Get a load of these frightening stats!
We haven't won any of the last EIGHT encounters.
We have only won ONE of the last THIRTEEN.
We have only won THREE in the last TWENTY SEVEN games between the clubs!
The glory days of the Revie era are a dim and distant memory but for West Ham, Leeds remain the ultimate Bastard United, especially now that old Bastard Warnock is in charge. I would love it, really love it, if we were to beat the team I loathe above all others but history tells us that the clever money will be on Leeds to drive another nail into our automatic promotion coffin.
I predicted a draw at Upton Park when we met, and I fear Warnock will be all smiles tomorrow. The stadium will be a cauldron, Leeds have to win it to keep their play off hopes alive, and our inadequacies have been cruelly exposed. Vaz Te is out. Our forwards can't hit a barn door from one pace. And Allardyce, nine months into the job, still doesn't know his best team and how to blend together the key components. In truth, he has presided over a bloody shambles!
Warnock v Allardyce - it aint going to be pretty is it? We hate Warnock and Warnock hates us. We hate Leeds, but sadly Leeds love us because we represent easy meat for them.
If we win, we will go up as Champions. But does anybody really expect us to win this one? If so, the bookies will lay down a red carpet for you when you arrive to place your bet!
What an idiot...Bastard United? mmm. I think you need to get a grip son and worry about some poxy London rivalry a little bit more, seeing as you're at least the 4th biggest club in London if you're lucky...indeed, we have always done you over and probably always will. You HAVE to go up with mounting debts and like Newcastle did, kept a massive wage bill so it's s*** or bust. I really don't know who West Ham think they are...a big club? Yes. One of the 8-10 bigest in England? Jog on.
ReplyDeleteI hope we do you over tomorrow but I think it'll be a draw which will do no one any favours but leave the hatred of Leeds alone, you aren't unique. EVERYONE hates us and that's why it's sweet when we d*** you nearly everytime. MOT.
You said it, everybody hates you. And for a reason!
ReplyDeleteWhere do I claim that West Ham are a big club? Mind you, it's a bit rich for anybody associated with Leeds to lecture anybody else about poor management of finances in football!
YOU WILL SEE HOW MUCH LEEDS HATE YOU ASWELL KIDDA IF YOU HAVE THE BALLS TO TURN UP...BE WARNED
ReplyDeleteFantasy Football:
ReplyDeleteYou are languishing in 15th place, proving you know almost nothing about football and nothing about statistics, which leads me to believe are and a poor pundit and I suspect and even worse "engineer" unless of course you are of the domestic variety.
and as for Headmaster at 37th! where's the pride? what kind of teacher can't watch form, figures, averages and make a few adjustments to keep themselves in the top half of the table?
Well done Sir Stani - this week you have the highest score of 10 whereas HF has the lowest with a rather pathetic minus 4!
Stani I bow to your genius!
1016, to be honest, I haven't looked in since the opening weeks. Forgot about it. When did I last make a transfer? But well done Stani.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Leeds moron - your reply says it all! Amazed you could get your knuckles and forehead off the floor long enough to type!
10:21 and why not? you obviously don't have a winners mentality - why take part in competition and then flake out and do nothing? it's your bloody league - why set it up and then not take part?
ReplyDeleteWarnock was manager of Sheffield United on the final day of the 2006/7 season when then West Ham striker Carlos Tevez scored their shock winner at Old Trafford, while the Blades lost at home to Wigan.
ReplyDeleteAlthough it later transpired that Tevez was ineligible for West Ham, it was Warnock's side who were relegated after the FA opted not to dock points from the Hammers and fine them instead.
But Warnock, who holds no grudges, said: "I love West Ham as a club, I think it's a great club. I've got some good friends who are season-ticket holders who'll be coming up for the game and coming in my office after. I've been in London these last few years and nothing has happened to change my mind on that."
Warnock added: "When you've got a wage bill like they have and the money that they've spent, it does put more pressure on you to keep getting results every week and Reading haven't helped have they? They've really put pressure on, but I still expect West Ham [to get promoted].
"I get on well with the two Davids, Gold and Sullivan, I think they're good people, so I've nothing but praise for them and I'm looking forward to pitting my wits against a team of West Ham's stature - it whets the appetite, especially with the crowd we're likely to get."
I like your reply HAMMERSFAN!
ReplyDeleteI am a Leeds supporter and have been for over 50 years.
During that time I have always have enjoyed West Ham's style of play.
Not all Leeds fans dislike WH - some in fact have been jealous over some of the years!
I do, of course, hope we stuff you tomorrow - and make it to the play-offs (but NOT at the expense of West Ham - much better if it was at the expense of Southampton or Reading as fAR AS I'm concerned!)
We do, however, (nearly) all hate Bates!!
I just cannot see us winning this unless the team miraculously comes together somehow. I've had a look at the rest of our fixtures and we could seriously be in deep doodoo. For the first time, missing out on promotion has become a distinct possibility.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks guys, although I've run out of subs so I'll be on a wing and a prayer all the way to the finish line. Hopefully I'll catch the Millwall fan, who despite his experience at the game over us, I do rate for having the balls to come and join in our league. The PL version is much better and is a truer test. Hopefully we'll be up next year and playing that one.
All West Ham fans quake The mighty Leeds massive is out to get ya Hide your wife and kids when you make the journey lads That's who the Leeds boys target these days
ReplyDeleteI hope that the Leeds team performance matches the fans literacy cos then we should win by a cricket score
Kevin in Manchester writes..
ReplyDeletePresided over a shambles? In Third with a game in hand? .. maybe if we were rubbing shoulders with B'ham, Leeds or Leicester I would agree but we are still in a three horse race and everything to play for.
I agree it is disappointing how we have stuttered and we don't have a first eleven or clear tactics or the balls to go for it when we should but I am with Occam and his Razor; when considering competing theroies the most straight forward and least complicated is usually the most accurate: as you have pointed out in the litany of our frailties, having strikers who can't hit a barn door with a whatever - is the root problem.
When your top scorer ( ok joint top) is a midfielder and none of your strikers are in double figures it is a miracle we are compteing at all. You could argue it's Sam's fault for picking the wrong guys but not many were complaining when he assembled the strike force in august and added to it in January.
Cheers Gerry. Sadly I do have a deep seated loathing of Leeds going back to Bremner, Giles, Hunter (never forgiven for replacing Moore and cocking up at Wembley against Poland), Charlton (and his "Little Black Book), Yorath, Madeley (opted not to go to Mexico World Cup because he had booked a holiday!), Clarke (goal hanger!) and co. Oh and Trevor Cherry from slightly later (because of his hair!!!). But I wanted you to get back out of Division One because it wasn't right that a great club like yours should be down there! Trouble is, you now have Warnock at the helm which makes you all the more loathsome!!!! Sorry!
ReplyDeleteLook at the supply Kevin! The forwards are feeding off scraps. As a result, they are snatching at chances and as every game goes by, so the confidence is eroded.
ReplyDeleteAnony-mouse says,
ReplyDeleteKevin in Manchester got it pretty much spot on.
How can you entitle a thread saying that we'll both end up in the play-offs whilst going onto say that if we win tomorrow we'll go up as champions? It makes no sense and just indicates the extremities of the significance you place on every single game. Not every game is make or break HF. It would be nice if you showed some perspective more often.
If we win tomorrow we'll be level at best with Saints (even if they lose at Millwall) with a game in hand. You constantly say we're crap and that Saints are the best team in the league so how does a win mean we'll go onto win the league.
For what it's worth, regardless of others results, a draw tomorrow would be terrific in the circumstances of a pumped up Leeds, the lack of our most creative midfielder (Vaz Te) and only lad who can genuinely play the holding MF role (Diop).
COYI!
But that's where you are wrong Anony-mouse. Unless promotion is decided by more than 3 points, every game is make or break. Psychologically, this weekend's games are HUGE as I will set out tomorrow morning!
ReplyDeleteNow there's a teaser!
Anony-mouse says,
ReplyDeleteThanks for informing me that unless there's more than three points in it then each game is important. I couldn't have worked that out for myself. I'm lucky to have you.
Presumably as you think we're utter crap you are expecting us to lose games between now and next month. Me too. But so will Reading and Saints. That's the point- tomorrow's game may prove to be all important but no-one, not even the all-seeing HF will know that until the season's end. By your logic you would big up every single game from August onwards as a 'must win'.
So this is yet anther blown up, panicky sensationalist article. And no i'm not remotely teased- do you really think that anyone needs to be told that tomorrow's game is psychologically important. It is. But it probably won't be as all important as you'll no doubt build it up to be (unless you're claiming to have a direct hot-line through to the Almighty).
10.05- I guarantee he won't be any where near your ground- he'll be at home tapping away his pre-prepared doom and gloom articles for when we lose. Or else a curmudgeonly no praise for Allardyce article if we get a decent result. Good luck for the rest of the season though- just not tomorrow or if we meet in the play-offs.
Oops, your insecurity revealed in the last sentence mate! Anyway, I'm off for some beers and a curry. Would be playing but pulling a Dyer!
ReplyDeleteAnony-mouse says,
ReplyDeleteWrong again HF. I'm not insecure or lacking in confidence, etc. I'm just not cocky and presumptuous.
Enjoy your curry young man.
10;24 Although it later transpired that Tevez was ineligible for West Ham, it was Warnock's side who were relegated after the FA opted not to dock points from the Hammers and fine them instead.
ReplyDeleteReally? You need to check your facts Tevez was eligible for the game. The fine was for incorrect paperwork The only thing dodgy was the result of the Wigan v Sheff Utd game (the winner was even scored by a Sheff Utd Player) The only result that would have kept both teams up had West Ham lost at Manure which we all expected
Young? How old are you Anony-Mouse?
ReplyDeleteGood point Deane!