This is one of the hardest days of my football career.
I’m devastated for our fans, for everyone at the club and for what this means after 7 years in the club and in the Premier League.
You deserved better from us.
Thank you for standing with us even in the toughest moments.
I truly believe the West Ham family will stay united and loyal through this difficult time, just as you always have.
Now it’s on us to respond the right way, work harder than ever and fight to bring West Ham back where it belongs.
Jarrod Bowen on his future:
"Like I said already, I want this club to be in the Premier League."
"It's a club that means so much to me and has given me so much. So you know my vision is to get this club back into the Premier League."
🙏🏻⚒️ #WHUFC#COYI
TOTTENHAM LOSE AT CHELSEA AND INEVITABLE DOOM AND GLOOM TURNS INTO IT GOING DOWN TO THE FINAL DAY, WITH WEST HAM FACING AN INJURY HIT LEEDS AND SPURS SUCK AT HOME
DAVID WILLIAM MOYES, YOU MAGNIFICENT BEING, WE ARE BEGGING YOU SAVE US A THIRD TIME
Lost our home.
Lost our badge.
Lost our identity.
And for what?
For the soul to be sucked from this football club and relegation.
We were promised a world class football stadium and a world class football team.
We got neither.
Sold a dream. Delivered a nightmare.
🗣️ JUST IN: Referee Chris Kavanagh was left confused by VAR during a review to rule out West Ham’s equaliser against Arsenal as full audio is revealed.
“You’ve got Declan Rice and you’ve got [Leandro] Trossard,” said AVAR Akil Howson.
Kavanagh: “I don’t know what you’re trying to show me, give me a clue.”
After being asked to look at Trossard potentially shoving Pablo into Raya, Kavanagh said: “I don’t think there’s much in that at all, I’m happy with that.”
He was also asked to review a potential foul by Rice on Mavropanos, to which he replied: “But the foul happens on the goalkeeper before.”
It took four minutes and 17 seconds between Wilson firing into the back of the net and a foul being awarded, with 17 replays reviewed in the process.
[via @MailSport]
My honest and balanced take on that decision:
Yes it is a foul by Pablo - he grabs hold of Raya’s arm which clearly impedes his ability to collect the ball
But has VAR has completely overlooked a series of events that precede this….
- Trossard has two arms around Pablo and is wrestling him from the moment the corner is taken. He doesn’t let go and he’s not even looking at the ball for christ sake.
- Gabriel is also blatantly pulling on his shirt.
- This restricts Pablo’s ability to jump for the ball, where he without question has a very good opportunity of beating Raya to the ball and scoring a header.
- The pulling and grappling also results in Pablo’s arm flying out to help retain his balance.
- On top of this, Havertz hauls Soucek to the ground before the corner comes in, whilst Rice is all over Summerville and then Mavropanos.
If you’re going to micro-analyse 25 different angles of the Raya incident alone for 5 minutes because it’s such a huge moment, how can you just ignore everything else happening around it?
Ref Watch on sky completely ignoring the “clear and obvious “ point of var. if a ref had to see it 17 times it’s not clear and obvious 🤷♂️ the fact it’s such an important game makes no odds. Every game should be officiated the same. It’s called consistency and our refs and pgmol have no clue 🙄
"It's the lack of consistency. These previous recent seasons have been having a lot of blocking, grappling, holding. Almost like a wrestling situation that all of us don't even understand what is a foul, what is not a foul. I think even the referees confuse themselves."
– Nuno