Bye bye West Ham justice finds you eventually
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Only want Wolves to stay up out of these five now. Don't care about the rest.
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Are you serious? Take away from the fact that he shouldn't have been appointed in the first place, the board conspired openly to appoint another manager (O'Neill) in the glare of the media spotlight. Karen Brady openly criticises her own manger in her newspaper column. The owners have first of all supported then disassociated themselves from him and then supported him. I feel sorry for the club's fans, but the owners deserve exactly what they got.
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'conspired openly'
Why? Because the media reported it? You must believe it?
I salute them for sticking with him and not sacking him, maybe they will now, as evidence of his only achievement in relegation
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I understand why it happened, but Sky's decision to screen two non games when the Wigan / Hammers game was bang on so important weeks ago, really exposes them for the "big 4" mentality that they have.
Summerskin
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Dear Everton, please at least try to bid for Obinna, Ba, Hitzlesperger or at a push, Carlton Cole.
Yours sincerely,
Summerskinz.
Yours sincerely,
Summerskinz.
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I don't believe everything I hear, but I think that the O'Neil situation was the biggest open secret about. If O'Neil (if we believe the reports are true) accepted O'Neil would now be the manager. Even if not true, you can't deny the fact that Brady publicly criticised her manager in her own column. If Kenwright had done that we'd be burning effigies of him in the Park End.
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Well. He'll have his p45 before tomorrow morning.
Perfect examples that take overs arent necessarily good things for a club, two seasons ago, everyone was moaning about at us and looking on envious at West Ham as they threw money around the place.
Will be intresting to see what happens at Brum and Balckburn as well.
Will be intresting to see what happens at Brum and Balckburn as well.
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the goalposts have moved since the Sheff Utd thing, what they will now want will be for West Ham to mirror whats happened to them since.
tsubaki
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I work with a Millwall fan, so to say today saw an large amount of gleeful celebration would be an understatement.
As for the club itself, a shame to see them go but the antics of their manager, their owners (both the current pornographers and their Icelandic predecessors) and the way they have gone after the Olympic Stadium (built with London taxpayers money, and even bought for West Ham with London* taxpayers money) causes the amount of shame to be reduced to the level of "meh".
* admittedly a loan from Newham Council
As for the club itself, a shame to see them go but the antics of their manager, their owners (both the current pornographers and their Icelandic predecessors) and the way they have gone after the Olympic Stadium (built with London taxpayers money, and even bought for West Ham with London* taxpayers money) causes the amount of shame to be reduced to the level of "meh".
* admittedly a loan from Newham Council
Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian
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Shortly before Christmas, 1997, Middlesbrough failed to fulfil a fixture at Ewood Park, crying off with 24 hours’ notice citing an outbreak of flu that, coupled with a spate of injuries, had deprived manager Bryan Robson of 16 first-team players. A month later, with Boro lying bottom of the table, the Premier League fined the club £50,000 and docked them three points.
Middlesbrough were relegated by a margin of two points on the final day of the season. A lot of Boro fans blamed the Premier League for this. At the time I was not among them. I blamed the team’s habit of getting beaten at home by Leicester, Southampton, Spurs and Sunderland. Now, in the wake of the West Ham debacle, I am starting to reconsider. I now wonder what would have happened if Boro had been treated in the same manner as the Hammers. We would have stayed up, Juninho would have stayed put and (let us dream) Roberto Di Matteo’s shot at Wembley would have bobbled off his shin and ballooned over the crossbar.
http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/466/29/
Ultimately, what bothers me most about the Premier League panel’s verdict on West Ham is not so much the decision itself, but the reasoning behind it. The League’s judgment is that *committing an “honest error” (as they themselves described Middlesbrough’s offence) is worthy of a heftier punishment than a deliberate attempt at deception (which the three-man investigative team found in the case of Paul Aldridge, though West Ham’s former chief executive disputes this). Even leaving this aside, there was enough to make even the most saintly Boro fan *simmer with resentment.
I'm glad they went down because of the whole Olympic Stadium thing. Because it became a fight between two football clubs no one seems interested in what appears to have really happened. It's totally scandalous. My boyfriend is a Spurs fan and like most of them he didn't want to move there, so even their fans aren't kicking up a fuss. In fact my boyfriend and his mates hope Levy drops the legal challenge. But personally I'm glad they are pursuing and I don't care if it pisses off Spurs fans. West Ham and the Olympic Park Legacy shouldn't be allowed to get away with it. Their bid was a joke and the OPL and West Ham board were almost certainly behind coaxing Spurs into bidding under false pretenses, as they had no chance of winning. But it appeased the public at large and West Ham fans, as it became a choice between a bid that left and athletics legacy and one that didn't (not at the Olympic Park anyway). And it also appeased the West Ham fans who largelly didn't want the move prior to Spurs interest, as it gone turned into a fight with their main rivals. By involving Spurs and letting them believe their bid was acceptable, it allowed the focus to move away from the fact the OPL had screwed up and the West Ham is financially unviable. It's a total con, I hope they lose the stadium and I'm glad they've gone down.
trigger the blue
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Whats the difference between my tool box and the english premier league?
My tool box will still have the hammers in it next year!
boom,boom
My tool box will still have the hammers in it next year!
boom,boom
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