Under the Hammer mid point special

Welcome all to another instalment of Under the Hammer. First I will introduce Benny Ball (pein).
So welcome can you tell what you have been doing this last week. I am the man that gets you closer to the players, like who is getting on with who, partying all night or whatever these football players get up to. But I also meet you the fans to hear some of your stories that are tied with this great club. I have been following the development that the players have been discussing about moving to the new stadium at the start of next season. The players say they can't wait to play the first game at the Olympic stadium. San Miguel says "it will be great to play in front of bigger crowds at home games the noise will be deafening. Just can't wait for the new season." José says "He hopes to be with the club when they move, it will be a great venue to play in each week."  I have also have been speaking with the fans about the move they have be fair mixed responses like one man (he will remain nameless to save any embarrassment).
He goes on to say "that have this bigger stadium will allow us to close the gap on your fellow London teams and compete and beat them." I also asking him would h like to share the stadium with your fellow London teams while they build there new stadium. " I personal would like to see the Rottenham Rotspurs or Chumpsea play there home games here. If they want to play games they can share will Charlton or Leyton Orient. There stadiums are big enough for there manky fans. If they want to share the ground with us then I would demand a 2million fee for every home game they play here." well that was something, and as promised I kept your name out Stephen. Oh! oops sorry. Right that's it for me I will hand you back to Timmy.

So first game up was against Udinese Calico. This was above the drop battle a win for either team meant breathing space. Udinese had West Ham under pressure from the off and almost scoring in the opening minute, but Adrian had it covered. This was the only really attack mustered by Udinese in the first half. West Ham created a few half chances but other than that it was a very dull 45. Opening 5 minutes started with a bang, like both managers went through both sets of players as both had very good chances to score but still the deadlock was not broken. It looked as if it would end a draw until Valencia set up Noble to make it 0-1. The goal with 13 to go took the wind out the sails for Udinese as the couldn't get a shot on goal. A fan in the crowd had to go to hospital with a broken nose after being hit in the face by the ball because he was to close to the corner flag.

Then we entertained high flying Torino. They showed why they were flying as West Ham goal was bombarded for the first half. Second half Nicky change there formation to ease the onslaught and it help a rare attack from Naismith, made Zieler work. But before the hour mark Sau makes it 0-1 to Torino. The goal didn't have the desired effect that Torino wanted. It just brought a wave of attacks by West Ham, which brought about a Valencia goal with 5 mins to go. Torino had made a push for the winner, but got intercepted and a counter attack came and reckless tackle by Baselli, resulted him getting his second yellow and an early bath. The last minute of the game West Ham had a free kick which was pinged in by Sakho and Suarez just pulling it wide. To finish 1-1. After the game Mr Thomson says we could have stolen the 3 points at the end but a draw was the better outcome as both teams played well.

We caught a flight out to Italy. To face the Italian mafia Genoa. Bribing there way to second in the league. Before the game Frank had set up a flyby (should have been a drive by) of pigeons thanks to his friend Tweety (Gino) for setting it up and its the new thing that takes place at every home game. So back to the action. The big talking point was the Rafinha sending off. The look on Frank face when he saw the red card made him whisper something to his assistant manager, then head down the tunnel. So with down to 10 men Genoa still had very good chances but couldn't find the net.the second half was as by far the worst half of a football match I have ever seen. After the game Mr Thomson was very disappointed with the team that we should have won playing against 10 men for near 70 minutes. Also a few days after this game a missing person report was filed for the referee. I could only hazard a guess he is sleeping with the birds... no i mean fishes.