The defender showed great pace to race back and hook Papiss Cisse’s goalbound effort away, and he is adamant he arrived in time to prevent the ball from crossing the line.
“As a defender you are trying to save goals and, fortunately enough, we came off at the end having not conceded any,” he says. “No, it was not in. I am dead honest and I know it wasn’t in. My foot was actually on the line and I got the ball away in time, which was good.”
Reid says while his side have performed strongly at home throughout the season they weren’t at their best against Newcastle at the weekend.
“We have been really strong at home this year, but unfortunately in this game and against Wigan we haven’t performed up to our expectations. A least we got a point out of it because we weren’t good in the first half. In the second half we were a little bit better. At the end of the day I thought we could have done better but it was nice to come away with a clean sheet.”
For the first time since Reid arrived in east London three years ago, West Ham are finishing a season in relative comfort, and while many would be happy with the relative comfort of mid-table the defender says he and his teammates continue to take every game 100 per cent seriously in a bid to finish the season in the top half of the table.
“We still want to do well and finish as high as possible. We want to finish in the top ten – that’s been our aim for the whole season, so we’ll be disappointed not to finish there when we’ve got ourselves in a really good position.”

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