West Ham 0 Manchester City 0

How disappointing was that? On a day when many in the press, as well as fellow supporters, figured we should be happy to get any points going into the match we were blatantly robbed of a victory over the defending Premier League champions by the end of it. Kevin Nolan was at his best once again, slotting home a ball dropped in courtesy of a Mark Noble free kick only to have it ruled offside. Well Kev wasn't, and there is no debating that. West Ham played remarkably well in the first 20 minutes of the match with Momo Diame and Yossi Benayoun also coming within inches of goals of their own. Manchester City took over for much of the remainder of the game, with resolute defending being supplied by the team as a whole. James Collins turned in one of his best performances of the season, barring his re-debut against Aston Villa and Winston Reid removed any doubts in our minds over whether he or James Tomkins should be regularly starting alongside Collins. And Carlos Tevez, a cult icon at Upton Park, had another homecoming. Carlos and the love he has for the club and its fans makes one forget about all the bad things in the modern game, even if he'[s occasionally been part of the problem. Oh, and Big Andy nearly scored the goal of the season with a beautiful bicycle kick attempt. It'll come Andy, don't ya worry.

West Ham 1 Wigan 2

Well that was a pretty dire performance now wasn't it? And it was Ivan Ramis, quickly becoming our nemesis, that started it all out for Wigan after Andy Carroll had started in fine form causing chaos amongst the Wigan defence. That was just about the high point as the Hammers have rarely played with such a lack of passion or direction this entire season. At times it almost seemed like they were moving in slow motion, already resigned to defeat, before coming to life for the last ten minutes of the game. At that point it was far too late though, even though James Tomkins provided a consolation goal in injury time. Wigan had done the job by then, and we had let them do it. Displays like this are worrisome, although we're not going to declare a state of emergency quite yet. Big Sam will be doing everything in his power to fire the lads up for the next match and the players have to know Allardyce won't put up with performances like that for long before you've lost your spot in the team.

West Ham 4 Southampton 1

Yes, give yourself a clap Modibo. West Ham ran away with the win today, overcoming a dire first half in which they weren't necessarily outplayed so much as they look entirely uninteresed in playing. We have a feeling Big Sam may have just let his squad know how displeased he was with the lack of effort at half time because the lads came out in cracking form for the second half. Mark Noble and Kevin Nolan were on the scoresheet two minutes apart only three minutes after the start of the second half. Southampton's Adam Lallana scored a beauty in the 60th minute to get Hammer supporters heart racing but a little under ten minutes later Mark Noble added his second of the day from the penalty spot after Southampton's Jose Fonte decided he'd like to have a tug at Andy Carroll's mane. Then all that was left was for Modibo Maiga to come on and score a beauty, using a burst of pace to blast past two defenders and perfectly curve a shot behind former Celtic keeper, Artur Boruc. Yossi Benayoun got his first 90 minutes of play in and looked good, setting up Nolan's tap in after breaking up a pass. All in all it was the kind of performance we've, as until late, been lacking sorely. But Big Sam rallied the troops and put a fire in their bellies and they went out and made it clear which side is Premier League quality and which side simply isn't. Quite the exciting start to the season so far.

West Ham 2 QPR 1

Well we've finally gotten that pesky away win weight off our shoulders after a dominant first half display saw West Ham put Mark Hughes in an even deeper hole. Ricardo Vaz Te was in splendid form all evening and Matt Jarvis scored his first for the club in what was the clubs first away win since a win at Blackpool under Avram Grant. It wasn't all good news though as Winston Reid, a revelation so far this season at the center of defense, went out after a knock with Jussi Jaaskelainen. But James Tomkins, fighting for a spot in the team, looked more than capable of taking over the role. If we can keep up more performances like the first half, we may be able to breath a bit easy a lot sooner in the season then we're use too. Twat of the night undoubtedly goes too referee Mark Clattenburg, who was pulling out the cards at a breakneck speed leading to eight Hammers in total picking up yellows. That Mark must be doing some kind of special math seeing as everyone was astounded when he added on six minutes of injury time for no apparent reason other than wanting a chance to reach into his pocket once or twice more.