by Ian Herring »
31 Mar 2012 16:32
I'd forgotten when I watched WHU in December that Allardyce was their manager. Then when I saw the leaden, thuggish, brainless John Beck-esque (Cambridge 90s) percentage crap it all made sense.
Dire, unattractive (but even worse) unproductive 'percentage' football.
Watching today, even with all that pressure of the first 40 minutes (pressure that Reading were happy to ride), there was as much penetration from West Ham as you'd find in a gay eunuch's whore house.
Would anyone pay upwards of 35 to 45 quid to watch that dire shite?
I feel sorry for genuine West Ham fans. They must be pulling their teeth out watching that bollox, week-in, week-out.
First half was like being back at Elm Park in the eighties watching head tennis against f*cking Hartlepool.
Well, it has hurt West Ham playing little Reading this year. But if this was their answer and their idea of 'revenge' then I'm a pearly king.
Reading played their characteristic game, nothing flash, and set about the job how I hoped they might, with cool heads and patience.
Did 4-2 flatter the Royals? Not really. Clinical taking of chances instead of the gaffing and scrambling the Iron Hoofs were performing in front of goal.
Final score then, the Tubby Isaacs XI 2:4 The Berkshire Hunts.
As for the Happy Hammers?
Academy of football, my arse.
Cheers.