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Il West Ham, ripiombiato in pienissima zona retrocessione dopo il tracollo interno contro i Wolves, si appella ai tifosi per bocca del comproprietario del club David Sullivan. Anche il calendario delle prossime gare appare impegnativo per cui la società ha deciso di chiedere pubblicamente un ulteriore sostegno al già passionale pubblico degli “Hammers”. ( foto ) Secondo Sullivan la società avrebbe bisogno di nuovi eroei e, comunque vada a finire la stagione, è forte la sensazione che a fine anno saranno in tanti a non esseri riconfermati, con lo stessa panchina di Zola in discussione.Intanto in Scozia i Celtic, dopo il clamoroso quattro a zero subito dal St. Mirren, hanno esonerato l’allenatore Mowbray.
David Sullivan issues plea to West Ham fans
Zola guided the Hammers to ninth in the Premier League last season
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West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has made an emotional plea for Hammers fans to get behind their relegation-haunted team when they face Stoke on Saturday.
Gianfranco Zola’s team are only a point off the drop zone after a humbling 3-1 defeat at home to Wolves on Tuesday.Sullivan said on the club’s website: “We need you to support us, to forgive us the result against Wolves and to remember what this great club is about.”Now we need new heroes,” added Sullivan, who has ruled out axing Zola.However, in the midst of his rallying call, the statement also contained numerous stinging criticisms of Zola’s team ahead of the visit of the Potters.“I was as angry and upset as every supporter in the stadium at the disorganised way we played, allowing Wolves too much space so that they looked like Manchester United,” the statement read.”This was the culmination of five defeats in a row, including an appalling performance against Bolton.”We have a few very talented players in our team, but it is a very unbalanced squad. Individually, we have some very good players, but this is not being converted into a good team performance.
“Nobody at the club should delude themselves that we are a good team.”In what was expected to be a much tighter encounter at Upton Park on Monday, Wolves, also battling the drop, outplayed a lifeless West Ham side as goals from Kevin Doyle, Ronald Zubar and Matthew Jarvis put Mick McCarthy’s team 3-0 up after barely an hour.
Sullivan was in the stands at Upton Park for the Wolves los
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Guillermo Franco notched a late consolation for the home team, but by then thousands of home fans had headed for the exit, while others vented their fury at Zola with chants of “You’re getting sacked in the morning”.Sullivan, though, insists that he and fellow co-owner David Gold will resist the temptation to install a new manager, as fellow strugglers Hull have done in replacing Phil Brown with Iain Dowie.”I don’t think bringing in an Iain Dowie mark II will make us a better team,” said former Birmingham owner Sullivan before Thursday’s statement.Instead, Sullivan hopes that a sense of unity amongst the Hammers’ faithful can have a positive effect on Zola’s beleaguered charges.”Saturday may be tense, on Saturday you will feel anxious and, at times, unsettled. I ask that we try not to transmit that on to the field, that we get behind the team and provide them with a platform. The rest is up to them,” his statement continued.
The impassioned plea also attempted to invoke the club’s history with references to past Upton Park favourites such as Bobby Moore, Sir Geoff Hurst, Sir Trevor Brooking and Frank McAvennie.”Now we need this team to show their quality. Now we need this team to show their talent, their desire, their passion, their dare,” it read.Former Chelsea star Zola was appointed as Alan Curbishley’s successor in September 2008 and signed a new contract to keep him at the club until 2013, seven months later before leading the club to a ninth place league finish.Failure to beat the drop could, of course, see Zola exit the east London club but Sullivan has refused to speculate on what may happen beyond the end of this campaign.Asked whether Zola would leave at the end of the season, he replied: “I wouldn’t like to comment on that. Who knows?
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“He could look like a hero or a dunce. If he wins the next seven games he looks like the best manager of all time. If he loses the next seven games he’s the worst manager of all time.”Three of the five defeats we’ve just suffered were expected. But to lose at home to Bolton and Wolverhampton in consecutive home games is appalling. I think we all accept that.
“But we will see what he is made of in the next few games.”After the visit of Tony Pulis’s Stoke at the weekend, the Hammers travel to in-form Europa League qualification hopefuls Everton the following weekend.They entertain Sunderland on 10 April before they go back to Merseyside to play fourth-spot-chasing Liverpool.Their last three games are at home to Wigan, away to Fulham and, finally, against Manchester City at Upton Park on 9 May.
( BBC Football )
Celtic esonera tecnico Mowbray
(ANSA) – GLASGOW, 25 MAR – Il Celtic Glasgow ha esonerato l’allenatore Tony Mowbray all’indomani del 4-0 subito ieri dal St Mirren. Il ko rappresenta una delle umiliazioni peggiori della storia del Celtic, ormai lontano in classifica dai suoi rivali di sempre, i Glasgow Rangers. In attesa della nomina del nuovo allenatore l’ex capitano dei Celtics, Neil Lennon, assumera’ l’interim. Mowbray, ex difensore del club, era arrivato a meta’ della scorsa stagione al posto di Gordon Strachan.
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