Canary Watch: Greeno named player of the year at West Ham

Former Canary goalkeeper Robert Green has been named as West Ham’s player of the season.

He played in every Premier League game for the Hammers this season, and was pretty chuffed with it:

I am very pleased. I have got a good rapport with the fans. I love playing in front of them, I love playing for the club.

It is a wonderful achievement for myself, it is something I failed to do in ten seasons at Norwich so I am really pleased to do it in my second season at West Ham.

For what it’s worth Greeno I voted for you a couple of seasons ago.

Fabio Capello names his England squad for the friendly against the USA soon, but will he make the list this time around? I hope so…

UPDATE: No.

“F*** Me!” says Richard Keys…live on Australian TV

As Fox Sports Australia cuts into what was supposed to be Sky’s feed of Coca-Cola Championship football, the world ushers in another YouTube classic…

N.B. This video does contain foul language, so consider yourself warned if you’re sat at work with the speakers on.

Premier League Relegation Poll Results: Birmingham City, Fulham, Reading or Bolton Wanderers?

Which team is most likely for the drop?

Birmingham City – 59%.

Reading – 22%.

Fulham – 15%.

Bolton Wanderers – 4%.

So there you have it, we think Birmingham and Reading are stuffed. Personally I disagree, as I think Reading will get out of it and send Fulham down, but what do I know?

UPDATE: Not a lot, clearly.

Championship Play-Off First Leg Preview: Watford v Hull City

The second Coca-Cola Championship Play-Off game takes place today as Watford meet Hull at Vicarage Road.

The Hornets were expected to bounce straight back to the Premier League following relegation last year, but a run of truly horrific form saw them almost miss out on the play-offs completely.

Hull on the other hand seemed to come from nowhere and only narrowly missed out on automatic promotion.

Watford boss Aidy Boothroyd:

Because of our form we are the underdogs. That is not mind games – that’s a fact. Hull are on a great run of form, they have a big squad, they have some quality players and they are favourites for this tie and Phil will know that.We have come a long way in a short space of time but we’ll only enjoy the play-offs if we win it.

We can draw on our experience from two years ago and will give it everything we have got. We want to come off the field having no regrets. That’s what we did two years ago and we can do that again.

It will be a pressure-cooker atmosphere but it’s time for calm and making sure the club is fully focussed on what needs to be done

Hull’s Henrik Pedersen:

Watford have struggled recently, but this is two completely separate games and they’ll go into them with a clean slate.They were one of the favourites to go up automatically at the start at the season, so they will be disappointed and feel as though they have something to prove.

From our point of view, I think we’ve put the disappointing performance at Ipswich last week behind us.

This season, we’ve shown the ability to bounce back whenever we’ve had a bad result.

Hopefully we can do that again.

A few facts…

Final League Position: Watford 6th, Hull City 3rd.

Last Time at Vicarage Road: 20th October 2007 – Watford 1 Hull City 0.

Top Goalscorer: Watford – Henderson (12), Hull City – Campbell (15).

My Prediction: Watford and Hull came fourth and third respectively in the play-off poll, and I think this one will be a draw. Watford 1 Hull City 1.