We are rapidly nearing Christmas a key part of the English footballing calendar. The Football leagues by that time are generally stating to take shape. The winners and losers starting to formulate and show them selves.
Now there is still a long way to go but life is pretty good down here in the Championship for West Ham fans at the moment. With 10 wins and only 3 losses all season we are sitting well in 2nd place at the moment. Behind a very strong Southampton team. If someone offered to end the season now i'd bite their hand off.
Big Sam has now had plenty of opportunity to show his cards and he is doing exactly what the owners paid him to do. Get us back up at the first attempt. Unfortunately being in the US i have not seen as many games as i would have liked to this year and so my judgement must be taken with a pinch of salt.
I do have some concerns with some of Sam's old game tactics creeping in. We seems to be falling back into the lumping the ball up to the big forwards again. No long ball here please, the "west ham way" is passing the ball.
Moving up a league the Premiership is turning out to be quite a blinder this season. Chelsea and The Arsenal struggling and Manchester City playing like the money they spent should allow them too. I personally hope the sky blues win all before them this year. I hold them no grudge for the money they spent and their (like West Ham's) long suffering yet very loyal fans deserve some glory. Some talk of buying the title, but thats all bollocks. every premiership title has been bought. The likes of Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal etc have purchased their entire squads with home grown local talent non existent from their next to non-existent youth academies. So maybe they did not buy the title as quickly as Man City, but buy it they did.
At the bottom of the Premiership i could not be more delighted with the situation. With 3 north west clubs struggling. With Bolton, Blackburn and Wigan all sitting in the drop zone, i would be delighted to see the back of all 3 of them. All soulless clubs with very little support and empty stadiums. Make way for some well supported clubs with a bit of history behind them. There are to many "big" clubs languishing in the lower leagues at them moment and i would love to see the like of Nottingham Forrest, Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds back where they belong!
It's not bad down 'ere in the championship
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Posted by Simon at 6:39 PM
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