Lopetegui: gone
- by bristolhammerfc
- started 9 May 2024
- 185k+ views
The reason I’ve taken the time to log in to KUMB today and write this is because I wanted a moment to mourn what has happened to this historic club.
It’s been hard to be positive about West Ham over the opening months of a dreadful season. But Graham Potter has changed all that after just two games.
This is a tricky one I know – so I’ve got my grandad’s old Home Guard tin hat at the ready. Could we have a civilised debate about ‘tourists’? Not visitors to our country but visitors to our home ground – the London Stadium.
The appointment of Julen Lopetegui was a poor one, as it turned out, but one that was always destined to fail.
It’s been the most painful, the most heartless, the most embarrassing long goodbye you could ever imagine.
Rest assured, dear reader. This isn’t an in-depth look at the Essex-based punk band or the 90s Alicia Silverstone classic movie, which is still to this day a guilty pleasure of mine.
Even by West Ham’s standards, 2024 was one hell of a rollercoaster.
The cost of purchasing West Ham United FC is likely to be upwards of £600million for the next wealthy individual or corporation who wish to buy out the current owners.
As if 2024 could not get any worse. But even on the last day, there was another vicious kick in the teeth.
There seems to be a bit of a pattern emerging when the big clubs come to the London Stadium of these ridiculous five or six-goal wins, in a way that very rarely used to happen at Upton Park.