Following West Ham’s opening day tonking at the hands of newly promoted Sunderland, Karren Brady rocked up to TalkSport Towers for an interview on live radio the next morning. The club’s vice-chair spent the best part of an hour in the hot seat, during which time she extolled Graham Potter’s many virtues as both a man, a professional and a head coach who needed to be given time. Despite his extremely inauspicious eight-month reign at the London Stadium, he would be given every opportunity to get a tune out of an unbalanced, bang-average, make-do-and-mend assortment of players, many of whom are walking (or at a push slowly jogging) examples of the disastrous legacy of West Ham’s profligate erstwhile technical director, Tim Steidten. “West Ham is not a club that panics about its managers,” said Brady of a club that has just appointed its fourth new gaffer in 16 months. “We tend to support people, stick with them and see it through.”
On behalf of Arsenal Football Club, please accept my apologies for the fist bump I gave my son at the end of the Newcastle match. I should know better – Patrick
As an avid reader who is always hoping your fine publication will be funny, every issue I read the letters (the best bit frequently) and think ‘I wonder what the merch is …’, but I never wonder enough to be bothered looking it up – Paul Clerkin
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Continue reading…Following West Ham’s opening day tonking at the hands of newly promoted Sunderland, Karren Brady rocked up to TalkSport Towers for an interview on live radio the next morning. The club’s vice-chair spent the best part of an hour in the hot seat, during which time she extolled Graham Potter’s many virtues as both a man, a professional and a head coach who needed to be given time. Despite his extremely inauspicious eight-month reign at the London Stadium, he would be given every opportunity to get a tune out of an unbalanced, bang-average, make-do-and-mend assortment of players, many of whom are walking (or at a push slowly jogging) examples of the disastrous legacy of West Ham’s profligate erstwhile technical director, Tim Steidten. “West Ham is not a club that panics about its managers,” said Brady of a club that has just appointed its fourth new gaffer in 16 months. “We tend to support people, stick with them and see it through.”On behalf of Arsenal Football Club, please accept my apologies for the fist bump I gave my son at the end of the Newcastle match. I should know better – PatrickAs an avid reader who is always hoping your fine publication will be funny, every issue I read the letters (the best bit frequently) and think ‘I wonder what the merch is …’, but I never wonder enough to be bothered looking it up – Paul ClerkinThis is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading…