If aliens had landed 3 weeks ago and wanted to know what it is like to be a west ham fan then the last 3 weeks should have been enough for them to get the gist of it. Everton turning up in an old Tottenham kit to turn us over after we were twice in front, we then travel up to Hull actually dominate a game with possession and shots etc etc only to lose to possibly the softest penalty decision ever leaving us staring at the bottom of league with the easiest 6 game combination all season done and dusted, it has been bad enough going to Tottenham recently without our obvious failings upfront making us all fear the result, but then just as even the most ardent Big Sam fans are starting to question the man’s tactics, he comes up with a system that absolutely baffles the spurs defence, and perhaps shows to those of us haters that he does have a plan b. The Spurs result has brought hope where there was possibly despair that perhaps it wont be as bad as the doom merchants like myself were prophesising. Actually im quite looking forward to todays game because if the team can play the same way as we did against Spurs then I believe Man city can be defeated ,on their travels this season they have already been beaten twice, by Villa & Cardiff, and only managed a goalless draw against Stoke so they are struggling for results away from their own patch, of course if that alien is here it will probably end up with City being victorious as we all know we never have 2 wins back to back in the prem, another harsh lesson for our green friend to learn. The funny thing about it is that our current form is probably what makes many of us keep coming back, it’s the unpredictability of West Ham which goes back decades that for me is an added attraction. Look around the top grounds, look at the atmosphere around those grounds and excluding perhaps todays visitors the crowds seem a bit flat, perhaps due to the fact that more often or not if you turn up at The Bridge, Old Trafford, The Emirates etc you are more likely to see a home victory, you cant say that about West Ham, while we may predict a hammers victory that is probably more bravado to our non-supporting friends rather than a sound judgement based on fact. If you felt inclined you could easily make an argument for all 3 results today and none of them would make you sound deluded. I think the bookies call it coupon busters as not many football fans let alone Hammers fans would have stuck the spurs game down as an away win.
The eagle eyed of you may have noticed that today’s game was advertised at the Everton game on the big screen, nothing unusual in that you may say, but the wording of the advert was unusual to say the least,
I’m no lover in marketing in football, for the simple reason that I don’t know 1 football fan that attends west ham on the back of an advert so if you consider how much we spend on marketing as a club, adverts in papers, on the radio etc etc and throw in the wages of the staff I often wonder if the marketing dept actually is needed but considering our vice chairman is the queen of marketing and brand expansion it is probably a necessary evil as Stratford looms but surely they need to think about how fans would react to some of their output. Come see City’s superstars at the Boleyn the advert cried, yet what the makers of the advert failed to realise is that us hammers fans would instantly pick up on the fact that they fail to mention OUR super stars. Ok I know we have no real superstars but our players are stars to us and they should be afforded that courtesy by our marketing dept, 1 simple way would have been “Can the hammers heroes beat city’s superstars at the Boleyn” but no they went down the road that appealed to NON WEST HAM FANS, THE NUETRAL. THE TOURISTS, those that are needed to fill the extra seats at Stratford or those mug enough to pay the extortionate price being charged today. We are led to believe that the club employees are not only workers but fans of the club, well the person who designed the advert showed a distinct lack of knowledge or feeling about the club, hopefully he has learned their lesson and wont make that mistake again.
In old days having such a gap between home games we would of struggled get our fix of all thing hammers but now we live in the digital media era and the rise of social media we can converse all day every day if we want to, I myself love to sit in twitter land and tweet away all my negative feelings about the club, its good as a release mechanism. Sometimes though I can overstep the mark, I must apologise to Hugh Southon the leading west ham journalist and writer, he of claret and Hugh blog fame. It appears I did over step the mark in commenting on one of his blogs. He wrote about how Big Sam was safe from the sack (I didn’t know he was facing it either but anyway), in his blog he wrote that when our esteemed owners bought Brum they inherited Barry Fry as a manager sacked him then appointed their own man who of course they backed even though that said manager managed to relegate brum in his 1st season.i now realise that instead of praising Hugh for his great piece I quite disgracefully pointed out that he was wrong, Terry Cooper was the Brum manager when G&S bought the club not Fry. In fact they appointed Fry after sacking Cooper and it was Fry that relegated Brum. Hugh (naturally) took great offence at his journalistic skills beeing besmirched by a mere amateur as I am, for which he threw his dummy out of his pram after calling me a Troll? Blocked me from viewing anything he ever tweets again.i was naturally beside myself with anguish and shame I would to use my time here ,as I cant on twitter as he has blocked me. To say “Grow up you F#####g T##T”. I just hope hugh if you are reading you can accept my apology in the manner it was meant and I cant wait for you to un-block me so I can read more of the utter garbage you call Journalism i mean who would of thought it, a journalist that don’t like free speech. Feel free to contact me @mywhufc , even to point out my mistakes.
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