West Ham legend Alan Taylor has called on Slaven Bilic and his team to put a FA Cup run at the top of their priority list. In an exclusive interview in Blowing Bubbles Monthly, Taylor believes it’s time for the club to give the fans a day out at Wembley after four years with Sam Allardyce showing very little respect for the famous trophy.The 62-year-old, who scored two goals in the 1975 FA Cup final against Fulham, also feels the competition would get some of its swagger back if the winner qualified for the Champions League.
‘As a schoolboy, the FA Cup was big. The coverage would start at 8am on cup final day and go right through the day,’ he explained. ‘But today unfortunately, I think money talks and everybody knows that the European scene is far bigger and greater than the FA Cup.
‘I’d like to see the situation where instead of having the top four play in the Champions League, the fourth place goes to the winners of the FA Cup [that will] I hope help the FA Cup cup go back to how it was originally.’
Elsewhere in this month’s issue, George Parris writes in his column that Slaven Bilic proved his worth as the going got tough with injuries mounting up.’We all know Slaven wants us to be playing attacking football but last month showed he will not sacrifice results in a bid to entertain, and we ended 2015 in eighth place – surely we would have all taken that at the start of the season?,’ George wrote.
Meanwhile, writing in her column, Sky Sports’ Bianca Westwood believes Michail Antonio has shown there is lots of talent in the lower leagues.’As fantastic as the academies are I just don’t think the players coming through have that hunger that the likes of Jamie Vardy, Charlie Austin and Callum Wilson have after plying their trade in the lower leagues,’ she wrote.
Blowing Bubbles’ writers also outline nine New Year resolutions that will give West Ham fans a very happy New Year, ask where has it all gone wrong for Carl Jenkinson this year and if it’s not time football closed the transfer window for good?
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