You'd think it would be hard to make this result worse than it was but I seemed to achieve that on Saturday evening when, for reasons I'd rather not go into, I found myself at 5pm in a bar in Sticksville, Suffolk with poor radio reception, no mobile connection and no TV (yes - such places do still exist).

I knew West Ham were 1-0 down to a first half Burnley goal - although only Saturday's nights Match of the Day could reveal the full horror of the 'up and over' played forward by Danny Fox and Nugent's lob over a struggling Upson and stranded Green - so I was hoping the second half would bring about an improvement and, at the very least, an equaliser.

Confirmation has been made that forward Benni McCarthy - a player initially linked with a move to Upton Park before he went to Blackburn - has at last arrived at Upton Park for a reported fee of £2.5m.

The odd 'visa issues' that delayed him playing against his old club at the weekend seemed to have been ironed out and the South African is a welcome addition to a forward line that has looked pretty toothless all season. McCarthy fell out of favour with Fat Sam at Ewood but otherwise there seems little reason why we should not expect a fair number of goals from a player who has scored consistently since his arrival in England

Meanwhile, a host of other players have been seen arriving down Green Street and I'll report in if and when deals are done rather than get involved in rumour and conjecture.

There's no disguising the fact that this was poor fare until about the last 20 minutes and also a severe disappointment in view of the expected performance resulting from the G&S takeover in mid-week. It had surely been hoped that the appearance of Gold and Sullivan in the Director's box and a bit of home crowd fervour would drive the home side onto a victory they might expect against a side they traditionally do well against. It wasn't to be though as West Ham spluttered through a pretty tiresome 90 minutes.

On balance it may be Blackburn who will go away thinking they should have got more from the match so I suppose there is some element in saying the home side did well to take a point, but this toothless display does little to dispel the gloom and threat of relegation, and only Gold and Sullivan's loosening of the purse strings is likely to blow those cobwebs away.

As suggested by your friendly Blagger in this very column last week, West Ham's MD Scott Duxbury as resigned from his position with the usual 'Thanks for all your hard work but don't pop back to see how we are doing any time soon, will you?' quotes ringing in his ears. Duxbury's claim that he was 'free to persue other opportunites' (welcome to my world Scott - I've been free to persue other opportunities for about 10 months now!) sounded pretty hollow as it seems unlikely he would have 'resigned' had the Gold / Sullivan / Brady consortium not hit town.

The news that Eidur Gudjohnsen chose to sign for arch-rivals Tottenham rather than West Ham must have struck hard at the hearts of most Hammer's supporters. Not because the club have lost out on a player they appparently flew over; one who had completed a medical and was expected to sign and boost West Ham's squad as the transfer window draws to a close. No, rather it puts an end to the 'Gud to Hammers' story that has been going on for well over two seasons now. To finally end the speculation as the player signs for another Premier club is going to cause a lot of heartache as we now have to find another player to be continually linked with for another couple of fruitless years. Perhaps the Benni McCarthy rumour will rumble on as we were linked with him before he originally signed for Blackburn.

Is Frank Worthington still available?