Woohoo! What a result for the Hammers today! I truly believe a win against Bolton will be enough to secure our Premiership survival!

cant wait to see phil nevilles own-goal. wonder what jose is gonna say about that ;D

so do you think he did it on purpose? ;D

captain of everton not bad for someone who is that shit

^^^Fuck off! The FA made their decision and there mere many good reason why we shouldn't have been deducted points. It happened under Brown not Eggy, there was no problem with us signing the Argies it was just how it was done. Wigan et all are doing themselves no favours wingeing and moaning every day when the FA have already made it clear than any appeal by them will be fruitless. Maybe they should be concentrating on their teams last vital game. There's a reason that the're down there, the've been shit this season. Just take it on the chin, stop winging and realise how sad it is trying to stay up by moaning about other clubs instead of trying to play well themselves!

Liverpool finish 3rd, 10 men Wigan stay up, fucking made up Sheffield have gone down

Neil Warnock "Im dissapointed with team selection from rafa and others. Dissapointed with sir alex, thought he would have put out a stronger team than that. What goes around comes around and I cant wait for the cup final and champions league final".

You only had to draw with the 10 men of Wigan to stay up, feel sorry for all the fans but Warnock your a c*nt

Sean Bean, Paul Heaton, Dave Bassett, Neil Warnock - can you hear me, Neil Warnock,! Your boys took one hell of a beating! Your boys took one hell of a beating!'

maybe its just me but i thought liverpool were unsporting putting out such a weak team against fulham. i think that they have shown a lack of respect towards the premier league and should be punished for it.

no its not an anti liverpool thing i think that it was out of order the team selection.

the same for west ham i have nothing against them but what they did was wrong and there punishment was not correct.

If Liverpool deserve to be punished then so do Man Utd for not putting out their strongest side against West Ham. Funny how Ross has opinions on Liverpool getting punished but not on Man Utd who did the same thing!
Oh and Ross, how do you figure West Hams punishment wasn't correct? There is no mandatory points deduction for the charge we faced and the penalty was agreed upon by a comittee represented by all the Premiership. Just because the bottom clubs want to spit the dummy because of it dosen't mean the're right. Personally I'm glad the relegation got sorted out on the pitch than off it. The FA have already made it clear they won't give in so these stupid apeals that are trying to be mounted are a waste of time and doomed to failure anyway. After West Ham's incredible run at the end of the season do you really think the Premiership will be a better place if a side who couldn't even draw at home with Wigan in a vital game were there instead?

Ross, I'll just let you read this from a non West Ham supporter, I may be biased but you have to admit he has some very good points.

Hammers deserve their survival
West Ham have caused a huge row but TEAMtalk's Mark Holmes is happy they survived and glad to see the back of Neil Warnock's Sheffield United.


The Monday morning papers are full of bitter columnists lambasting the fact Alan Curbishley has kept the Hammers up, insisting they should have been relegated weeks ago with a hefty points deduction.

But I'm delighted we'll be seeing Curbishley's men back in the Premiership next season and even more delighted we won't have to put up with the idiotic Warnock quite as much.

Ever since the Blades' relegation was confirmed on Sunday afternoon, Warnock and his chairman Kevin McCabe have bemoaned the "unfair"
circumstances that have seen them drop back to the Championship.

The Premier League has been blamed for not docking West Ham points, Rafa Benitez and Sir Alex Ferguson have been blamed for fielding under- strength sides and referee Rob Styles has been blamed for a couple of questionable penalty decisions.

"You can blame everyone really can't you?" mused Warnock. Well, everyone except yourself it would appear.

Watford, Charlton and Sheffield United have been relegated because they were the worst three teams in the Premiership this season. It's about time Warnock held his hands up to that.

West Ham, regardless of the situation with Tevez, have survived on merit. They showed title-winning form over the final two months of the season, winning seven out of nine games and to relegate them now would be beyond cruel.

Tevez was instrumental in that end-of-season run and Warnock will no doubt argue the Hammers would have been relegated without his involvement at a crucial stage of the season.

But let's not forget Tevez and Javier Mascherano's arrival at Upton Park coincided with a nine-game winless run for the east-Londoners.
They were accused of upsetting morale at the club and were widely blamed for their new club's freefall.

There's the possibility West Ham would never have even been in a relegation scrap if it weren't for the Argentines' arrivals, so it's extremely hypocritical of people to claim Tevez single-handedly kept them up.

Let's not forget this is a team who finished on the fringe of the European places last year. A side that were expected to challenge at the top end of the table, not need a final day result to ensure their survival.

It is a phrase that is used too often but the Hammers were too good to go down and regardless of what critics may say about the Tevez controversy, it would have been detrimental to the Premiership if Sheffield United had survived instead of them.

A manager who believes the whole world is against him and a team that will never be more than perennial strugglers in England's top division.

West Ham on the other hand are true entertainers with a fine tradition of bringing through young English talent and a true gent of a manager.
A top flight club if ever there was one.

The Blades are simply clutching at straws. Would they have joined the 'Gang of Four' if they were in midtable? Or if West Ham were pushing for Europe? Probably not.

They spotted an opportunity to ensure their survival and they're predictably trying to grab it with both hands. But can Warnock honestly say he wouldn't have played Tevez if he was in squad? I'm sure his morals would have miraculously disappeared then.

Warnock is a loathsome man and his comments after Sunday's game highlighted his complete lack of class. But Curbishley has conducted himself impeccably through the whole saga, as have the Hammers in general.

Previous chairman Terence Brown's reign of the club was littered with mistakes but Eggert Magnusson has brought a more professional approach to the club and he should not be punished for his predecessor's mistakes.

Ever since the Icelandic arrived in east London, the club have kept quiet over the controversy and quietly got on with their business on and off the field.

Unlike the Yorkshiremen, the Hammers did not feel the need to go running to the media with their side of the story, nor did Curbishley feel the need to moan about every refereeing decision that went against his side.

Instead they set out on achieving the greatest escape ever and deservedly achieved it, finishing off with a last-day victory at champions Manchester United.

They have broken the rules and critics will argue they should be docked points but what are they basing this on? There is no precedent to their case so nobody can righty criticise the punishment handed to them by the FA.

Teams have been docked points for various misdemeanors in the past but this is a completely different scenario and there is nothing to say a points deduction was correct in this case.

And how many points should they be docked? McCabe and Warnock will no doubt push for three, but then they would wouldn't they?