On West Ham From A Distance And England Football Team Stuff Still Flogged In Wales By Tesco

Hello there. Hope you're feeling well today.

Well I must admit from far,far away I'm getting nervous and depressed about West Ham at the moment. From a position last season of sixth and into European competition we now lose in the second pre-qualifying round of the Europa League to a team where Google Maps needed to be consulted.

But what's worse is the performance in the Premier League so far. In the first game of the season they lost to Chelsea. You shrug your shoulders and think "well OK Chelsea could not have as worse a season as the last one". So you live with that.

They beat Bournemouth, great. But then they lose 3-1 to Manchester City. And again the ten year old boy in me makes excuses. "They're managed by Pep Guardiola....they're playing great football  against other teams...West Ham have enough injuries to fill any medical TV drama episode...".

However.

In the last three games they have lost to Watford,West Bromwich Albion and Southampton. The fact that they lost is not the issue. If they had lost by a goal you would have grudgingly accepted it. They in fact let in four,four and three goals respectively. Consolation goals do not help. Of course rubbing salt into the wound is the fact that the teams I dislike the most Tottenham and of course the Arsenal are second and third in the league at the moment.

And what I don't understand,from far far away is not the decline but it's speed from where we were at the end of last season. Let me stress I will always support West Ham and will always try to get to as many games as possible. But it doesn't mean that I'm not worried.

Mind you, if there is one place you can hide from a lot of flak if you're a Hammer supporter is South Wales at the moment. West Ham are in the relegation zone at 18th but Swansea City are (at time of writing) just two positions and one point above them. Consequently any conversations with a Jack fan is just mutual moaning at our respective teams at the moment. As for Cardiff City they won on Saturday but still are just outside the relegation zone in The Championship. Their manager's name is Trollope, you would hope that their performance will start becoming more novel.

West Ham then. In Europe and now out of it. Unless things improve (fingers and everything else crossed) they are fast becoming a metaphor for Brexit. And one final thing on this, there is nothing more worse footballing wise than a smug Arsenal fan. If you trust me on anything trust me on that.

You might remember during Euro 2016 I remarked that Official England football figures were being sold in the local Bridgend Tesco. Well in this washout of a day and so many months later I was back in this Tesco branch and......

it's still there

I have mentioned before that Wales must be the only country this happens to. I think that I've mentioned before that you cannot imagine this happening in Scotland and yet the Welsh are supposed to bare this.Also that this was not the only example of this happening through the years and not just around Euro 2016.

Well of course this is much worse now than it was even then given of course that Wales came third in the competition and England embarrassingly crashed out to Iceland. So why are Tesco flogging official merchandise from another country? With behaviour like this do you wonder why people rather go to Aldi/Lidl (and for the record I went to Tesco for a few items I couldn't get at LIDL)?

Perhaps these companies should note that Wales exists and is not a region of England.

Until the next time.