Ok, it isn’t quite the end of the world but I think a few of us feel like that this morning. The usual knee-jerk reactions are gracing the airwaves and the newspapers this morning. The usual cries of “sack the manager” and “you let your country down” have been wheeled out and the nation is in mourning. I don’t know about you, but I am getting a bit fed up with this reaction after every tournament we play. I think we need to have a look at the deeper problems that beset our national team.

Well, that is that then. Arguably the nicest man in football was dismissed by West Ham earlier today. Some will be rejoicing, some will have sympathy for Zola and some just won’t care. Personally, I think Zola has been badly short changed by the club but we will come to that in a minute.

Just when you thought it was all over, all bets are on again following the dramatic results from this weekend. Chelsea could almost touch the title with 17 seconds remaining of the Manchester derby on Saturday lunchtime.

West Ham’s truly awful season plummeted to new depths on Tuesday at the Boleyn. A very well organised and clinical Wolves team came to the east end and did a real job on the hapless Hammers. I stood there for most of the evening with the same glum expression I have worn for most of this season. By the end of the game, though it wasn’t just the football that was eating me up inside.

Nearly a week has passed and the fall-out from the John Terry saga is still rumbling on. That darling of celebs, well anyone with a bob or two to make, Max Clifford assures us that we will finally know the truth by the end of the week. To be honest, I don’t care who has been doing what to whom. I don’t care about supposed abortions. I don’t care that Toni Terry (great name that) is on holiday in Dubai to get away from it all. All I care about is the damaging affect this is going to have on the England squad come World Cup time.

That controversial figure, Mido has returned to the Premier League to join the slightly subdued Hammers (I can’t call them happy Hammers). So desperate to prove his worth, he is reportedly earning just a grand a week. Even more desperately, he is joining a club whose fans once referred to him as the “shoe bomber”. Times must be tough.

So, after months of doubt and negotiations, West Ham United was sold on Tuesday. There were a number of bidders, some more serious than others for the famous old club but we now have a winner, ladies and gentlemen. The club has returned to the bosom of the east end (well, the leafy suburbs of Essex) in the hands of the two Davids’. No, not the classic Spitting Image sketch of politicians of the time, Owen and Steel (Oh, David!) but the porn kings, Sullivan and Gold (Oh, David!)

Another Premiership weekend has passed and again, we see a lot of surprising results. Does anyone want to win the Premiership this year?

Last season, I wrote a piece that attributed a song to each Premier League team that reflected their current status or something that was going on at the club at the time. At the risk of going over old ground, I thought I would update the songs for the teams in this years Premiership with my current musings. Just to give you a flavour of some of my songs from last year we had Blowin’ in the Wind for Hull’s chances of staying up, Stoke were Livin’ on a Prayer and Bolton had the Ramones, I wanna be sedated! Well at least I was right about Bolton! Here we go again pop pickers.

Last season, I wrote a piece that attributed a song to each Premier League team that reflected their current status or something that was going on at the club at the time. At the risk of going over old ground, I thought I would update the songs for the teams in this years Premiership with my current musings. Just to give you a flavour of some of my songs from last year we had Blowin’ in the Wind for Hull’s chances of staying up, Stoke were Livin’ on a Prayer and Bolton had the Ramones, I wanna be sedated! Well at least I was right about Bolton! Here we go again pop pickers.