Gentry 12:42 Wed Mar 28
BFS labels West Ham Fans "Deluded"
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Sam Allardyce labelled critical West Ham fans as “deluded” after his side recorded a record 11th away win of the season.
Second-half goals from Ricardo Vaz Te and Gary O’Neil lifted the Hammers to within one point of second-placed Reading before their Upton Park clash on Saturday.
But during a first half dominated by Peterborough, the 5,000 travelling fans sang the name of former favourite Paolo Di Canio and “We’re West Ham United, we play on the floor”.
The repeated chants were aimed at Allardyce’s direct style of football.
And after extending his side’s unbeaten run to 11 matches at a crucial time of the season, Allardyce looked genuinely upset to be forced to defend his record - and insisted he would not change his approach.
“I’m sick of all that rubbish - it just keeps rearing its head,” he said. “For me, I look at the facts and the facts are that we outplayed, outpassed all the other six teams we have played recently.
“The facts speak for themselves and the perception of people that it is anything other than that are deluded.
“It started off from other managers years ago who were jealous I kept beating them. Whoever says we play that way are deluded because we don’t. They get frustrated and want to sing something.
“Let’s face it, it has followed me around for a long time. I can’t get away from the tag and that’s life.
“It’s there and I’ve just got to carry on. I personally don’t let it affect me. I know how to win football matches and I know what’s good for West Ham.”
Paul Taylor hit the bar after 10 minutes and in first-half injury time, Posh claimed a penalty when Gary O’Neil brought down Tommy Rowe before James Tomkins made a goal-line block from George Boyd.
But Vaz Te, who scored and won for his former club Barnsley at London Road in December, headed home after 52 minutes in his first game back after a hamstring strain. And O’Neil settled the game with a 25-yard shot five minutes later.
Allardyce added: “We were running short of looking after our own destiny. This was getting towards our last chance.”
Manager Darren Ferguson said: “When we were dominant in the first half we didn’t score.”
Peterborough remain nine points clear on the drop zone despite losing five of their last seven games.
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roltrader
11:50 Sun Apr 1
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Still, he has got us back playing HIS definition of "The West Ham Way"............
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ChesterRd
11:46 Sun Apr 1
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motley crue is right. I was happy enough with Allardyce but since he started slagging us off I am now despising him more each week.
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eusebiovic
11:41 Sun Apr 1
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Deluded for aspiring to see enjoyable football...
hmmmmm?
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JayeMPee
8:35 Sun Apr 1
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I think you will find that G&S are also deluded dicksie, they still appear to believe that the arrogant, inflexible twit is going to get us promoted!
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motley crue
8:31 Sun Apr 1
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classic egg on yr face and even managed to alienate neutral supporters of his.
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Northern Sold
1:56 Sun Apr 1
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Hammer and Pickle 12:09 Sun Apr 1
Yet funny have not heard any BIG FAT SAM OUT yet being sung... plenty of our old managers had that... including Lyall and Greenwood.... perhaps the fans do not want to hurt the Fish Head Eating tossers feelings??
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dicksie3
1:44 Sun Apr 1
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The only person who's deluded is our fucking walrus-headed cunt of a manager.
*Throws-up liver*
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Hammer and Pickle
12:09 Sun Apr 1
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First manager to get properly tarred and feathered out of the club I reckon.
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Mr Polite
12:01 Sun Apr 1
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Well I for one agree with Sam - a large majority of our fans are deluded. 74% of them to be precise.
*stares at WHO Poll*
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Texas Iron
2:44 Sat Mar 31
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Pseudonym 9:48 Fri Mar 30
Itb was never The West Ham Way that got us relegated...it was due to Piss Poor Managers...
'BFS should check his FACTS before stating such crap...
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Texas Iron
2:41 Sat Mar 31
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HAs he APOLOGIZED yet...???
Arrogant Midlander...
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Pseudonym
11:33 Fri Mar 30
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ChesterRd 11:31 Fri Mar 30
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ChesterRd
11:31 Fri Mar 30
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Hell will freeze over before Allardyce manages a team that gave the fans as great a season as 05/06 and Pardew did it on a quarter of the resources the fat gobshyte has had
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Norflundon
10:59 Fri Mar 30
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Capitol
I don't remember parses getting to sign 4million pound players on 50k a week
Also there s a lot of difference between playing shit and just being plain shit to watch
We weren't great to watch in the championship under parses but we certainly weren't a longball team like we are now
I think hed actually get more respect if he just came out and said yes I'm a longball merchant who is very negative
You must realise how ludicrous it is for him to claim that we've passed teams off the park in the last six games
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penners28
10:50 Fri Mar 30
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pards aint doing too bad now though is he
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Pseudonym
10:42 Fri Mar 30
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I'm not criticising the physicality, I'm criticising his turgid style and his bullshit defence of it.
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Capitol Man
10:39 Fri Mar 30
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I would have thought you could have worked this out but....
At this stage of things the evil Sam was well ahead of where things were under Pardew.
Pardew's football was also not great and involved as much physicality as the tactics you are criticising now.
So, the example you give is a bad one.
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Pseudonym
10:34 Fri Mar 30
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And?
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Capitol Man
10:03 Fri Mar 30
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Pardew's team had one decent season. The two in the 1st division were pretty dire.
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Pseudonym
9:48 Fri Mar 30
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Agree Sir Alf, but this has been his mantra since the outset. He came in and rubbished the West Ham way as he said it got us relegated.
It may well have done, but we don't need reminding of that and by the same token we aren't going to just drop it given the sense of pride it has given us over the years and the plaudits it has won us.
Even Pardew's team which mixed it up a bit got heaps of praise that FA Cup Final year, that's what we thrive on.
One man cannot and will not change the traditions, as stupid or as false as they may appear.
If he wants our respect he should respect us. He has never shown any.
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rumford
9:24 Fri Mar 30
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Sir Alf
Well said mate.
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