Regular visitors to my blog will know that I try my upmost to be optimistic about each and every West Ham game, considering each one as it comes. The trouble with being an optimistic Hammer is that you do end up setting yourself up quite nicely for what can sometimes be a considerable fall.
Often face-first.
But, personally, I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I’m taking no different approach to this evening’s game against Citeh. I see there as being every chance that we can go to Eastlands and get a result, if not a win…but if the players and staff go there with any other opinion, then I could see us being in big trouble. But no need to dwell.
Ok, so City have spent the equivalent on what would keep a developing country from poverty over the last year or so. They’re matching, I assume, their big transfer fees with infalted wages. The thing is if you spoil a child, they only end up wanting more. The richest people in the world will never be satisfied with earning more money – they will grow to need more. And it’s been shown over and over again in football that placing arrogant, egotisitcal players in a squad together, pay them big money (some more than others), you only end up breeding greed and a desire for more.
No Citeh player will ever be happy or content. Their egos will continue to grow, their pockets continue to bulge and all the while, I feel, their undoing will come to pass. Adebayor for example…he wasn’t content with a big money transfer away from Arsenal. He wasn’t happy with just big wages. He had to go one step further to quench his desire to prove something to Arsenal and their fans…he simply had to act like a moron just to get one up on them. Do you think he’s happy with that now? Somehow, I doubt it.
The very fabric of what their plastic club now stands for is indulgence and gluttony. And unless they get over that, the rot will eat away and they will only ever be known as under achievers.
Grounds for optimism
Perhaps I’m being a little harsh on them? But as far as I’m concerned tongiht, what I’ve mentioned could be our grounds for optimism. That the Citeh players, may expect to win tonight. The fans certainly do. They may be taking the winning part as a ‘given’ just how many goals they’ll score will remain to be seen.
I’d hazard a guess that they figured exactly the same when they played Wolves and Portsmouth earlier in the year..yet only winning 1-0 on both occasions. May I be as bold to say that we will put up more than a fight than both of those sides?
Ok, they thumped Arsenal. But for that game, they had to ‘up their game’ and change their mentality.
If we go there this evening and humbly play the quality of football that we know Zola has instilled in our side. Work hard and play our game, then I’m confident that it won’t be the walkover that so many pundits and fans alike (from both sides) are predicting.
Who thought Wigan would beat Chelsea 3-1.
Who thought Burnely would turn over United 1-0?
We need to get behind our side tonight. The results so far this year have been disappointing, and our displays at times a shadow of what we were seeing last year, but I have faith. I trust in the project, and I trust in Zola.
Let’s stop knee jerking and calling for people’s heads. It’s exactly the behaviour you’d expect from clubs like City, Spurs and Chelsea. It’s pathetic, and West Ham aren’t like that; long may that continue.
Come on you IRONS!
Sam
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we need to up our fitness level, we seem to have started the season very sluggish.and reading rob greens article in the paper we need to get our heads out of our arses and start performing on the pitch. i’m sure zola will get it right, ijust hope its befor xmas
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i agree in a way sam, wigan and burnley beat chelsea and man utd because they were due a result due to their good form.
we didn;t really excel to our limits in the wigan game, but in the last 15 mins the football started to show, and against liverpool we played good football and was very unfortunate to grab a point. maybe we could snatch a vital away win and creap out of teh relegation situation we are now being considered for.
i have never seen a fitter west ham side in years, so fitness is not an excuse, we just need a winning mentality whether its only 1-0, its 3 point at the end of the day.
rob green is right, we can’t played on what we achived last year, teams change every year and results are not predictable anymore. man city lost their first game against the champions, but cam strong against fulham, they’ve had a bitter taste of defeat and in their minds they don’t want to lose again… thats what west ham lack at the moment, they are accepting losing and we need to snap out of that, show some fight and win some games. we’ve got muscle in the team, USE IT! lol
come on irons keep the faith,
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To be honest, i’ve been impressed with city’s performances this season – don’t forget that the pompey and wolves games were early on with a team who had just begun to gel. it takes time, and i have been impressed with the mentality of the team playing football and trying to score even if we are winning rather than battering down the hatches.
.-= mancity´s last blog ..Dunne deal =-.
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