Irons squad on a “bender?”…don’t believe it!

Piture from the Sun shows the players during their night outi

I may have got this wrong but I’d be very surprised if that were the case.

This morning as you open a tabloid newspaper you will see pictures of the West Ham squad out partying “until the small hours” the night after the defeat last weekend.

The captain was there along with the likes of James Collins, new signing Álvaro Arbeloa, Aaron Cresswell and many other of the unusual suspects.

Lurid headlines declare they were on on a “bender”.

Clearly somebody believes there’s a wholesale mutiny going on among the players to have been involved in such a planned operation against manager Slaven Bilic and the club.

Let me keep this short. I simply don’t buy it until it’s proved otherwise – an event which I don’t expect.

And may I politely remind those who have made such a splash out of this that  the words “bender” and “bonding” are not mutually exclusve. It is quire reasonable to go out socially without getting bladdered!

I believe the sequence of events is pretty straightforward. The manager had spent a clear the air evening with the lads over a meal where presumably they were told to enjoy a night out which they did as the bonding gets underway.

That’s what I believe  happened…that’s what I hope  happened and until we learn anything to the contrary that’s what I’m going to go on believing happened!

Oh, and apart from a water being held by Cressie, there’s not a bottle to be seen anywhere or a player looking anything like his normal self.