On the totality of the evidence, we have no doubt that West Ham would have secured at least three fewer points over the 2006/07 season if Carlos Tevez had not been playing for the club.

Indeed, we think it more likely than not on the evidence that we heard, that even over the final two games of the season, West Ham would have achieved at least three points less overall without Mr Tevez. He played outstandingly well in the two wins that West Ham secured in those last two games

The words that I unfortunately expected based on our lack of activity in the transfer window, although I do not think they should be accepted.

This statement is quite literally a group of ‘what ifs’, so on that basis here is my personal ‘What If’ journey…

What if Tevez  had not been playing? Would we have still kept a clean sheet at Old Trafford on the last day of the season?

Yes.

Would Sheff Utd still have lost their last game?

Yes.

Would we have still beat Arsenal at the Emirates?

Of course, Bobby Z scored a blinder, and Green played out of his skin.

Would we have still lost to Sheff Utd and Charlton and fellow strugglers?

Yes, because as a team we played awful for both of those games.

What if we never signed Tevez in the first place?

Well for sure the team and structure of the club would not have been so disrupted. There would have been more unity and maybe Pardew would never have lost his job. The same Alan Pardew who led us to the Premiership, a top half finish and the FA Cup, all without Tevez…and playing some of the best football I have seen West Ham play.

We may not have been in a relegation scrap in the first place. A relegation scrap saved for boring, ugly and scruffy footballing teams…just like Sheffield United and Wigan. Teams who rely on everything other than winning their own games to survive.

I usually try to be impartial when I write on here, but I’m afraid this is the last straw.

Maybe we could have watched the Blunts fight a relegation battle that THEY got THEMSELVES into from a distance knowing that we were safe because we were a settled team playing good football.

What if we didn’t have Terrence Brown as a chairman?

He would not have snatched any incentives waved infront of his money grabbing boney fingers. That means that Kia would never have been on the scene and neither Tevez. It may mean that Magnusson and Co would have taken over our club with a peace of mind regarding the players who were at the club.

They could have comfortably funded Pardew and his well grounded team knowing that their investment was more secure.

But, Brown was chairman, so he did get involved with Kia. We did sign Tevez, it did cost Pardew his job. It did mean we appointed Curbishley. Who spent awfully the money he was given leading the board to have to sell players off and putting us in severe financial turmoil. Right back where we started.

At this point, from what I can work out, we havn’t actually gained anything from Tevez playing at the club.

There is plenty more I can go on with. So I will

Once again, what if Terrence Brown was never chairman?

We would have never signed Glenn ‘The Rodent’ Roeder. We would never have got relegated.

We would never have sold Joe Cole, Frank Lampard, Rio Ferdinand, Jermain Defore, Michael Carrick, Glenn Johnson. We would by all accounts therefore be one of the best teams in the country, playing high quality football.

Sheff United fans, ever had class like that come from your club? No.

We would be playing Champions League football, and we would once again be a feared and respected club across the continent.

But here, for everyone, is just a very quick reality check.

You cannot base a decision that is going to cost a club £30m on possiblity alone. Because as far as I am concered if certain things had never happened in our past, our club would be far better off than it is now and I have just proved that. So Sheffield United, how about you concentrated on playing football last instead of concerning yourselves with other clubs. You could certainly do with maybe changing a few things yourself.

I mean your style of play is boring and it deserves to be in the Championship for one.

To the panel who have made this decision, I would like you to consider maybe charging Terrence Brown personally, rather than us. The evidence I have just provided does in fact suggest that the whole reason West Ham are where we are today is because of him.

I’m not sure I like where we are at the minute to be honest and I would quite like to change that. So yeh, I think we should sue him. Yeh. That is actually a good idea.

Perhaps we could sue him for the £56m we lost on Joe Cole and company because from what I can work out, they should technically still be playing for us.

Yeah, and infact while we are at it, I think Leeds deserve something. That’s right. You see because if Terrence Brown wasn’t in charge of West Ham then we would never had sold Rio to them. And after all they couldn’t really afford him in the first place.

So, something else I would like to add, is that maybe Leeds deserve to be promoted back to the Premier League. All the players who are rightfully West Ham’s should be returned and I feel that we should calculate ‘what could have been’ and move us up the league accordingly.

I hope you have got to the end ofthis article thinking, “That’s pretty stupid because none of those things did happen, so you can’t say ‘what if they did’”.

Neither can anybody every prove that having Tevez in our team gained us any points. If anything it caused us more trouble than good, how about that perspective?

You may as well just say that if Tevez never played for us then we wouldn’t have just lost 6-0 to Arsenal.

It is a stupid and dangerous court ruling, that may set an unprecedented wave of clubs that are not good enough for the Premier League, saying they don’t deserve to be relegated.

Outrageous

Sam

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