Tevez Keeps Hammers Hopes Alive

Carlos Tevez might be excused for dragging his feet a little at his present club. He could take the lofty view that since he’s a World Cup star with his native Argentina, West Ham United, particularly a West Ham United fighting a seemingly futile battle against relegation, are a little beneath him. Moreover, he doesn’t speak their language (in more ways than one), he’s met with a certain hostility from some of the natives, the manager was sacked and his mate Mascherano has escaped to a far better place, Liverpool.

Faced with all that, what does Tevez actually do? He falls in love with fish and chips and, more importantly and against all the odds, he falls in love with West Ham. So in spite of the fact that the likes of Harewood and Reo-Coker show a marked disinclination to pass the ball to him, this gifted striker runs himself into the ground and almost single-handedly carves out a priceless win against Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park that gives the Hammers the faintest glimmer of hope in their desperate quest to preserve their Premiership status.

And the fans love him for it. Even if some of the jumped up, overpaid, overrated, self-centred, envious and thoroughly insecure players he is obliged to play with clearly don’t.