Avram puts his faith in the team

With the official news of Avram Grants non-attendance for the Stoke game at the Britannia Stadium on Saturday for Religious reasons, many West Ham fans seem to feel bemused to put it politely. In this day and age in modern Britain many of us are not religious and do not follow any faith, so some may find it hard to understand the reasons as to why he wont be attending. So with that in mind I would like to try and explain what Yom Kippur is.

Yom Kippur is known also as the Day of Atonement, this is the most sacred of Holy days in the Jewish calendar, and it would be like Christmas day and Easter Sunday combined. This is the day that God forgave the Jews for their sins in creating a golden calf, which they worshipped when they thought Moses would not be coming down from Mount Sinai here he had been for Three months. God had forbidden all worship of other Gods or Idols. Moses spent three months pleading with God for forgiveness and on the 10^th day of Tishrei, Which is the Hebrew month that falls in September and October, he granted them forgiveness and from that day on it was known as the Day of Atonement. Now to celebrate this from just before sunset on Friday until sunset on Saturday Jews will fast, no food or drink, they are not allowed to work on this day and should spend most of the day in Prayer either at home or in the synagogue.

 This is the first time in Avram Grants management career in England that this day falls on a match day and I expect that this would have been known to the club as soon as the fixture list came out it’s a pity that they didn’t try and move the game to the Sunday and then none of this fuss would be occurring but I doubt if anyone (at the club) expected the poor start to the season which has magnified this problem out of all proportions. A lot of fans have been complaining about the start we have made and calling in to judgement Grants ability to manage and are now using this as another stick with which to beat him with, If you took the last four games we have played but spaced them out through the season but with the same results, not too many would be surprised that we had lost them, the problem stems from the fact that they are at the start of the season and all together. A small minority of fans are using his faith and religion to attack Grant; this is unacceptable but all us (so called) normal fans can do is show Avram that they are a small minority and give our support to him, not just him but to the players as well.

I am putting my Faith in Avram Grant, his assistant and coaches to get the players to do what they do best and then the results will start to go our way