Jamie O’Hara goes on bizarre anti-West Ham United rant live on talkSPORT after defeat v Olympiacos
Jamie O’Hara has gone on a bizarre anti-West Ham rant after their loss v Olympiacos ended their record-breaking European unbeaten run.
The Hammers saw their 17-game streak snapped in Greece on Thursday in a 2-1 loss, ending their run for the English team with the longest unbeaten run in European competition.
But according to O’Hara, who was live on talkSPORT after the game (26 October), the record should have an asterisk above it because it happened in the Europa Conference League and Europa League, not the Champions League.
“You’re obviously proud of that unbeaten record in Europe, what was it 17 games?” he said.
“Is that the record now for a British team? There should be an asterisk above it though shouldn’t there? Because you know, Liverpool and Man United and Spurs have had unbeaten runs. But they’re playing in the big competition, the Champions League.
“Going against Bayern Munich, Barcelona, playing against the best. Then West Ham rock up, beat a couple of part-timers and now they’ve taken the record.
“Surely that can’t be allowed. There should be an asterisk above it. It should say, ‘West Ham got the record but it was in the Conference [League]’.”
Nonsense
There is such thing as football outside of the elites, and the quicker these pundits understand that the better off everyone will be listening to them.
West Ham don’t play in the Champions League but we still went 17 games unbeaten on the continent, and nobody else from England has ever done that at any level, so it’s still a fantastic achievement.
Is it as good or impressive as doing it in the Champions League? No. But we don’t play in that tournament and teams that are supposedly better than us haven’t been able to do it in any tournaments before, so trying to dampen our flame is just pathetic to be honest.
David Moyes and the team did a fantastic job in that run and even went as far as winning the trophy, before a great start to this year’s competition too.
Everyone should ignore O’Hara more than they already did after this, but anyone with sense knows it’s a nonsense opinion anyway.
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