DE-FENSE!

Noble is playing much better today (with a few dicey moments still though).
Dimanti. "Nuff said.
Green thought about imploding, then thought better of it.

Second half on.

It hurts

It gets harder and harder to wait for the tape delay. I was able to watch the first half of Bolton live, but had to leave for an appointment before the second. In the evening, I found myself FFing through the Setanta Online feed as it was killing me waiting for the shoe to drop in the form of a Bolton goal. Of course, the response of Diamanti was a fantastic bit of play, but Green soon went unconscious for a moment and the match was lost.

It was the first Bolton match last year when the announcers asked about Green, "and he wants to be the England keeper?" The question remains the same.

I'll be somewhere in the Misty Mountains until Chelsea. It hurts, but I am a Hammer and can take it.

Half

My favorite things about West Ham goals is that that the scorer seeks out other WHU players to hug and celebrate with rather than run off by themselves to self-aggrandize.

At 42 minutes, the announcers state, "Surely West Ham can't give this one away today."

Didn't they do their research?

What a half! Nice run by Spector and the General was big in the air.

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Bethel College Football Trick Play

Never a doubt! (Where's that sheepish emoticon?)

If Allen Iverson had played soccer, he would have been Zavon Hines' hero. Now, Zavon is mine. What a game!

The EPL better stock up on lower leg casts as he will be breaking a lot of ankles over the next few years.

______ can _______ !

Cole can be a scorer in the EPL.
Diamante can be a huge factor for WHU this season.
Zola can change his ways a bit.
Spector can throw the ball in without endless soul-searching first.
Hines can run faster than you (an most everyone else as well).
Parker can keep his hair perfect the entire match, or at least the bit he is on.

What an ending! My throat still hurts today from the yelling. If WHU can somehow translate the last twenty minutes of that match to an entire contest, there will be no worries about the table position.