Rather, he looks more like a second striker playing off a Cole or Carew. Alternatively, it might be interesting to see him playing in tandem with another fast and skillful strike partner, like Sam Baldock. Will we see that anytime soon? Probably not,...

Ham The Hammers have a wide variety of strikers available to choose from as they added Ricardo Vaz Te and Nicky Maynard to their strike force in the January transfer window. They teamed up with fellow strikers Sam Baldock, and top scorer Carlton Cole. ...

I can understand why he has done that, but it's a bit hard to score from open play when you are constantly lumping the ball up to Carlton Cole, who is then surrounded by defenders and has next to no chance scoring a goal, unless it is from set pieces...

But there was nothing Green could do when the 21-year-old former Arsenal player left fly from 30 yards in the 64th minute to make it 4-1. Winston Reid and Lansbury were denied by Lee-Barrett as West Ham attempted to get back into the game. The...

Emmanuel-Thomas rounded off the rout in the final minute. The Hammers made two changes to the starting lineup as Matt Taylor made his first appearance since the start of December following his return from a calf injury. Henri Lansbury also came into...

Big Sams team selection as he reverted back to 4-4-2. Allardyce went with Green, a back four of Faubert, Reid, Tomkins and McCartney, a midfield quartet of Collison, Diop, Noble and Nolan and a front two of Baldock and Cole. I for one was delighted to...