Meanwhile, poor Birmingham paid the price of their Europa League adventure. There's no way they can cope with the pressure of a 46 game Championship and the stupid match heavy format of the Europa League. Premiership clubs can rotate and play kids, but that isn't a luxury open to cash strapped Birmingham. Amazingly, they STILL have three games in hand over us, and should they win them all, they would only be a point behind, but by February, they will be knackered surely! By all reports they were much the better team today, but the points went to Reading regardless.
Doctor Evil will be smiling and raising a glass of warm blood to Mephistopheles tonight!
You watching Parker turning it on again in the Prem Fanny?! Boy can he play.
ReplyDeleteBale assist and goal (own goal really). Lennon assist and goal. Even Pleat said on Radio 5, "Parker gives the ball to the better players to use". Not much point in doing that at West Ham! One assist and no goals since he joined Spurs in how many games now?
ReplyDeleteHammers Fan you're a moron. I'm learning from some of my friends who support Spurs, and watch more of Parker than you do, that he is in fact the missing piece to the puzzle. They are hailing his "genius".
ReplyDeleteSo what if he has no assists and no goals, he gives more to teams than any of that. Don't even reply to this, I won't be checking back to see what you have said. And if you do reply to this, it shows how much of a sad, sad man you are, replying to someone who has no care for what you're about to say.
You get so much abuse, why don't you just stop blogging.
i was just thinking the same as you which has now upset me so will have to go and lay down..
ReplyDeleteHow many points for Spurs in that period? Why do you not want to face the facts. You were (and still are) so very, very wrong about him( no getting desperate and looking for spelling mistakes now). Just for the record IM NOT A SPURS FAN......im a West Ham fan that has tied you up in knots for a long time (and will continue to do so).
ReplyDeleteI agree with your friends who support Spurs - he is the missing piece for Spurs, until they play a top team perhaps! Put Parker in a very good team and he is a useful cog; ask him to be the main man and he is found wanting. That's what I always said! Use him to hold and pass short to better players (Modric and Bale) and he is ideal, ask him to be a playmaker and goalscoring midfield general and he is close to hopeless. Sadly, we had nobody of the quality of Modric, Bale, VdV, Lennon, Defoe etcetera at Upton Park. That's why we needed to sell Parker! Why is that so hard for people to understand?
ReplyDeleteLook, here's an analogy. I know sweet FA about cars but in the old days they needed a rotary arm (maybe they still do) - whether it was a Porsche or an Austin All Agro. Now the rotary arm didn't make a Porsche a Porsche but without it, the Porsche wouldn't go. Parker is Tottenham's rotary arm - an unsophisticated part of the overall machine but a very useful piece nevertheless. He was the same rotary arm at West Ham, but in an Austin Allegro. If you can get £8million for a rotary arm, you sell it, buy an new engine and pick up another rotary arm on the cheap!
You could have said you were wrong so much easier than that. " Parkers a really good player" would have done the trick. Taaaaaraaaaaa till next "knot tying time"!!!
ReplyDeleteWhy would I say I was wrong when I was right? How many goals and assists so far in a Tottenham shirt?
ReplyDeleteHarry didn't buy him to score goals or supply assists and neither did we at WH. I don't understand the relevance of you trying to judge him on those criteria as they are clearly not why anyone would want him in their team.
ReplyDeleteHarry bought him as a holding/ball winning midfielder and at the moment he's pretty much as good as anyone else performing that role in the PL, he's made a huge impact on the Spurs team. This has been stated enthusiastically by Harry in the media and the Spurs fan that I know, every one of them.
Credit where credit is due HF. Shame you don't have the humility to accept it.
Real Hammersfan
Bloody hell,I haven't been here for ages and Fanno is getting bashed up on all fronts! Think I'll have to come back more often. I love it!
ReplyDeleteErrol, try to follow will you? Parker is a useful player to have in a team of stars, he is a close to useless player in a team of dross. He is a facilitator. He covers, he harries, he plays short passes to better colleagues. But that's NOT what we needed.
ReplyDeleteI first "came out" as "anti Parker" when I posted that he and Behrami could not form a midfield pairing because neither offered creativity and a goal scoring threat. Zola and Grant were intent on using him as a midfield general, a box to box player like Gerrard. But Parker has neither the vision nor scoring ability for that role. He is a very limited player. Lots of heart, an excellent engine, but very limited when in possession. So, at Spurs, he mops up, puts in the odd tackle, covers and plays it simple. Short pass to Modric, short pass to Bale, short pass to Lennon - let them do the creative stuff! But that wasn't his role at West Ham and he couldn't play the role he was assigned to play. Now, if we had been able to recruit Modric and Bale, he would have been perfect to sit and hold, but we couldn't do that could we? So he had to go!
Who have we bought with the Parker money? Baldock. That's what we needed to stay in the Prem, a goalscorer, not a holding midfielder played out of position! Allardyce saw that immediately!
We know you come here every day Wrongy.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your attempt at patronising me (not sure why you felt it necessary). Anyway, perhaps you need to concentrate a little more yourself...
ReplyDeleteYou seem to have come to the conclusion that I didn't want Parker to leave. Not sure why as I haven't even mentioned that. Perhaps you need to be less defensive and read the posts before autoresponding in 'attack mode'.
I actually agree with you that Parker should definitely have been sold and that our needs for the team were greater in other areas.
My point was and still is that Parker is an excellent player in his particular role which is a vital one in any team. He's as good as anyone else in the PL in that role and should be respected for that. Yes, it's not a glory role but why you belittle both that postion and him personally seems unnecessary.
He was our best player by a mile during his time with us (not hard given the rest of the team) and is holding his own in a very strong Spurs team.
He's a superb footballer with great passion, a great role model to any young pro starting out today.
Errol, I think you will find that you introduced the "edge" with, "Credit where credit is due HF. Shame you don't have the humility to accept it. Real Hammersfan".
ReplyDeleteAs for Parker being a model pro, model pros don't sign a 5 year contract and then demand a transfer a year later just because the team are relegated. Brooking didn't leave. Nor did he follow the money. He was a MODEL pro, Parker is a mercenary.
Apologies, had no idea you were so sensitive!
ReplyDeleteNone of us know if he 'demanded' a transfer and I was actually talking about his work ethic and honesty on the pitch. Anything else is just papertalk and speculation that we'll never know the truth about.
Parker always works tirelessly for his team with little personal glory. Also, with his style of play, he takes a lot of heavy knocks and never dives, complains or feigns injury for an advantage.
There's not many players you can say that about in current football.
really our whole team was badl ast year. I thought Hitz and demba ba and noble gave it a good to try help us last year in fact to back HF and his parker theory whenever we did get good results like the 3-1 vs liverpool the 3-0 vs stoke parker decided he was gonna hold and we did well then he decided he was going to go back to trying to play midfield general and therefore the players who don't have the same holding ability could cover for him which is why we let in goals
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