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Wanting Bilic back at West Ham is madness

By Scott Johnson

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 25: Slaven Bilic, Manager of West Ham United looks on during the Carabao Cup Fourth Round match between Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United at Wembley Stadium on October 25, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Michael Regan/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 25: Slaven Bilic, Manager of West Ham United looks on during the Carabao Cup Fourth Round match between Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United at Wembley Stadium on October 25, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Michael Regan/Getty Images) /
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In recent weeks the mood around West Ham has gone from positive to negative, and then some. However those who want Bilic back must be feeling it more than most.

We talked about some fans having short memories recently, and it seems that many have suffered the same fate again. When West Ham wished Bilic a happy 50th birthday, I thought it was a nice thing to do. This was a former manager and player, so I think it was fair, and he did give us one amazing season.

But those wishing he could come back, or that he was still in charge of the team, are surely losing their minds right? As soon as we left Upton Park, he could barely get the side to do anything. And that was with a side he had been with for a while. Even if the side was set up to not concede, we were super leaky. So what is with all this nostalgia?

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Although the Bilic love in was the most obvious, because it was on the West Ham official site, he’s not the only former manager who some fans want back after only 4 games of the current man in charge. There have been a lot of polls going around of those who want Bilic back, and Tony Cottee recently said that Moyes in charge would have been better.

Quite simply your brain makes it easier to remember good times, to protect your current state. So it’s the same way that you remember good times with an ex rather than the reasons you broke up. So whilst you want Bilic back for the Upton Park final season, what you’re forgetting is the season and a half of rubbish that we witnessed in the last 18 months of his campaign. I love Bilic for the final season at the Boleyn, but we would have been relegated last season if not for Moyes.

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All I can get from this is that fans, when in a negative place, just try and hold onto something they remember as good. That Farewell Boleyn season was incredible, and people will attribute that to Bilic who definitely played his part. But Bilic back? Like the friend stopping you drunk texting your ex, I’m going to have to tell you to stop that now.