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16 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - Player Performances v ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I am concerned that, despite the undoubted quality of our best players, they still do not recognise that one of the most successful ways to score goals is the pass PULLED BACK from the goal line.
Even the brilliant Scot Parker, after having dribbled along the goal line, smashed a pass accross the goal, that even Batman could not have reached.
All the top teams score many of their goals by understanding that the chances of scoring are greatly increased by the pass pulled back from the goal line.

Remember Marlon Harewood putting the chicken-run in severe danger of structural damage from the power of his passes accross the goal.
Please give it some thought and ease my frustration a little

16 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - West Ham 0 Blackburn 0... · 0 replies · +1 points

It doesn't get any uglier than the 'football' played by any of Alydyce's teams.
It is retrograde football that has prevented us from ever being a force in international football, by that I mean we don't win anything. This style ensures that the best you can achieve is a quarter final.
No Alydyce style for us please.

16 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - West Ham 0 Blackburn 0... · 0 replies · +1 points

Make no mistake Scot Parker is among the best in the premiership but he suffers the same failing, as almost all of our players over the years, it is that when we get to the goal line our players persist in smashing the ball across the face of goal at a speed that even batman couldn't get on the end of. How is it that our coaching staff have never watched the preferences of the best teams in the premiership. All the best teams score goals from passes PULLED BACK from the goal line. This is certain to provide the best opportunity to score, but we don't do it.

16 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - Fernandes in Pole Posi... · 1 reply · +2 points

So West Ham have been found guilty over the Millwall game crowd problems.
If there is to be the punishment of playing a game behind closed doors then let it be a cup game.
How strange that the powers that be always manage to find us guilty. Have they failed to notice that there has not been a problem in any other game played at Upton Park in recent memory?

Drunken louts, who surely cannot be described as Hammers supporters, are endemic in society they are constantly to be found in every high street throughout the nation not just at West Ham v Millwall games.
Societies problems cannot be levied at any Football Team.

16 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - Cry God for Zola, West... · 0 replies · +1 points

Hi RomeHammer
What a wonderful idea to combine Teddy Sherigham's football brain with Marlon Harewood's athleticism.
But just supposing, such a child, had Marlon Harewood's brain and Teddy Sheringham's Athleticism

16 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - Cry God for Zola, West... · 2 replies · +1 points

Hi Ray

My dad was caught climbing the gates of Wembley at the 1923 cup final.
He told me that the police caught him and made him get back in! Yes we lost 2-0 to Bolton. David Jack scored both.
It was called the 'white horse' final because a policeman, on a white horse, was seen to be clearing the crowd away from the touchline because there were too many people in the ground. some estimated the crowd as 126,000!

16 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - Cry God for Zola, West... · 1 reply · +1 points

Andy you are correct about the mail. It sees it's job as selling as many papers as possible and to do that it needs to be contraversial.
In press circles it's known as the lying mail and it keeps up to that promise better than most.

16 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - Cry God for Zola, West... · 4 replies · +1 points

I agree with all the comments that refer to getting behind the players, with plenty of applause and no booing.
The management should not, however, make our attempts to support the players too difficult by buying Marlon Harewood. I'm sure he means well, and no doubt about his committment, but sad to say he will never be of Premiership quality and will only make our task to stay up more difficult.

16 years ago @ West Ham Till I Die - Cry God for Zola, West... · 1 reply · +1 points

I Loved the version of 'IF' in a recent 'comment'
Perhaps Rudyard Kipling was an 'Irons' fan. He certainly was a writer,poet and optimist, just like the rest of us.
As a hammer since the day I was born there is one thing that I am certain about and it is: You can never double guess West Ham. They are full of surprises. Long may it be so.

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