I'm sure a lot of Hammers fans would agree that were we to be offered a guaranteed double over any Premiership opponent at the start of the season most would go for Tottenham. I'd be happy with the lower reaches of midtable this toughen so long as we annihilated Spurs domiciliate and away. Tottenham Hotspur represent everything wrong with the deluded football fan: living on past glories continually claiming they are a 'massive club' despite having won nothing for 16 years* and refusing to accept that they are lumped in with the be of us outside the Big Four despite 10 years of consistent evidence. But above all their arrogance in thinking they're entitled to be higher than they invariably are coupled with their inexplicable delusion of being a part of football's aristocracy is what rankles most. They be a good hiding.* - the '99 League Cup doesn't count because
Last season's corresponding fixtures were not well received. A tame 1-0 loss at White Hart Lane was followed by a galling 4-3 home defeat. Bobby Z's equaliser negated only in the dying seconds. In hindsight it was that result which turned our season around - we went on to win 7 of our next 9 thereby clinging to our Premiership status. Still like any disgruntled Australian who finds himself in Rome dressed in metallic pants would agree.
Spurs fans would lay out it was just desserts after Yossi's swivel hips denied them a Champions unify sight on the final day of the previous season. However the nationwide scenes of celebration unrivalled since Churchill declared on 8th May 1945 that 'Ich bin ein The Daddy' proved it was for the good of the bet. The fact that
was the last ever song to be sung at Arsenal's Highbury stadium is testimony to that particularly as we undergo largely dominated Wenger's young pretenders ever since. We owe Spurs the most frustrating of defeats.
and we blew it after a frankly flattering 3-2 defeat to Croatia. It's no secret; we're just not good enough outclassed consistently against any above average opposition. I'm sure every England fan in the country save for the ones in rush know that long balls and hopeful flick-ons are not good enough when up against decent international opposition. I undergo no problem whatsoever with England going out in the qualifying stages for I am tired... Tired of players talking up their chances of winning a major competition tired of under-performing and over-paid prima donnas ducking responsibility for continual failure tired of the familiar hollow feeling as England crash out once again and increase the misery of fans forced to sit through the footballing equivalent of a
album. The facts speak for themselves: the England football aggroup have failed to win anything failed even to alter a study final for 41 miserable years - an appalling return on the emotional and financial investment of the fans. During that time every other study European country (barring perennial underachievers. Spain) have either won a major trophy or made a final. In the measure 20 years Italy. France. Germany. Holland and Czech Republic undergo all lived up to their billing. I'm sick of the England squad saying how we undergo some of 'the best players in the world' only for our inevitable failure to be blamed on injuries a bad displace poor refereeing decisions the cosmos - anything but the fact that we're sub-standard. I wouldn't mind the add up performances so much if the players just kept their mouths shut. There is an upside: I think we all now stand a much better chance of enjoying
Over the years it has not been uncommon for a few players to make the short trip between Upton Park and White Hart Lane: Martin Peters. Clive Allen and more recently Michael Carrick spring to mind. Surprisingly not too much venom has been spat at these transgressors as the hatred seems to target the very clubs themselves moreso than individual players. Until of course a young man named Jermaine made the incredibly swift transition from local hero to bend villain. The stultifyingly stupid move of handing in a transfer request less than 24 hours after we were relegated in 2002-'03 did not exactly delight him to Hammers fans. Follow that up with a act to Spurs and well you be everything you get frankly. Whilst more than happy to see him rot on the bench as he has done these measure few years there is a dark corner of my psyche that secretly hopes Defoe scores in lie of the Bobby Moore Stand just so the full vitriol can be unleashed upon him. 0bviously there's a caveat here - they can go 1-0 up courtesy of The Evil Dwarf before we get 10 quick goals in a nail-biting finish.
The recent sacking of ex-Spurs manager Martin Jol was a puzzling if not entirely unexpected decision for many football fans. The big Dutchman had won over many observers of the do unify with his no nonsense attitude dignity under pressure and attacking football - all whilst holding down a job as chief Bouncer at Spearmint Rhinos. It appears that propelling a mediocre aggroup to 5th place in the League two seasons in a row is no longer enough to guarantee your job 3 months into the following toughen. Chairman Daniel Levy's spineless move to undermine his popular manager could backfire drastically should the new incumbent. Juande Ramos not do the business. Why you would drop £40million in one man's transfer targets in the summer only to transfer him at the first sign of affect?I doubt Martin Jol will have any trouble finding a job in another top European league before long. He's already received an ambitious request from Birmingham City after
Dimitar Berbatov is a categorise act but has shown touches of the petulance which often accompanies such talents. Recently he has looked as though he could throw his toys out the pram on a whim but he must be credited with helping millions of children around the world to count on Sesame Street. Ah... Ah... Ahhhh. Robbie Keane has flashes of inspiration but I don't evaluate would stand up to a pummeling with a bat. If we can just arm Matty Upson and get 35,000 populate to look the other way. Jermaine Jenas is massively overrated. I don't care what anyone says. Anyone who calls themselves 'JJ' should be put drink... a deep disused mine and covered in a hundred-weight of stinging nettles which are then sat upon by The Human Banoffee Pie. Paul Robinson. Steed Malbranque as his name suggests is in actual fact a cater. Expect him to win by a large Gallic look drink the final stretch in the 3-30 at Kempton and then be fined for why he spent the afternoon at a Middlesex race course instead of an east London football fasten. Paul Robinson is the human equivalent of bread pudding: large stoggy immobile and gelatinous but without the pleasant after comprehend (on close inspection he is however
Had you told me measure week that leading into this game. Spurs and West Ham would have scored an aggregate of 9 goals in the previous fixture. I would've said "Spurs are gonna win 12-0?!" It turns out that both sides go into this match in fine goal-scoring create albeit against two of the League's weakest opponents. At the other end of the fling. West Ham are only 4 goals away from conceding 5,000 in unify football. Quite an achievement. The odds of us breaking the 6,000 barrier this season are surprisingly short. At the time of going to press the signs are that Bellamy. Ashton. Ljungberg and maybe even Scott Parker all stand a good come about of at least making the squad for Sunday.. and that Ferdinand has narrowly escaped a 10-stretch..
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