With the money Chelsea have, they have no excuses with regards to playing crap football. I hope they play a lot better with Fabregas and Costa too

West ham is a team that plays very careful vs the big teams (aka Sam "Park The Buss" Allardyce), and they play terrible vs the lower teams.

They have had to rely on players quality to remain in the league (few seasons ago it was jaskelainen, last season it was Reid+Noble, etc)

Reid was injured for most of the season, imo Nolan and Noble were their best performers

In January 2014, following a 0–0 draw at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea manager, José Mourinho likened West Ham's football to "19th century football" saying "This is not the best league in the world, this is football from the 19th century," "The only [other] thing I could bring was a Black and Decker [tool] to destroy the wall.

EPL, best in the world. WIth teams as bad as stoke/west ham/manchester united

Rage more lol liga fanboy. Even the Germans think La Liga is a joke

http://www.thehardtackle.com/2014/chelsea-porto-real-madrid-europes-best-worst-buying-selling-clubs/

chelsea has spent the most on transfers over the last 10 yrs

disclaimer: i'm not excellent with economics so i can't comment on how accurate/biased this info is

This post was edited by TurinTurambar on Aug 8 2014 03:38am

West Ham are a poor man's Chelski which is fine given they are not a big club with unlimited funds. Big Sam is a dream manager for reglegation battle clubs.

NO one is worse than Stoke though...hoofballing thugs.

West Ham vs Stoke has to be the worst possible matchup ever. Just two teams punting the ball back and forth to each other with Carroll and Crouch being the targets.

Sam is one of the highest paid managers in the world.. What a disgrace

Even tho he scored loads of goals, Nolan has been terrible all season. Just ask any West Ham fan and they'll say Noble was their main man, and Reid before his injury

I know West Ham fans, Nolan put points on the board, he did some shockers though like the 2 red cards