Hammers fans enter footballing heaven
By Hughie Southon
@David_Rudnick “Fair play to Gareth Bale. Away for seven years but from the moment he stepped on to that pitch, with 15 minutes to go, initiating one of the greatest collapses in living memory, he was the spirit of Tottenham made flesh”
An absolutely beautiful quote but nowhere near as beautiful as THAT goal and the resurrection of Manu Lanini.
That – even at my mighty age and after watching thousands of games all over the world – was bang up there as perhaps – World Cup Final exempted – the greatest game of football I’ve seen.
Every emotion possible had passed through me over that 90 minutes as we went from disaster to heroism and I am so pleased that it was Manu who put the icing on the cake.
It’s a fact the club have been looking to sell him as his form has slithered to shocking levels but last night he put us into a footballing heaven.
In that one moment at the very end of the game, as his totally sensational 25 yard shot smashed into the underside of the bar and over the line, his confidence and belief must have hit the roof.
David Moyes reacted like man of 57 going on 15. God only knows what went on in that dressing room at half time but we now know the Hammers squad are reacting to his brand of management like few before him.
Said Benrahma you may be business but it’s now an exciting possibility that the little Argentinian will be after your job. The options and prospects we now see are mouth watering which is why the quote above is so amusing.
The other beauty came from a Spurs fan: “We bring on Bale – they bring on Lanzini.” Oh my goodness what a morning this is after the night before.
And those of us who have had our doubts and worse about Moysie need to eat acres of humble pie as a result because after lockdown and into the new season he has provided us with the most joyful brand of attacking football we have seen in ages and ages.
Arrogant Spuds and there suddenly not so special One were stroking the thing around whilst the Irons battled, fought and got one of the greatest points in their history.
As someone wrote on the ClaretandHugh Facebook page last night: “We’ll need a surgical operation to get the grin off our face.”