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LeroysBoots 11:23 Fri May 1
Kris Akabusi Take On Our Season
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Nze K.D Akabusi MBE QMSI ret Speaker-Leading Change, Career/Life Transitions Coach/Facilitator Employee Engagement-Professional/Personal Development
Allardyce was a good (not great) defender as a player. As a manager he carries on this vein.
His mental mind map is not for winning it is about not losing, yet it means he loses every time, it's destructive
I believe that Sam was as surprised as everybody else with our cracking start to the season and by the time he and the rest of the league came to terms with the wealth of ability our chairmen had brought it it was too late, West ham were in giddy heights, then Sam woke up. Let me explain.
For those of us at the first game of the season saw West Ham started with Carlton Cole up front with Vaz Te & Downing playing as half wing men half strike partners against Spurs. When they went down to 10 men they still kept three attackers, while we stuck to one lone striker, we went on to lose when we went down to ten men too. Sam just could not get out of his defensive mind set.
The next games however were to prove revolutionary as injuries to Cole and Vaz Te meant we played Sakho and Valencia. All of a sudden we had pace in the side, players running from Inside right/left positions scoring audacious goals, Downing was dragged in from the cold (wonderful insight from Allardyce or Sherringham?) to a more central position and the team prospered. Then Andy Carroll was fit to play and the deadly partnership of last year (twelve goals between them I believe) was resumed with Nolan. The team plays differently with Carroll and Nolan in the side, it is more physical it is more direct,it is one dimensional, it also has less pace, is less mobile and less flamboyant. But the worst thing is what it communicates to the rest of the team.
I do think that Cole could do a very good job for us if he had a defined role. I loved the year that Zola got hold of Cole, told him how good he is with both feet, and to think less-shoot more...he did and he scored some wonderful goals. Today though he knows he is unloved and unwanted, this destroys confidence. Like wise when you change a winning formulae to accommodate a 5 goal a year striker and then when he is injured insist that other strikers play in the system designed for him, you destroy confidence. Sakho is not a target man in the Carroll mould and his drop off in strike form is consistent with the new role he has been given.
This brings me to our captain Kevin Nolan. It is sad to see him struggling now, and like the warrior he is struggling to perform for a side and do his bit. He has been a great (not good) player who should have had more caps for his country. He was strong, quick in the box with a cool brain that could score and play under pressure. Very little of that remains now as his legs don't work like they used to so he does not get into the positions that he used to. He has scored one goal in a season in which once he got over the injuries at the start of has played a full part in. Sam really needed to save our captain from himself, but a once glittering career is going to fizzle out with mediocrity. Worse than this is what it communicates again to the other players who see his name on the sheet first, we don't get in this side on merit it is on favour. I wonder why Zarate kicked up a fuss, Amalfitano got in a strop and the talent RaVel Morrison (I know there were other issue) had to get shipped out. These are frustrated players who say what other dare not think...I should be in the team ahead of our Captain.
Confidence is hard to build and easy to lose, I know we have had injuries, so have all the teams in the league, which is why it is important to build confidence in all the Squad. As a leader you cannot have favourites, cannot stick to one system that favours a few and sidelines the many. You must play to and build up people around their strengths. Cole, Sakho, Valencia, Downing, Amalfitano, Nene need a role, they need to know what they bring to the team, why the play in this position and how this position plays to their strengths not on their weaknesses. I don't think our strikers/attacking midfielders know their role anymore as we reverted to a way of playing that suited three people, Sam, Andy and Kevin from December onwards.
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Willtell
9:28 Sat May 2
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Of course Cole is a footballer. Not a top class international footballer nor one with good vision or intelligence but, he is a footballer that has been treated very badly by SA imho.
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aldgate
3:33 Sat May 2
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the gifted hurdler is right bar his support of cole who is not a footballer
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SilverSurfer
2:09 Sat May 2
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The next games however were to prove revolutionary as injuries to Cole and Vaz Te meant we played Sakho and Valencia. All of a sudden we had pace in the side, players running from Inside right/left positions scoring audacious goals, Downing was dragged in from the cold (wonderful insight from Allardyce or Sherringham?) to a more central position and the team prospered. Then Andy Carroll was fit to play and the deadly partnership of last year (twelve goals between them I believe) was resumed with Nolan. The team plays differently with Carroll and Nolan in the side, it is more physical it is more direct,it is one dimensional, it also has less pace, is less mobile and less flamboyant. But the worst thing is what it communicates to the rest of the team.
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ChesterRd
1:19 Sat May 2
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Kriss is spot on with what he says, You don't need his experience as a world class athlete and motivator to know that Allardyce is a spent force. We might as well dig up Charles Hughes and prop him up in the dug out.
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mike hunt
1:05 Sat May 2
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spot on
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Hammer and Pickle
10:04 Fri May 1
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Make him spot on.
It's interesting how certain people in the media are brave enough to break the mould and refer to the real world.
Most are not.
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Oliver Cromwell
9:59 Fri May 1
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Stop reading after first sentence
Should of put allaryce was a Millwall cunt
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connolly8
9:53 Fri May 1
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We have missed Carroll since he got injured big time.
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Texas Iron
9:23 Fri May 1
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Good analysis...
As many of us have also commented...
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chim chim cha boo
8:38 Fri May 1
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Good on him for saying it how he sees it unlike most celebs who never want to upset anyone in case they need them later. Kris is proper West Ham so it obviously comes from the heart.
A great read and being from a really good professional sportsman and motivator, it carries some extra weight. I hope Sullivan has read it.
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Mad Dog
7:26 Fri May 1
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#
Akabusi sat in his Vauxhall Corsa as it passed through the car wash humming the theme tune from Record Breakers. All the windows were soaped up and no one could see in so, for the briefest moments, he thought about having a w*nk. But his two kids were in the back so he decided against it.
After dropping them off at school, Akabusi was at a loss as to how to fill his day. He was delivering a motivational speech to a bunch of spastics tonight in Stevenage so he didn't want to over do it. He felt a twinge in his back. It had been aching since him and John Fashanu had wrestled naked in front of a roaring fire at Fash's £128,700 mansion in Hemel Hempstead. Akabusi had smashed a porcelain bust of Justin and he had had to leave.
Before he knew it he was at a massage parlour and had paid his £10 entry. Before he could get to the changing rooms he slipped out of his pin stripe dungerees and could feel the fragrant steam of the sauna tickle his massive balls like a poacher under a trout.
He applied a towel to his lower torso, barely able to conceal his pulsating ebony fire hydrant. He stepped into the room and lay down on the pleather massage table pushing his face through the hole and letting his cock hang over the side.
Behind him the door opened and Akabusi's pussy senses were raised to Severe. The aroma of chicken and sweetcorn soup and Morecambe Bay cockles hit him like a steam train and he knew right then that he would sire another child.
Small hands covered in oil began to explore his muscular, Nigerian coffee coloured bodywork. As the girl's hands reached his proud buttocks he tried everything in his power to conceal a huge fart he had been brewing since he'd parked in the multi storey car park.
When the girl slipped a greasy little finger up his April he let out a yelp and nearly roared "Awooga" but he stopped himself. The hands of the girl motioned him to turn over, which he duly did.
His eyes found a young Chinese girl wearing a little white tunic which he knew concealed a pair of juicy little bristols and almost certainly a clunge as ripe and yellow as a week old banana. As he lay on his back, blood rushed into his veiny Tower of Pisa quicker than Asians into a Cash And Carry at 8.59am. He lay there looking like a chocolate drawing pin as the girl starting applying more and more oil. He was so hard and tall that he worried slightly that the price of oil may be affected by his erection.
Her tiny hands kneeded his giant oak and at one point Akabusi half thought she was an Ewok trying to climb a Giant Red on Endor. He leapt up and ripped open her tunic revealing, as he had suspected, a gorgeous set of two tits, nipples as dark as Green and Black 70% and a pussy so wet and hairless he was reminded of Duncan Goodhew.
He dived into her like a released rapist and set about plunging into every orifice that was available and some that were not. Within hours he was on his vinegars and let rip with such a gush of spunk that the poor girl tried in vein to make a call to the Morecambe Bay coastguard.
Spent, sweating and panting Akabusi untangled his yawning plonker and slipped on his dungerees. The girl, who later from police reports he found was called Hi Tide Run, lay on the floor, a shredded mess of manfat, baby oil, matted hair and rice. Akabusi looked at his Casio watch/calculator and saw that the spastic thing started in 20 minutes. He bent down over the Chinese meal he had just demolished, whisphered "Awooga" in her ear and patted her on the fanny.
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gph
7:26 Fri May 1
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Give him the job.
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peroni
7:20 Fri May 1
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Every sane and honest fan sees it this way, I reckon.
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Willtell
6:39 Fri May 1
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Awooga
The phrase originated as a running joke on sci-fi series Red Dwarf in reference to the ship's emergency siren. It was, for some time popularized by fans of Red Dwarf and was later used by Red Dwarf star Craig Charles on his 1993 game show Cyberzone. Craig used the phrase in much the same context as on Red Dwarf (when the game show sirens were sounded) and it became a 'catch phrase' of sorts for Craig on the game show, but was also a reference to the Red Dwarf joke.
John Fashnu picked up the catch phrase after appearing on Craig's show 'Cyberzone' as a guest, and subsequently copied it for himself on Gladiators. This caused much upset amongst fans of both Red Dwarf and Craig Charles, not only because he had copied the phrase, but used it incorrectly as a personal 'catch phrase' of his own.
AWOOGA!!!
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Eddie B
4:09 Fri May 1
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Everyone DOES realise it was John Fashanu who used to say 'awooga' and not Kiris Akabusi, don't they?
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Mad Dog
3:35 Fri May 1
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Wasn't it kristen akabusi that used to have the fake sex stories
"I patted her gently on the fanny and whispered "awooga""
Aside from calling Kevin Nolan great he's on the money here
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Jarza
3:18 Fri May 1
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I would only give Kris 95 not 100%, as his statement about Nolan. "He has been a great (not good) player who should have had more caps for his country" is totally flawed
Rest is spot on
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3:09 Fri May 1
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The answer to that is I don't know because to me he is as finished as Cole.
In fact I agree with Akabusi about Nolan.
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Willtell
3:05 Fri May 1
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Comma
You clearly don't understand English then. I did not ask you about Nolan. I asked why Nolan played... in place of several more skilful players in the squad....
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3:01 Fri May 1
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Well you asked me about Nolan. I agree with Akabusi about Nolan and I disagree with him about Cole who is just as finished as Nolan to me.
comprenez vous?
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