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West Ham (A) FA Cup R4 Replay. Tues 9 Feb, 19.45

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Sir Tokyo Sexwale

Sir Tokyo Sexwale

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I started the last West Ham thread. We played miserably & lost. Not expecting much different here either, which is a shame since Blackburn (A) in R5 is 1 - a great away & 2 - a good chance to get into the QFs.

 

My team -

 

Any bunch of useless c****

 

Firmino

Molby

Molby

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the k.o. time does not suit me at all

 

don't wanna see Firmino start with Benteke and made to look s*** by him in a 3; so......damage limitation - go for a 4-4-2 if we really must play Benteke

McBain

McBain

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I wouldn't play Henderson. He's clearly struggling.

Most are. Wouldn't have Can in the team (intact, I'd fire him out of a cannon). Lucas is playing terrible, Teixera isn't a central mid. It's gotta be the captain for me

Barnesy_10

Barnesy_10

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I forget Allen went off injured. Guess he's out.

I know he thought he had dislocated his shoulder last week but Saturdays was a diff injury, muscle strain apparently but dunno if that's hamstring

McBain

McBain

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-----------------Mignolet

 

Clyne-----Toure------Caulker------Flanno

 

Ibe------Henderson-----Can--------Smith

 

-----------Sturridge-----Firmino

Mignolet is in goal there.

Will

Will

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Double Agents

In advance of our final ever visit to the Boleyn Ground, YNWA looks at the careers of some of those who have represented both the Hammers and the reds over the years.

Current double agents

Andy Carroll signed from Newcastle United for a club record £35m on transfer deadline day in January 2011, bagging eleven goals in 58 reds games and helping us to claim the League Cup. He spent the 2012/13 season on loan with the Hammers before moving permanently for a record £15.5m fee that June, so far notching seventeen times in just 72 outings overall, including two past the reds, as he has suffered with a series of injuries.

Victor Moses signed on loan from Chelsea in September 2013, netting twice in 22 outings. He is spending this season with the Hammers, so far notching once in sixteen games.

Recent departures

Stewart Downing moved to Anfield in July 2011 from Aston Villa for £18.5m, netting seven times in 91 outings, as well as scoring in the shoot-out as we claimed the League Cup at Wembley in February 2012. He moved to Upton Park in a £6m transfer in August 2013, netting seven times in eighty games before returning to Middlesbrough for £5.5m last July. Right-back Glen Johnson signed professional terms for the Hammers in August 2001. He failed to score in sixteen games before moving on to Chelsea for £6m in July 2003 to become the first signing of the Roman Abramovich era. He joined the reds from Portsmouth for a whopping £17.5m in June 2009, notching nine times in 200 reds outings, featuring as we clinched the League Cup in 2012. He was released last June.

Joe Cole bagged thirteen goals in 150 outings for the Irons, his first professional club, making his first-team debut at the age of seventeen and helping them to claim the FA Youth Cup in 1999. He also won their Hammer of the Year award in 2002/03 as they suffered relegation from the Premiership, with Cole being appointed captain by boss Glen Roeder in January 2003, aged just 21. He left the Hammers that August, joining Chelsea for £6.6m. He notched just four times in 39 reds outings since joining on a free transfer in July 2010, returning to Upton Park for free in January 2013. He scored five times in 37 appearances in this second spell, moving on to Aston Villa for free in June 2014.

Alou Diarra joined the Hammers from Olympique de Marseille for £2m in August 2012, playing fourteen times without notching, before being released in July 2014 after a loan spell back in France with Stade Rennais. After his free transfer from Bayern München in July 2002, he spent three seasons on loan in France, first at Le Havre AC, and then at Bastia and Racing Club de Lens, who he signed permanently for in June 2005. His only appearance in a red shirt came in a friendly win in Le Havre, when he enjoyed the rare distinction of returning to the pitch after having been substituted, as a replacement for Vegard Heggem.

Roy Hodgson paid £3.5m for left-back Paul Konchesky on transfer deadline day in August 2010, as well as transferring Lauri Dalla Valle and Alex Kacaniklic to Fulham as part of the deal, who were valued at a combined £1.5m. He had moved to Upton Park for a £1.5m fee from Charlton Athletic in July 2005. He scored twice in seventy outings for the Hammers, including a fluke strike past Pepe Reina in the 2006 FA Cup Final. He joined Fulham in July 2007, having lost his place in the side during that season. Konchesky played eighteen reds games before moving on to Leicester City for £1.5m in July 2011.

Steve Clarke was appointed as a first-team coach by Kenny Dalglish in January 2011. He took over the same role at Upton Park in September 2008, having resigned as Assistant Manager at Chelsea. He worked under Gianfranco Zola at West Ham, helping them to ninth in the League that season. However, they struggled in the following campaign and he left the club mutual consent in June 2010, shortly after Zola’s dismissal. Midfielder Kevin Keen bagged thirty goals in 279 Hammers games after signing pro terms in March 1984, moving on to Wolverhampton Wanderers for £600,000 in July 1993. He returned to the East End in July 2002 as Under-17’s coach, eventually becoming First Team Coach in October 2006 and having three separate spells as Caretaker Manager. He moved to Anfield under Dalglish in July 2011. Both Keen and Clarke left the club in June 2012 after Brendan Rodgers’ appointment.

Javier Mascherano joined West Ham from Corinthians Paulista for an undisclosed fee on transfer deadline day in August 2006. After just seven outings for the Hammers, he signed on loan for the reds in January 2007, before signing on permanently in February 2008 for £18.6m. He scored twice in 139 games, impressing greatly in the holding midfield role before moving to Barcelona for €22m in August 2010. Mike McGlynn was Assistant Chief Scout for the reds, heading up a team of UK scouts who report on opposition teams, also working under Chief Scout Eduardo Maciá to find new players. He had worked as a senior coach with the FA for two decades before becoming northern scout for West Ham. Frank McParland then offered him a part-time role at Liverpool, and he was with the club full-time from July 2007 until June 2012.

Robbie Keane signed from Tottenham Hotspur for £19.3m in July 2008, but only netted seven times in 28 games before making the return journey for an initial £15m fee the following January. He joined the Hammers on loan from Spurs in January 2011, notching twice in ten outings.

In charge

George Kay became Liverpool boss after five years leading Southampton, and was responsible for signing Billy Liddell, Bob Paisley and Albert Stubbins. He led us to our fifth League title in 1946/47, securing a unique quadruple by also claiming the Liverpool Senior Cup, Lancashire Senior Cup and Lancashire County Combination Championship Cup! He also led us to our second FA Cup Final three years later when we lost out to Arsenal. Unfortunately, he had to step down due to illness in January 1951. He played for West Ham during the war, and signed on permanently in 1919 from Belfast Celtic, where he had become the first Englishman to captain an Irish League club, playing in the Irons’ defence 259 times, and was captain as they lost to Bolton Wanderers in the famous ‘white horse’ FA Cup Final of 1923. He had also helped them to promotion into the top flight in 1922, and was the first Hammer ever to reach 200 League appearances.

Up front

Harry Bradshaw became the reds’ first international in February 1897 when he won his only England cap. He struck 53 times in 138 reds games after signing from Northwich Victoria in October 1893, winning two Second Division titles, before moving on to Tottenham Hotspur in May 1898, going from there to West Ham, for whom he struck twice in twelve matches. Danny Shone signed on with the reds as an amateur in 1915, and then as a professional in May 1921. He bagged 26 goals in 81 games, helping us to claim the League title in his first season. He joined the Hammers in June 1928, netting five times in twelve games.

Craig Bellamy arrived in L4 from Blackburn Rovers for £6m in June 2006, grabbing nine goals in 42 reds games before being sold just thirteen months later, joining the Hammers for a club record £7.5m. He struck nine times in 26 outings before moving to Manchester City for a reported £14m in January 2009. He returned to Anfield on a free transfer from City in August 2011, bagging another nine goals in 37 reds outings before moving back to Cardiff City for free a year later.

Neil Mellor joined First Division United on loan in August 2003, but only managed two goals in 21 games as the Irons went through a series of managers. He bagged six goals in 22 senior reds games, before moving on to Preston North End for a reported £0.5m in August 2006. Kenny Dalglish signed David Speedie from Coventry City for £700,000 in January 1991. He netted eight times in fourteen reds games before moving to Blackburn Rovers seven months later. He struck four times in eleven League outings while on loan from Southampton at Upton Park during 1992/93 as his career wound down.

Titi Camara signed from Olympique de Marseille for £2.6m in June 1999, scoring ten times in 37 reds games, most famously against West Ham on the day his father died in October 1999. He joined the Hammers as part of a joint deal with Rigobert Song in November 2000, although he only played fourteen times for them. Daniel Sjölund moved in the opposite direction to Camara at the same time, for a £1m fee. He never made either club’s first-team, and is now playing for Swedish side Djurgårdens IF. Mike Newell also did not break through from our reserves, and he moved to Upton Park on loan from Birmingham City in December 1996, failing to score in seven games. Former reserve Ted MacDougall signed pro terms on his nineteenth birthday in 1966 but never made our first-team, moving on to York City for £5,000 in 1967. He left Manchester United to join the Hammers in 1973 but moved on to Norwich City in December of that year after a dressing-room punch-up with Billy Bonds. He had struck five times in 24 League games.

At the back

Rigobert Song signed from Italian club Salernitana for £2.6m in January 1999, making 38 reds appearances before joining the Hammers as part of the Titi Camara deal. He only played 27 times for them before joining Racing Club de Lens for £1m in June 2002. Julian Dicks arrived at Anfield in September 1993, with David Burrows, Mike Marsh and £1.5m heading in the opposite direction. None of them lasted much beyond a year at their new club. Dicks has the honour of being the last red to score in front of the standing Kop, and returned to Upton Park in May 1994 after three goals in 28 reds games. He won the Hammer of the Year award twice in each of his two spells in East London, bagging 65 goals in 317 outings in total. Burrows made 193 reds appearances, helping us to a League title, FA Cup and FA Charity Shield, and then played 35 times for the Hammers, netting twice, before joining Everton a year later.

David James arrived from Watford for a fee of £1m in July 1992. He went on to make 277 appearances in his five years at Anfield, before being sold to Aston Villa for £1.7m. He moved on to West Ham United in a £3.5m deal in July 2001, after just under two years at Villa Park. He played 102 times for the Hammers before moving on again to Manchester City in January 2004. Rob Jones signed for the Irons on a non-contract basis in July 1999. He had famously failed to score in his 243 reds appearances, but persistent back problems led to his departure from Anfield. He was unable to achieve full fitness while with the Hammers and subsequently retired from the game.

Neil Ruddock signed from Tottenham Hotspur for £2.5m in July 1993, and made an inauspicious debut, breaking ex-red Peter Beardsley’s cheekbone, as well as scoring, in Ronnie Whelan’s testimonial match the following month. He made 152 first-team appearances while at Anfield, before moving to West Ham United for £100,000 in July 1998. He played 56 times in his two seasons with the Hammers, before moving on to Crystal Palace. Keeper Charles Cotton moved to Anfield from West Ham in 1903, playing twelve times before returning to East London the following year.

In the middle

Ray Houghton started out at Upton Park, but only made one substitute appearance before joining Fulham in July 1982. He joined the reds from Oxford United for £825,000 in October 1987, striking 38 times in 202 reds games, helping us to two League titles, two FA Cups and the FA Charity Shield in five years at Anfield. Right-half Ted Savage played 105 reds games after signing from Lincoln City in May 1931. He debuted as a forward, netting twice in a 4-0 defeat of Grimsby Town at Anfield that September. He moved to Manchester United in December 1937, and guested with the Hammers during the Second World War.

Yossi Benayoun signed for the East London club from Real Racing Club de Santander for £2.5m in July 2005. He struck eight times in 72 games for the Hammers, and featured against the reds in the 2006 FA Cup Final. He signed for £5m in July 2007, netting 29 times in 134 reds games, including trebles in three different competitions, before moving on to Chelsea last July for a reported £5m. He spent the first half of the 2012/13 season back on loan at Upton Park, failing to score in six first-team appearances. Paul Ince played 81 games in his two years at Anfield after signing from Internazionale for £4.2m in July 1997, scoring seventeen times. However, his best days were behind him, and Gérard Houllier shipped him off to Middlesbrough within a year of taking charge, due to his unruly influence. He had started his career with West Ham, notching twelve times in 95 games and claiming the Hammer of the Year award in 1988/89 before controversially joining Manchester United for £1m in September 1989.

Don Hutchison left Anfield for West Ham United for £1.5m in August 1994, after ten goals in sixty reds games. Exactly seven years later, he moved back to Upton Park, joining from Sunderland for £5m. He struck seventeen times in 110 games for West Ham across his two spells there. Mike Marsh played 101 reds games before being part of the deal that brought Julian Dicks to Anfield. He bagged two goals in 61 games while at Upton Park, before joining Coventry City for £450,000 in December 1994. Left-winger Peter Kippax joined the reds from Burnley as an amateur in 1948. He made one League outing, against Birmingham City in March 1949, having already netted in a Wartime League fixture for the reds against Bolton Wanderers in August 1945, before moving on to Yorkshire Amateurs in 1950. He had also guested for the Hammers during the war.

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