Saturday, 18 February 2012

Will QPR Reject Warnock Return to Haunt West Ham?

So the delicious prospect of Warnock leading Blackburn to safety at the expense of QPR will not now be realised. Sadly, the opportunity of all the fun of the unfair in the Bush has been missed, Warnock perhaps recognising his limitations by opting for chasing promotion from the Championship - where he has a good track record - rather than struggling to keep a team in the Premiership, something he is not terribly good at!

And of course there is something wonderfully fitting in the old bastard taking over Bastard United. And Warnock will love the fact that he is now in charge of a club which Shafting United fans loath with a vengeance. But then Shafting United fans loath so many clubs with a vengeance don't they? And so many fans hate Leeds United!

The worry is that Warnock could now return to haunt West Ham: how much would he love it if he could deny us promotion after we - in his view - cost him his job at Shafting United by playing Tevez illegally? It's stretching it a bit to imagine Leeds overtaking us in the table, but a defeat at Elland Road may prove crucial, and a meeting in the play offs would certainly be interesting. Relations between the fans of Leeds and West Ham are not great, to put it mildly, and our record against the Tykes is nothing short of awful - as the early season draw illustrated.

Leeds will definitely go on a charge under Warnock. Love him or hate him, you have to acknowledge that his character and tactics lend themselves to a dog fight in the Championship. As I write, Leeds are a goal behind at home to Doncaster but I'm still tempted to back them to make it into the top six, and I wouldn't bet against Warnock leading them through the play offs and into the Prem.

Hopefully, we will have secured automatic promotion regardless.
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13 comments:

  1. Anonymous18 February 2012 at 17:09

    U are so big headed about west ham, you prick

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  2. Anonymous18 February 2012 at 17:14

    Hopefully Neil Warnock will mange Leeds ro a playfoff place and beat West Ham in the playoffs and then lose in the final against Brighton. Southampton and Reading the top two in that order. West Ham losing out on promotion would be great. Oh well next season games against Millwall, Charlton and Crystal Palace to look forward to for shammers fans.

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  3. Anonymous18 February 2012 at 17:28

    Warnock had already made an impact with Leeds typically scoring a late winner over Doncaster this afternoon. Though I have an innate hatred of Leeds going back to the Revie days, they do score goals especially late ones that West Ham seemed incapable of doing through most of this season to date. We have an awful record at Elland Road so don't be surprised if Warnock has a plan for rough us up when we visit there next month. Play-offs for Leeds at least.

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  4. ash the cab18 February 2012 at 17:44

    And just when my interest in division 2 was dwindling....enter Mr warnock!! One can only hope Leeds will pip west ham to promotion....if only to shut u up!!! And you know what.....u wouldn't bet against it either.... Sam or Neil? I know which id rather have on my side!!!

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  5. Anonymous18 February 2012 at 20:37

    Oooh, where has that cocky swagger gone???

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  6. Lord Canning18 February 2012 at 21:48

    With Saints roaring back to the top, Cardiff suffering from a bout of Wembley-itis, its Reading who have stolen into 3rd place. That 3-0 drubbing they gave us earlier in the season wasn't so flukey after all. Brum were otherwise engaged today and have managed to hamstring themselves to a cup replay. Ahh but we have 2 games in hand, I hear you say....and the first one up is Blackpool away. Despite today's Cup reverse at Everton they will be well up for the game against us. Whatever Warnock does or doesn't do at Leeds is the least problem we face. We suddenly have about 5 teams who could pip us for automatic promotion. I have been saying that top 6 is for us with no guarantee for a victory at Wembley. This squad in the premiership will send us straight back down.

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  7. Anonymous18 February 2012 at 23:16

    hopefully now you will spend more time writing about leeds instead of QPR.

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  8. Anonymous19 February 2012 at 07:33

    The Tykes are Barnsely by the way, not Leeds....

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  9. Hammersfan19 February 2012 at 10:18

    Officially. But Tykes covers all of Yorkshire. Why? Tykes used to mean dog, particularly small terriers. I know Giles was Irish and Bremner was Scottish, but they were terriers on the pitch!

    Anyway, I accept your point but the Whites, the Peacocks and United are pretty crap nicknames.

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  10. Anonymous19 February 2012 at 12:43

    are you a single , ginger, bespectacled man with nothing better to do with your time than write shite

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  11. W1219 February 2012 at 14:16

    Maybe Warnock will show Big Sam how to play bright, attractive, championship winning football. Its a shame Leeds can't use the Olympic Stadium as they are a bigger club than West Ham with a more famous past.

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  12. Anonymous19 February 2012 at 21:09

    Hey Jay.
    Get this on your blog.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LsWYA87_wo

    Er, because Glenn Matlock is an R's fan and we talked about that a couple of months ago at a gig in Highbury, and I'm playing the bass on this...

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  13. Paul Payne20 February 2012 at 10:37

    You're so incest it's actually unbelievable...

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