Being a West Ham fan I watched the ecstasy turn to agony yesterday as Tottenham’s brief hold on seventeenth place evaporated in the ninety fifth minute, I couldn’t help reflecting on how this would have played out had it been West Ham’s last day encounter with Leeds United.
There’s a warning in yesterdays Tottenham Hotspur turnaround that West Ham need to heed
Being ahead temporarily and feeling ‘safe’ only to suffer a late equaliser and be relegated as a consequence is every West Ham fans’ worst nightmare and the Hammers simply cannot go into that last day against a Leeds side who are already safe needing to win to stay in the Premier League.
As Tottenham’s result yesterday shows, that is a disaster waiting to happen.
Nuno needs to get out and win games to pick up the required points ahead of that last day encounter to avoid the kind of sickening outcome – which West Ham fans celebrated yesterday – becoming our own season finale.
A faint heart never won a fair lady or a relegation battle. Do or die time.
A couple of 4-3 West Ham wins will do it. As Jarrod Bowen put it “Every game between now and the end of the season is a cup final“- It really is time to adopt that mentality.
No mucking about, no slow setting up, keeping it calm til 70 minutes- time for the Portuguese supremo to take off the hand brake and set out to dominate teams and get those points from Palace, Brentford, Everton and Newcastle.
Six points won’t be enough. Eight should do it. Ten will do nicely.