Sullivan declares the West Ham way is Back

In the London standard Friday Dave Sullivan declared that the West Ham way is back but if you you've ever wondered what that is, here is an old Olas article from around 2011

Since the arrival of Sam Allardyce much has been made of his so called style of football and whether it fits in with the fans demands over the clubs need to return to the premier league. Sam himself acknowledged this when hired back in the summer, alluding to the so called West Ham way, he said "That history that West Ham have I am very well aware of and we will play the West Ham way with the players we have got to achieve the ultimate, and that's winning football matches,he then followed that up with " “What is the West Ham way? Being relegated? No fan wants that.”
But what is the West Ham way, and what are its origins,
Its birth can be traced back to a quote by former manager Ron Greenwood "The crowds at West Ham have never been rewarded by results but they keep turning up because of the good football they see. Other clubs will suffer from the old bugbear that results count more than anything. This has been the ruination of English soccer."
Greenwood took over at West Ham in 1961 and during his time came perhaps West Hams golden period, Bobby Moore,backed up by fellow youth products Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters lifted 3 trophies in succession culminating with the world cup win in 1966. Yet during Greenwood and Moore's time together and with three world cup winners in the team the highest league finish achieved was 6th, scant reward for the tens of thousands of East Londoners that game after game turned up at the Boleyn Ground. What made those fans keep coming back, well the answer is in Greenwoods quote, The good football they saw, which was born out of England's 6-3 defeat to the Puskas inspired Hungarians at Wembley. That single game influenced so many of this countries top coaches, exposing England's staid outdated tactics. One watching was Malcolm Allison, West Ham's captain at the time. He was allowed to organise coaching sessions at the time and set about changing the tactics at the club, he and other players at the time used to sit in a local cafe using salt and pepper pots to plan their new way of playing. Ron Greenwood was able to build on this when he took over and he was fortunate that West Ham youth set up was churning out the stars of the future, educated on the plans first laid out by Allison.
Style over substance, football to be played in a positive attacking way, and here lies part of reason of west Ham's failure to get any where near the top prize of a league title. So busy in playing positive attacking football that it seems the defensive side of the game was neglected, even with the great Bobby Moore at its heart. The season after West Ham's, sorry, England's world cup win, the hammers finished in a lowly 16th spot out of 22, boasting amazingly the 2nd best ranked attack that season averaging 1.9 goals per game, but they were let down by the 20th best ranked defence conceding 2 goals on average per game. If ever a season best exampled "The West Ham way" it could be that one.
All of the above occurred before i was born in West Ham in 1969, being born and brought up in the area there was only one club i could support, i cant even remember my 1st time at the Boleyn as i was a babe in my mothers arms as she stood on the terraces.My Football education increased in 1977 when my uncle secured 2 season tickets for us, and there in that 1st season of regular attendance that i began to discover my own take on the West Ham way, for that year for only the 2nd time in our history we were relegated from the top flight,just 2 years after appearing in an European final.
West Ham stuck by the then manager John Lyall, allowed him to rebuild the team and just 2 years later West Ham were celebrating winning the F.A cup. Celebrating for the 2nd time in 5 years a cup victory the 10 year old me could be forgiven for thinking that this was how it would always be, and in a way it has been, the highs of relative success quickly followed by a low. Lyall built a team that in 1986 came the closest any had done in winning the title, finishing 3rd behind the merseyside duo, Liverpool and Everton. Fast forward 3 years and relegation back to the 2nd tier of English football, paying the price of failing to build on that 86 team and selling off star home grown player Tony Cottee.
This pattern is repeated time and time again, 5th under Redknapp in the Premier league in 2000, 7th under Roeder in 2002, Relegated in 2003. If Carlsburg did relegations that that would be the one. No team has ever gone down from the Premiership with that amount of points,42. Not only that but it is possible thee team that should have been too good to go down. David James, Glen Johnson, Joe Cole, Jermaine Defoe, Trevor Sinclair, Michael Carrick, all current or future England stars, Throw in Di Canio and Freddie Kanoute and i still cant believe that team went down, but then that could be part of the West Ham way as well. Through all this though the fans have never left, still coming back game after game.
Fast forward to 2011 and after another relegation the clubs owners, in chasing a swift return to the top flight, appoint Sam Allardyce. A man whose football style is perhaps alien to what West Hams is supposed to be, he preferring the more direct brand of statistical football reliant on pro zone and not the type pioneered at our club by Allison and Greenwood and carried on by the legend that is Johnny Lyall, of football played for the entertainment of the paying crowd, on the floor passing laced with individual skill. Maybe not delivering the results they should, but give me the unpredictable quality of Paolo Di Canio every day over the goal scoring but often anonymous during the game Kevin Nolan.
I for one cant wait for a return of the West Ham Way.

OLAS V QPR

This time last season we had accumulated 5 points, the football was dire and Andy Carroll was injured, fast forward 12 months and we only have 2 more points, AC is still injured, but there is a feel good factor emanating around the club. I doubt a defeat under Sam has ever been as well received as last weeks V Man United, the performance was all we could ask for and the defeat seemed harsh. By the letter of the law Nolan was offside, but quite how the lino Saw that beats me, but still the team got glory after the defeat down to the performance, oh how we have waited for this to happen and in a way to me it proves mine and others stand against BFS as it is the performances that are the most important part of the game and as a rule if you perform in the manner we have this season then the results will follow. Sam has wasted his tenure playing his shite brand of steady football that has made him 1 of the most hated managers outside of whatever club he is managing at the time, and for many even while his managing their club. What happened in that meeting at the end of the season, more to the point, what happened after that meeting for Sam to spend the summer preparing for this season? Its as if he went on a journey of Discovery akin to the Blues Brothers walking into James Brown Church where at some point “SAM SAW THE LIGHT’,
Quite where this epiphany took place I doubt we will ever know, but he is on a mission from Gold (and Sullivan) and he is fulfilling that mission to play with style over substance. Don’t think for a minute though I am of the turning and accepting him as a manager, he is only doing this as it was forced on him, by the owners desperate to save the 3 million pound to get rid of him, but as long as we carry on the road we are currently taking then ill enjoy it, though to some I cant seem to do that. Walking down the Barking Road buzzing after the Liverpool game, probably only 15 minutes after the game had finished, an esteemed writer in this very publication texted me (you know who you are DY) to say that result cocked up my agenda, that of ousting BFS. I didn’t even get ½ an hour to savor the best game ive witnessed under Sam’s management, to be fair, he weren’t the only 1 but then ive never been 1 to hide my feelings for Sam.
Last week the club announced their Club London plan for the Olympic stadium but not to their chosen ones, the SAB, for it seems they have been forsaken and by some of the emails ive seen flying around between members many are not too happy, for it seems the actions of a very small minority in the SAB in revealing the clubs plan to the wider fan base to change the badge after signing a non disclosure agreement has meant the club are now thinking its time to end the SAB. Oh dear, what amuses me is that they cant see still they were there as a tick box enterprise, as a way to give the club an out if ever questioned on why there doing what they do. The funny thing about this is during the OS bid when info was given to the SAB it was Karen Brady in her rag column that exposed that vote had taken place and only 2 of the SAB voted against, yet a concerned fan disgusted at the march of the marketers that really run this club day to day breaks cover and then its curtains for the SAB. I myself is a member of the SAB but ive always believed the club were never going to listen and would do as it wanted to anyway and it looks as if I was right and im not the only 1 to believe that. The problem is many don’t realize that the day to day running of the club is not carried out by Gold or Sully and as if too prove it, it was revealed on a well known WHU fans forum that an EX Hammer, not the most well known but a member of cup winning teams no less was sent a bill for his tea & Sandwiches after attending a game in the lounge, now, this is not the 1st time ive heard this happen to an Ex Hammer, working as a meeter and greeter in the lounge getting a bill for his food while he worked, is that what we are reduced to as a club, I thought we were supposed to revere our old pros, the club are quick enough to wheel them out when their required but to charge them 30 quid for sarnies and tea is taking the piss really. But then when we’re in the day to day control of Arsenal Coventry and Newcastle fans theat never had the club in the DNA as youths can we expect them to understand why us fans react the way we do when our old pros are treated behind closed doors in a way that flies in the face of the family friendly club the marketers would love us to believe, I don’t blame DG & DS for this, they have entrusted the running of the day to day monotonous stuff to KB and her cronies and its they that are ruining the club off the park.

Olas v Liverpool 2014

I must admit the 1st couple of times I saw Valencia, he was the 1 new signing that I thought would struggle to make a mark in the Premier league, id not heard of him till the world cup, and only saw 1 of the games he played in, he looked good, but that was in South America and coming to play in Europe in a physical and fast paced league he just look too slight for me. Now while 1 swallow don’t make a summer, that goal against Hull was as good as a 1st goal I’ve seen since Tevez opened his Account for us with the free kick V Spuds 7 years ago, in fact, that is quite possibly the best individual goal since Danny Williamson ran the length of Burndon Park to slide in our third and considering Danny didn’t have the defenders in front of him Valencia’s thunderbolt even eclipses that. I mean how many of us sitting at home or those at the ground thought he had a chance to do what he did. Thing is, he has now with that strike upped the expectation on him, how successful he turns out to be depends on what he can do to match that, I mean, talk about setting the Bar high on your first go, I expect to hear the crown bellowing Shoot every time he gets the ball 30 yards from goal. The goal was fitting of the whole performance, I don’t get hung up on stats but im sure I saw we had 60% of the ball, which is something im sure we struggled all last season to achieve, if this is BFS way then long may it continue this season. The funny thing is after that draw i felt better than nearly after all the wins last season, and the reason for that was the performance, ive argued time and time again that when you watch football it is the performance that makes you leave the ground wanting to come back not the result, and to see the evidence of that you only have to compare it to the last season Hull home game.
If ever 2 games were so polarised in the outcome, performance and reaction from the fans after it would be those 2 games, against Hull back in March, WHU had just 44% possession, only 3 shots on target and had won the game from an own goal that came from a cross into the box which was not populated by a west ham player, and remember that was against 10 men for over an hour. It an un-heard of act by any set of fans at any club West Ham were booed from the park, yet that game yielded 3 points set that against the reaction after only gaining 1 point where the fans after across the net were crowing in delight. But ever the pragmatist BFS urges caution the next day in the London Standard
Actually Sam I beg to differ, attractive football without winning is good for supporters its also good for you in that the supporters will forgive a poor result if the performance is there, but like Hull at home last season, even if you win in the manner we did then, then you can expect to cop a van load of shit your way. And here is the dilemma for Sam, what will he do if he keeps putting out the performances we have been currently, I mean only v the Saints this season can you say we played bad, but continues to not pick up the victory’s, today against Liverpool and then next week V Man united, could easily return no points, after that is the return of Harry with QPR, will sam still be brave enough not return to type, only time will tell, and I didnt think I would ever say this under BFS but im really looking forward to todays game, the green shoots were there in the 1st game, and finally they flowered on Monday night.
“Attractive football and not winning is no good to me, no good to the owners and no good to the supporters.”
Actually Sam I beg to differ, attractive football without winning is good for supporters its also good for you in that the supporters will forgive a poor result if the performance is there, but like Hull at home last season, even if you win in the manner we did then, then you can expect to cop a van load of shit your way. And here is the dilemma for Sam, what will he do if he keeps putting out the performances we have been currently, I mean only v the Saints this season can you say we played bad, but continues to not pick up the victory’s, today against Liverpool and then next week V Man united, could easily return no points, after that is the return of Harry with QPR, will sam still be brave enough not return to type, only time will tell, and I didnt think I would ever say this under BFS but im really looking forward to todays game, the green shoots were there in the 1st game, and finally they flowered on Monday night.

Off the field finally it seems the club revealing details of how the fans will be seated in the Olympic stadium, they held a meeting where they outlined the plans to the remaining Bondholders and Corporate members. The club will have various lounges with a much larger capacity than at the Boleyn though only around 16 boxes, where currently its over 70. 1 lounge it seems may be modelled on the Club Wembley concept which will be called Club London, all part of the London rebranding of the club, these will be housed in the best seats on the half way line in the West Stand either side of the dugouts, those Season ticket holders at the Boleyn that currently occupy those seats im afraid will be shunted either sideways or over to the East. A move to me that is akin to a form of Social Cleansing, get the hoi polloi out the way, the high rollers are coming through. Some say that they pay the most money so they should get the best seats, but this move by the club shows how far detached it is becoming from its history and its roots. The fact that Gold is allowing this to happen in my eyes makes him a Traitor to his working Class roots. It’s one thing to better yourself and work your way out of abject poverty as Gold has done, but it’s another to spit on those fans for the chance to grab Money. I’ve said since virtually day one, this move is nothing to do with improving the match day life of the rank and file fan, the move is purely to improve the match activity of the Corporates and their guests who probably are there for the jolly up more than the football. Football sold its soul when it did the exclusive Sky deal, and in turn the clubs are following.

OLAS V Spurs 16/8/14 Rotten to the core

ROTTEN AT THE CORE
One thing that supporting West ham can never be said is that it is boring, even when the season is over there is still plenty going on but this off season has surpassed many in the past from not sacking Sam to the badge change through to DS drunk on talksport and the most pointless tour West Ham have undertaken down under. Never have I so looked forward to the start of a season, not because I feel it will be an improvement on last season as I think were in for more of the same, but at least it will be football we will be talking about and not our owners or Sam or the badge.
Looking back at my article for olas in the Spurs game at the end of the season I alluded to the fact that I believed that Sam was going to be sacked. Sullivan had enough of him and he was a gonna. My information was coming from people with direct access to Sullivan, and in fact I was also told that Sullivan knew that a section of the fans were openly engaging in putting pressure on the club to sack him and he in turn encouraged this as well. What happened to change his mind is one thing I don’t know, he has the power to act alone without Gold or anyone else stopping him as he has majority control of the shares as he owns himself over 50%, so at the end of season meeting the Monday after the spurs game I waited for the phone call to tell me he was gone. Alas, that call never came but I didn’t panic as the meeting ended with no outcome being announced and it was possible that severance was being agreed.
On the Thursday of that week no outcome had been announced I emailed David Sullivan myself directly, sending him comments from online forums of the many Season ticket holders threatening to not renew if Sam stayed, this was not the first time I have emailed him and to give him credit, he always responds openly and honesty, his reply was short this time “ we go on with changes” I responded with “ I hope it’s the right change, for the record I cant think of any reason to make me boycott and nothing would make me do so, but I just wanted to point out to you the risk you run in keeping him. Good luck”.
His reply left me stunned at 1st, it was the official West Ham United statement outlining that Sam was being kept, but he must change. The reason for being stunned was that the club had made no official statement yet it wasn’t on the website, yet here it is, in full emailed to me, an unknown fan, I could of leaked this myself and spoiled the clubs release of it, but no, I didn’t and the reason for that is that is no way for the clubs business to be conducted, I don’t agree with the tittle tattle of the ITKs rushing round trying to be the 1st to bring the breaking news, or Sully Jnr releasing it on twitter or DS or DG themselves briefing their mate so his website can have the exclusive on the latest list of players were bidding for. If football is to be a business as I am always told it is, then it should act like one off the field where it matters, do the things the right way, not the way the club is doing things at the moment that is for sure.
It turned out I wasn’t the only person to receive this Press release early either but luckily that person contacted the club and allowed them the time to put the statement up on the website before they put it out to the sites they write for.
Sam survived but with caveats, more attacking football, attacking coach, but this has not stopped the public embarrassment of the club. Big Sam alluding too it was the new attacking directive that accounted for our atrocious pre season tour of New Zealand, Sullivan then going on Talksport, while on holiday in Spain and attacking Sam which was topped off with DG favouriting a sack Sam tweet but then coming out and blaming jet lag.
A fcking script writer for a soap couldn’t do a better job.
These may be a little things in the scheme of things but if they cant get the little things right what chance the big things.
Talking of big things that leads nicely into the Badge change debacle that for me showed that the people running the club while they say they will listen to the fans, one of their original 10 points when they took over the club, if the fans views get in the way of what they want they will do as they please.
The background to our badge change starts for me years ago across London when Arsenal was looking to remodel their badge. The Arse looked at adding the word London onto their new stripped back and modern badge but decided against it, it didn’t sit right apparently on their new crest with just the Gun sitting in a 2 tone coloured shield. Fast forward to the end of may this year and I watched a video at an SAB meeting where the thinking behind a new badge was being shown, the club had hired a design company who via the video outlined their thinking behind what they had come up with,,, Crossed hammers on a 2 tone shield with London on it, oh and they year we were formed 1895.
This was all hush hush as the club didn’t want this to get out, the castle was to be retired apparently as with the move it no longer represented the club. Funny that, as the hammers are the riveting hammers used to build ships at the ironworks in canning town and they haven’t built a ship on the Thames since 1912 but I haven’t seen anyone want to retire them and nor should they.
Of course none of that explains why the Arsenal connection, well, Karren Brady has already revealed in the Sun she’s from a gooner supporting family, since she has been running the club the behind the scenes staff has seen many goings and comings, the new Chief Exec came from Arsenal, a new marketing Chief, came from Arsenal, a new person to oversee the move to the OS, came from Arsenal, Various junior level marketers have arrived, some from Arsenal, so its no wonder that London has been added to the badge because its probably the same people that stripped back and modernised the Arsenal badge into a 2 tone shield with a gun on it that stripped back and modernised our badge onto a 2tone shield with just hammers on it. They then took this badge with the date and London on it and released it, but even that was a joke. The club rushed through with this quicker than they wanted too as 1 outraged member of the SAB broke ranks and stared to reveal what was being done, the club had no choice but to reveal it as across social media it was already being discussed. As for the Yougov poll, independent they claim, my arse I say. We will listen to the fans claimed DG on twitter, 10,000 took part, out of half a million possible if the club can be believed, of that just over 50% voted said they liked the new badge, no ringing endorsement, but enough for the club to claim victory and the castle is history.
Funny how the club didn’t listen though when 78% of over 16,000 voted to sack Allardyce.
When the club move I will still go, but I have said in the past that I justify that to myself by the fact that when West Ham leave the Boleyn they will cease to exist, and like when West ham were formed in 1900 replacing the Thames ironworks team, a new club will be in Stratford ill go support them, I just never expected the club the actually make that thought easier but in 2017, a nice new shiny modern west ham will be in situ, with a new badge. Where will it end where will it stop.
The march to be seen as The London club continues, Karren Brady when revealing this week the update on how the hospitality at the new stadium is going, something that will concern only 3,500 of the 54,000 fans, she writes in the London evening standard, she addresses the article not just to west ham fans but to Londoners as a whole, if she wanted to update fans properly, why not do it by email, the club inundate us with crap emails anyway why choose to do it in the standard, because the club want to be seen as a team for the whole of London not just East London. To me West Ham is an EAST London club and this is another attempt by the club to move away from its past, to re-invent itself as something it is not. There is no one club of London and nor should there be.
We were one of the 1st to get a .London domain and for years now our new signings have been paraded in front of London images not West ham images, these include the London eye, St Paul’s and Houses of parliament and my favourite, Canary Wharf, built on the site of the Millwall Docks
The addition of London on the badge is for marketing purposes only to help us be identified to the legions of foreigners who have no club to support as yet but like London so may be they will follow us. But, what if that don’t work, in the clubs rush to be associated with London what will they do next if that fails?
London Hammers anyone, why not, after all its only a name, don’t mean anything, Does it?
The core of any club is the owners and ours is Rotten to the core. From sullivans leaks and public outbursts, from DGs on twitter whether down to jet lag or not through to Brady and her pursuit of turning this club into Arsenal lite. Sick of the lot of the I am.

Olas v Spuds big Sam sings My Way

BIG SAM SINGS
MY WAY

And now, the end is here
And so I face the final Home game
My Foes, I'll say it clear
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain
I've played the game, which you lot havent
I travelled each and every highway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way

Regrets, I've got none
But if I did I wouldn’t mention
I did what I had to do and saw it through without consideration
I planned each game we played, each long ball kicked, along the touchline
And more, much more than this, I did it my way

Yes, there were times, I heard you boo
When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all, I was in no doubt
I ate it up and spit it out
I faced it all and I cupped my ear and did it my way

I've loved, I've laughed and cried
I've had my fill, my share of losing
And now, as tears subside, I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that
And may I say, not in a shy way,
"Oh, no, oh, no, not me, I did it my way"

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught
To say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels
The record shows I took the blows and did it my way!

Yes, it was my way

If my friend who is supposedly ITK is to be believed today is the last time Big Sam will be in the home dugout at the Boleyn. His time is up, and I for 1 it cant come soon enough. It has taken 3 years and a lot of damage has been done to this club in that time, but if it is true then the fans will have succeeded in getting him out. The fans poll conducted on-line this week was damming, 78% of the 12,000 that voted said its time for him to go, coupled with the many comments posted on social media that are attributed to season ticket holders, many of whom were threating not to renew, culminating in the banner displayed at the West Brom game it appears our owners will shake him by the hand and say thanks, but no thanks.
For the 2nd time in his career the pressure brought by fans will end in his downfall and he can only blame himself for that.
I wouldn’t like to speculate on his replacement until its official, but if it was me I would be looking for a young manager, give him a 5 year contact, and even accept relegation in the 1st season without sacking if you can see that he is building something. Fans are often accused of being too demanding wanting success today, Now, yet im sure nearly every Hammers fan against sam, that is not the case. 1stly we want to see a team that plays a certain way, im not talking Barcelona or Arsenal type football, but a team that are not 1 dimensional, that can hit a ball up to the tall striker, but also play around him through midfield and play off him, that is where Sam just doesn’t get it, I can accept the Chelsea away performance or the Hull at home, if they were infrequent, but they are not and coupled with his arrogant manor when discussing in the media why the fans are up in arms he can not be surprised that is has turned out this way.
The problem is the move to the OS is linked to this, linked to his appointment, linked to the possibility the club may keep him, we have been through 3 years of him because of the move to the OS, that 1 thing has this club in Limbo and in reality is the one that is destroying the club.
I wish this was the last game ever here and the move was happening next season as it will only continue to hang round us until then. The club needs stripping back, playing staff coaching staff, the lot, we need to see a purpose to what this club is trying to achieve otherwise when we go to the OS it will be as I predict, same old west ham, just in new surroundings. And that will result in even more anguish for fans as it may mean we have sold our heritage and soul down the river for nothing.
Brady said world class players will play for west ham at the OS, if that don’t happen, all this mess were in now, 3 years of Sam Allardyce and his soul destroying brand of football, fans arguing, even fighting, with each other, will be for nothing. As much as I hate the thought of the move and nothing will ever persuade me it was right or just, the quicker we get there, the quicker the wounds may heal.
Don’t hold your breath though.
Enjoy your summer, thanks for buying and supporting OLAS
See you all next season.
mywhufc@yahoo.com

Booing football

Well, its been brewing for ages and to be honest i always knew that day would come, but i doubt that anyone thought it would come after a win. The fall out though is what has bothered me, the shocking performance really is nothing new as we have witnessed many a game like that over his nearly 3 year Tenure, yet when i got home after the game i went online to read what had been said across the West Ham sites and what i saw left a bad taste in my mouth, basically west ham supporters upset over the booing after the game calling those that booed, MUGs. MUGS? i couldn't quite believe it. we all watch the same game but we all view it through different eyes and yes there will always be different opinions in what went on, but the fact that some decided to Abuse those that frankly used the only way they have inside the ground to voice their displeasure at what they believe is the shocking tactics that are choking this club is disgraceful. Add to the fact that it turned out that some of the most opinionated fans against the booers didnt even go to the game but sat at home and watched did incense me. How can a fan that attends the game be a mug against those that are not at the game is quite beyond me. The papers were naturally full of it the next morning, pictures of BFS cupping his ears to the crowd splashed across the page mocking the fans that were booing him. In his interview after the game, did he try diffuse that situation by saying he understood fans frustration. No, he did his arrogant best, acting mystified over why the fans would boo a victory. He knows why those that booed did, its because they have had enough of his "only the result matters" brand of football that he specialises in. He is not bothered about flair or shock horror, entertaining fans. There a many fans that buy into Sam, they are fed a diet of the club being laden with debt so we have to cut our cloth accordingly, that it will be better once we move but for the next few years we have to basically take this medicine. Funny how the debt didn't stop us from paying him the 5th highest wage in the league, nor did the debt stop us giving Brady a pay rise or her million pound bonus for delivery the OS. The debt is only used as weapon against the fans that have the cheek to voice their opinion about the rubbish served up by the squad that he has assembled. naturally Sams friends in the press then jumped to his defence, Ian Ladyman in the Daily Mail "Back across town at West Ham, though, something felt odd about the events of Wednesday night. The club’s owners may well decide to move forward with a new manager this summer.If that happens, Allardyce will not complain. He will take his skills and his methods elsewhere. But to boo a man who is essentially fulfilling the brief he was delivered when he was appointed in June 2011 sets a very high bar for whoever follows him.Then finished with "Wanted: One football manager to keep West Ham in the Premier League. Must play like Brazil" Totally missing the point of what drove supporters to boo a victory, booing a defeat is easy, and can be swatted away as fickleness, and fans that want instant success, but to boo a victory shows that those fans care so much that will not accept the style of football BFS serves up. If football is too you just about the result and the points gained after it then why would you pay to go watch the game, especially when the result can be found as soon as the whistle has finished in hundreds of different ways. If it just about the result then fans might as well just stay at home and stick up the results service on Sky or the BBC. To Boo a victory says,in my opinion, that its not just about results, its not just about 3 points, they are wanted yes, but not a demand or requirement, the fans that booed that victory are saying that this club has had enough of watching the most lifeless brand of football to ever darken our door and it tells the owners that they know what they need to do. The owners are fans of this club, i cant for a minute with them knowing the history of the club and the type of fans we get at the Boleyn, that they themselves are happy with the way we are playing, they have to be seen to back the manager but privately i am sure they feel the pain of the performances and come then end of the season will shake Sams hand, thank him very much, and kick his fat arse out the door. Lastly in Reply to Ian ladyman's comment about football like Brazil, i just want football like West Ham, unpredictable but exciting, the type where you walk out after a defeat and say, didn't we play well. i remember a 5-1 defeat by Leeds in april 1999, we had 3 sent off yet that team showed more attacking intent that day then Sams team has all season, i walked out of that game feeling proud of the way we played, when was the last time you did that this season

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So Liverpool in an attempt to crack the American market for their owners have allowed Fox TV to make a documentary series called “Being Liverpool”, a programme that follows the day to day goings on behind the scenes , which has got me thinking what would “Being West Ham” be like, imagine if a camera crew could follow our owners into the boardroom and eves drop into their conversations . I imagine it would be something like this, Set the scene, West Ham owners have just trudged back into the boardroom after the end of their 1st full season in charge, which ended in relegation. GOLDIE “what we gonna do Sully we need to get back up at the 1st time of asking or our dream will be gone” SULLY “ don’t worry yourself old man I know what I am doing its all part of my master plan” GOLDIE “ what’s that sully boy “ SULLY “drive the share price down so I can snap up the rest of the shares off the Icelandic’s at a lower price, get back up 1st time of asking and I’ll be quid’s in” GOLDIE “ what do you mean I” SULLY “sorry Goldie I mean we. Slip of the old tongue. Where that KAREN” In walks Karen Brady, West Ham’s Vice Chairman. SULLY “ah about time to Brazza where you been “ KB “ I’ve just told Kevin Keen to forget about wanting the managers job” GOLDIE “ why did you do that” KB “ Because I sacked him” GOLDIE “ but he’s West Ham through and through” SULLY “Don’t worry about that, I’ve got some one lined up, a sure fire winner some one guaranteed to get this club where I want it. Brazza Stick the kettle on love and don’t forget the Hobnobs “ GOLDIE “ I remember once we were gonna make a Dildo called a Hob Knob, thought it might appeal to women who like to do it in the Kitchen” Sully and Karen just look and shake their heads. In the background the sound of music can be heard getting louder, it’s the imperial March from Star Wars Du du d du duu d duu d du duuu. The door to the board room opens and in walks a giant of a man, dressed in black he breathes heavy, in and out, in and out, Goldie struggles to get his words out as he looks on in fear GOLDIE “It’s It’s” SULLY “ Say hello to our new manager Goldie Big Fat Sam. Whats with the Heavy breathing Sam. BFS “ bye eck Sully those stairs are a killer” GOLDIE “ Whats he doing here sully, you promised me the next manager would be a football man, some one with a bit of class, a West Ham man” SULLY “ oh shut up you tart. We were lucky to get him; Real Madrid And Barcelona was after him you know. Aint that right Sam.” BFS “ Oh YEAH,,,,,, Well Real macribs and Barca lone star, they both play at power league in Accrington on a Thursday. Macribs were the favourite to get me, sponsored by the local McDonalds’, offered me all I could eat mcflurries. But when I got your call Sully I flew down here as quick as the old Quattro could carry me.” GOLDIE “ I told you in January when screwed O’Neil about, I don’t think the fans SULLY “ They will Goldie, that’s the beauty of relegation, these muppetts, sorry fans, will swallow it, just like the punters that buy those dodgy blue pills we knock out in the back the Sport, desperate to see it rise they will swallow anything.” BFS “ Is that tea coming and have you got any Eccles cake, I like Eccles cake I do” KB “ Ive got crackers Sam “ BFS “ Aye love you have, a right pair of crackers they are, but I really fancy cake with me tea, just like me Ma gave me when I was but a nipper “ SULLY “ Don’t worry goldie, ive got a plan, . BFS will get us up in the 1st year wont you Sam” BFS “ Aye, will do. Ill make this team the biggest in the land within 2 years” SULLY “ See Goldie, we can do it. With my leadership, Sams managemnt, Braaza’s ability to bullshit with best and you as the Figure head, the matriarch, the man whose come back home like Moses to lead us to our MECCA” BFS “ MECCA, did you say Mecca. I like a game of Bingo, used to play it with my Mam down t club, just before the Strippers came on” SULLY “ No Sam, not Bingo, STRATFORD, THE OLYMPIC STADIUM. If we can get into there, what with flogging this place and knock out a couple of the other sites well be quids in. THIS TIME NEXT YEAR WELL BE BILLIONAIRES” Cue the closing theme tune. We've got some half price Adult tickets and miles and miles of dodgy scarfs, T.V.s, garden gnomes and cockney reject L.P.s, Ball games, gold chains, whatsnames, and leather goods, And Trevor Brooking track suits from a geezer in the Spotted Dog, DOG, DOG DOG DOG DOG ... No income tax, no V.A.T., No money back, no guarantee, long or short, pass or hoof We'll play the game very longgggggg God bless Green Street, Viva Green Street, Long live Green Street, C'est magnifique, Green Street, Magnifique, Green Street, Green Street (to fade) Apparently the working title was “Only Porn and Whoreses” and you’ll have to wait to later in the season to see what happened next.