The hysterical reaction to our opening four games from some and the minority chorus suggesting Manuel Pellegrini could be sacked is utterly ludicrous.
No it’s not been great and to the punters it’s difficult to see how it will turn around but turn around it will – that’s a certainty.
I’m heartily sick of the critics who were drooling with praise at the appointment of the man before declaring a month later that he’s not the man and must be given the bullet as sharpish as possible.
Manuel Pellegrini is no mug and all the accusations being thrown in his direction right now remind me of an that famous old saying: “Complaining without having a solution is called moaning.”
Pellegrini has done it everywhere he’s been other than Real Madrid where he came second and got the boot. That’s failure for you in Spain.
I have no idea how he is going to turn things around -nor would I dare suggest how he should – but I don’t believe that such a hugely experienced manager bought bought so many players without knowing how he was going to form them into a squad which will be the start of the move towards the next level.
So let’s all settle down and sweat things out and I’m sure it won’t be for long.
In fact I’m backing us to get at least a draw at Goodison next week and a win wouldn’t surprise me at all – this is no time to panic.
Keep the faith and remember what Pellegrini said a couple of weeks ago: “I will not fail at West Ham!”
COYI
Hugh, I don’t often agree with you……but in this instance you are 100% spot on! COYI……..
Me too Hugh mostly disagree with your comments especially who’s fault this stadium rests with and that dopey clown proved once again boring Boris but this getting rid of a class coach who’s cv puts most to shame is typical of supporters that have probably only been around a few years and couldn’t know about our clubs past or as one asked already what’s the West ham way ?
I think you may need to revisit theReal Madrid comment Hugh he scored more points than any manager before or since in Madrid’s history just so happened Barcelona scored more, any other season in La Liga he would have won the league, it was a success but won in which they didn’t win the league. The hysteria is by a minority that don’t look at the bigger picture in my opinion, time will tell if that is a. correct assessment but I think at the end of the season we will be comfortable and playing much more as s team and with that mentality Pelle is trying to build COYI!!!
My comment onthat being failure was an ironic aside on the state of Spanish football 32
Well said Hugh , I have had the similar thoughts for a while. It’s just the typical media circling with the usual negativity . I think we will get it right soon and start firing on all cylinders. COYI
I too believe that Everton is doe-able,and that more time must be given.
I think the main problem for me was the shock of losing to Wolves. After the Liverpool and the Bournemouth games where bad defending was a real problem, we improved greatly for the Arsenal game. With Diop replacing Ogbonna, and showing his quality, only a freak cross-cum-shot rebounding in the goal put Arsenal in the lead. We had the best chances and we should have won. We then took that into the cup match, and despite Ogbonna giving them the perfect start, we took them apart. Diop was again top class.
We should have gone into the Wolves game full of confidence, but instead we were a shambles. It’s no good pretending that wolves were something special after all. We gifted them the game by not turning up.
I hope there is a way to explain to the players that the script says we now go on to win, by turning up at Goodison and putting in a proper shift, and fighting all the way for a win. We are that good, so show it.
Hear hear!! The reaction is ridiculous. 4 games…!! What’s the world coming to!!
Maybe we wont qualify for Europe this season , unless we can win a Cup that is, but next year I think we will be challenging for a European place and not only next year but for many years to come.
Lets have some belief in our Manager or we may scare him away, we have never had such a high porofile Manager since the Premier League started so have faith and he will deliver. COYI
Good shout Hugh ,I mentioned on this forum to expect this start the manager and players we now have when they start to fire on all cylinders will be the envy outside the so called top four
Keep the faith the manager and players will succeed and things will get better during his tenure .The board are behaving in the right manner not heard much from them
COYI
I too am royally effed off with people slagging off the new manager. I have a small group of people I know who are West Ham fans that chat over FB messenger during games and with the odd comment or two during the week. The negativity from the rest of the guys has been akin to Remainers *****ing about Brexit, or Trump-haters *****ing about ,,,, Trump.
To be honest it’s the *****ing rather than the football that is getting me down.
We are not, and never will be, Man Utd or Barcelona. We are West Ham. We have a long history of failure (this isn’t new – even our club song talks of “fortune’s always hiding”. We have had small spells of relative success when we have stumbled across the odd good player or two, but mostly we are poor to middling. But I don’t mind that. That is the West Ham Way that I have come to expect in my 50 years on this earth.
I guess the downside to the internet is that now I see the negativity, rather than back in the day when if you wanted to ***** about West Ham you had to be in a room or on the phone with someone to do it. So this huge wave of negativity is partly because of the modern world we live in.
Anyway – rant over. I love West Ham. Always have. Always will. And saying anything negative about the club sticks in my throat. So naysayers, please support the club through thick and thin, or go support someone else.
Hugh thanks for the post – I’m afraid that if we lose against Everton the hysteria will continue
In the Avram Grant season I think that we drew vs Stoke in our 5th game and then beat Spurs 1-0 in the 6th game – I would take a win and a draw in teh next two games
Pelle now needs to show what he can do
While I agree that the reaction is over the top, the basic inability to defend is a worry for me. MP probably hasn’t done himself any favours disappearing home to Chile during this break, but I really he can sort it out.
Well said Hugh, could not agree more ⚒