New football thread

[eastcoast 4,596]

On 12/08/2023 at 22:20, eastcoast said:

Smart money was on Aston Villa today.  

Did I tempt fate or anger the Gods by posting this? Ah well, back to life, back to reality. 

[WILF 50,914]

1 hour ago, NEWKID said:

Half tongue in cheek about Moyes mate, you know that.. but... he gets a side well set up and compact, if you ain't gonna play possession football (which he doesn't), then being compact and quick on the break is the key... Antonio was brilliant yesterday he was a constant menace ... yeah and Bowens 2 touches and finish were brilliant... Good start as you say and you know what you'll always get with Moyes, I guess every side cant play the same way mate...

UTD needed that yesterday, the performance after the 2 goals was very good...need this new striker fit cause we ain't got one, get rid of Martial now... Bruno dragged them to a win yesterday, real captains performance...

Hate to say it, but Spurs are looking good as well...what a difference Maddison has made to that team..

Well, if we win 12 games or only loose 19 games this season then he will be doing better than last season ! Lol  

The yids have been good to watch so far mate, I like that style that Postacoglu plays. 
 

Conte tried the sitting and counter approach with spurs as I remember and it worked for about 3 games but then got sussed out.

Luton next and we should do them in based on our start.

9 or 10 men in your own box all the game……f**k sake like, dogshit ! 

[WILF 50,914]

Just reading a few West Ham pages and because we have done alright in 3 games some of the shit being written by fans is positively “Sunderland-esque” 

I seen one opinion piece this morning comparing what Moyes is doing to old Inter Milan and Real Madrid teams !

Have they been putting crack in the pie & mash down there or what ? 

[eastcoast 4,596]

What madness is this??? Just put sky sports transfer show on and reading J Bellingham has signed for Sunderland!!!  

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[WILF 50,914]

6 hours ago, gnasher16 said:

Dont be ridiculous mate.....as someone with a champions league medal in his drawer is constantly reminding me whenever i start ranting about Antonio " he doesnt,hasnt and would never expect to play in any role other than what he plays in......its either that or be a plasterer "

Mate, it’s an easy one, ask that No.10 if he’d want to play in this team given a choice ! 
 

[WILF 50,914]

7 hours ago, gnasher16 said:

We can all have this pretend snobbery and look down our nose at everyday fans Wilf but the reality is being a club supporter is about loyalty to your pals,your manor and your club badge....and with every respect a club supporter is all you are......we'd all love to be Barcelona or Man City but we're not them and never was so where is this entitlement to good football AND winning trophies coming from ??

Is it the best football we've seen in our lifetimes no of course its not......is it the most success and the most enjoyable we've had it ( Europe etc ) in our life times,yes id say it probably is.

If you was expecting to plot up in this big new ground you wanted and suddenly become Barcelona then i can understand how disheartening it must be.....but hey at least you got your trophy eh 

I don’t look down my nose at anyone mate, in fact I feel it’s quiet the opposite……it’s people like me getting sneered at for daring to say “this is rubbish”

And don’t be silly about “being Barcelona” mate, playing proper  football in that area was a “thing” when Messi and Iniesta and Busqeuts were still sucking on their mums tit ! 
 

You have said before that you were no fan of Big Sams anti football yet Moyes anti football is great…..just because we got a trinket and few results ? How’s that work ? 
When did smashing it up to a big African suddenly become fantastic ! 
When do we stop living off that trophy and results against big hitters ?…..for me, it’s 2 hours after the match because that’s  football but everyone thinks about football different.
 

Moving to proper facilities should enable you to do things properly, it’s got absolutely nothing to do with being a “big club”, it just means owners don’t have the excuse of limited space, limited revenue and non attractive facilities…..anyway, I can’t see Moyes lasting forever, he will be there as long as he is getting results that give Steiden the breathing space to recruit players who want to do more than sit 9 handed in their own box all game. 
Then hopefully we will see someone who wants to play a bit of football.

I have always said that I just follow West Ham and lads like you who are chucking their readies into the team season in, season out support West Ham but that has absolutely no bearing on knowing what a game of football looks like.

All that glistens isn’t gold mate. 

 

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[WILF 50,914]

8 hours ago, gnasher16 said:

I dont disagree with Wilf.....we all want to play attractive football i used to cling onto and take pride in the old " West Ham way " style of football with our own little squad of locals in our own little community ground....i loved all that and didnt want it to change......but lads like Wilf didnt want that anymore they fancied a jump into the new " massive club " scene and start getting into Europe and winning trophies............yet now they've got that they want to build like we used to build and play like we used to play again  

Its like having an ugly bird whos a good bunk up......you think nah bollocks to this i want a pretty bird.......you get the pretty bird then realising you miss the good sex start saying you want both....no f**k off you're an ugly little fat bloke you was taking the piss just wanting a pretty bird !! 

Explain one thing to me mate, what’s wrong with saying “Over the moon we won a trophy but the football is diabolical” ? 
Because I’m just not understanding how we can no longer say those things in the same sentence. 

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[JDHUNTING 1,817]

I've not much to add here other than 

A. Are you west ham boys talking about that European version of the auto windshield trophy when your talking about you winning some silverware

 

B. To me once football clubs started referring to themselves as businesses then they lost all rights to be blindly supported, if they're a business they better provide a product people want, who wants to waste theyre money and time to watch boring crap so some overpaid mercenaries can keep drawing their 150k a week. If you take the social side of going to the football with your pals away what you left with? You dont need to go to a prem game and be disrespected by being forced to watch them all take a knee under threat of being banned for life if you make your feelings known to spend the affy with your mates you could watch a game of tiddly winks and have that, modern football can go and f**k itself I couldn't care less and honestly I hope we never win a WC Gareth Southgate and his merry band of losers don't represent anything I stand fo

[WILF 50,914]

6 hours ago, gnasher16 said:

If we was still at Upton Park....nothing at all !

But i repeat....it was YOU and lads like you who wanted to bin off every tradition we held dear INCLUDING playing football the right way......so unless you was so naive that you thought we would come to this new ground,be a " massive "club,win trophies AND play attractive football,then maybe you should have listened to chaps like me who consistently said " our club will never be the same ".

You didnt want what you had,you then got what you wanted.....but now want what you had again.

We won’t agree on any of this mate, I think we can both see that.

To say you can’t play proper football because you now live in a new stadium just don’t make any sense.

If we had a coach that wanted to play it, we’d play it….simple as that.

And anything we did or didn’t win, any league position we did of didn’t get we’d know we did that at least trying to play nice football.

As I said before, just working to pick up the cheque for staying up is exactly the same as wanting the rich Arab owner in my book, it s just soul less nothing !