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claret on my shirt 12:14 Sat Nov 11
Brady throws Bilic under the bus!
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LONG READ, THROWS SLAVEN UNDER THE BUS WHILE MAKING THE DILDO BROTHERS LOOK LIKE ANGELS, BITCH!
Everyone on the board enjoyed a good relationship with Slaven and supported him at every opportunity.
We spent �100million on players since he joined � and no club outside the top six has spent more.
Every pre-season requirement, every winter training break, every backroom member of staff, the complete refit of the training ground� whatever he wanted, we tried to deliver.
He, in turn, was an honest man with integrity and intelligence and was furiously loyal to West Ham. So sacking this thoroughly decent man was one of the hardest things our board felt it had to do in 25 years in football.
I think a huge majority of our supporters agreed with our decision. They, like us, remain as respectful of the 47-year-old Croatian as it is possible to be of a manager whose diminishing success in leading a good squad of players has placed the club in the relegation zone with the season almost a third through.
Expectations at the London Stadium are far higher than that. We spent �45m in the summer buying experience in defence and goal threat in attack. Neither manifested itself.
Rather, goals have poured into our own net to the extent that we have the worst record in the league � and we haven�t scored many, either.
It is pure excuse-making for anyone to blame the move to the London Stadium for our failings. The Hammers roar is as alive as ever and the fervour with which our fans blew bubbles after we scored against Liverpool on Sunday was heart-warming.
On the touchline, Bilic was dancing, shrugging off his melancholy air as, like many of us, he imagined a comeback as exhilarating as that which saw off Spurs in the League Cup a fortnight or so before. This time, though, the 0-2 was to become 1-4 rather than 3-2.
With the Liverpool goals, Bilic recognised that his 28-month term had ended and it was typical of him that he was prepared to say so.
He was never afraid of the truth or of speaking it. We liked him for that, David Sullivan, David Gold and I. There was always an air of sadness about him, even in the good times.
In his first six months, when Dimitri Payet was inspiring the team with his Gallic brilliance, Bilic sometimes looked pensive, as though he thought this was a lucky break and might not go on. He never quite recovered after the player staged a strike and went back to Marseille.
He began to run out of ideas as the team�s initial defiance to Payet�s behaviour faded and less than a year later the manager had also departed.
As a board, we have sacked only five managers (including Slaven) of the nine we have worked with in that quarter of a century.
And as soon as the job became available, some of our past managers were straight on the phone asking for another chance to work with us.
This sacking was in some ways the easiest and in others, the hardest. We would liked to have kept Slaven but we couldn�t. He understood.
So the two of us, who have a good working relationship based on mutual respect, said sad goodbyes.
A few months ago I highlighted that the then-Sunderland manager David Moyes gave an unworthy reaction to a question from a woman reporter. He apologised to her and I welcome his move to us and know he won�t make such a remark again.
The pundits point to the ex-Everton and Manchester United manager as the man who failed to keep Sunderland up last season. That is too simplistic.
Sunderland were on a lengthy slide towards relegation � and are now at the foot of the Championship table lacking high-quality players to bolster them.
We do not believe this to be true of our squad and it will be a test of Moyes� organisational skill to drill them into the powerful unit we think they should be. His is a very different temperament to that of his predecessor.
I don�t know whether or not he is the dour Scot he is sometimes reputed to be but we know he has many of the characteristics of Sir Alex Ferguson, who mentored his accession at Old Trafford. And I know Slaven Bilic will wish him the best of luck.
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BRANDED
12:18 Sat Nov 11
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What a political piece. Absolute nonsense.
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Takashi Miike
12:19 Sat Nov 11
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she may as well have called him a manic depressive. shit cunt who works for two other shitcunts
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David L
12:36 Sat Nov 11
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If she thinks "the West Ham roar" is only when we score a bloody goal, it just proves how little she knows - or cares- about our club. Also, how the fuck does that prove that the athletics bowl is not a factor in our overall demise?
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charleyfarley
12:47 Sat Nov 11
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I'm not a Brady fan, but that's not throwing somebody under a bus, more like attacking him with a feather
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OccupyGreenStreet
12:47 Sat Nov 11
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Next level project: demonise the well-liked ex-manager Bilic, and demonise our ‘luxury’ players so we can sell them.
Divert attention from frequent Board failings and talk up how difficult it is keeping pace with Swansea, Bournmouth and Huddersfield.
Employ cheap and desperate yes-man manager.
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zico
12:48 Sat Nov 11
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Typical of our "board" laying the blame full at someone else's door. I just wish they would keep it shut. I preferred the silence of Brown and Cearns!!!
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Bernie
12:48 Sat Nov 11
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Why doesn't she just shut her fucking mouth and get on with her job?
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12:51 Sat Nov 11
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The bus he is underneath, is it the one that we’ve failed to park effectively in too many of our games?
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simon.s
12:53 Sat Nov 11
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Can’t even get his age right. He’s 49, same age as me.
Useless cunts.
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The Kronic
12:56 Sat Nov 11
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And that lady and gents, is why no cunt worth any salt will work for the revolting cunts.
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Hermit Road
1:12 Sat Nov 11
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She mentions they spent 49 million, but leaves out a net spend of only 3.
She really does want to piss on our backs and pretend it’s perrfumed rain.
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1964
1:15 Sat Nov 11
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Isn't she just gorgeous!
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dicksie3
1:16 Sat Nov 11
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We had a net spend of about £12m.
Fucking pathetic.
That bird-brained, arrogant, stuck-up, bitch column, fat-titted, horrible, nasty fucking cunt can fuck the fuck off.
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smartypants
1:17 Sat Nov 11
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She is utterly clueless and has a completely different view/ a gender to most of us. I dislike her more than anyone who’s ever been associated with the club, shes also a fake, who laughs behind the fans backs when she’s in the company of her own kind.
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arsene york-hunt
1:20 Sat Nov 11
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I thought that that was quite fair and balanced, but no matter what she or the owners say some on here will moan.
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Serious Drinking
1:22 Sat Nov 11
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Classless, deflecting, spinning shit like this tells us far more about THEM than Bilic. They clearly think their "customers" are actually stupid.
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The Kronic
1:24 Sat Nov 11
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An article ridden with cheap spin and lies is fair and balanced? I've changed my mind, you're a cunt.
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RM10
1:25 Sat Nov 11
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Trouble is they are doing everything on the cheap, they spent 1.5mill on their stadium lounge and a shoestring onother things the training ground is an embarrassment compared to other clubs, when at Upton Park they didnt want to spend 100£ on a printer for the ticket office tells you everything about them and we are still in debt?
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OccupyGreenStreet
1:26 Sat Nov 11
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Arsene - insinuating that your ex-employee has mental health issues is fair and balanced? Jeez.
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Johnson
1:28 Sat Nov 11
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Unfortunately a lot of their customers are that stupid and still buy the whole “fans trying their best for us” load of old shit.
This is classic BERKS Inc PR in action.
A “we were doing him a favour really” opening gambit allowing them to pretend they were acting in everyone's best interests, whilst positioning it so any Bilic comeback can be dismissed as sour grapes.
Then some self-aggrandising bollocks riddled with inaccuracy, spin and lies.
Will be lapped up as usual and the destructive cycle continues.
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