News that summer signing Gianluca Scamacca is about to go under the knife will have been received by Hammers fans like an invitation to attend a 'speed awareness' course as a result of driving at 25 in a 20 MPH Zone!
The long standing injury curse that has afflicted the club for years refuses to go away, with the Poltergeist seemingly hell bent on ensuring the first team will ALWAYS be devoid of having an our and out striker.
The list is endless of the amount of normally fit and healthy players who are suddenly 'stricken' with injuries that range from the sublime to the ridiculous. It CANNOT be just the useless archaic training facilities at the Irons 'goose green' ground, players who trained at Chadwell Heath didn't experience the same amount of injuries did they?
Some say it is Dino Moyes's "run 'till you drop" training ethos, which may have an element of truth attached, but the long term injuries sustained by players pre-dates the Moyes era by some margin! If the list which started with Dean Ashton it would already exclude many, but you have to draw the line somewhere!
The fact is that Ashton, Faubert, Illunga and Carroll are just the tip of a Hammers injury iceberg that would have sunk many clubs, why is that? There are those that still say the club was cursed as a result of serving a compulsory purchase order on a scrap yard that was in the way of developing the old Boleyn Ground and that the curse given out by an old Gypsy grandmother was 'lifelong'.
We have mentioned this before and have been laughed at, but surely it is worth whatever it costs to either go back and pay relevant compensation to the surviving members of the family that were evicted or failing that pay for a full exorcism of Chadwell Heath, Rush Green AND the as yet unnamed London Stadium in order to end the curse!
It might be baloney but it sure does seem real, ask Gianluca! - Ed
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nothing
to lose Nev
Baloney
not another foreign striker surely?...but in all seriousness i have sent a mail to Yvette Fielding to see if she and her team can come and find out whats occuring!
Crazy!
Another one! Scam is amongst a long list of crocks we've purchased for mega dough....remember keiron dyer & lundberg also? Goose green or the gypsy curse? Probably both
Much is made
Of todays Prima Donnas being super fit athletes but there seems to be a parallel between them and the modern car. Ferraris and Lambos are known to be needing a service every 1000 miles while the humble old Skoda can rattle on for a year with just an oil change and visual inspection.
It was only in the 60's and 70's that teams of 12 or 13 would last a season of 60+ games and these players smoked at half time, drank copious amonts of beer, eating at the cafe with pies and chips. I believe training consisted of a kickabout in the morning with massive hangovers before heading to the canteen to put their bets on the nags for the day.
The gypsy curse preceded those days by some years so that cannot be held as an excuse because injuries were not particularly rampant then so lets give the old methods a try again.
Think Moyes has also been
Think Moyes has also been struck with the curse. He has been dillusional for the last 18 months.