It took revelations about finances and drastic cost-cutting incentives to finally wake our team up. It took David Sullivan pissing everybody in the East End off to push Julien Faubert to play like a decent footballer. It took the bookies suspending all bets on Zola getting sacked for the players to wake up and bloody play for him. We are, or rather we should be, too good to go down playing like that.
I'm right with the manager on the financial news, such things should be kept in-house or at least discussed first. But West Ham do sometimes need a bit of ruddy drama in order to perform. Our best runs of form in recent years have coincided with the following events: fielding an illegal immigrant, facing a lawsuit from Neil Warnock, having a manager with a brain tumour. Maybe, just maybe, the new directors were hoping to light a similar fire under our arses with their newspaper comments this week.
Bollocks theory or not, I'm starting to feel tonight is the start of another little golden spell. Cole's back, Parker and Behrami belong in the Champions League and Alessandro Diamanti is the best Italian the Premiership has seen since Paolo Di Canio. And if it takes a the threat of administration to bring it out, let's get Boa Morte on a brand new contract and re-sign Savio.
