A 92nd minute winner from Milos Ninkovic doomed the Welly Nix to a third consecutive defeat to start the season. Allow the Wildcard and the Doc to put a bit of sense to what was a pretty tragic defeat.
A busy few weeks for Jose Mourinho, he's back at Stamford Bridge to play Chelsea this weekend - headlining the ninth round of Premier League fixtures.
After a wicked good performance for the NZ national team the other day, Winston was back on a jet and ready to take his place for the Hammers at Selhurst Park on the weekend.
For the first four minutes of the game, while the Nix were bossing 98% of possession, it looked like this would be a pretty different game to what it ended up being.
Ooh, awkward for N’Golo Kante, right? The only one of the title team to voluntarily move on and now for the first time he gets to play against all those Champions League players he stiffed in leaving.
Yeah, alrighty then Mr Hudson. We all see ya now. This is what can happen when we actually play games during international breaks.
A loss is only as bad as the best excuse you can find for it and this loss had a very good excuse.
Put simply, this was the finest performance of the Hudson era. The first time when he’d set up with a specific tactical approach – which he always does – and it really looked like it was honestly working.
Times have been tough for Winston and the Hammers and what they needed more than anything was a nice comprehensive win going into the international break. They didn’t get it.
After 20 years of Arsene Wenger, he’s almost like a comfort in the constant change of Premier League football.
If the Welly Nix are back in action then The Niche Cache is gonna be watching so to help wave in the 2016-17 season, the Diggity Doc and Wildcard had a good long chat about it all.
There are so many things going wrong for West Ham right now that the last thing they need is another home game.
You know, as far as All Whites squads go this is a fairly experienced one right here. Roughly as good as we’d have hoped for.
Perhaps they’ll write a book about it one day, Sam Allardyce’s 67 days in charge of the England football team.
Vengeance is a dish best served cold which is suiting for Chris Wood who happens to live in Yorkshire these days.
The writing was on the wall for Wayne Rooney midweek at Northampton Town. At least in the short term anyway.
Half the league is in crisis and the other half are scoring goals for fun. Football aye? Brace yourself for tales of moles in the dressing room, wackyland and team photos gone... weird.
A week can sometimes make all the difference and Chris Wood goals seem to have the same effect.
How soon is too soon to panic? How about when you blow a 2-0 lead at home against Watford to lose 4-2 and then chase that by also losing 4-2 vs West Brom.
This week it's Conte vs Klopp and it’s Hazard vs Firmino. Diego Costa getting niggly with them and Adam Lallana doing that weird thing where his shots go on target with some power.