True, due to Harry and Peter overspending

True, due to Harry and Peter overspending

 

Maybe Harry should be brought to book for "gross negligence" then.:dozey:

Well if you look at his history (West Ham, Bournemouth, Southampton, Portsmouth) and see that he's left a trail of destruction in his wake. Watch out Spurs you will be next to be Harried

Well if you look at his history (West Ham, Bournemouth, Southampton, Portsmouth) and see that he's left a trail of destruction in his wake. Watch out Spurs you will be next to be Harried

 

That would be hilarious!:lol:

He's like the Grim Reaper!:rolleyes:

Spurs and Manchester United in the early kick-off tomorrow. Should be very, very interesting.

I never thought I would write this.. but I really want Manchester United to win tomorrow !

I never thought I would write this.. but I really want Manchester United to win tomorrow !

 

Well they almost certainly will, of course, so I don't think you have anything to worry about.;)

West Ham should play British football, not this European tarting about! Hollywood actor Ray Winstone shoots from the hip

 

 

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Ray Winstone, the legendary hard man actor and West Ham box holder, has hit out at the club’s desperate season in a candid interview.

Winstone believes he has the answer to their troubles.

 

‘We should revert to playing British football instead of all this European tarting about. Crush, kill, destroy. And wear tight shorts,’ said the Hollywood movie star of Scum, Nil By Mouth, Sexy Beast, The Departed and Beowulf.

 

Down in the dumps: Gianfranco Zola

 

‘I think we should phone up Julian Dicks and get him back because, if we did go down, at least he’d kick the s*** out of everyone. Proper geezer.

 

'At least I’d be happy with that. Let’s have a bit of pride here. He could play football as well.’

 

Winstone has declared his support for doomed manager Gianfranco Zola, but also offered a withering assessment of the club, adding that some of the new signings have played like ‘jessies’ and claiming that previous regimes have ‘raped’ the Hammers.

 

West Ham, who have lost seven of their last nine games, are edging closer to safety, but only because of the failings of Hull and Burnley. Winstone told a podcast dedicated to West Ham: ‘I don’t want to be going to Barnsley next season.

 

For the full Ray Winstone interview, go to the

Stop! Hammer Time podcast

 

 

Who's the Daddy now? Winstone fears for his beloved Hammers but says a no nonsense approach is the answer to the malaise at Upton Park

 

'Nothing wrong with Barnsley but West Ham need to get their act together so we don’t have to go up there. We’ve got to stay up.

 

'But we can’t rely on Burnley and Hull being worse than us.

 

‘I watch Hull, Burnley and Portsmouth – they’re all teams underneath us and every time I watch them play, they have some penetration.

 

'They seem to have a go at the opponent’s goal. They play old-fashioned, British style: c’mon let’s have a go.

 

‘It seems to me that our defenders, our wing-backs, they’re frightened to go that step further and overtake the midfield. And if you’ve got Carlton Cole in the middle, then you want the ball in the box.

 

‘For me, this season mirrors 2002-03 when we had Joe Cole, Michael Carrick and the rest and everyone said, “We’re too good to go down”.

 

'We weren’t. But this time, I do believe we have the heart. I see players playing their heart out every week. But it’s just that little bit of confidence that’s missing.

 

 

 

Happy and not so happy Hammers: Green and Julian Dicks

 

 

'We’re frightened to go that extra bit and push on. There was a lot going on at the club when we were relegated in 2003. The club was being raped.

 

'It was very similar to what was going on at the beginning of the season, but now we’ve had Gianfranco Zola come in, the little Italian boy, and he knows his football.

 

'People go on about him but he’s at a club that’s been stripped.’

 

Winstone, speaking on ‘Stop! Hammer Time’, backed new co-owners David Gold and David Sullivan to make the club right again.

 

‘I like the fact we’ve got David Sullivan and David Gold in there now. I think we need a couple of hardened businessmen and the job they done at Birmingham was proper.

 

'They left them in good shape. It doesn’t matter what Birmingham fans say. What do they know? So if they’re going to come in and rip the club to pieces and start again that’s fine by me.

 

‘I wouldn’t get rid of Zola, either. I think he’s a young manager learning his trade and, to be quite honest with you, he’s got Steve Clarke who knows all about it and I think he’ll grow with the club.

 

‘I mean, who are you going to change him for? They’re talking about Slaven Bilic, who’s done a great job with Croatia, but they didn’t make the World Cup this year.

 

Right men for the job: Sullivan and Gold (right)

 

'He has no Premier League experience as a manager so we would be back to square one. Steve McClaren’s doing a great job at FC Twente and we nearly bought him years ago at West Ham, but I’d stick with Zola, I really would.

 

‘He’s not doing a bad job, but we’re in trouble. He’s had a team that’s been decimated over the year. He’s lost James Collins at the back, Bobby Zamora’s gone, Craig Bellamy.

 

‘He’s got a makeshift team and the new players need time to settle in. I don’t know why, but they do. They’re a bunch of jessies, really. You turn up, you get paid a lot of money to score goals.

 

'Everyone wants great football, not grinding out three points. But we live in the real world.’

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Why do Hammers fans think they support a BIG club?

 

Winstone's a douche.

How can some of you support a team that doesn't have any chance to win anything other than the Second Division?

 

Thank God I support a team that wins at least one honour per year, I don't know if I could stand anything worse than that.

Boo West Ham looks like they are staying up. Although their debts are only a mere 90 million, they could do a Pompey if Karen gets up-to her old tricks again

How can some of you support a team that doesn't have any chance to win anything other than the Second Division?

 

Thank God I support a team that wins at least one honour per year, I don't know if I could stand anything worse than that.

 

Yeah clubs who don't win a trophy every single year shouldn't have fans, that makes sense.

Yeah clubs who don't win a trophy every single year shouldn't have fans, that makes sense.

 

I think you were being sarcastic (hard to tell it in a text, you should try something like [/sarcasm] or [!]), so I'm going to reply as if so, sorry if I'm wrogn.

 

I'm not saying they don't deserve fans, I'm just wondering how the fans manage to support a club that doesn't win at least a trophy every three years.

 

The club I support (Internacional) has won at least one trophy every year, since 2002. And I just love it!

And if they didn't? Would you stop supporting them?

 

Of course not, it's not an option, I don't understand the way you think. You pick a team and stick with it. I'd much rather support Newcastle (Who win nothing of merit) then Man United.

And if they didn't? Would you stop supporting them?

 

I never said that. But that's not the point.

 

I'm just saying I think it's really hard to support a team that doesn't win a single trophy in years.

 

Gotcha?

But how would you know?

 

Supporting smaller teams means you celebrate things that bigger clubs wouldn't, like the elation of beating one of the top clubs, even though it rarely ever happens, its a huge thing. In a way I wouldn't like to support a club that wins something every year, because the only way is down, it's not like they can win everything all the time. Winning the league for Inter is becoming expected, not a joyous celebration, and if they don't win it, it's just a disappointment.

 

It's not 'really hard' at all, it's just different, more up's and down's, and in a lot of ways, more interesting.

But how would you know?

 

Supporting smaller teams means you celebrate things that bigger clubs wouldn't, like the elation of beating one of the top clubs, even though it rarely ever happens, its a huge thing. In a way I wouldn't like to support a club that wins something every year, because the only way is down, it's not like they can win everything all the time. Winning the league for Inter is becoming expected, not a joyous celebration, and if they don't win it, it's just a disappointment.

 

It's not 'really hard' at all, it's just different, more up's and down's, and in a lot of ways, more interesting.

 

That's why there's the expression "I THINK".

I think you were being sarcastic (hard to tell it in a text, you should try something like [/sarcasm] or [!]), so I'm going to reply as if so, sorry if I'm wrogn.

 

I'm not saying they don't deserve fans, I'm just wondering how the fans manage to support a club that doesn't win at least a trophy every three years.

 

The club I support (Internacional) has won at least one trophy every year, since 2002. And I just love it!

Try supporting a club that you can't even see play unless you are willing to travel 8,000 miles. It aint easy I tells ya. :P

But how would you know?

 

Supporting smaller teams means you celebrate things that bigger clubs wouldn't, like the elation of beating one of the top clubs, even though it rarely ever happens, its a huge thing. In a way I wouldn't like to support a club that wins something every year, because the only way is down, it's not like they can win everything all the time. Winning the league for Inter is becoming expected, not a joyous celebration, and if they don't win it, it's just a disappointment.

 

It's not 'really hard' at all, it's just different, more up's and down's, and in a lot of ways, more interesting.

 

True. Winning trophies may be what it's all about for the teams themselves, but not for the loyal fans.

Why do Hammers fans think they support a BIG club?

 

 

I've never understood that either. What have they ever done to warrant that?:dozey:

Poor Burnley getting the little R :(

 

Hull are pretty much down, unless they win their last 2 games and West Ham lose, and manage to close a GD of 23, this is the first season in a while where there won't be a last match battle for the drop

 

Chelsea getting some extra goals to boast their GD, it's pretty tight up the top

I'd rather see Chelsea win 100 times more than that scum Man Utd being victorious.

Just boils down to Chelsea getting a result against Liverpool if they do its theirs.

 

 

 

Painful tackle, would never want to be in that kind of a situation.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyWrmbAe75g]YouTube- Jose Francisco Torres[/ame]

Painful tackle, would never want to be in that kind of a situation.

 

Wow well why not? Looks a right fucking laugh.

No matter who you support in football, no matter how many bad times there are for a single good time, there's always someone worse off than you...

 

This from a Grimsby website: http://www.thefishy.co.uk/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?m-1271541289/

 

World, fúck off

 

Now I’m as optimistic as anyone when it comes to this twát of a football club, but after this afternoon’s latest capitulation it’s time to wake up and smell the coffee – we’re fúcked. Down. Goners. Non-league. To be honest I didn’t know how it would affect me, it’s not like it hasn’t been coming, but tonight I just feel absolutely deflated. Absolutely fúcking devastated.

 

I can’t get away from these emotions, I just want the whole world to just fúck off and leave me alone. To help me come to terms with this whole mess, I’ve decided to compile a list of everyone and everything I want to fúck off most of all.

 

For starters, work can fúck off. If they think I’m going to be there on Monday morning they’ve got another thing coming. No way am I going in to spend time dealing with cúnts that I can barely stand being with when I’m in a good mood, let alone this crushing feeling of anger, frustration and outright metaphorical-kicked-in-the-bóllocks-ness.

 

Plastic Premier League fans can fúck off. I just spoke to my Manchester United supporting neighbour (who incidentally, has been to Old Trafford before – twice) about Town’s predicament. You know what he said? “I know how you feel; it’s like when we failed to win a trophy in ‘95”. NO IT FÚCKING WELL IS NOT!

 

He no longer has a face.

 

The girlfriend can definitely fúck off. Her best attempt at consolation – “I don’t know why you’re bothered; you knew they were shít anyway”. Yes love, but they’re MY shít team. They’ve been MINE for pretty much as long as I’ve been able to wipe my own árse, and they’ll be MINE for as long as I’m alive (or at least, until I’m no longer able to wipe my own árse). Truth is, watching my team win does things for me that no woman can. If push comes to shove and I’m horny, I can always have a wánk.

 

Barrow can fúck off. I’ve been all over the country and beyond to watch my team, but frankly I just don’t have the stomach to visit any town which makes Scúnthorpe look like fúcking St. Tropez.

 

Dad, you can fúck off. This is your fault. Your idea. You introduced me to this shower of shít. “Come with me to Blundell Park”, you said, “Come and support the boys”. What could I do? I was fúcking four, what choice did I have? Why not get me hooked on Heroin whilst you were at it? I could have gone with mum shopping for bras and knickers at British Home Stores, but no, you knew best.

 

Granted, I’d have probably grown up a homosexual but surely even being simultaneously búggered two guys named Seth and Quentin couldn’t hurt like this.

 

Seeing as we’re on the subject of homosexuality, Gok Wan can fúck off. No particular reason, I just plain don’t like the annoying, goggle-eyed cúnt.

 

The F.A. can fúck off. Not for supplying us, week-in, week- out, with inept referee after inept referee, but for imposing sensible financial rules on all clubs in League Two. How many clubs in this division have been into administration this season? Not one. How many points deducted? Not one. How the fúck else are we supposed to avoid relegation – footballing merit? We didn’t have to last season, so why spoil the fun now?

 

The World Cup can fúck off – I don’t care anymore.

 

My local pizza shop can fúck off. I ordered a 12” Pepperoni over an hour ago, and where the fúck is it? Are they trying to fúcking fly it to me or something?

 

Sky Sports can fúck off. Nothing personal, but there’ll be little need for me next season with no Town to be found anywhere. Ooh, Bolton versus Wolves, LIVE. I think I’ll pass...

 

The radio can fúck off. On my way home from the match, whilst driving down the M180, I caught three completely separate stations playing ‘Down’ by Jay Sean at the exact same fúcking time. The song’s the best part of a year old, how the fúck does that happen by coincidence!?

 

My nan’s old lucky Buddha that used to sit in her front room can fúck off. When I was a kid I held it in my hands and wished for Town to be in the Premier League. I meant the proper one you fat cúnt, not the one occupied by Histon, Eastbourne and for fúck’s sake, Ebbsfleet, wherever that is.

 

Tonight can fúck off. I’ve had enough of trying to cope with my emotions; the time has come for oblivion. I haven’t kept any booze in the house since an occasion known only as ‘That Night’ by myself and the missus, but suffice to say that the toilet duck and luminous blue mouthwash are looking like stronger propositions by the minute.

 

Most of all though, the last 10 years can fúck off. In that time I’ve watched my team fall from the top of the Championship into non-league nothingness. We’ve gone from one great big fúck up to the next without even coming up for air, and today is just the big, fúck off cherry on top.

 

One thing I’m sure of though is that we WILL be back. When it comes down to it, a football club is basically just a set of supporters, and frankly what I’ve learned in the last few years is that this one has some of the best. We’ve had to put up with some shít, haven’t we boys, but in spite of all of that the future is still bright – it’s fúcking black and white.

 

Grimsby ‘til I die...