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West Ham sack manager Gianfranco Zola

Zola's West Ham side flirted with relegation from the Premier League for much of the season


West Ham have sacked manager Gianfranco Zola after less than two years in charge at Upton Park.

The former Chelsea player, who had no previous managerial experience at club level, took over from Alan Curbishley in September 2008.

He signed a new four-year deal towards the end of his first term as West Ham finished ninth in the Premier League.

But this season they struggled and ended the season in 17th place, only five points above the relegation zone.

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we should get him to accompany garrrrry cook around and counter the blatantly evil aura.

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"It felt like a really pointless version of ketamine: no psychedelic effects, no pleasant slide into rubbery nonsense, just a sudden drop off the cliff of wrongness."
"i'm gonna wreck you so bad we're going to have to change church"

wouldn't touch that job with a fucking barge pole

no money, cost cuts in every department, the entire sqaud minus parker up for sale, and those two monkeys in charge

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'Fabio, the round thing there is the ball'

Aguero

This what happens when you put a pornographer and a dildo salesman in charge of a football team.

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And put on that wig I bought you. No, no, no, no. The reddish-brown one.

^^^^^^^

No, they were No 17. They is why Zola got the boot.

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And put on that wig I bought you. No, no, no, no. The reddish-brown one.

avram grant is odds on to get the job

Did David "Spunk" Sullivan entice Grant to West Ham with the promise of discounted prices* for visits to his brothels?



*extras not included

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And put on that wig I bought you. No, no, no, no. The reddish-brown one.

Decent coach, great bloke, shit club.

17th wasn't good enough, West Ham are a top 16 side.

has he not learned his lesson with pompey

*pompey to vanish to league 2 in three years*

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'Fabio, the round thing there is the ball'

Aguero

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"It felt like a really pointless version of ketamine: no psychedelic effects, no pleasant slide into rubbery nonsense, just a sudden drop off the cliff of wrongness."
"i'm gonna wreck you so bad we're going to have to change church"

Didn't see this thread for some reason.

Mark Hughes will be West Ham manager next season. You heard it here second.

West Ham's Luís Boa Morte apologies for attack on David Sullivan• Striker hit out at West Ham co-owner over criticisms of team
• The club claim Portuguese winger 'misunderstood the facts'
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Luís Boa Morte celebrates scoring for West Ham against Manchester City on Sunday. Photograph: Simon Dawson/AP

Luís Boa Morte has held clear-the-air talks with the West Ham United co-owner, David Sullivan, and apologised for comments he made after the 1-1 draw with Manchester City.

The out-of-contract Portugal international aimed a verbal attack at Sullivan, who has been critical of the West Ham squad at times during the season.

Boa Morte told Match of the Day: "Mr Sullivan should have a bit more composure when he talks and when he goes to the press to hammer the players. He should be a bit more steady. The fact you have the money, it doesn't mean you can do whatever you want."

However, the 32-year-old phoned Sullivan today to apologise for his outburst and the conversation, according to West Ham, was "cordial". The club also reported that Boa Morte accepted his comments had been based on a "misunderstanding of the facts" and in a moment of high emotion.

Boa Morte had scored on his comeback to the West Ham side after a year spent recovering from knee ligament damage. Sullivan insisted the matter is now closed.

"I greatly admire Luís as a player and he takes the passion he shows on the pitch into his personal life," said Sullivan. "Like me, occasionally it boils over – so I know exactly where he is coming from."

Sullivan has not been shy in criticising the West Ham players since he and David Gold bought the club in January and injected £20m that saved the Hammers from administration.

In March, Sullivan wrote an open letter to supporters after West Ham's defeat to Wolves, blasting the performance as "pathetic" and "shambolic", which did not go down well with the manager, Gianfranco Zola, or the players.

In yesterday's match programme, Sullivan wrote that "the current team and management know that what they have delivered was below the expectations at the start of the season".

Zola's relationship with Sullivan and Gold has been frosty and it recently emerged the owners had been conducting transfer business behind the manager's back.

The Italian is contracted at West Ham until 2013 but he will meet Gold and Sullivan tomorrow to discuss his future at the club.

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"It felt like a really pointless version of ketamine: no psychedelic effects, no pleasant slide into rubbery nonsense, just a sudden drop off the cliff of wrongness."
"i'm gonna wreck you so bad we're going to have to change church"

Well, I purchased one of David Sullivan's "gentlemen's publications" in a late night garage at the weekend and I thought that was also below expectations.

Did he send me a letter of apology? Did he fuck.

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And put on that wig I bought you. No, no, no, no. The reddish-brown one.

printed mags just can't compete with the internet.

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"It felt like a really pointless version of ketamine: no psychedelic effects, no pleasant slide into rubbery nonsense, just a sudden drop off the cliff of wrongness."
"i'm gonna wreck you so bad we're going to have to change church"

Meh. Was always gonna happen. Shame because he comes across as a top guy, but West Ham are shit so he was always going.

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A double-bed and a stalwart lover, for sure
These are the riches of the poor

can someone PLEASE change the name of the thread??i cant get that stupid "last christmas" song out of my head! aaaahhh!

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i breath fire on you!

zola is the nicest bloke in football by miles.

the post match interview between him and mancini on motd made me like mancini a lot more as well.


that's the point

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"It felt like a really pointless version of ketamine: no psychedelic effects, no pleasant slide into rubbery nonsense, just a sudden drop off the cliff of wrongness."
"i'm gonna wreck you so bad we're going to have to change church"

Ba Do Da, Jitterbug.

Clearly Zola didnt " take the grey skies out of my way"

So I think Hughes will come in and "make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day"

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