FA Cup 16/1/2008 - Manchester City vs West Ham

In the day's other FA Cup live commentary and play by play game to feature English Premier League (EPL) sides, Manchester City return to home comforts to face West Ham who have secretly been stringing a couple of good results surprisingly under Alan Curbishley whom I do not rate at all. He's a good manager but not as great as so many other British personalities make him out to be. Perhaps it is a case of best of the average and nothing more to offer from the British although I personally feel that David Moyes is an even better British manager than Curbishley. Anyway, back to the game, Sven Goran Eriksson was bitterly disappointed with his side's weekend display when they turned in another inpotent away display, leading to the Manchester City manager threatening to off-load some of the players for not pulling their weight. The strange thing is at home, Manchester City are a force to be reckoned with, totally different from when they were under Stuart Pearce. Then again, Sven has bought much better and his side has a decent attacking flair to it.

West Ham on the under hand carries the distinctive trademark of all Curbishley sides - stable and solid overall, defensive and basically boring on most counts except when their home support roar them on and when they face Manchester United. Unfortunately this is the other Manchester team and it isn't at Upton Park, so I think Manchester City will just about shade it for this live match broadcast.