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Article: STRETCH LIMOS AND STRETCHED PATIENCE.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- May 31, 2005
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Byline: DAVID THOMAS
WE ARE Premier League, said we are Premier League,' was our song. But we are also West Ham.
So we were never going to make it easy.
By the time referee Mike Riley blew the final whistle, as the game was entering the third hour of injury time, I was too shattered physically, emotionally, every blooming which way, to really enjoy the moment.
It wasn't just the 5am start required to get to Cardiff before the M4 turns to vehicular treacle. It wasn't the typically Hammeresque way we managed not to kill a game we should have had in the bag. It was the years of suffering, the constantly dashed hopes that come with ...