Middlesbrough 0 West Ham Utd 2 (29/11/11)

[Geordie Hammer]

Just got home.
Excellent trip and result.
Probably the first of the better teams we've beaten this season and to win away on a freezing night in the north is a good sign - just not what West Ham do!
Does anyone know how many West Ham were there - I reckoned about 1,500.

Wasn't that cold!

[brownout]

Cold for us southerners - I did see a Boro fan in a Tshirt though.

[10 Iron]

1,243

[EvilC]

Cold for us southerners - I did see a Boro fan in a Tshirt though.

I'm pretty sure WestHamAirdrie was wearing flip-flops, shorts and a Hawaiin shirt.

[WestHamAirdrie]

I'm pretty sure WestHamAirdrie was wearing flip-flop, shorts and a Hawaiin shirt.

All that was missing was some sangria.

[brownout]

1,243

Fat Sam in his email of the day seems to think there were 1500 of us and we sat down.

[Bobby Orangeboom]

1,200 or 1,500, that is superb support in my opinion..

I doubt even Chelsea would take up anywhere near that to Sunderland on a Tueday night in November..

Leeds took half of West Yorkshire to Nottingham though i believe..

[Georgee Paris]

not been home long myself. Great night, great performance. Loving west ham united

[Geordie Hammer]

On the coach on the way back home. Special mentions to the boro groundstaff member who fell over and got tangled up in that netting and the bunch of 15 year olds hiding behind a thin line of stewards and police who bricked it when west ham offered them out. "you're not scary anymore"???? Back to school tomorrow mugs

COuldn't believe that when I left the ground and saw them fronting up to our lot!!

[Paddy O'Hammer]

Someone phone video'd the goals and posted them in Facebook! Hope you can see it.

Us overseas hammers can see the BBC iPlayer!!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150490358612975

Loved Barltons goal - cracker!

[LeeWHU88]

Just looked through Middlesbroughs match reports of all their home games this season. Only us and Leicester have gone up there on a weeknight (Leicester took 600+), Blackpool took the most up there with just over 1900 but that was a saturday afternoon. Shows how great our support is really, I doubt many clubs would take 1200 up there on a saturday let alone a tuesday.

[Ron Manager]

Good Morning Kumbers

Some of you may be interested in the match stats from the Middlesbrough game - for your edification and delight read on.......

Championship 2011-12

Tuesday 29 November 2011 19.45
Score Middlesbrough 0 – 2 (HT 0 – 1) West Ham United


Piquionne 9

Carlton Cole 90+4

Bookings

McManus 31 (Boro)
McDonald 49 (Boro)



Noble 82 (Irons)

Possession 49% 49.0 (Boro) 51% 51.0 (Irons)

Corners 6 54.0 (Boro) 5 46.0 (Irons)

Goal attempts 13 54.0 (Boro) 11 46.0 (Irons)

On target 5 62.0 (Boro) 3 38.0 (Irons)

Fouls 12 54.0 (Boro) 10 46.0 (Irons)

Offside 1 33.0 (Boro) 2 67.0 (Irons)

Middlesbrough

Jason Steele,
Anthony McMahon,
Stephen McManus,
Joseph Bennett,
Matthew Bates,
Rhys Williams (Julio Arca, 84),
Merouane Zemmama (Alex Nimely, 84),
Nicky Bailey (Bartholomew Ogbeche, 74),
Faris Haroun,
Scott McDonald,
Marvin Emnes

West Ham United

Robert Green,
Guy Demel (Joey O'Brien, 79),
James Tomkins,
Abdoulaye Faye,
George McCartney,
Julien Faubert,
Papa Bouba Diop,
Matthew Taylor,
Mark Noble,
Kevin Nolan,
Frédéric Piquionne (Carlton Cole, 68)

Referee Mike Dean
Venue The Riverside Stadium
Attendance 18,457

Pip pip

Ron Manager

[Geordie Hammer]

Reading through some of the posts since the match....

can't believe there are people suggesting we were a bit quiet!!

I was 4 rows from the front and from where I was all I could hear was noise from us! For most of the 2nd half it was an endless stream of "we're all west hams claret n blue arm" It's the best away support I've experienced for a few years


Admittedly it went a bit quiet at the start of the 2nd half where we were after my mate dropped his arse leaving the vilest smell in the air I've ever smelt....and thats saying something considering we were in Boro!!!! Never seen so many people at a football match gagging from the smell of a fart before!

[llanelliiron]

got home 12 30 last night cracking few days in newcastle and a good singalong on the train back to newcastle with the scottish lads
couldn't believe how cheap the beer was in the pig iron bar . feeling rough as a badgers arse this morning

[k-r-c]

This has probably been mentioned but i have just remembered.

Can someone explain to me why, when we were defending corners the player we left furthest forward was Diop?

[Tarbs]

There are slightly longer highlights avaliable on bbc website now.

[Yea Why Not]

There are slightly longer highlights avaliable on bbc website now.

Have you got a link please mate?

[mjustincredible]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15975014.stm

[rare as rockinghorse shat]

Ron

[Smonnie]

Think we'll win this one. If I was gonna make a prediction think I'd stick my neck out and say 2-0 to the hAmmers.