A Wet Day In Fulham

Firstly huge thanks to Gobby for the tickets :)
Took my youngest son who lives in Leytonstone, which meant I could park there and get the tube :)
Despite getting soaked through walking from tube to ground I was really enjoying the experience and the tickets in the Hammers end was a nice bonus.

We started the game really well and after Diame's early goal it looked like being a comfortable victory hopefully by several goals, Nolan missed a good chance just after but it was still looking good.
About half an hour gone and Noble stayed down after a tackle and had to go off, Fat Sam for some reason brought on Rat to add to the 4 defenders we started with and from that moment we lost all direction and minutes later we conceded the equaliser. Just before half time Nolan had another mad moment kicking the Fulham defender off the ball for his second stupid red card in 4 games (someone should check his bank account) and that pretty much sealed our fate :(
The second half went as expected with us hanging on, Fat Sam took off Diame? but good to see Downing back earlier than expected, and he did look our best player for the rest of the game.
Sadly Fulham got their second goal from Berbatov and it never looked like we'd get back in the game Carlton Cole came on but was never going to beat anyone for pace.

Allardyce walks off for the last time??
I've tried to give Fat Sam the benefit of the doubt, as I don't think there are any available managers who could do a better job but I'm really starting to wonder now, the substitutions were strange again and even when we are short of players he won't risk younger players? I thought Leo Chambers would start today as we didn't have any central defenders but he didn't make the squad.
The team looks tired and stale, Downing came on and did the things the rest of the team failed to manage in the whole game, the simple ability of running with the ball, passing to a teamate and actually looking forward.
Been an armchair fan this season and found it hard work to be a Hammers fan, in the flesh it is even more frustrating.