Fat Sam on Goals on Sunday this morning, talking about the last part of last season - "and then we lost Winston Reid who had been playing superbly for us, so we had to scrabble around for a replacement. We lost him when he got concussion playing a stupid international friendly"
He has got a whining fat gob hasn't he?
He's said that about 5 times now. The NZ team brought him to West Ham's notice, he probably wouldn't have chosen to move to West Ham if Ricki hadn't had a connection with Avram Grant, and he's played well and scored you goals. Thanks for picking up our boy and all, but really! It could have happened in any game, it's part of football and it's important for our top players to play for us when we have games against meaningful oposition. Paraguay with Roque Santa Cruz in New Zealand is quite meaningful for New Zealanders- but that's the point- us getting to watch our footballers is stupid to him...
but, yeah, thanks for starting him and having faith and that!!