West Ham’s attempted fairytale escape continued to speak for itself as the Hammers continue to face atrocious luck spanning from the club’s own results to other sides, as well as a pitiful variety of dodgy VAR calls.
How NES’ spirit hasn’t been squashed for the Hammers so far is beyond extraordinary. The feeling of always being so close in games but always missing out is what has placed West Ham in this position.
To look at some of the games that the Hammers have massively lost out on, Manchester United last night, Chelsea away with a 92nd-minute winner, Nottingham Forest with an 89th-minute winner, Fulham 85th and Brighton, who scored in the 91st minute. To be in all of these matches but to not come away with either a draw or a victory has been a brutal blow for Hammers fans. They say it’s painful to experience a last-minute goal in Football, well, West Ham have conceded 8 goals in the 85th minute+ this season… brutal!
In addition to the late goals conceded, there have been plenty of decisions that have been game-defining for West Ham. The first game that springs to mind would be against Nottingham Forest, a goal by Summerville, disallowed through Taty being offside but the officials not noticing the ball taking a deflection. Additionally, in the same game, the penalty, of which Gibbs-White scored, he shouldn’t have taken the penalty due to the head injury he claimed to get… shocking! Another poor decision against Brighton, where Rutter handled the ball, the list is endless.
Not to mention that West Ham have had no luck in this relegation fight, every time the club appear to pick up points the other relegation sides manage to as well. Leeds last night managed a 2-2 draw against Chelsea. The supposed brilliant Blues had a defensive blunder, Leeds scored a handball and Palmer missed an open goal in added time. The list is endless when it comes to ‘what could’ve been’ if other teams had done West Ham a favour.
Blunders and attempted positives, that’s the summary of the luck West Ham have had to endure this season. - LN
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yes agree
being a hammer fan, it always seems that the whole world is against us, but that wont deter us we will fight to the end and the players now seem to be on board as well C.O.Y.I
We
Think we've got it bad? Spare a thought for Leicester lol
wow
N Forrest draw with wolves yippee
Would have preferred a Wolves
Would have preferred a Wolves win but thankful they didn't lose
Its not over yet,Wolves did
Its not over yet,Wolves did us a favour,that big Greek git even more so at Forest by sacking Dyche,that will have thrown them out of sync,and Spurs getting rid of Frank,if we keep our heads,and carry on as we have we will get out of this,and relegate the Spud lol!!!!! Heres hoping.
By recent events we are
By recent events we are looking somewhat normal and boring. I say who would have thought it?
Nuno has momentum now and we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Or the light shining from somewhere. It's certainly not out of Lady B's buttplug!!
Recent events.
I feel the three main reasons we are playing better 1/ Not having kilman playing 2/ getting paqueta sold 3/ Introduction of paco jemez.
Tbh
Wish spurs had kept frank. They'd have gone down for sure lol