West Ham Fans

The stats show that West Ham have only won 27.7% of the games that Parker has featured in. That is a dreadful negative drag factor! Why? Well Parker fans will argue that he has been struggling for fitness and featured in the fag end games when our form nose dived. However, is our collapse in form linked with Parker's return? Newcastle struggled when Parker was in the team, he looked decidely ordinary in an England shirt, Chelsea didn't rate him and, of course, Charlton never won a high percentage of their games - they were never better than mid table. Is the problem that Parker is neither one thing nor the other? He lacks the positional discipline to do the holding midfield job but seems to have an allergic reaction to getting into the opposition penalty box. You can't play Mullins and Parker together because neither offer a goal threat. You can't play Parker as the holding player because he goes wander about. So, does he represent another £7.5m badly spent?