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Mirror Sport EXCLUSIVE West Ham's shameless players taunt ex-boss Pardew at Christmas party
By Sarah Tetteh
DRUNK West Ham players mocked ex-boss Alan Pardew, romped with scantily-clad girls and scuffled at their Christmas party to shatter claims of being devastated by his sacking. New manager Alan Curbishley took over yesterday vowing to halt the third-from-bottom club's slide which saw Pardew sacked on Monday. But it looks a massive task after Hammers stars â€" including skipper Nigel Reo-Coker -went out on the lash despite the team being in desperate relegation trouble. Curbishley said: "We start with a clean slate. I will judge everything on its merits."
Which is just as well for Reo-Coker, who insisted yesterday he was distraught at Pardew's exit, that he had had no problem playing for the former Reading boss and that he was being unfairly singled out for criticism by fed-up fans.
But that looked far from the case during Tuesday night's knees-up at s****y club Silver in London's Mayfair.
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The jibe at Pardew came as the club DJ grabbed the microphone from defender Anton Ferdinand and proposed a toast to the departed Upton Park boss.
Ferdinand, Reo-Coker, Carlton Cole, and old team-mate Elliot Ward all responded by booing and jeering loudly, then rolling around laughing. They then threw themselves on to the dance floor, pushing and shoving each other playfully to their favourite song 'Pow!', by rap star Lethal Bizzle.
Things turned nasty at around 1am, however, when midfielder Hayden Mullins was caught up in a scuffle and was bundled out of an emergency exit by security guards before being told not to come back. Wives and girlfriends were banned from the party, themed 'Hot Single Girls Only'.
Instead, the female company included reality TV stars Aislyene Horgan-Wallace, busty Makosi Mumbasi and a host of glamour girls who paid £20-a-head to join the Premiership stars' festive celebrations.
Ferdinand and Ward vied for the attentions of Horgan-Wallace before Ferdinand ended up smooching with her while Reo-Coker chatted up girls by inviting them to come and watch him play.
Striker Bobby Zamora joked about taking a bunch of revellers back to a hotel on the M25, but then insisted he had to sober up to take his girlfriend, Page Three girl Nicola T, shopping the next day.
Paul Konchesky was also partying but conspicuous by their absence from the raucous do were Argentinian stars Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano who have been the source of so much disquiet within the Upton Park dressing room.
New manager Curbishley insisted yesterday that he knew nothing of any problems within West Ham but it is clear his first task will be a major crackdown on discipline and to restore the morale of the players who fell out with Pardew. The club's nightmare run came to a head last week with a shocking 4-0 defeat to Bolton - the third of three straight loss after they had looked like climbing to safety.
Curbishley now faces a baptism of fire on Sunday when the Hammers host Premiership leaders Manchester United at Upton Park.
A West Ham club spokesman declined to comment.
PARDY TIME
Mirror Sport EXCLUSIVE West Ham's shameless players taunt ex-boss Pardew at Christmas party
By Sarah Tetteh
DRUNK West Ham players mocked ex-boss Alan Pardew, romped with scantily-clad girls and scuffled at their Christmas party to shatter claims of being devastated by his sacking. New manager Alan Curbishley took over yesterday vowing to halt the third-from-bottom club's slide which saw Pardew sacked on Monday. But it looks a massive task after Hammers stars â€" including skipper Nigel Reo-Coker -went out on the lash despite the team being in desperate relegation trouble. Curbishley said: "We start with a clean slate. I will judge everything on its merits."
Which is just as well for Reo-Coker, who insisted yesterday he was distraught at Pardew's exit, that he had had no problem playing for the former Reading boss and that he was being unfairly singled out for criticism by fed-up fans.
But that looked far from the case during Tuesday night's knees-up at s****y club Silver in London's Mayfair.
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The jibe at Pardew came as the club DJ grabbed the microphone from defender Anton Ferdinand and proposed a toast to the departed Upton Park boss.
Ferdinand, Reo-Coker, Carlton Cole, and old team-mate Elliot Ward all responded by booing and jeering loudly, then rolling around laughing. They then threw themselves on to the dance floor, pushing and shoving each other playfully to their favourite song 'Pow!', by rap star Lethal Bizzle.
Things turned nasty at around 1am, however, when midfielder Hayden Mullins was caught up in a scuffle and was bundled out of an emergency exit by security guards before being told not to come back. Wives and girlfriends were banned from the party, themed 'Hot Single Girls Only'.
Instead, the female company included reality TV stars Aislyene Horgan-Wallace, busty Makosi Mumbasi and a host of glamour girls who paid £20-a-head to join the Premiership stars' festive celebrations.
Ferdinand and Ward vied for the attentions of Horgan-Wallace before Ferdinand ended up smooching with her while Reo-Coker chatted up girls by inviting them to come and watch him play.
Striker Bobby Zamora joked about taking a bunch of revellers back to a hotel on the M25, but then insisted he had to sober up to take his girlfriend, Page Three girl Nicola T, shopping the next day.
Paul Konchesky was also partying but conspicuous by their absence from the raucous do were Argentinian stars Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano who have been the source of so much disquiet within the Upton Park dressing room.
New manager Curbishley insisted yesterday that he knew nothing of any problems within West Ham but it is clear his first task will be a major crackdown on discipline and to restore the morale of the players who fell out with Pardew. The club's nightmare run came to a head last week with a shocking 4-0 defeat to Bolton - the third of three straight loss after they had looked like climbing to safety.
Curbishley now faces a baptism of fire on Sunday when the Hammers host Premiership leaders Manchester United at Upton Park.
A West Ham club spokesman declined to comment.
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