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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

West Ham and a cautionary tale of being careful what you wish for

Jarred Bowen
It’s a standard West Ham photo to be fair. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images

HAMMER TIME

While precisely nobody else thought to say so at the time, when those West Ham fans who were howling for the head of Tin Pot-winning saviour David Moyes two years ago, Football Daily wondered if – whisper it – they should be careful what they wished for. While the turgid meat-and-potatoes fare served up by Moyes’s Irons was undeniably unpleasant on the eye, arguably the sole benefit of the club’s relocation to the London Stadium was that those fans were now seated in a different postcode from the pitch, meaning they couldn’t actually see what was happening anyway.

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