Sunderland 1 West Ham 2

I wasn't one of the hardy souls who made their way to the Stadium of Sh*te tonight (and fair play to those who did) but I'm delighted with a cracking result and by all means an excellent performance.  Villa and Bolton matches aside, the team has played some good football and by all accounts is starting to gel.

I'm certainly not going to go too over-board, but as long term Hammers will know, a fixture like this would have usually ended only one way, so to get a victory in the manner we did was great.  5 live Extra was very complimentary about us and it was great to hear.  Having just seen the goals, it's also grea to see the front two lads getting on the scoresheet.

Proud of all the lads and Avram Grant and his team tonight, done us proud, a perfect build up for Saturday…preview coming soon…