It`s Hammer Time For The Hammers
Posted 10/07/07 13:36EmailPrintSave
Congratulations West Ham. Just when you thought that - like 'Dr' Gillian McKeith - you could not possibly get any more loathsome, you sign Craig Bellamy and give him a reported £70,000 a week. Now that is a stroke of genius.
That will ensure that those who reserved judgement over the Alan Pardew sacking, gave you the benefit of the doubt over the Carlos Tevez affair and turned a blind eye to the £30m-plus spent on average players on massive wages, might finally accept that you are the Premier League's least likeable club.
This is a mantle previously held by Leeds and then Newcastle - both magnets for mercenary players with roughly 427 zillion times more money than sense, and more court appearances than medals to their names.
Anyone fancy a night out with Bellamy, Lee Bowyer, Carlton Cole and Anton Ferdinand? Anyone find a single player on the West Ham squad list that they actually like? We came to a halt after Dean Ashton and Mark Noble - and that was more about pity as the poor fella had the misfortune to be brought up as a Hammer.
The signing of Bellamy has taken Alan Curbishley's spending as West Ham manager close to the £40m mark. That's a massive amount of money. Has he bought a single player with the potential to play for a top-four side? Well yes, a single player in Lucas Neill, who turned down Champions League football with Liverpool for a relegation fight with West Ham (oh and oodles of cash).
Aside from Neill, he's bought three Arsenal rejects, one Liverpool reject, one Chelsea reject and has-been and never-were players like Nigel Quashie and Calum Davenport. Those who questioned how he would cope with a decent budget (and we were in that bracket) were definitely right to question. While Newcastle, Tottenham and Aston Villa have bought players with ambition, West Ham have bought average footballers whose careers have either stagnated or gone backwards.
Even those of us with some sympathy over the Tevez affair and little good will towards Sheffield United, could not celebrate at the decision to uphold the Blades' relegation. Frankly, we wanted rid of both of them.
There will be many 'neutrals' who want that putting right this coming season and will rejoice at the sight of crying Hammers' fans just as we did at those pictures of Leeds fans with tear-stained faces on the day they were relegated.
Still not convinced? Look at the list of 'celebrity' fans...internet star Leslie Grantham, TV racist Jo O'Meara, wifebeater Frank Bruno and Billy sodding Mitchell (the most rubbish of all the Mitchells) and tell me you want Sunderland or Derby relegated instead.
Sarah Winterburn
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Some good points I think
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look no one gives a toss about this grubby little club on here in the sports forum except liam2me, and he is only here to amuse us, its all about the big four, where the fuck is the glory in supporting west ham???
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hmmm, someone with a chip on their shoulder and a job as a journo, good for them oh and for the record, bellamy is on £45k, they should get their facts straight
oh and do i care if we're the most loathed team in the prem/football league? do i fuck, ask man u and chelsea fans did they care what people thought of them as they were winning medals
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hmmm, someone with a chip on their shoulder and a job as a journo, good for them oh and for the record, bellamy is on £45k, they should get their facts straight
oh and do i care if we're the most loathed team in the prem/football league? do i fuck, ask man u and chelsea fans did they care what people thought of them as they were winning medals
Ya but they were loathed because they were succesful . West Ham are loathed because they have a ridiculously inflated sense of self importance.
Why do journos bother writing this rubbish when all they have to do to get their facts straight about club finances etc is ring a barman working at the club and he can regale to them the ins and outs of all details of player contracts?
Why do journos bother writing this rubbish when all they have to do to get their facts straight about club finances etc is ring a barman working at the club and he can regale to them the ins and outs of all details of player contracts?
sure why do celtic fans, a team who doesn't even play in the prem, have to hang around anything that mentions west ham like a bum around a mcdonalds
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ooohh right, not because you are bored stiff with the most riveting, open, expansive league in the world, thats it, funny how you've had to stoop to mocking west ham yet i don't have to get to your level to get a rise out of ya, you're an intellectual incompetent
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