WH: Apologies at the lateness of posting these article submissions, I was out of the office, the emails were meant to go to Vital Central to be posted but they system failed!
It has to be the most satisfying Sunday afternoon I’ve ever had and I’m sure I wasn’t the only Yid who felt this way.
Finally a line has been drawn under last May and a serious case of the s***s. A 10 month hangover has lifted and how nice it has been going into work with a smile on your face with no microwave lasagnes having been planted on your desk. Oh yes, the West Ham have been very quiet this March morning and as they say, silence is golden.
Lets make no mistake, Spurs at home is West Ham’s cup final – and for the first time since they done Man Utd in December they raised their game to such a level in terms of effort, enthusiasm and energy that you could have been forgiven for thinking this was a team knocking on the door of Europe rather than the trap door of the Championship.
For me, Martin Jol did get his selection wrong at the start of the game putting our most dangerous player Lennon on his unnatural left side to accommodate the useless Ghaly – the Egyptian failing to complete a single pass in a dreadful 45 minute display of how not to play football.
To his credit Jol recognised how terrible he was and brought on Thomas The Tank, fresh from a month long rest and who looked as good as his early season form and lets hope there’s more of the same to come from him. That pro-active substitution from Jol (his lack of pro-activity with substitutions having grated me in the past) changed the pattern of the game. At 2-1 he made what looked an odd substitution, bringing off Jenas, who had played poorly, and replacing him bizarrely with Stalteri (this would turn out to be an inspired substitution with hindsight). I was crying out for Taarabet to come on so we would have natural width down the left and right and sure enough he would make an entrance, albeit a belated one, for what looked like an injured Chimbonda, who’d been pretty effective as a make shift right winger.
Taarabet looks quite a player. Ok, so we only saw 5 minutes of him, but in that time he managed to grab himself an assist and if this cameo is anything to go by I’d like to see him given a run on the left with Lennon returning to his natural berth on the right where I feel he’s much more dangerous.
All in all the manner of the win seems more important that the win itself – to rob them as they robbed us last year when they thought they’d already won it – twice!
Last year they enjoyed our misery too much – now the shoes on the other foot and I love nothing more than knowing we hammered the final nail in their coffin. Let’s hope they never come back.
Article submitted by Park Lane Yid
And Yidinchina sent in this after the match:
Full of confidence
I’m writing this article literally seconds after the final whistle at Upton Park. After a dismal first half display in which all the characteristics of ‘same old Spurs’ were there, we grinded out a great result which puts us back in the driving seat for our league ambitions and sets up a quick run of games with what I can only imagine is a sack load of belief.
I for one am now fully expectant of results over the next 10 days and I’m sure a lot of you are too. Forget West Hams misery for now and I’m sure a lot of you will be bringing up the first half in days to come but for now lets all stand united and applaud one of the gutsiest performances for a long while
I seem to remember its what we’ve all been crying out for COME ON THE SPURS!
By yidinchina
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