration: https://twitter.com/westham/status/1457475448896516096?s=21
“West Ham are massive, everywhere we go”: Derek Richter â auf Twitter
50 Years âStairway To Heavenâ
Zwei ganze Seiten widmete der KURIER diesen Sonntag einem legendĂ€ren Rocksong: Vor 50 Jahren erschien Led Zeppelin IV mit âStairway to Heavenâ.
âAnd if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all is one and one is all, that’s what it is: to be a rock and not to rollâ
âUnd wenn du ganz genau zuhörst, wird die Melodie endlich zu dir kommen. Wenn alles eins ist und eins alles, dann ist es das: ein Fels zu sein und nicht zu rollenâŠâ
Nun, ich denke bei âStairway to heavenâ an Jesus und Gottes Liebe und nicht an ein unklares “Wenn alles eins ist und eins alles”. Ich denke an das Wort und das wahre Licht, das mit Jesus in die Welt gekommen ist (Johannes-Evangelium Kapitel 1) und daran, dass durch Jesus der Weg zu einer persönlichen Beziehung zu unserem Gott möglich geworden ist. ER ist der “Stairway to Heaven”. Durch das, was Jesus fĂŒr uns – fĂŒr jeden einzelnen – getan hat, ist der Weg zum Himmel frei geworden. Durch Seinen Tod am Kreuz ist der Weg zum Vater nun fĂŒr immer offen und es ist eine persönliche Beziehung zu Gott, zu Jesus möglich. Und ich denke daran, dass wir, wenn wir IHM die TĂŒre đȘ öffnen, Gemeinschaft mit Jesus haben können (Offenbarung 3:20) und gerettet sind.
Dann kann ich fest stehen wie ein Fels – gewiss, dass Er mich liebt und mir beisteht und bei uns ist alle Tage bis ans Ende der Welt (MatthĂ€us 28:16-20).
There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold
And she’s buying a stairway to heaven
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Ooh, ooh, and she’s buying a stairway to heaven
There’s a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure
‘Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings
In a tree by the brook, there’s a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven
You know
There’s a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking
That’s youAnd it’s whispered that soon, if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter
Remember laughter?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah…And it makes me wonder
If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now
It’s just a spring clean for the May queen
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There’s still time to change the road you’re on
Your head is humming and it won’t go, in case you don’t know
The piper’s calling you to join him
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind?And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all is one and one is all, that’s what it is
To be a rock and not to roll, oh yeah
And she’s buying a stairway to heaven.
Thinking of Liverpool âŠ
Today against Liverpool! I very well remember two games I have witnessed live: an emphatic 3-1 win at Upton Park (goals: Sakho, Reid and Amalfitano) with Sam Allardyce at the helm and Alex Song in the team (2014) – and a 1-4 defeat at London Stadium which ended Slaven Bilicâs tenure as West Ham manager (2017).
But it also was during Slavenâs reign that West Ham have last won against Liverpool: 2015/16 the Hammers made it three wins out of four games against Liverpool (including two FA Cup matches) eliminating the Reds from the FA Cup in a cup replay at Upton Park on 9 February 2016.
Itâs a winless streak of ten games in all competitions now against Liverpool. Itâs about time to win again ⊠but Liverpool are a force that the Irons always struggled against and the Reds are the only team still unbeaten this season. They always could be overcome only on days when everything went very well for the Hammers.
Could it be a day like these today?
By the way: West Ham U23 beat Liverpool U 23 yesterday -> Highlights: West Ham United U23s 3-0 Liverpool U23s | West Ham United (whufc.com)
Come on you Irons!!!
It’s So Unfamiliar To Win And Win And…
I am writing articles for the West Ham blog WEST HAM TILL I DIE from time to time. As I came across this Guest Post on the blog WEST HAM TILL I DIE by Simon Walters, I found it was such an accurate description of what Hammers fans feel right now, that I should dare to post it on my blog, too. That’s what Simon Walters, Assistant Editor of the Daily Mail, wrote:
Am I the only West Ham fan who is both delighted and discombobulated by the teamâs continuing success?
Have we really knocked out both ManU and ManC out of the EFL Cup in successive matches; done so without Rice and Antonio; are unbeaten in the Europa Cup without conceding a goal and are one match away from guaranteed progress to the last 16; and, oh yes, I nearly forgot, are fourth in the Premiership.
It is a whole new conversation for a West Ham fan. Usually, by this stage of the season, we are discussing whether it is 40 or 37 points we need to avoid relegation.
West Ham fans adopt a Tony Hancock style of hangdog humour to cope with the stress. It is a way of coping, a way of life.
We say: âWeâve got Palace and Burnley at home in the next fortnight, if we win those we will be four points clear of the drop.â
My optimistic West Ham mantra has always been: âIf we win the next three games we should be eighth.â
Trouble is we would often lose all three and end up 18th.
It wasnât all misery. The thrill of the final whistle when we clinch the point we need to avoid the drop in late April is exhilarating, even if only in the sense that an unexpected reprieve from a year long prison sentence would be exhilarating.
The joy of seeing the Hammers scrape home at Wembley against Blackpool in the 2012 Championship play-off final felt as good as an FA Cup win.
After last seasonâs success, many West Ham fans feared normal service would be resumed this season.
Doubters like me whinged: âWe havenât the squad to do the Europa Cup, half the team will crocked by November and weâll be struggling in the league.â
Well, itâs cold outside but it hasnât happened. Yet.
The discombobulation of the teamâs continuing success comes from having a football fanâs version of imposter syndrome.
Are we really the new Spurs? Embedded on the fringe of the top four?
Dare we set our sights on the Champions League? I am looking over my shoulder just saying it.
Might we even become the new, or rather old, Arsenal, actually a member of the top four?
The unloved London Stadium becomes the Stratford Bernabeu.
OK I have gone too far. Thatâs ridiculous.
The point is that West Ham fans like me donât quite know what to talk about. We need a new language.
We came to know our below stairs place in the Premiership pecking order and what was expected of us, how to behave, we knew the lingo of footballâs lower classes.
Now we have clambered out of the relegation scullery and are tiptoeing towards the Premiership banqueting halls of Liverpool, Man City and Chelsea.
We havenât plucked up the courage to knock on the door yet. What will we say if they do let us in?
But old habits die hard. To turn my mantra on its head, if we lose the next three we wonât even be eighth.
And it could be downhill all the way after that.
Or worse, Chelsea âdo a Lampard 2.0â and buy Rice for ÂŁ150 million.
Weâd certainly have the lexicon to talk about that.
Most of it unprintable.
âTime For Actionâ
https://youtu.be/eXvfqUe4EFQIn her address to the climate summit COP26 in Glasgow Her Majesty The Queen urges world leaders to “achieve true statesmanship” and create a “safer, stabler future” for the planet. She says in a video message they should “rise above the politics of the moment”, and that “time for words has now moved to time for action.”
Link: COP26, Glasgow
Glasgow, 31 Oct -12 Nov 2021
Unbelievable West Ham
West Ham continued their fine start to the season – never before have they collected 20 points from their opening ten Premier League fixtures – and extended their unbeaten away league run with a rampant 4-1 at Aston Villa. BBC said that the Hammers âpushed their top-four credentialsâ and according to The Telegraph the âHammers are real dealâ. They are now equal on points with Manchester City and three points ahead of Manchester United.
After the game Declan Rice who put in a man of the match performance and scored West Hamâs second, paid tribute to the team’s togetherness, which continues to drive them on as they strive to hit yet greater heights than they have already scaled:
“It’s a special group at the minute, a special environment. We wake up looking forward to training. Every game, we’ve been in it until the end. It’s a special place to play and as you can see by our faces weâre over the moon.
“We are joint third,â the West Ham skipper said. âThe big question people asked before the season was whether we could do it again and could we get used to playing in Europe and the Premier League. Weâve found out we can. But there are still a lot more games to go. This is the level, the standard. We canât drop if we want to be a big team.”
For David Moyes, this was his 999th game as a manager, and his fourth successive win in this stadium. His side really have been excellent on three fronts this term, with a superb Premier League start, reaching the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup and taking charge of their Europa League group with three straight wins.
And there is also a positivity and attacking impetus attached to his side that has perhaps not always been present in his previous jobs elsewhere. At times, Moyesâ team played some wonderful, free-flowing attacking football led by their effervescent captain Declan Rice.
The Premier League table after ten games is unbelievable and reason for happiness:
To put West Hamâs outstanding start to the season in context, they have 20 points from 10 matches and, converting three points for a win, only in 1975-76 have they earned more points at this stage of a top-flight campaign (21).
They are also now unbeaten in eight away league games and only once, in 1985 under John Lyall, have they bettered that run. These feel like heady times for the club. âI donât want West Ham to become that flaky, inconsistent team a lot of people remember them as,â Moyes said when he started his second spell at the club. But did anyone foresee how far his Hammers can go?
Itâs a great time to be West Ham!
Next games: KRC Genk (A), Liverpool (H, Sunday). Manchester City will play ManUtd away on Saturday.
Extended highlights from Aston Villa 1 West Ham 4:
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League Cup: Spurs Away
Itâs a perfect draw in my opinion: West Ham, who knocked out holders Manchester City in round four, face last year’s beaten finalists Tottenham in the quarter finals.
Last time the Hammers played Spurs in the League Cup in October 2017, they could celebrate a famous 3:2 win at Wembley and also reached the quarter finals. Coming from 0:2 behind at half time, they scored three second half goals through Andre Ayew (2) and Ogbonna. But this result was only a short relief for then manager Slaven Bilic, who had to step down as manager because of a very bad run in the Premier League.
On 7 November, David Moyes was appointed manager on a six-month contract. West Ham were eighteenth in the Premier Division at the time on nine points having played eleven games.In the next round of the Carabao Cup they were eliminated by Arsenal (0:1).
This season Arsenal will host Sunderland, the only EFL club left in the competition,. They have to travel to Emirates Stadium, while Premier League leaders Chelsea take on west London rivals Brentford, and Liverpool face Leicester.
The games will be played in the week of 20 December.
Britisch-skandinavische EM-Gruppe fĂŒr ĂFB-Frauen
Das österreichische Frauen-Nationalteam trifft in der Gruppenphase der UEFA Womenâs EURO 2022 im Juli in der Gruppe A auf die Gastgeberinnen aus England, Norwegen und Nordirland.
Die Auslosung am Donnerstag Abend in Manchester brachte den Ăsterreicherinnen eine sehr starke Gruppe, in der sie wohl nur AuĂenseiterchancen haben, aber auch die Ehre, am 6. Juli 2022 um 21.00 Uhr das Eröffnungsspiel gegen England im Old Trafford in Manchester zu bestreiten.
Im zweiten Gruppenspiel geht es fĂŒr die Auswahl von Irene Fuhrmann am 11. Juli um 18.00 Uhr in Southampton gegen Nordirland. Zum Abschluss der Gruppenphase treffen die Ăsterreicherinnen am 15. Juli um 21.00 Uhr in Brighton & Hove auf Norwegen.
âEs ist eine groĂe Ehre fĂŒr uns, dass wir die EURO 2022 im Mutterland des FuĂballs vor so einer einzigartigen Kulisse eröffnen dĂŒrfen. Das ist einerseits historisch und ein absolutes Highlight, anderseits eine Riesen-Challenge, gegen den Gastgeber und Turniermitfavoriten England zu spielen”, so Irene Fuhrmann, die die Auslosung vor Ort verfolgt hat. âEs ist sicher eine besondere Situation, dass uns mit Nordirland ein weiterer Gegner zugelost wurde, den wir aus der WM-Qualifikation kennen. Aber es kann auch Vorteile in der Vorbereitung mit sich bringen. Wir haben letzten Dienstag gesehen, dass Nordirland auf keinen Fall zu unterschĂ€tzen ist”, meint die Teamchefin weiter. âMit Norwegen haben wir einen Gegner erwischt, der seit Jahrzehnten konstant an der Weltspitze mitmischt, und in der Qualifikation nur einen Gegentreffer bekommen hat. Bisher konnten wir Norwegen noch nie schlagen, und sind in diesem Spiel auf jeden Fall der Underdog. Um ĂŒberraschen zu können, und die Gruppenphase zu ĂŒberstehen, mĂŒssen wir körperlich in Topverfassung sein und brauchen in allen drei Spielen eine herausragende Leistung.
âDas Eröffnungsspiel einer Europameisterschaft im Old Trafford vor womöglich 75.000 Zuschauern zu spielen, ist der Traum jeder Spielerin und jedes Spielers. Die Favoritenrollen sind in der Gruppe mit England und Norwegen klar verteilt. Um diese Gruppe zu ĂŒberstehen, braucht es nicht nur herausragende Teamleistungen, sondern auch das nötige GlĂŒck auf unserer Seiteâ, sagt ĂFB-TeamkapitĂ€nin Viktoria Schnaderbeck.
spielt ebenso wie Torfrau Manuela Zinsberger in London beim FC Arsenal
Up For Grabs
âThomas, charging through the midfield! Thomas! âŠItâs up for grabs now!â Leading composer and life-long Arsenal fan Mark-Anthony Turnage has composed a piece on Arsenal’s champion deciding match of 1989 against Liverpool. It will be performed for the first time on 5 November, 19:30, at Barbican Hall in London.
The composer supplies the musical alternative to Brian Mooreâs iconic commentary of this championship decider which Arsenal had to win with a margin of two goals to be crowned champions of the English First Division of 1988/89. It is a match which has a Wikipedia page of its own and at its time was watched by a peak British television audience of over 12 million.
The match is considered to be one of the most dramatic conclusions to a league season in the history of the English game and is sometimes seen as the starting point of a renaissance in English football. The title decider also formed the centrepiece of Nick Hornby’s book Fever Pitch.
The scoreline after the first half at Anfield had been 0-0. Then Striker Alan Smith scored Arsenal’s first goal from a header in the 53rd minute, but as the game drew to a close with the score 1â0, Arsenal needed a second goal to win the title. In stoppage time, Arsenal’s Thomas made a run through the Liverpool midfield and scored a last-minute goal, in the process denying Liverpool the chance of a second League and Cup double.
Members of Arsenal’s 1989 winning team against Liverpool will reunite to reminisce, after the performance was played alongside projected highlights from the dramatic match.
The performance can be watched online on the website of Barbican Hall.
West Ham beat Man City in League Cup
West Ham 0-0 Man City (5-3 on pens)
MAN CITY ARE OUT!
The holders, the winners for the last four years are gone. West Ham United is the first team to eliminate Manchester City from the League Cup since October 2016 after a tense 0-0 draw and a dramatic 5-3 victory on penalty kicks. West Ham, the winners at London Stadium, proceed to the quarter finals of the League Cup, and the Hammersâ fine season continues. This team has developed a real winning mentality and even won without their best, Declan Rice and Michail Antonio!
The other clubs to have reached the fifth round of the EFL Cup are: Arsenal, Brentford, Chelsea, Leicester, Liverpool, Sunderland and Tottenham.
Quarter-final draw will take place at 10:30 BST on Saturday.
League One club Sunderland is the only team from a lower tier still in the competition, having beaten QPR away on penalties.
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