What the papers say: West Ham

[Mid Sussex Royal]

Gaurdian...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012 ... ampionship

Interesting to read Dom Goodman's pre season views (link on right of article) lol

[Tails]

Gaurdian...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012 ... ampionship

Interesting to read Dom Goodman's pre season views (link on right of article) lol

At the time they were fair predictions and most have materialized, albeit with some excepts.

[ZacNaloen]

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 06911.html?

Not really a review of the game, more a late review of the season. Good read though (cos its nice about us)

[Archie's penalty]

http://www.thesecretfootballer.com/arti ... #pages-top

Secret footballer thinks we'll get promoted too.

I like this bit:

'They have a counter-attacking system that they use at home and away to devastating effect and which can lead the opposition into a false sense of security. They get a bit relaxed and, before they know it, Reading are down the other end of the pitch and putting the ball in their opponents’ net. I thoroughly believe that not only will Reading get promoted automatically but they will win the league as well.'

[Agent Balti]

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/mcdermott-makes-clever-use-of-his-reading-resources-7606911.html?

Not really a review of the game, more a late review of the season. Good read though (cos its nice about us)

Reading seemed to have six at the back, five in midfield and four up front. That is a mark of a proper team with a sense of purpose and it was only too discernible on a day when West Ham appeared the opposite.

[Libertine]

http://www.thesecretfootballer.com/articles/863/battle-to-secure-elusive-place-at-top-table/#pages-top

Secret footballer thinks we'll get promoted too.

I like this bit:

'They have a counter-attacking system that they use at home and away to devastating effect and which can lead the opposition into a false sense of security. They get a bit relaxed and, before they know it, Reading are down the other end of the pitch and putting the ball in their opponents’ net. I thoroughly believe that not only will Reading get promoted automatically but they will win the league as well.'

The Secret Footballer is Robbie Savage?

[Franchise FC]

Mick Dennis in the Express today :

Big Sam is right on fans

Some West Ham fans are outraged that Sam Allardyce has called them deluded. They were upset when I said it in this newspaper seven years ago.
Then, as now, they had been relegated from the top flight. Then, as now, fans believed anything short of automatic promotion was a disgrace.
They could not see that being in two successive play-off finals was substantial.
Other, equally proud clubs would have killed for that. But the club that of Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters 'deserved' better, said many.
They are also the club of Marco Boogers, Titi Camera and Florin Raducioiu.

In their 93 league seasons, 43 have been in the second tier. They have not won anything for 32 years. They do not have a God-given rigt to canter to promotion.

One word for the assumption that they do is 'delusional'. Another is arrogance"

I'm suddenly a Mick Dennis fan.

[i_kingsley]

Mick Dennis in the Express today :

Big Sam is right on fans

Some West Ham fans are outraged that Sam Allardyce has called them deluded. They were upset when I said it in this newspaper seven years ago.
Then, as now, they had been relegated from the top flight. Then, as now, fans believed anything short of automatic promotion was a disgrace.
They could not see that being in two successive play-off finals was substantial.
Other, equally proud clubs would have killed for that. But the club that of Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters 'deserved' better, said many.
They are also the club of Marco Boogers, Titi Camera and Florin Raducioiu.

In their 93 league seasons, 43 have been in the second tier. They have not won anything for 32 years. They do not have a God-given rigt to canter to promotion.

One word for the assumption that they do is 'delusional'. Another is arrogance"

I'm suddenly a Mick Dennis fan.

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