Another match day arrives, flocks of dedicated supporters flood through the iron gates outside the Boleyn Ground, plastered everywhere around the stadium are the words “Welcome to West Ham United “The Academy of Football”.
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Yes, the same academy that produced the likes of Jermain Defoe, Joe Cole, Michael Carrick, Rio Ferdinand and not forgetting the memorable Bondz N’gala. So when was the last time that one of our “prospects” achieved an extended run in the first team? Better still, would they develop into a top talent playing in a side with what I believe has the least technical ability in the Premier League?
Unlike many, I was ecstatic with the appointment of Sam Allardyce. The Hammers style of football had not led us anywhere since 2006, and it was a time for consolidation. After watching many a game in the Championship and half of this season in the Premiership, I have come to realise that our beloved club is but a shadow of what it used to be. I mean, realistically we are never going to finish in the top 6 like we did in ’98, due to the ludicrous amounts of cash injected into the top clubs.
Having established this, why are we putting up with watching such dour displays? I do not wish to fork out £60 to watch us defend for seventy minutes like we did against Manchester City. If I wanted to turn up and watch players kick a ball fifty yards, I would watch the rugby at my local park.
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We need our identity back. We need to revert to what this fantastic club has built all of its modern history on. We need exciting football, we need to be going to Old Trafford and winning one-nil, only to be followed by losing twelve-eight to Sunday League FC. The players coming through the system should be given playing time like Rio and Joe back in the early days of their careers. We are always going to be floating between mid-table and the relegation zone, so why not do it with style as we did previously? A manager with current ideas, faith and knowledge in our academy with a bit of flamboyancy, and nifty in the transfer market, would soon get the electricity flowing through the Upton Park faithful again.
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Kyle Scott
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What utter bollocks! In case you hadn’t noticed most irons fans are sick to death of us bobbing up and down the leagues and have had enough of being the pretty passing team that wins nothing other than a footballing yo-yo! Big Sam was brought in to give us a bit of stability at a time it was desperately needed. I think he has largely done this but one promotion aside I am not fully convinced he is theman to take us onto the next step? I don’t know one hammer who could possibly accept another ten years of roller coastering up and down, whatever the highs were! For beating somebody, anybody 5-0 each week for a month is no use if we get relegated! We finally have a once in the lifetime opportunity with theOS to move onto the next level where we can become a big club challenging for honours and big Sam has been entrusted to lay the solid foundations! After that who knows?
thank god people like you will never get near the running of the club. the club may be a shadow of what it was and will take time and hard work to get it back competing regular to be in the top 10 and pushing forward. the demise of this club over the years is not down to the current owners manager or players but they are trying and working hard to try Establish the club back in the prem and it will take time. we will have ups and downs. no your idea lets give up when the going gets tough stop trying and except being poor just as long as we lose 5-4.
Firstly, we will never be a club that challenges for honours. Not unless we have a huge takeover. Secondly, howndo you think United got on in the 90’s? I can count endless youngsters that came through the ranks. Remember when we finished 5th? HOw many youngsters did we have playing regular and very good football. Stoke are a terrible footballing side, and have been established in the Premiership for a number of years. See them pushing for honours? They reached the F.A cup final….but who else reached the F.A cup final in 2006? And how did we do it? Playing exciting football.
i have never seen such dross sam has got the team playing,he is a dynasaur stuck in the past,get rid of fatso,get a manager who knows how to play,someone who wont play hoof it up the field and hope.
I was pleased when Sam came in as I knew we needed a bit of guts and to make the team hard to beat as opposed to pretty football nice club 3 points to the opposition, I was not overjoyed with the tag that goes with him in terms of long balls and thuggery but I go week in and week out and personally dont see it being as bad as is being made out. Granted it is not in the free flowing manner of days gone by but when we do get the ball down and play we can tear into teams. Sam gets a bad press and a raw deal for his style but for me at the moment it is not so much the style as the strange substitutions he is making late on in the game. Bringing Diame off is obviously to stop the ball being lost up field and getting hit by a sucker punch so he brings on a more defensive player but it seem every time he has done this we have conceded, however I think he and the owners are good for the club at present, if we change who will we get, and please dont say Di Canio, I love the guy as much as the next WHU Fan but please lets leave him as a playing legend not someone we despise because he walked away mid season after throwing his toys out of the pram which we all know will happen. Steve Mclaren? No thanks. Wenger when he gets the boot from Arsenal? Wont come, Harry when QPR get relegated? No thanks. Struggling now. We need the stability, we need Prem football to get the OS and we need to sort out the money, in the 3 + Brady we have in charge we have that there for now. I can’t say I love watching us all the time at the minute but I do know that I go into every game we play thinking that we could at least get a draw or even sneak a win no matter who we play. Lets get behind the board, Sam and the players and most importantly the club as that is what we love, PLAYERS, BOARDS, MANAGERS all come and go but WEST HAM is forever. COYI