Do you prefer to lose when your side just play plain badly and deserve to lose or when you are good for a draw and are just unlucky? I thing I feel more resentment at over paid football woosies who do not really care when the former happens, with the latter it is just one of those things about life. It is not fair. But that still makes me cross.
And so it was yesterday. Losing Diame to injury was a blow as he was inspirational. Arguably that turned the game. But I still think we were good for a point. Hat off to Joe Cole for not celebrating his goal. There is not a lot more to say.
West Ham are now 11th. West Brom, Everton and Reading ( away) loom. Since we always lose to Everton (it is after all in a grim Northern shit-hole and we always lose to teams from such places) we then look to the other two games. West Brom may not be a form side right now but they have shown quality this season. And I think I am right in saying that West Bromwich is also a GNSH. Perhaps one of our regular correspondents from Stoke might confirm this. And so that leaves Reading away which we should win although I warn all Hammers that I am attending. As you know I never get to see West Ham win at a live match.
Thus I conclude that we should reach the half way mark on 25 points. With me doing my bit and promising not to go to the home games against Reading, QPR, Norwich and Wigan or away games at Villa, Southampton and Fulham, reaching 42 points should be doable. For those four home games seats in the Trevor Brooking lower are available feel free to get in touch of you want them.
I see that Iain Dale, on West Ham Till I Die, is calling for the board to secure the services of Fat Sam for another few years when his contract expires this summer. Really? West Ham has spent a fortune. We are not playing really great football and are losing games we should win (Wigan away, for instance). If, as I expect, we end up finishing 11th-15th, go out of the FA Cup in Round three (Man United) and as we know we were humiliated in the League Cup by Wigan at home, do we really want another few seasons of the same? Paulo’s Swindon has now slipped back to 8th but I would still be hoping that come May, di Canio is on his way back to the Academy.