No team has had West Ham's injury situation in the past year, Zola was great there, ultimately no manager can keep the team playing well or as high as previously when the team is that smegged and the owners are utterly bankrupted by recession as happened to them.
I think Zola and Grant are getting utterly screwed by the new idiots in charge. Zola had to put up with a bunch of signings out of his control who were past it big names who didn't help in the slightest and completely the opposite of what was needed. Now they've done the same to Grant, 80-95k a week depending on reports, for Bridge, who hasn't stayed fit for more than a few games at a time in years now, for a club still in heavy debt.
Owners wanted a name, not the right player.
On top of that Grants results have been improving, they were ranked 20th of all teams in August, 18th in October, and since then I think 14-16th in the past 3 months. Thats form throughout the month, so they are basically gaining points that would see them finish 15th-ish at the moment, yet results are still improving, more players are getting back to form and the team is playing better.
O'neill won't take the same crap other managers might take, he'll threaten to quit publically until the pratt's in charge stop medling so he might be just what West Ham need.
