Talking about wages at West Ham, during the R5L coverage of the Man City/West Ham match last night, someone said that Sam Allardyce was the 11th best paid manager IN THE WORLD! Can that be true?
Also, for what it's worth, in the course of describing the Hammers' spiritless display, Alan Green twice mentioned that he watched our 7:0 drubbing at the Etihad and said Norwich had "at least put up a fight despite being comprehensively outplayed". There are drubbings and drubbings (which some of us may care to note).![]()
The key difference between these two matches is that Ruddy had a bit of a shocker (I think we should have been beaten about 4-0, which still is pretty comprehensive...) whereas Adrian had a bit of a blinder - three top drawer saves - and could really only have done anything better for one of the goals.

