Ever the thorough manager, David Moyes watched Brentford play Watford in last night's Premier League fixture that was dramatically won by the home team in the closing minutes of added time. The fact that there was in excess of five minutes of injury time was indicative of the way both sets of players approached the game!
Another one bites the dust
Players from BOTH sides were dropping like flies at the slightest contact to such an extent that it would not have been amiss for the Stadium DJ to have had Queen's 'Another one bites the dust' blasting out over the PA system. Hammers fans will be only too aware as to how Brentford go about their 'game management' or gamesmanship as it used to be called in old money!
Perhaps this should be Brentford's anthem?
Albinoni Adagio in g minor
You could argue that newly promoted teams are entitled to try every trick in the book in order to maintain their top flight status, last night's spectacle was interesting in that BOTH teams whined, bickered, fell down as if they had been hit by a sniper's bullet and were generally in the ear of the referee from the moment the game kicked off.
Moyes doesn't like Deep Seas
David Moyes is known to be a strict disciplinarian, part of his ethos is that players SHOULDN'T dive or waste time, it may be old school, but that's what he tries to instill in his players. Often one of the reasons it takes 'dithering Dave' so much time to integrate new players is that he has to 'remove' the diving element from newly acquired players' games.
So in the future when you see a West Ham player get up and dust himself down without rolling over three times followed by a pike, you will possibly appreciate why. It might be football, but not as WE know it, Deep Sea Divers? NO thank you! - ED
