Regular baiter of all things West Ham, Chris Sutton, has compared the Hammers to Manchester United during his usual round of pre-match Premier League predictions.
Former Chelsea, Blackburn, and Celtic striker Sutton has had plenty to say since David Moyes left The London Stadium, becoming a sort of Mark Lawrenson on steroids. Lawro earned a reputation for hardly ever predicting a Hammers win, leading to accusations that he wasn’t a massive fan of all things Claret & Blue.
With Sutton now taking over the mantle, it’s no surprise to see him predicting yet another loss. However, on this occasion, he might actually have a point. Sutton has also managed to avoid mentioning David Moyes, which is a bonus, and instead made a comparison to Manchester United.
Under Sir Alex Ferguson, such comparisons would have been flattering, but given the current state of affairs at Old Trafford, it’s definitely not a good thing.
“If Arsenal beat West Ham, Liverpool’s lead at the top is down to five points, and the Hammers don’t seem to be in the kind of form to stop them.
“West Ham have not got going at all under new boss Graham Potter. Like Manchester United, they are not getting relegated, but their fans have not had much to smile about all season.”
It’s hard to argue with any of that, really. Most would agree that we’re mere cannon fodder for the Gunners. However, if Potter can solve the issues seen in the first half against Brentford, we’re in with a shout.
I can’t see why everybody’s shocked. .Potter came into a struggling team to put it mildly. Got 1 loan player and everybody’s surprised we are still struggling need 4 players and new board..
I was shocked Vs Brentford to be honest. I thought with players back plus Ferguson plus JWP we were on for the win and I called it 2-0 in the predictions thread.
But we were absolutely dire first half and it could have been back to the 4 or 5 goal thrashings, indeed we were lucky that it was only one goal conceded.
I’m not as optimistic today for sure.
Not a Sutton fan at at all, but can’t argue with his comments.
Maybe one day we’ll have a team that doesn’t give him the ammo to keep having a pop- probably a long way off, though.
Even if he does have a point Sutton’s obvious hatred and bias against West Ham is glaring and repetitively tedious. You know it’s bad when you miss the musings of the delightful Mark Lawrensen and actually feel such affection you miss the old goat. He hated West Ham too, or maybe he didn’t, perhaps The BBC paid him too.
At least he doesn’t see us being relegated!
Sound like fair comments to me.