[St Charles Owl]

.....of hearing people talk about 'the Albion way'. As a season ticket holder and frequent 'away day traveller'....I can't  recall us playing 'the Albion way'  since flares were cool. What a yawn!!!!!!

'The Albion way', which I must admit I haven't heard of, unless it means trying to win games by scoring goals, which in turn involves playing attacking football, in which case it applies to every football team in the world, is right up there with 'the West Ham academy'.

As an outsider I too haven't heard of the Albion way but I am old enough to remember the exciting team you had when Cunningham and Regis were playing. Wasn't Big Ron your manager then, I ask because for me he took advantage of the players you had, got the best out of them and played the team in a way that set you up to win. That is generally all that any manager can do, point being when Big Ron was our manager he also went with the long ball as well as playing it on the ground, which again got the best out of the team he had.

As has been said, the game now is all about money, and if you want to stay in the money, then avoiding relegation is your continual goal and most managers now will do whatever they feel is neccessary to make sure that stays the case!! On the flip side, most pundits never thought they would see a team managed by Sam Allardyce play good football, but currently that is what he is doing at West Ham!!