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Fulham match has banana skin written all over it for West Ham

By Scott Johnson

LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 05: Claudio Ranieri, manager of Fulham looks on before the Premier League match between Fulham FC and Leicester City at Craven Cottage on December 05, 2018 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Dan Istitene/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 05: Claudio Ranieri, manager of Fulham looks on before the Premier League match between Fulham FC and Leicester City at Craven Cottage on December 05, 2018 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Dan Istitene/Getty Images) /
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West Ham will build you up to let you down. It’s inevitable. I mean it’s in our club song. So it’s understandable that we’re nervous going into the Fulham clash.

There aren’t many clubs that will admit in their club song that fortune always eludes them. But that’s what makes West Ham the club it is. We will have periods of great football and look as though some footballing success will soon be ours, then we fall at the hurdle everyone expects us to jump.

So when we’ve got 3 wins in a row, 9 goals in that time and looking as though our game is fully set it’s natural that West Ham fans are wondering…is it all looking too good to be true? Fulham are struggling in both attack and defence…which all seems like the perfect set up for a nice 2-0 home win for the Cottagers.

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Before I get a lot of fight back about being a negative fan, this is just an in built response. The Hammers will build me up and then let me down. I actually think that in isolation that this game offers us a chance for more goals and points going into Christmas. But that doesn’t mean that when the final whistle goes I won’t feel a little pang of deja vu if we’ve managed to throw it away.

But I am starting to think this side could be different. The team under Pellegrini has a completely different feel to the team under other managers. Even when we were shaky against Cardiff, we went in at half time and Pellegrini turned it back round. The experience and control of the side he brings is just a different level to what we have seen before. So that voice in the back of my head saying we’re just going to throw it away is there, but it has a kind, elderly Chilean man calming it down.

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I don’t think the Hammers will ever stop letting me down after building me up. But I’m hoping for bigger and better let downs than not beating Fulham when we’re in form and they’re not. Maybe getting close to European qualification and throwing it away in the last 5 minutes of the season? But I think we’re going to win this game, despite the usual sense of things going to well for the time being.