By Chris Wright

"There's contact...juuuuust...hold on...wait a second...there."

Ne'er does a week go by without some dime-a-dozen pundit rolling it out. That sodding word. 'Contact'. A word which is quickly becoming the bane of my very existence.

Seriously, does anyone even have the slightest sliver of an inkling?

Roughly six hours before the first-string were about to kick-off against Arsenal, word broke from somewhere inside the West Ham camp via the BBC's diligent Sport team that former Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill was duly waiting in the wings to take over from beleaguered incumbent Avram Grant at the Upton Park helm completely regardless of the result against the Gunners.