West Ham United Football Club – Latest Hammers News

This first of a two-part article on England and the West Ham connection that originally appeared on my 2010 England World Cup blog. Apologies to anyone who read it there, but I know many England supporters stopped visiting after England limped out in disarray and, of course, many West Ham fans aren’t neccessarily supporters of the English national side, so I make no apologies for re-running it on the West Ham page as, following David Sullivan’s comments to Soccernet ( Here ), the appointment of Avram Grant and a raft of foreign signings, I think it as relevant to supporters of the Hammers as much as ‘Team England’.

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One of the few benefits of having your contract terminated is that you can be on the ball with exciting developments at Upton Park. So it is that within minutes of Messrs Gold and Sullivan opening the door this morning I can confirm that Avram Grant has been offered a four-year contract to take over the manager’s hot seat at West Ham. In a secret that hardly was, Grant joins the club fresh from leading Portsmouth to the FA Cup final and replaces former Chelsea favourite Gianfranco Zola, who was sacked at the end of the season. It will be interesting to see if Grant suffers the same anti-Blue backlash that Zola did.

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Gianfranco Zola has been sacked by West Ham in a move that has really surprised no-one apart from the manager himself, if reports that Gianfranco was ‘shocked’ by the news are to be believed. Mind you, as that statement came from David Sullivan we’ll take that with a pinch of salt and assume the little Italian clicked his heels on the way out. Frankly, he’s probably best out of it. Personally. I’m saddened but not at all surprised by the news. I’ve been a supporter of Zola from the off but once the Icelandic consortium were bought out by David’s Gold and Sullivan and Karren Brady was brought in as Managing Director in place of Scott Duxbury, then the writing was well and truly on the wall.

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