Saturday, May 5

We are staying up!

Leicester City 0 West Ham United 2 (two)

A fantastic result at the King Power Stadium. It's a long time since West Ham fans have been able to sing "Is this a fire drill?" at an away match. It was tense listening to it on Radio London but thankfully Leicester appeared to be playing on sun-loungers and West Ham made a solid start with Arnautovic and Lanzini prominent. Minutes after Arnautovic had hit the bar Arnie created a tap-in for Mario to ease the tension.

The game was settled by a sumptuous volley from Mark Noble, who described it as the best goal of his career. Fitting that Mr West Ham should score it. There was a great moment when a disgruntled Leicester fan ran on to the pitch to be greeted by chants of "Are you West Ham in disguise?" Leicester were not playing for their manager, but still had to be beaten and we've lost to worse sides.

Andy Carroll came on to make some important defensive headers and Adrian make a half-decent save in the 87th minute to ironic cheers from the home fans. You could hear the away crew on the radio going through Twist and Shout and "We Are Staying up!" as West Ham closed the game out. Stoke are down, Swansea and Saints still have to play each other and we're now three points above Huddersfield. Thirty eight points should do it. Now let's have some changes in the summer. Irons!

4 comments:

mj said...

You mean I could actually relax at 2 home games??!! Unheard of for 2 seasons...time to renew!

Pete May said...

Though Southampton are winning now…

matt said...

That 96th minute Everton goal means Big Sam clinches safety for West Ham.

Pete May said...

Always said big Sam would keep us up!