This isn’t so much a new me or a change to this blog, I
don’t do “New Me’s” or New Year’s resolutions. But there are going to be
changes, in the blog and in life (watch this space)! To me the New Year is the same as the old
one. Except for this one is a European Championship year (no birthdays,
weddings or christenings in June or July please). And I’m getting married at
the end of it. I’ve decided I need to do something about my growing waistline,
which has basically been moving in the same direction since we had our first
child Noah (aka West Ham’s bad luck charm) last November. So it’s plenty more
running and my own take on the caveman diet in 2016, but more procrastination and sarcasm when it comes to this blog. I can’t wait!!
As for the football, West Ham are doing OK. Many will say
we’ve followed the same pattern as last year, a great start to the season with
some notable scalps, which then tailed off post November. There is a difference
though, the difference is you can see we’re trying new things and players like
Payet and Lanzini have added freshness to our attacking play. In many areas we
still have the same personnel as last season and as a result have shown our limitations,
notably with our defensive displays against Bournemouth and Tottenham. I
suppose we now just have to see who comes in in January and whether we can put
in an impressive finish to our last season at The Boleyn Ground.
On the subject of transfers it’s now January, as you will
have guessed from all of the faux philosophical statuses on social media, which
means one thing. The transfer window is open! Barcelona can now sign players (because
they desperately need to don’t they); Arsenal won’t sign anyone, despite all of
their fans pleading for the capture of Draxler or Benzema or the new
Draxler/Benzema; and West Ham (not just West Ham all the other mid ranking
Premier League teams) will panic loan an extra 3 has been’s, or never were’s
until the end of the Season, see Nikita Jelavic aka the shit version of Andy
Carroll (I hope he’s on loan).
Leicester are top! Well they’re not anymore; they’re 2nd
on goal difference. But regardless, that’s quite an achievement for a club who
were bottom of the Premier League this time last year. Personally I’d love
Leicester to win the league. It would give me the hope that the disparity that
has been created between the big and small clubs, in the last 25 years since
the advent of the Premier League, Champions League and all that Sky Money, is
starting to even out. Fingers crossed…!
Finally if there is anything that the first 4/5 months of the season
has taught me; other than the fact that Mourinho is actually mental and LVG
hasn’t been good since that Ajax
team; it is that in a world were Leicester City are the best team in the
country, as a wise man once said… “Chat sh*t, get banged!”
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