⚒ The Shak ⚒

Islander, doctor, science lover, skeptic, musician, West Ham fan, video games player, movie & TV enthusiast, tattoo aficionado & novice aquarist.

[⚒ The Shak ⚒ @5hakt1]

@GlennHowerton I believe in the Golden God. He'll come back. He has hasn't peaked. He hasn't even begun to peak yet. He'll be back.

[Adrián San Miguel @AdriSanMiguel]

Hi, hammers! @WestHam

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Simply perfect

[⚒ The Shak ⚒ @5hakt1]

The Office, The Big Bang Theory, The Walking Dead, Prison Break and Law & Order

[internet archiva @internetarchiva]

You can choose only 5

[꧁Bobbi꧂ @SaltyBitch_52]

Imagine you are on your balcony and you notice a man running from the police. From your height you can see where the guy evaded the officer and is hiding.
You can clearly see the police needs pointed in the right direction but you choose to say nothing, even when the officer asks you. On another balcony, the man is yelling and pointing the guy is getting away. What would you have done? Protect the person in trouble or point out where they were?

[Troll Football Media @TrollFootball2]

7 minutes and 18 seconds of pure Arsenal meltdown

[⚒ The Shak ⚒ @5hakt1]

@NOT_MOTD Nothing drastic at all. As usual.

[⚒ The Shak ⚒ @5hakt1]

@vveefo Palace 1 Rayo 3

[⚒ The Shak ⚒ @5hakt1]

@donsimon78 NO ONE.. We will need a couple of marquee signings that will hopefully attract other players to join the Club and get automatic promotion. We have no choice but to let Nuno do what he does now.. Hopefully we raid other Championship clubs too and get some good talent.

[⚒ The Shak ⚒ @5hakt1]

@donsimon78 I think after the Brentford game, I already started preparing myself mentally for the drop. This time around, it's not affecting me as much as it did back in 2011..

[⚒ The Shak ⚒ @5hakt1]

@donsimon78 I mean yeah, what's the worst that could happen at this point?!

[⚒ The Shak ⚒ @5hakt1]

Summerville shouldn't even be taking corners FFS

[⚒ The Shak ⚒ @5hakt1]

@donsimon78 At this rate, can't even see us get one, let alone two 😅😂😅

[⚒ The Shak ⚒ @5hakt1]

10 minutes in and we don't even look like a team bothered by relegation.

[FTBL_Planet @FTBL_Planet]

When Dylan Tombides found a lump, he was still a teenager trying to make his way at West Ham.

He went to a local doctor and was told it was a benign cyst.

He was 17, living away from home, trying to become a footballer, and the last thing on his mind was cancer.

“All I was thinking about was getting in the West Ham team and taking my driving test.”

Then he went away with Australia to the Under-17 World Cup in Mexico.

After the last game, he was selected for a random drugs test.

The result came back with two possibilities.

He had either taken a banned substance, or there was a tumour in his body.

Dylan knew which one it was.

He came back to England on the Thursday.

On the Friday, West Ham arranged the scan.

By the Monday, he had his testicle removed.

By the weekend, he was starting chemotherapy.

His mum Tracy tried to give him something to hold on to.

“I believe you’re going to be a cancer patient for a very short time, but you’ll be a professional athlete for a long, long time.”

So Dylan treated it like that.

He dealt with the treatment when he had to.

But whenever his body let him, he went back to being a footballer.

He kept going into training.

He kept trying to build himself back up.

And inside West Ham, people could not believe what they were seeing.

Carlton Cole later said nobody at the club really knew what to do with it at first.

“It was a difficult situation, especially for someone so young, but the boy just kept on going.”

Matt Jarvis came in that summer and did not even realise straight away what Dylan had already been through.

“I only ever saw him smiling.”

That was what made it so hard to understand.

Dylan was going through something most people could not imagine, and yet around the club he was still smiling, still training, still trying to get closer to the first team.

Then, on the 25th of September 2012, Sam Allardyce gave him that moment.

West Ham were playing Wigan in the League Cup at Upton Park.

Dylan came on for his debut with six minutes left.

He was 18.

Just over a year earlier, he had been told he had cancer.

Allardyce never forgot it.

“He was one of the bravest characters I have ever met.”

“Football was his life, and he didn’t miss a day’s training even when he wasn’t fit enough to train because of his treatment.”

By December, he was back on high-dose chemotherapy.

He needed stem-cell transplants.

Then in January 2014, after everything his body had already been through, he still went to play for Australia at the AFC Under-22 Championship.

Four games in eight days.

When he returned to England, he was told the treatment was no longer working.

Dylan passed away on the 18th of April 2014.

He was 20 years old.

The next day, West Ham played Crystal Palace at Upton Park.

His dad Jim and his brother Taylor walked out and laid his number 38 shirt on the centre spot.

West Ham then retired the number.

Before Dylan, the only player in the club’s history to receive that honour was Bobby Moore.
#football

[⚒ The Shak ⚒ @5hakt1]

😂😂😂😂😂

[Sky Sports Football @SkyFootball]

Thomas Tuchel's England World Cup squad 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🚨

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

We are so back! The open-world Lord of the Rings game has been confirmed!

[⚒ The Shak ⚒ @5hakt1]

Who's to blame for our relegation really? Potter obviously, the board. And who else?

[⚒ The Shak ⚒ @5hakt1]

@Camclarky Indeed! As always! But I think right now, all hope is gone.

[⚒ The Shak ⚒ @5hakt1]

20 minutes in and we are almost already in the Championship now. I guess I didn't want to believe it, but we're done and dusted. It's time to finally accept our fate.