What’s up with West Ham fans?
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So yesterday saw Newcastle United record an away win at West Ham, 2-0. Now I’m not going to go too much into the details of the match, suffice to say it’s great to see Damien Duff score, and also to see Obafemi Martins get his first goal in the legendary number 9 shirt. Only point of concern is the injury to Shay Given, who was stretchered off and had to spend the night in hospital after complaining of abdominal pains. Hopefully he’ll make a speedy recovery.
No, what I wanted to mention was the actions of some of the West Ham fans. It appears that some of them saw fit to approach the Newcastle dugout to “have words” with our manager, Glenn Roeder. You see Roeder user to be the manager at West Ham, and was with the club when they got relegated. It appears that the “words” that the fans were going to have with Roeder relate to the unforgivable crime of…. waving to the Newcastle fans. It appears that this outraged some of the West Ham fans who voiced their displeasure at the man who, after they were relegated, they couldn’t wait to get rid of. Seems that moving to a bigger club has opened up some wounds for the “Happy Hammers”. A wound into which salt was duly rubbed by the final score yesterday…
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The problem is that Roeder was in charge when we went down so he will always be berated. Fickle fans will forget that the season before that we finished 7th under his leadership and the fact we went down with 42 points, a feat not likely to be repeated quickly. We were (and still are) expecting more and to not get off to the greatest of starts this season is probably getting fans frustrated more than anything. Fear not, the results will start to improve I’m sure, once a bit of confidence builds in the side. A couple of clean sheets wouldn’t go a miss either…………..
Yeah I know what you mean. I just thought it was quite odd at the time, although thinking about it I’m sure that Souness or Gullitt would get the same reception if they ever came back to St. James’!!