Saturday, 3 December 2011

Zola and Grant show Allardyce the way.

Today's result should open a few eyes. Fans have been falling over themselves to hail Allardyce as some sort of genius because he has guided West Ham to second place in the table, but some of us - a very small hub or cabal - have kept pointing out that this is a crap division and that any "improvement" is ephemeral and illusory.

"Cobblers!" the Allardyce Acolytes yell. Well I give you three scores:

Zola 5 Burnley 3

Avram 5 Burnley 1

Allardyce 1 Burnley 2

There is your Allardyce revolution in a nutshell!
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14 comments:

  1. Sav4 December 2011 at 00:11

    It does look very bad when you think that both Grant and Zola scored 5 each against Burnley at home. And to eradicate the achievement of last week completely, Middlebrough score in the last minute to pick three points away at in form Bristol City. Just when we thought it was safe to start relaxing again on the field...

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  2. Anonymous4 December 2011 at 09:15

    Yesterday showed me a side who had started to believe their own press and the accolades of their manager. Complacency cost us that game; particularly at the back. Faye was excellent; twice making last ditch tackles just inside our half to cover for our powderpuff midfield. Tomkins was too casual throughout and our full backs give us nothing going forward. The only creativity or width comes from Taylor. Once he went off it was back to hoofball. A wake-up call for all of them I hope

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  3. Anonymous4 December 2011 at 11:29

    You can't really be saying that Allardyce is as crap as Zola and Grant were can you?

    Allardyce is a proven premiership manager as apposed to Zola and Grant.

    Curbishley had the same complaints as you make here, totally unfairly.

    Just accept and enjoy the limited success we get and accept occasional losses. Southampton slipped up to Doncaster. Does that mean their manager is crap and all his good work should be ignored?

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  4. Anonymous4 December 2011 at 12:41

    11:29 hear hear sir - HF is a bore... on trick pony - same old same old blah blah.

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  5. Anonymous4 December 2011 at 13:49

    HF surely you should be pleased with how we played yesterday, especially in the first half, we totally dominated them apart from scoring. The second half became a bit more desperate and we went more direct, but losing a soft goal after holding the lead for 5 minutes killed us. This reminded me of the West Ham way everyone wants to go back to, getting mugged off and no points, you must be over the moon? Long may it continue and hopefully we can stay in the champ for a few seasons to really and truly rebuild. Then we can come back to the prem in 2 or 3 years with a load of kids that play like Barcelona with DiCanio as our manager.

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  6. T.I.S4 December 2011 at 14:50

    Man United 1 Man City 6. Bit silly your argument isn't it?

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  7. Hammersfan4 December 2011 at 15:18

    Really? So you don't think that result is an indication that Man City are on the up and Man Utd in decline in relation to their noisy neighbour? I do!

    Witty 1349!

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  8. fred1494 December 2011 at 15:21

    Sack BFS going against everything west ham stands for

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  9. Anonymous4 December 2011 at 17:23

    Yes, except that Zola and Grant had different players. Allardyce has done well with what he has. I don't think Zola - buying players off his father-in-law [Savio et al] or Grant would have done better. They played ok yesterday, not half as bad as you suggest.

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  10. Anonymous4 December 2011 at 17:25

    Ah, the 'West ham way' brigade are out again.

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  11. T.I.S5 December 2011 at 14:17

    Foolish to ever write Man united off!

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  12. Hammersfan5 December 2011 at 14:31

    I haven't written them off but the gap has certainly closed, hasn't it? And it may have reversed! I bet United fans shuddered more than City fans when the draw was made for the FA Cup third round. Who would you make favourites for that game? The bookies would have had United favourites last year, now it will be the other way round. That doesn't mean United wont win, of course, but it shows the extent to which fortunes (I use the word in both senses) have changed!

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  13. T.I.S.5 December 2011 at 21:58

    You did write them off! you can't have it both ways HF...... and the bookies make ManUre favourites.

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  14. Hammersfan5 December 2011 at 22:00

    Are they? I'm having money on Man City then!

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