Not the greatest West Ham XI
Got to wondering who would make up my 'really not very good' West Ham XI. Feel free to add your own suggestions, either as individual positions, or a whole team.
They don't necessarily have to be the worst players you ever saw.
Not sure there's too much debate about the first two:
Manager - The Scottish Manager
GK - Allen McKnight
RB - Lionel Scaloni - not the worst player ever, but I can't help but blame him for our FA Cup loss.
CB - Matthew Upson - worst captain I can remember. Bert Trautman played on with a broken neck; Upson wouldn't play on with a hangnail.
CB - Tomas Repka - I know he has achieved folkloric status among many Hammers, but he was out of control. Low point- picking up a yellow card at the end of a game against Fulham, and arguing about it until he got a 2nd yellow / red card, which pushed him over the 10 game limit and got him 2 games plus the ban for the red.
LB - Razvan Rat - great name, not much cop as a defender
CMF- Javier Mascherano - kept out of the team by Hayden Mullins, on merit. Struggling to remember a player who tried less for us.
CMF - Alex Song - for most games, seemed to be playing in a separate time zone to his colleagues.
RW - Le TGV - Julien Faubert. An object lesson in why looking at You Tube videos doesn't tell the whole story. Props to Real Madrid for showing it wasn't just us...
LW - Alessandro Diamanti - failed to sparkle
Forwards - man, but we are spoiled for choice here.
Benni McCarthy has to be one of my picks. If you listen carefully, you can still hear the laughter ringing in the Blackburn boardroom.
Modibo Maiga - just, baffling.
They don't necessarily have to be the worst players you ever saw.
Not sure there's too much debate about the first two:
Manager - The Scottish Manager
GK - Allen McKnight
RB - Lionel Scaloni - not the worst player ever, but I can't help but blame him for our FA Cup loss.
CB - Matthew Upson - worst captain I can remember. Bert Trautman played on with a broken neck; Upson wouldn't play on with a hangnail.
CB - Tomas Repka - I know he has achieved folkloric status among many Hammers, but he was out of control. Low point- picking up a yellow card at the end of a game against Fulham, and arguing about it until he got a 2nd yellow / red card, which pushed him over the 10 game limit and got him 2 games plus the ban for the red.
LB - Razvan Rat - great name, not much cop as a defender
CMF- Javier Mascherano - kept out of the team by Hayden Mullins, on merit. Struggling to remember a player who tried less for us.
CMF - Alex Song - for most games, seemed to be playing in a separate time zone to his colleagues.
RW - Le TGV - Julien Faubert. An object lesson in why looking at You Tube videos doesn't tell the whole story. Props to Real Madrid for showing it wasn't just us...
LW - Alessandro Diamanti - failed to sparkle
Forwards - man, but we are spoiled for choice here.
Benni McCarthy has to be one of my picks. If you listen carefully, you can still hear the laughter ringing in the Blackburn boardroom.
Modibo Maiga - just, baffling.
Comments
Re Grey's initial 11 I would have chosen Gary Strodder at centre back,Tommy McQueen at left back & David Kelly up front.Strodder in place of Upson,simply because I can remember Upson at least having some decent games for us.
Knew it would be 'controversial' - clearly a Marmite player.
Pogatetz
Roger Johnson
Savio
Quashie
Boa Morte
GK Allen McKnightmare
RB Matt Taylor (what was Sam thinking?)
LB Vladimir Labant
CB Roger Johnson
CB Matthew Upson
RM Joey Beauchamp
CM Radoslav Kovac
CM Nigel Quashie
LM Luis Boa Morte
ST Benni McCarthy
ST Savio
But sadly there are plenty of options ;lol
And then get sent off for clattering Gary Neville immediately after coming on.
;wink
I loved Gary Strodder
He was back up to some Great WHUFC CB's and came to us cheap.
He IMO always did well.... ;ok
Paul Hilton tho, he could have made it ;ok
Piquionne
Tore (yes, I am judging him already and not giving him any time to settle)
Za... Actually i'll hold off on that one
Our situation this season is possibly caused by Slav buying three potential entries in one window in Tore, Zsa and Nordvelt.
Savio must go down in agents folklore, they still meet late in the bar and speak of the agent who pulled that one off.
McKnight
Keith Coleman
Paul Hilton
Roger Johnson
Up son
Johnny Ayris?..
Joey Beauchamp
Dimitreu
Dani
Boogers
Suker
I vividly recall playing Arsenal and they were giving it large on, we,ve got Dennis Bergcamp etc etc, and you,ve got Ian Dowie etc etc.
It did not help that Dowie was partnered by a spectacularly inept Mike Newell, (he was a loanee so probably not qualified for this competition).
It says something that I think practically all of us picked the top four all time legends on another thread yet we will never be able to agree on our worst eleven as there are so many talentless contenders
;weep ;weep ;weep
Julian Dicks, in my opinion. Gave 110% every match, which you can't say that about
any of the current team unfortunately.
Then, right on cue, he chopped a bloke nearly in half with just 25mins gone, totally correct straight red, I was stunned into silence, my mates were just looking at me with a look that you can just imagine, yet everyone in the Rio Ferdinand stand practically gave him a standing ovation.
We went on to lose of course
Big Mac Benny for not seeming to realise her was a professional footballer maybe takes the cake (literally).
we had so many naff players it's hard to pick.
Never have I seen a player struggle to pass the ball 5 yards backwards.