[ 2014-01-12 ]

Cardiff City 0 West Ham 2
THE day before the game, Sam Allardyce said you
couldn’t hang on to your job unless you were
getting results. Clearly the big man means to stay
at West Ham for this was a gritty performance and
a precious result. It enabled the Hammers to edge
out of the bottom three and, with some players
returning from injury, things may be about to get
better.

How Allardyce felt was apparent from his
celebration of Mark Noble’s goal, created by
substitute Andy Carroll, and scored in second-half
stoppage time. The manager jumped into the arms of
one of his assistants and then did a little dance
in the technical area. Football can still find the
boy in the man and the release of pressure can
unearth a little madness.

He’d known the pressure was building, had heard
the talk that he’d “lost the dressing room”,
which is often the last accusation levelled
against a manager about to be sacked. West Ham’s
owners insisted there would be no change but no
matter what they said or how supportive they were,
he still needed the team to win.

Source - The Times(UK)

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