icwhs
3:44 Mon May 25
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Being shit I think
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HairyHammer
3:40 Mon May 25
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Put the ball on the grass and make it touch every blade with pace and movement and every player busting a gut.
The West Ham way is not going to cut it that is the horrible truth but what will cut it is a more defensive attacking style that incorporates the old style West Ham style it can be done easily.
Remember when we were a top 6 team they were doing it then something like that will keep us all happy.
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Darlo Debs
12:27 Mon May 25
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Just heard Shearer giving it the be. careful what you wish for line....well i wish we'd have been able to send the toon down just to piss Shearer. Off. Tosser
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easthammer
12:25 Mon May 25
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Having read through the responses - The West Ham way is difficult to define but most of us know it when we experience it. For me it does not just happen on the pitch ( all though that is the catalyst) but it happens in and around the football club. Including what is said and done by managers, owners and fans.
It is typified by a freedom of spirit, inventiveness and determination to beat the odds without succumbing to win at all costs mentality. To be able to win and lose with style.
If Mr Souness does not get it he could do no worse than than to look at the long list of great players and managers from the late 1950s to the present day that have flourished and developed in the West Ham way. IMO no other club can match us in this respect. Unfortunately in the modern game it might not be sustainable but any manager failing to even try need not apply for the vacancy.
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Sniper
11:59 Sun May 24
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Moaning
Lots and lots of moaning
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gph
11:50 Sun May 24
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An emphasis on clever football, sometimes at the expense of ruthlessness and doing the routine things right.
Allardyce sacrificed the former without even guaranteeing that the latter was put right.
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yngwies Cat
11:46 Sun May 24
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Oh do fuck off, that season under Pard's, showed no fear and got to a fa cup final that we nearly won.
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Marston Hammer
11:43 Sun May 24
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Trivia question
If you include the season before the premier league started we've been down and up four times. Which clubs can beat that?
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yngwies Cat
11:43 Sun May 24
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MrCrowmanSir 11:34 Sun May 24
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icwhs
11:42 Sun May 24
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Playing entertaining football,
Losing
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Jimmy The Hoover
11:37 Sun May 24
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MrCrowmanSir 11:34 Sun May 24
Right about short memories but you also have to remember 15 - 17 years is an age to a lot of people. There's been little decent football since Redknapp.
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MrCrowmanSir
11:34 Sun May 24
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People have very short memories in football and particularly when it's not their club. I'm not even talking about the success we had in the 60's 70's & 80's. In the late 90's I'd say we were one of the most entertaining teams in the league. We had flair players in abundance, I loved watching us in every game, we had players like Di canio, Sinclair, Berkovic, Joe Cole, we'd regularly chalk up goals for fun and yes concede them but we always were good on the eye and liked by neutrals, we played the right way, it's not a myth.
We have also been in the premier league 20 out of 24 seasons, hardly a yoyo club.
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Takashi Miike
11:15 Sun May 24
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Willtell 11:14 Sun May 24
spot on
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Willtell
11:14 Sun May 24
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It is easier to say what is not the WH way.
Playing for a draw. Lying about how well we played. We didn't win because the ref made a mistake. The linesman made a mistake. The players missed chances. Playing favourite players long after they were finished. Clueless tactics. Clueless substitutions. Hoof ball. Sam Allardyce basically....
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Iron Duke
10:58 Sun May 24
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I wasn't talking to you JGW1. It was a general pop at all the people who keep calling it a myth. I've just read your post and I agree except for the part saying it is a myth.
Yes, we haven't always lived up to it in the last 25 years, but we have gained this reputation for a reason.
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JGW1
10:45 Sun May 24
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I dont have to read up on our history. I was there you mug
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Hammer and Pickle
10:41 Sun May 24
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Believe me, if you were listening to the radio in the 70s and early 80s, the West Ham Way is a real thing.
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Hani
10:37 Sun May 24
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West ham fans just gave it a name, but any club could say the same Tottenham way or the Man Utd way. Every club likes to think it's known for attacking and entertaining football. Teams like Arsenal went from boring Arsenal to the va va vooom invincibles era. Can't love in the past especially when we have been bang average for a long time now.
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MrCrowmanSir
10:35 Sun May 24
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"You dont win anything with mavericks" Devonshire was in 1980 FA cup final side.
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mentor
10:34 Sun May 24
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Takashi Miike 10:27 Sun May 24
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comma, give up please. why do you persist in being contrary you cunt? :.)
It's because he's a scummy cunt.
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Hammer and Pickle
10:33 Sun May 24
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Another reason to bloody well win the League.
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