CAN THE HAMMERS HANDLE A FULL EUROPEAN CAMPAIGN?
Jim Kearns @TheHList FOUR FOUR TWO - August 2021 https://www.fourfourtwo.com/ In the past 10 campaigns, 31 English clubs have qualified for the Europa League via the league – and only 9 have improved their final position the following year. Of the non-Super League types, only Southampton and West Ham have managed it, the latter through cunningly getting knocked out before the kids were even back at school. That West Ham likely won’t add to that number this year , however, says more about the impossibly successful nature of their 2020-21 season and less about how they’re likely to fare this time . The squad is surely too thin to cope with both European football and the annual Hammers injury crisis , but this was also true last term and they essentially ended up missing out on the Champions League because they couldn’t beat Newcastle . And they say football clubs have lost touch with their past. With manager David Moyes fully rehabilitated and deservedly rewarded with a three-year cont...