West Ham Online

"At 42 years of age my memory of West Ham stretches back as far as the early 90’s Which were pretty decent years, especially under Redknapp Stand out bad years would obviously be Roeder, Grant and Allardyce Roeder - criminal getting relegated with the wealth of talent at his disposal and also dropping Di Canio, but my memory wasn’t playing awful week in, week out, we just shipped too many goals Grant - tried to play the right way but just had a poor squad i.e. Spector, picked up once Ba was signed but was too little too late Allardyce - woeful football, lump the ball up top but at least lumping the ball down field meant there was a plan to get the ball into the back of the oppositions net, albeit an unattractive one Other mentions Curbishley - bland football and shocking that Mullins was chosen over Mascherano, same with Harewood over Tevez until fate intervened, Once Tevez went I have a memory of this team being a difficult watch Zola - tried to play decent football but didn’t have the players and it failed spectacularly but the idea was there Bilic (post Payet) - this was bad, think losing Payet demoralised the guy and he kind of lost the plot like playing Antonio at right back, but was quickly put out of his misery Pellegrini - struggling to remember if it was just plain bad or boring And now on to Moyes What started out as an enjoyable season and a half soon tailed off once teams had us sussed The trophy win was something I’ll remember for the rest of my life but my god we deserved it for the absolute shit this bloke has served up, What’s our current plan to score a goal???? 10 men sitting in our own half, no passages of play or possession, just 2 or 3 passes then a lofted ball to no one cos we’re closed down too quickly and we panic but never attempt to use this tactic ourselves, Like for like substitutions, never a player hauled off early cos he’s having a mare unless he’s a Steidten signing It’s a weird one for me, cos he gave me the most memorable moment of my life as a West Ham fan, but has also made me fall out of love with watching us play, cos for me, this is the most bored I’ve ever been as a fan"

Grant by a distance but Moyes is second. Our second halfs anyway. A few games ago I'd have said at least we're playing boring football and winning but that's gone down the toilet now.

"We have some talented players but a stubborn manager. Relative Success has come at a price of boring pragmatic football. Its acceptable to most when we are picking up results, but once teams know how to deal with us we're easy pickings and the drubbings have been miserable to with this season. Despite the cup win, and we were anyway always favorites in a weak lineup there, and the league finishes, it's now falling apart and its time for a new start. Yes this calendar year has been the worst i've seen us play in a long, long while. For me the best was the Redknapp years. Tough at times, but we had some good finishes, the inter toto cup win, and we had some exciting players and played some entertaining stuff! That and the FA Cup final year under Pardew and Bilic's first season. The rest has been largely dross."