West Ham United are one of the Premiership clubs that our Trading Team has no routes to inside information within so we are reluctant to comment on the spectacular society "news" leakage from East London.
But, our suspicion is that there is an institutional issue with Eggert Magnusson and/or Alan Curbishley at play here.
Last season, West Ham received very favourable officiating both in the league and in their progression to the FA Cup Final. Such biases continued in 2006/07 until mid-December when Curbishley was brought in. Apart from Dowd's myopia in Curbishley's first game in charge, the referees have turned against West Ham big style. The Hammers have had their degree of favouritism slashed from joint best in the Premiership to, by some distance, the least favoured since mid-December.
There is much that never reached the media about Curbishley's departure from Charlton at the end of last season. As we have intimated previously, our legal people have suggested we avoid discussing the scenario on this blog.
It would be our guesstimation that it is Curbishley that is being targeted as a hidden agenda punishment for whatever it is that allegedly went on leading to his resignation at Charlton.
The combination of Magnusson (who hails from the no holds barred world of capitalism that arose in Russia after Glasnost), Curbishley and Day, a structure that not only leaks stories like a sieve, but also both encourages xenophobic/racist cliques and abusive gambling, suggests that the Hammers will struggle to survive this year. A lack of team spirit together with hierarchical dysfunctionalities, brinksmanship management style and psychopathic ownership does not augur well.
