The worst thing that could have happened was for Dimitri Payet to be out for three months!
Running it a close second – for this weekend anyway – is the news that ref Anthony Taylor will be in charge of the Spurs/Irons game.
Taylor is no friend to the Hammers and has been widely condemned as being as ‘bad as it gets” after some appallingly bad appearances notably the sendings off of Carlton Cole and Everton’s Darren Gibson in December 2012.
Taylor has 38 yellow cards and handing our one red – yes you’ve remembered -, to West Ham’s Adrian in the 2-1 home defeat against Leicester for ‘dangerous play’.
It’s hard to remember a half decent appearance by the Manchester based official who gave Liverpool a couple of soft spot kicks on a previous occasion.
The week just got worse.
You can rely on Anthony Taylor to make at least one complete balls-up a game!
He’ll never live down the Carlton Cole/Darren Gibson debacle – the most ridiculous thing was that after having two seperate Red Cards rescinded he went on to Referee a game the following weekend like nothing had happened!
He can’t be any worse than the clueless moron that let McCarthy assault Payet 2 weeks ago,
Let’s hope this person can let the game run and an entertaining game which ends in a win for us takes place.