The world of football was rocked today by the news that West Ham were paying their best defender since Bobby Moore £250,000 to bugger off and find another club.
Anybody who saw the classy Davenport in Claret and Blue will be stunned by this news. The bargain £3m signing from Tottenham was allowed to start only 23 times and was forging a brilliant partnership with Matty Upson when his West Ham career was cruelly cut short by Zola's inexplicable decision to drop him, after the 4-1 win away to Portsmouth.
It will surely remain a mystery for as long as the game is played why West Ham only managed to keep a clean sheet twice with Davenport in the team - home games against the mighty Wolves and Rotherham. Equally inexplicable is how the Hammers failed to keep a single clean sheet in the Premiership when Davenport was selected.
The decision to farm Davenport out on loan to Sunderland shocked his army of West Ham admirers at the time, and the attempt to withhold his wages just because he had been charged with assaulting his sister, suggested that the cultured defender was being victimised by the club.
We will surely never see his like again. Poor Calum!
The picture is unwholesomely sensitive, extreme and morbid. It suggests you have an unhealthy mental state.Being an animal lover and a member of the aspca I have lost respect for you HF. Not Cool, not neccessary and not funny mate!
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LOL I didn't take the bloody picture, nor was I flying the plane!
ReplyDeleteWhat is aspca by the way? I hope you take issue with what lions do to zebras!
ReplyDeletegot to be Australian soc etc cos they're far too precious just to have an spca or is it cos they're special
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ReplyDeleteAwkward Sod Pretending to Care for Animals ?
In all seriousness, our first concern should have been whether the person in the plane survived.
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ReplyDeleteAirline Specializing in Pole-axing Clumsy Animals?
BTW Stani there's no room for seriousness on here.
It was me flying the plane. Do you know how hard it is to hit a giraffe that's running away?
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ReplyDeleteVery good guys.
ReplyDeleteIt does make you wonder that not even one comment was related to your article about Davenport. Pretty shallow bunch on the games gone crazy. More like a class full of kindergarden kids.
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ReplyDeleteThat's not fair. All our comments were about Davenport. We're not shallow, we use metaphors and various other rhetorical devices.....but you had to go mention his name didn't you?