It's on the skysports site:
West Ham United chairman Eggert Magnusson has slammed former Hammers boss Alan Pardew, claiming there was dressing room unrest while he was in charge.
Pardew was sacked by Magnusson in December after a disastrous run of form, with Alan Curbishley replacing him at Upton Park.
Magnusson will come face-to-face with Pardew next weekend, as West Ham travel to Charlton Athletic for a crucial relegation battle and the Icelander has already stoked the fires ahead of the clash by suggesting Pardew had lost the dressing room at West Ham.
"There was no purpose to talk about it publicly at the time," Magnusson told the News of the World
"But the key factor was something was just not right in the dressing room.
"Tension had been building between the players and the manager for a while.
"There was a cancer we had to cut off."
sounds to me like magnusson is getting a little edgy
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West Ham is chock full of very average players with huge egos - Konchesky, Reo Coker, Ferdinand etc etc - the very worst of the Premiership Bling brigade
Pardew knew this, probably let a few of them know & the baby Bentley brigade couldn't handle it
Precisely why Curbs is struggling, he surrounded himself with honest, hard working players & has walked into a dressing room where the main concern at 2.45pm on a Saturday afternoon is which nightclub they will be hitting later that night
More cacking himself than edgey...he spent £85m on buying 83% of the club, and has since sanctioned the transfers in of several players on high salaries, not to mention sacking one manager and employing another. Instead of things pulling together after Pardew left, the club is going into freefall. If they lose their next two matches - which is conceivable, the chances are that they are all but relegated. We all knew that Maggusson, along with the takeovers of Liverpool, Aston Villa, Portsmouth etc wasn't buying a football club for the sake of the sport, but because he could get his hands on the money from the new TV deal that kicks in next year. That looks like disappearing out the window, along with a chunk of his investment.
West Ham have given us an absolute gift in Pardew and I still cannot believe how lucky we were to land him the way that we did. If we had a shopping list of ANY manager in the country when Curbs left then I would have chosen Pardew above anyone else.
Christ, I would love to have seen Brian Clough deal with some of these tossers, he would have had them sorted in five minutes. Classic bit in Roy Keane's autobiography where he says that as a 19 year old playing for Forest and Ireland he would be sitting outside the training ground dressing rooms and Cloughie would come by after taking his dog for a walk, take off his muddy wellies and chuck them at Keane and say, "Give those a clean for us please, Roy." Keane said he would clean them unquestionably every time because he knew that it was Cloughie's way of letting him know he was the boss but that at the same time Cloughie would give him latitude in other areas.
The best way to answer Mr Egg Head is on the pitch on Saturday.
When the Spammers had Pardew in charge I just could not see them realistically going down but now they are in a worse position than we are.
They also go back long enough to know the score, and neither are the media whore/rent-a-quote type, very careful about what they say and how they say it, which doesn't make for headlines. I suspect Eggert is just learning about the tabloid media in Britain the hard way, get phoned by a tabloid hack, a few leading questions and before you know it the tabloid hack has his controversial story.
All the more reason to get behind Pardew from the off on Saturday to show the Hammers in the Jimmy Seed, the Directors box and onthe pitch what they are missing.
Jimmy Seed? Is that a pub or something?
Couldn't agree more!
Surely for safety & segregation reasons they should be in the South Stand
Isn't freedom of speech a great thing.
http://www.kumb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=78066&highlight=cancer
Pretty cheap of NotW to rip this story of as it was translated from an Icelandic newspaper on January 21st on a West Ham forum.
.....Not trained properly
Eggert also says it was very hard to let Alan Pardew go but it was unavoidable. “Afterwards it has been clear that there was more to it than first appeared. There is no purpose to talk about it publically but the key factor was that something just wasn’t right in the dressing room. Tension had been building between the players and the manager for a while. That was a cancer we had to cut off.”
Eggert feels that the West Ham players werent trained properly and feels the preperations before the season were mishandled because of the tension that was building. “That was entirely unacceptable.”
West Ham regained their Premieship status in the spring of 2005 and had a great season last year. The finished ninth in the league and lost the FA Cup final to Liverpool on penalties........
Also, if Pardew DID do what he is alleged to have done {although I think things are likely to have been grossly exagerrated] then that would surely represent gross misconduct and be worth of instant dismissal, would it not? If that is the case then why did the Biscuitman agree to pay out Pardew's contract in full? Seems a bit strange does it not, to pay a couple of million for terminating a contract when you could have got away with not paying him out at all?
I guess it will all come out in the wash eventually.....
However, fact is that if they were halfway up the table then Pardew could have done what he liked to whom he liked and they would never have sacked him.
Also, I guess the "cancer" that he is supposed to have spread seems to be alive and well under Curbishley too.
Ormiston, if you want to bury your head in the sand an think pardews sh*t doesn't stink then go ahead, its pointless having a debate about it if your adament they are just slurs.