https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2289_ysAChM
Carol Combes -an admin on the ClaretandHugh Facebook group and website – isn’t one of our usual bloggers. But such was her anger at what she saw against Liverpool that she has been movcd to tell the squad exactly what she thinks of them!
A message to the West Ham squad:
As a long-standing West Ham fan for almost 50 years, I, like all of us, have been through a lot.
I have spent more hours than I remember, standing, in the rain on a Saturday just to get in to see West Ham play!
There have been highs, probably more lows, but if you are West Ham, you are West Ham- you put up with it!
Now, we all know the game has changed A LOT in recent years-bringing both good and bad.
As a fan, one of the most notable changes has been the wages.
Yes, I accept that West Ham’s players aren’t the highest paid in the Prem, and you earn a lot less than many but….
I watch my husband, who has a crumbling spine, is 60 years old and has to work, (as do I), doing a physical job for a lot less than the ‘national average’ wage.
He tries so hard to get through each day, that he comes home in agony and spends the evening trying to reduce the pain.
When I then watch our beloved Claret and Blue team give a half-hearted performance like against Liverpool it makes me very cross!
How many hours a week do you actually train? How much does that work out per hour?
I think too many of you have lost touch with the real world, what REAL work is, and how difficult things are for your fans.
Too often this season we have heard players say the performance wasn’t good enough, or we are all gutted. Well, I’m sorry, but it isn’t good enough! If you haven’t run your socks off for 90 mins and aren’t almost too tired to walk off the pitch, then you HAVEN’T given your all!
Get rid of this dreadful, lazy, attitude-remember how lucky you are and give EVERYTHING for those fans.
No good doing a ‘lap of honour’, when you should all be apologising to the fans.
We can be patient and tolerant-we’ve had to be! To lose to a better team we can accept-these lazy performances in a Claret and Blue shirt-NO! Shameful!
I know none of you will see this, but I wish you would!