Would Now be a Good Time...

...for West Ham to declare themselves insolvent?

It looks increasingly likely that West Ham are going to go down this season and if we don’t beat Hull it could very well be that we will be too deep in the mire to claw our way back. Beat Hull away and this post may become academic.


Visually (not on paper) we look to have a good team (too good to go down as Scott Parker put it) but does that visualisation make realization?


Teams at the bottom are already scrapping for points, which is normally how it goes much closer to the seasons end; can you say the same of us, are we ‘brawling’ hard enough for the few meagre points now that could prove to be so vitally important in the end?

I’ve been looking at a few of the fixtures of the clubs ‘around’ us in the weekend following the international break. Weekend of 21^st/22^nd, we are away to the Tigers obviously, then there are:

Stoke – Pompey
Chelsea – Wolves
Bolton – Blackburn
Birmingham - Fulham

Stoke are beatable by a resurgent Pompey – Wolves stay where they are Obviously – The other two fixtures have draws written all over them neither of the 4 sides wanting to lose because things are so close down there; and the killer? Phil Brown has a golden opportunity to turn the whole season around for Hull at a time when it would never be more opportune to meet a low on morale West Ham side that are most definitely punching below their weight. We appear to be on track to be stuck exactly where we are now or worse, 18th or 19th, 10 points 13 played, going into the holiday period on a destructive low.

My point in all this? If we were to declare bankruptcy now the subsequent point’s deduction would not make a blind bit of difference – if the assumption that we are going to get relegated anyhow proves to be the case. We would start the new season in the second tier on level pegging.

Conversely if we were to get relegated (as a life long West Ham supporter I hope that does not happen obviously) and then we bring in the receivers, the ensuing points deduction THEN would have to be overcome in the Championship when all our current key players have left due to their relegation exit clauses coming into force - again, assuming of course, that they are still here after January following this so-called fire sale we're supposed to be having.

The consequences of that scenario in the fizzy-pop would be cataclysmic and we could become the ’new’ Leeds; we start a new season, in a new league, with a new team 15 points behind the rest - not to mention the probable fate of Zola and Clarke

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