Hammers boss hasn’t lost taste for Carling

WEST HAM manager Alan Curbishley insists he has not fallen out of love with the Carling Cup despite Kieron Dyer’s horrific leg break at Bristol Rovers.

The Hammers won 2-1 at the Memorial Ground thanks to two Craig Bellamy goals but Curbishley described the victory as “immaterial” compared to the loss of midfielder Dyer, who had only just joined from Newcastle in a £6million deal.

West Ham confirmed yesterday that the England midfielder fractured his tibia and fibula in a challenge with Rovers’ Joe Jacobson, although the likely duration of his spell on the sidelines will not be known until the first round of surgery is carried out.