Six and out? Slav could soon find out!
The sight of and sounds coming from Slaven Bilic in his post match interview following the 3-0 defeat against Southampton was about as depressing as it gets.
Prior to the match captain Mark Noble had called for what e described as “the West Ham family” to stick together. After it he was saying: ““ If I’m honest it could have been six in the end. On the bright side, I don’t think it can get any worse.”
Families do tend to have fall outs when they hit rock bottom!
Slaven said that it was all good on the training pitch but when the game came along it went to pieces but he made it clear he was taking it and would not walk away.”
He added that it was going to be very hard to turn things around and could give no positive answers on how that may be achieved.
Totally depressing and barely a flicker of hope anywhere!
The astonishing turnaround in fortunes from last season is something none of us will probably remember seeing in football before – I certainly can’t.
It’s too easy to blame the stadium – or the move from the Boleyn – as the primary reason. These are highly paid footballers and professionals . We accept period of readjustment but what we have seen has been totally horrendous.
Such a collective loss of form is the manager’s responsibility and the buck stops has to stop with him. It’s Middlesborough next and that is followed by the international break.
Then comes Palace and Sunderland – games this time last year to which we would have been seriously looking forward.
Defeat by Middlesborough however, is no longer unthinkable and I recall being told by one highly placed insider during Sam Allardyce’s time that it would take six straight defeats for him or any other manager to be shown the door.
Six and out? We could soon find out!
COYI