Where are you now Gang of 4?
Mar 30, 2008 West Ham News
Whatever happened to the Gang of 4? those maggots that wanted West Ham to be deducted 10pts at the end of last season, and even threatened legal action, to which Sheff Utd were the only ones to carry it, out even to this day, the other 3 backed off like scared little weasels.
Fulham - 6 games to go. 3 Away, and 1 against Liverpool, not a lot of chance of surviving.
Wigan - 6 games to go and 4 of those games against good clubs. Man Utd, Chelsea, Spurs, and Villa. so its a good chance of relegation for them.
Sheff Utd - lol, no chance of ever making
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Curbishley suspects Enemy on Board - West Ham
Mar 11, 2008 West Ham News
Curbishley had his players training at 9am yesterday, on their day off, after Sunday’s debacle at White Hart Lane, there were no grand addresses, no sit-down talks. Nor have there been any ultimatums from the directors. Although Curbishley suspects he has an enemy on the board, he feels cheered by
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A Manager to be Proud of, Is it Ferguson, Wenger, Grant, Benitez, Keegan, or Curbishley?
Mar 3, 2008 West Ham News
My thoughts for what they are worth… By Lancslondoner
When looking for a manager what do you look for? One of the things is someone that can run a team for a long time, who
has experience of building a management infrastructure around their vision for a club and make it work. There are no managers around who can prove themselves able to do that because everyone gets sacked one year into the job. Curbs has proved that he can do that. It was at a smaller club, but he kept Charlton in the top division and few small clubs can keep that up for more than a few seasons at a time. That is what good management is about. He has experience in working in a stable environment and how to manage for the long term.
I cannot believe how many WHU fans cannot see how lucky we are to have a manager like that. He’s shown the skill to sign some truly fantastic players, to take players with damaged confidence and turn them around, to stand up to egos and to keep us in the top half with a team which has sometimes consisted of all the available fit squad members. Curbs is a bloody good manager. What he did with Charlton was take a small low budget team and keep them playing above their weight. With the new West Ham and the resources he has I believe he has the ability to turn the East End into a fortress and with a fit strike force up front we’ll be something special.
In his first full campaign for us he’s turned a defence which has historically been pretty leaky into something to intimidate and frustrate most attacks which has saved our injury hit season. That’s not negative management, that’s superb management. We all dream of what a fit Bellamy and Ashton can be like together, and have seen how good Parker can be.
I get really bored with all this talk of taking us to the next level. What the hell is the next level anyway? The teams that are well established at the top are simply well managed clubs. They have managers who have been in place for many years. They have good structures. Chelsea have bought their success, and anyone looking at how much that success has cost would have to agree that it is not the way to run a club. Chelsea FC is a freak and no club with sane owners or fans would want to go that way.
The big money that now runs our game is a blessing and a curse for those who have it (which includes us). It can be withdrawn more easily than it has been given. A billionaire with a football club in his/her portfolio won’t be romantic about giving it up if other interests go pear shaped. If we lose our Icelandic backers what do we want our club to be? Solid and well run and able to keep going or like Newcastle have become? Real success is built steadily and I believe that we will be at the top long after Chelsea have been abandoned by their playboy owner and left to drift off into the wilderness, but only if we seize the chance now to outwit the opposition and manage the club really well amid a league of headless chickens.
On another issue altogether I also think it’s great that he dominated the out of season recruitment with British players. If that’s not far sighted when you look at what has happened to the national squads I don’t know what is.
OK..Rant over. I’m off for some dinner.
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