Dr Gloom

One of many reasons to get the fuck out. I am so much happier since I left London. Cuntsville, it really is. the one thing i would say about london though is ttrouble tends not to find you if you don't go looking for it. unlike towns like newcastle. i'm not a violent man, and never start fights but i got involved in many a brawl in the bars of newcastle in my youth. you don't get people looking to kick off for no reason down here. well, not in central london anyway. i'm sure places like croydon are just as bad.

loads of wronguns down here tbf. there was some nazi fruit cake on a tube i took a few years ago. total nutter. steel toe cap dr martin boots. skinhead, scars and tatoos on his face. he treated the rest of the carriage to a monologue about all the different races he hated. far too offensive to repeat on here. i felt like speaking out, as i'm sure the majority of the other passengers did. but like everyone else, i sat with my head down, eyes locked on my evening standard as if i couldn't hear this foul diatribe. this bloke didn't look the sort you would want to confront. i've seen a gang of chavs do another bloke in on a packed bus down here too because he had the cheek to ask them to turn the music that was blaring out of their mobile phones off. fucking savages tbf and everything that's wrong with the youth of the day. since when did it become ok to pollute a confined public space like that? or to kick off with someone for saying the rest of the normal passengers wanted, but were too afraid to say? the problem down here is that if you do confront scum like that, they're likely to pull a knife or gun on you.

on current form, he's up there. but he's got to do it consistently. he's a great shot stopper, excellent reflexes and he's still young so should only get better. i'm not convinced he's the best at coming for crosses and his kicking hasn't always been the greatest. i'd still put czech, given and hart above him....for now.

pardew in danger of turning into david o leary in his leeds days with his recent remarks about being a young team. i'm waiting for the "i'm just a young manager on a journey" follow up.

I'll bet you don't deaders, I'll bet you don't. nudge nudge, wink wink. say no more.

it's a game of two halves. a funny old game. and at the end of the day, the team that scores the most wins.

fatfield man, fuck me that place bringd back some memories. i used to get pissed on cider sat on the top of worm hill as a kid.

those pics are a bit stalker-like. i met colo in the hotel i was staying in ibiza a few weeks back. lovely chap. wife was fit as fuck considering she'd pushed out two sprogs. i almost asked to have my picture taken with him but thought it would be a bit much.

i am loving this start. enjoying it while it lasts! i fully expect us to plummet down to our our natural level of lower mid table by the season's end. we've ridden our luck to get a few dubious results and one or two injuries and we'll look a poor outfit all of a sudden. but you never know, confidence and momentum are massive things in sport. if we can keep injury free, i'll dare to dream. why support the team otherwise?

kettlebells tomorrow. bring the ruckus

brain dead. it's comedy gore though.

it's only been the last couple of games that we've looked convincing tbf. long may that continue though.

Things were shit then. Things are shitter now.

Definitely get as many big nights aspossible out of the way now. You can pretty much write them off for a while. also the little things like going out with your lass for dinner and going to the movies.

You know you're getting old when you lose touch with popular culture and all new music sounds like noise

the thing about nolan is you kind of have to build your team around him. he's a bit like shearer was in his latter days for us in that his lack of mobility limits his play, bu you can negate what he lacks in the engine department by playing to his strengths. west ham should play with one striker, pack the central midfield behind him or use a deep lying midfielder like tiote who can do a lot of his running. then he'll provide valuable goals, assists and leadership qualities. i reckon he's possibly the best finisher we had since shearer. and he definitwly has the knack of popping up in the right area. i was saying the same things most of those hammers fans are saying now when he first signed for us. they should come around to him eventually. we did.

Put him on ignore gejon, it's the only way. It won't stop him replying to things you post but can't see because you've blocked him, or sending you pms either for that matter.

should have been arrested long ago for crimes against football

he's cut down on the feigning chest injury after committing a hand ball, which is a plus.

Always pay for the extra insurance. I got stung for the best part of a grand after some cnut bumped me then fucked off in a car park

He has been shit so far though hasn't he? Not saying he's going to be perma shit. Maybe he's still feeling the affects of being out so long.

He certainly gives us a different option to what we already have from the bench. Has he even been used in the league this season off the bench yet? I can't remember. Obviously not impressing that much in training if he's slipped behind Guthrie in the pecking order. Only time use seen him was in the carling cup. He was dire.

Bit early isn't it to be writing players off? Hey, i stand by that cabaye quote. He had a stinker against qpr when he sat so deep he was alongside tiote. Glad to see him improving. Not surprisingly, he's looked better since he started playing a bit further up the field and linking up the play more. And if you read all those quotes, i haven't written any of them off. Just making observations based on what we've seen so far. ba seems to have turned a corner since he started eating during daylight hours but I'm not massively convinced by obertan and goslings done nowt for us yet.

Is that him behind shepherd? Here's Leazes!