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WEST Ham fans deserve better than Curbishley and his dull, dreary, unwinning Charlton-a-likes
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Last updated at 08:48am on 5th May 2008
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Hatchet Man
Humiliation - it's the only word for how West Ham fans are feeling after the abject surrender of their team against ten men in Manchester.
"Sorry Avram," says Alan Curbishley, according to the back page of the Daily Mail. Well West Ham are one sorry club and their manager is like Humpty Dumpty ... he's fallen off his wall and there's no way of putting him together again.
• The previous HATCHET MAN
"West Ham did not turn up," said Alan Hansen. "They were looking for a beach somewhere."
This is a club who have been in the same position in the league for 19 weeks. They don't go up, they don't go down. A little bit like the game at Old Trafford: West Ham did not go forward with any menace, they offered no threat to Manchester United – they curled up and caved in. Where is their ambition?
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How times change: Last year Carlos Tevez saved West Ham at Old Trafford - this year he helped savage them
Now, United are the superior team with the better players, but West Ham had beaten them in each of their previous three encounters.
When United strolled into a 3-0 lead, it was nothing more than anyone expected, especially from this West Ham team under Curbishley.
Then Nani was sent off for his head-push on Lucas Neil (great pinch to wind him up) and Dean Ashton scored with a sensational overhead kick and suddenly we had a game. Or we should have done.
Surely, West Ham would send bodies forward, bring on another striker, attack with relish – they had nothing to lose. Instead, they collapsed, they gave up. They only played with two up front once they were 4-1 down.
Sir Alex Ferguson and Alan Curbishley
The old pals' act extended to the pitch when Alan met Alex
This epic title race deserved more than this; it deserved for West Ham to really go after United and to take the head-to-head between United and Chelsea down to the last kicks.
Imagine how West Ham fans might have been feeling through the summer. We beat Man U, their fans would be able to say ... in their own backyard. Or at least, we gave them a right good chasing.
Instead, their supporters stumble into the summer with a loathing for what Curbishley has turned their team into - and the dull, Charlton-like, unattractive football they play.
What a sad bunch they are but this club with rich and proud traditions of playing good football deserve more. A better team and a better manager.
He couldn't even face the cameras after the game. He was right to hide away.
dean ashton
Sad time: Ashton
Why didn't Dean Ashton celebrate his amazing scissor kick at Old Trafford? He was a Manchester United fan as a boy but he is a West Ham player now.
Maybe he was hoping he might get a move to Old Trafford. Never mind son. You have to stay fit to get a move to a big club.