West Ham were very lucky on Saturday afternoon.
Lucky not to have their collars felt and be charged with theft. Hull must have travelled back up the motorway feeling like they had had their wallets pinched, which ruined what was going to be a good day out in the smoke.
It’s not very often, ok it’s never, that I feel sorry for the opposition but you have to have a bit of sympathy for Hull. If it had been the other way round we know how gutted we would have been.
As funny as it was, the naming of the post as man of the match must have felt like stamping gravel in an open wound for the Tigers.
But, that’s football. We’ve had our fair share of those situations over the years where you get naff all from a game that should have been full points.
And let’s be honest we had a hell of a lucky week. 7 points from a possible 9 where if we were a neutral we may say we actually deserved maybe 1?
Hey ho. Deserved or not we will take those 7 points thanks very much, as they have dug us out of trouble, at least for the time being.
Not so long ago we were perilously close to dropping in to the dreaded relegation zone at Christmas scenario and all the hoopla and hand wringing that goes with it.
Now we look down from a lofty 13th position. It just goes to show what a congested, tight old affair of a league we have this year. None of the 6 teams above us have won more than one game more than us.
If results go the right way on Boxing Day we could be in the top half. Not bad considering how poor we’ve been this season.
And when you look at the upcoming fixtures, if we can sort ourselves out, we don’t on paper, have many games up until the end of January where we should be too nervous.
Aside from Manchester United we have to play Swansea, Leicester, Palace and Middlesbrough. That’s got to be a good opportunity to pick up some nice points and steady the ship.
If we can play the sort of football we know we are capable of we could put some real distance between us and the scary relegation dog fight.
We can then watch on as the other poor saps scrap it out.
Have a good Christmas everyone.
COYI