Football_Lover
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Hello,
Now I know this post isn't going to be met with applaude and laughter, but after reading the latest Hammers v Blades report on the BBC I have actually had it.
I am a reasonable human being who loves the game of football, when the Tevez and Mascherano case came to light, all of my nightmares i'd had when they first joined had come true. It had came out that we (West Ham) had knowingly cheated, we had undermined the rules of the game for our own personal gain. That season as you all know we stayed up, not because of Tevez but because the team had an amazing run of form coming into the end of the season. Now at this time when people came up to me saying "ooh, you should and probably will be deducted points." My response to this was, "yeh, you know what, fair enough, we cheated in a bad way so we deserve to have points deducted." But that wasn't the way of it, we were fined a record £5.5m and that was that.
Now it's the controversy afterwards that really gets up my nose, yes we should have been deducted points, yes we maybe should have been demoted, but we weren't, and that isn't our problem. So i'm asking how it feels to support a club who are just moaning and moaning and moaning about something we have already been punished for. Do you not sometimes sit and think, hmm, maybe if we'd have just got our heads down and weren't so god awful that season instead of wingeing and moaning, that you might not have gone down? Consequently if you're board, staff and players had their heads fully on the season at hand you might be in the automatic promotion places? Just a thought...
Now I know this post isn't going to be met with applaude and laughter, but after reading the latest Hammers v Blades report on the BBC I have actually had it.
I am a reasonable human being who loves the game of football, when the Tevez and Mascherano case came to light, all of my nightmares i'd had when they first joined had come true. It had came out that we (West Ham) had knowingly cheated, we had undermined the rules of the game for our own personal gain. That season as you all know we stayed up, not because of Tevez but because the team had an amazing run of form coming into the end of the season. Now at this time when people came up to me saying "ooh, you should and probably will be deducted points." My response to this was, "yeh, you know what, fair enough, we cheated in a bad way so we deserve to have points deducted." But that wasn't the way of it, we were fined a record £5.5m and that was that.
Now it's the controversy afterwards that really gets up my nose, yes we should have been deducted points, yes we maybe should have been demoted, but we weren't, and that isn't our problem. So i'm asking how it feels to support a club who are just moaning and moaning and moaning about something we have already been punished for. Do you not sometimes sit and think, hmm, maybe if we'd have just got our heads down and weren't so god awful that season instead of wingeing and moaning, that you might not have gone down? Consequently if you're board, staff and players had their heads fully on the season at hand you might be in the automatic promotion places? Just a thought...