No dynamism, energy or pace. They look lost

BROADWAY MARKET, Hackney. Lovely place. Attractive market, with the smells of street food and a decent pie-and-mash shop (even if it had a Spurs picture up on the wall). Long stroll to the olympic Stadium through parks and around gentrified drinking establishments where every time someone said: ‘Shall we stay here . . . it’s bound to be better than the football,’ someone else laughed. I like the London Stadium. I like my seat in the East Stand. I like the atmosphere when most of 56,000 get behind the team. I like the friends I go with. I like it all. Apart from the football; it gets in the way of a good day out. It always gets in the way. I like Slaven Bilic too. We went to a pub one day soon after he arrived from Germany as a player and he asked me to buy him a pint. ‘Bitter or lager,’ I asked. ‘No, milk you idiot! I am professional footballer.’ I wanted him to get the job and I wanted him to keep the job. But you can’t be 3-0 down at home to Spurs, 3-0 down at home to Brighton and 4-1 down at home to Liverpool and expect to be asked to carry on. The team have no organisation, poor communication, a lack of dynamism and energy and such little pace. The team look lost. Good players, like Marko Arnautovic and Michail Antonio, have gone backwards. It’s so bad, I am even happy — maybe ‘happy’ is too strong — with the idea of David Moyes. He can surely get the team organised. He can surely make them harder to beat. one top manager said to me yesterday that West Ham can get the wins they need to stay up ‘easy’. He has more faith than me right now. The pre-match fare might be Premier League, but the football isn’t.