Quote Originally Posted by selassie View Post
Oh I agree NQ, to be honest I don't know what the defence were thinking yesterday, they have been very solid throughout pre-season and pretty much for the entire 2nd half of last season. I am putting down yesterday's disaster as a "mentality" issue which in itself is extremely worrying. I geniunely believe the players, all of them..thought it was just a case of turning up yesterday.
I agree, the attitude was wrong from the start. The problem with this set of players and the manager is that even though they can talk a good game, they dont have the right mentality and approach to be champions. Losing your first game of the season against a mediocre West ham (they have added 2 really good players in Ogbona and Payet though) is simply unacceptable, and is worrying that these kind of results can occur at any given moment.