[Edit] He did try an take Fellaini and Baines tbf. There's variables/context - Alex Ferguson's last season they pissed the league etc.
But generally, human nature, any walk of life - when a manager is leaving, people can/do take their foot of...
West Ham social seem to love a fake quote, so chances are it's not really him saying it but there's a lot of truth in it for me. As per end of that BBC article I linked when it had to explain why Liverpool were given variance;
'Offside or...
'appears', can't prove it - maybe that's why they have a *checks notes* 5cm tolerance in VAR offside technology
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c2d7x02p8z4o
"Offside or onside? Pick your frame." - and then draw a cartoon.
Not sure if this is a real quote or not, but its bang on for me;
Joe Cole on the Spurs vs Leeds United game
“Listen, I’m trying to understand how football fans are supposed to trust this anymore because what we saw in that Spurs vs Leeds game...
We could have kept any player we wanted, we chose not to, because we had the capability to spend. Unlike every window for the previous 4/5 years.
It was a big positive, the club hierachy said as much and represented a real opportunity.
A mess...
You only joined in November 2021 so how would you even know what it was like?
You weren't there man, you weren't there.
It was chaos.
Total chaos.
Of it's time.
Had to close the site for a while to turn every add on off to test it wasnt any of them which was causing the issue. It wasnt.
That's very interesting, thanks. Will try this now.
Gents, can we call a truce now? Jeez.
People are on my case moaning it's the same people, same points, over and over. Context applies, we could pull up threads were consensus was very clearly against Moyes with people preferring Duncan Ferguson...