TheOldLady
Player Valuation: £5m
It's funny because it's not our player injured
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catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
Let yourself down there son.
I have watched the incident back, Payet miscontrols the ball and McCarthy tackles him. His intention is clearly on the ball which he wins clearly. 20 years ago that wouldn't have even been a free kick. With that sort of tackle there is an inevitable coming together afterwards and Payet unfortunately gets injured as a result of this. He has always been an injury prone player and that obviously has something to do with it. You can't govern for freak accidents like that though.
What you are suggesting is midfield players are unable to try and win the ball if a player mis controls it. That's not the sort of game I want to see and I doubt it's what most of you want either. As it happens we had a similar difficulty with a replica tackle on Tom Cleverley by Eric Dier earlier this season. No free kick, no booking, no huge amount of whining.
If Payet had controlled the ball properly there he would have not been tackled, so that's where your anger should be. Likewise if he wasn't so injury prone he'd probably have been ok. Jog on with your idea that a midfield player executing a perfectly timed tackle who then inadvertently got caught in a tangle on the follow through should be reprimanded.
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
carvs • 19 hours ago
I also can't stand Everton,they targeted our flair players for appalling challenges,horrible club,Martinez is a complete [Poor language removed].We need to injure their best players next time we meet,bring Dicksy on!
well done carvs on your lovely hypocricy.
And towards their decision to keep the player on as long as he did. You'd assume he aggravated it.
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toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
why aren't they fuming at their clearly incompetent medics? He stayed on when he shouldn't have and then got dispossessed from which we scored. It cost them 2 points. They've glossed over that fact. Just a bunch of crying schoolchildren by the looks of things and they will be a laughing stock if their comments get seen by other team's fans.
McCarthy is going for the ball the angle he Comes in at makes it look worse.
davids
Player Valuation: £70m
West Ham supporters are droning on about the injury,but nobody can know what further damage he did by trying to carry on.If he'd gone off after the tackle maybe he'd have only lost a few weeks and I doubt there would be this media interest.We'll never know,but you can't blame McCarthy for that.
Injuries are part of football west ham fans need to get over it.
I have it on good authority that Payet turned us down as we are too "nice" a side and Martinez launched a Jimmy Mac airstrike on him as revenge. I feel ashamed to be an Evertonian .
canuckblue
Player Valuation: £50m
Is it just me or is the fact the Whammers are about to move into a big new stadium turning them into the latest bunch of whiners with an undeserved sense of entitlement?
EFC78
Player Valuation: £25m
lol
Your fans seem to be under the impression that McCarthy has deliberately targeted your "most skilful" and effective players in a premeditated "attack".
I'd like to know your opinion on this from the other week then? To me, it looks like Collins wasn't too happy about Ighalo having scored 2 goals and just intentionally lashed out at him with a dangerous tackle with no intention of playing the ball. Suggests Collins was targeting Watford's skillful players in an attempt to put him out of the game.
However, the big difference in Collins tackle and McCarthy's, is that one was going for the ball, and may have even got some of it, whilst the other just lashed out with no attempt at playing the ball.
Collins also has a history of this.
But don't let that stop you West Ham fans from continuing this bizarre condemnation of James McCarthy...
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Plashet Grove Pete
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I give up. I can't compete with the legendary Scouse wit.
It's the fact that they view McCarthy as being anti-football and have even tried claiming that it was assault.
Massive over-reactions/wrong statements on both sides here.
It was a fair challenge. He went for the ball and his eyes were on the ball. He did not go in high or with his studs up.
He did, however, follow through with a scissor action, like Dier did on Cleverley. It's dangerous and unfortunately for them/Payet, he's ended up injured.
A booking was the right decision. Not a straight red, not a ban. It's unfortunate that he's injured but injuries happen in sport.
Massive over-reactions/wrong statements on both sides here.
It was a fair challenge. He went for the ball and his eyes were on the ball. He did not go in high or with his studs up.
He did, however, follow through with a scissor action, like Dier did on Cleverley. It's dangerous and unfortunately for them/Payet, he's ended up injured.
A booking was the right decision. Not a straight red, not a ban. It's unfortunate that he's injured but injuries happen in sport.
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