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Deeper and deeper

joe morris

Thursday, April 6th, 2023

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Deeper and deeper
West Ham plunge into
The abyss, spiralling
Out of control
Help goes the cry
For this was the ultimate
Warning, lose today
And it could be curtains
Loose draperies,
The end of the road
Perhaps for the claret and blue
Platoon
A crisis undoubtedly
But not now surely
We can fix the problem
Or is this now terminal
Incurable, incorrigible
This is just West Ham
Being West Ham
Fighting that traditional
Battle of battle
Last night
There were high fives
But not of the East End
Variety and yet
No variations on a theme
Newcastle with Saudi pots of gold
Wallop the Hammers with emphatic
Conviction. 5-1 to the Toon
A statement of real intent
Perhaps a Champions League
Masterclass, next season
But West Ham now resigned
To the last 10 games of
Scuffling, scraping the bottom
Of the barrel, struggling to
Remain a solvent Premier League
Force of nature
Gripping desperately onto weather beaten
Rock faces
Twisted with terror
The Championship still
On the precipice of our
Imagination
But not again
It only seemed like yesterday
When Sam Allardyce
Heaving the Hammers
Back into the Premier League
On that sun kissed day
Back in May 2012
Told us it would happen
When Blackpool came to
The Wembley Arch
And opened up Tangerine Dreams
Then 11 years later
The worst case scenario
Another season out of the sun
In the murky depths
Of Championship obscurity
It was always thus
But maybe not.

Notes

Here’s another horrific 5-1 defeat for West Ham against Eddie Howe’s Newcastle.

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