Zathras

Foul throw

Charlie!! PASS!

weak

Getting a bit worrying...

Great save Given!

Fuck me; I couldn't even see Alves in the fog!

Nice chance falls to Viduka. Good block.

Lucky let off there.

Martins clearly not pleased.

Viduka coming on for Martins. should have been Owen.

Martins nice shot! Deflected for a corner.

Fucking Enrique! WTF is he thinking???

They need to shut off those signboards--the light is lighting up the fog and making it harder to see.

Get it clear FFS!

If it continues to fog up at this rate they might have to call it....

N'Zogbia working hard on both sides of the ball really making the case for a regular spot. Don't see why he doesn't already have one.

Martins nice turn and off the bar! I've been impressed by how we've been holding the ball. Keeping possession and taking the Boro midfield out of the game. Turning into a bit of long-ball each way, but when we've held the ball we've looked good.

Can someone please explain to me why we don't just play with ten men in a 3-4-2 without a left back instead of playing Enrique? At least then other players wouldn't be tempted to pass to him.

Yes, they have. And I never did see Uncle Phil as being a particularly likely buyer anyways.

$3.5BB? Peanuts in the grand scheme of what has been given out recently. I say they can have it. Just rummage around through Hank Paulsen's couch cushions....

They will if the go into administration. Fact is they run at a loss. They will no longer receive funding from the owners and banks wont touch them. The money wont last for ever so if they arent sold they will go into administration and they will be docked points. There is nothing untoward here. That's the point I was making..... they were claiming on the radio that they'll escape that on the grounds of some loophole they've exercised in the registration process! It's not a loophole, basically the club as a business is separate to that of the ownership. Now that the owners are in the shit the club will have to be self-sufficient and if it isn't then the club will be put into administration, you can't really dock points from West Ham for doing nothing wrong. Exactly, the way I see it panning out: A: They sell a shed load of players in January B: They get bought out C: They go into administration. 2 out of three of those options will leave them at a massive disadvantage. Lets hope that is the case. Im not keen on the 2nd one, any potential foreign investor in us will now be thinking "London club, much more inviting and cheaper too", this is the sort of thing that Im talking about when people say the sale is nailed on because Due Diligence has allegedly started. Fuck due diligence, these people will drop out at the slightest sniff of a better deal. That may be the case, but around 2/3 of such deals these days include a breakup clause, usually around 5% of the sale price once it gets to the due-diligence phase. Unless the "better deal" is still much better when you add in another £10M that you have to pay for walking away, they're going to have to think about it. Of course, there's no GUARANTEE that there's such a clause at this stage.

Exactly; the whole point of incorporation is that a corporation is a separate entity under the law. Until that entity goes under, there's no basis for docking WHU. Unless you can pierce the corporate veil, but I see no reason to believe that you could in this instance. If the shareholders and operators of the company are bankrupt, however, it seems unlikely that most of the subsidiaries are going to continue to have sufficient capitalization to keep on as a going affair, so unless there is an asset sale and subsequent recapitalization, it's only a matter of time before the subsidiary (WHU) goes into receivership.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1891081 This one too; although it seems to have a bit more velocity.

We couldn't get the work permit for Friedel could we iirc? One thing that we missed back then was having a top class keeper, as IMO Pav was always a clown despite his status as some sort of cult-hero. Glad I'm not the only one who thought that. The wearing of his "Pavel is a Geordie" t-shirt on the post-promotion lap of honour was a moment of genius by him as it endeared him to the fans no end. But in reality he was a fucking liability at times, something which was evidently not lost on Keegan who tried to replace him numerous times (Hooper, Friedal, Hislop). Sadly I think the better keeper was the one Keegan let go... Tommy Wright. Friedel wouldn't have been as great an addition as he might seem at that point. His play at Liverpool when he did make it to the Premiership was hardly inspiring; Sander Westerveld being the preferred choice after James left. Wasn't until he went to Blackburn that he really became what he is/was.

Oh, and Mark Cuban was indicted today by the SEC for insider trading.