Destination....failure

As if the appointment of Roberto Di Matteo by MK Dons wasn't ridiculous enough West ham have gone a step further recruiting Gianfranco Zola as there new manager to replace Alan Curbishley. Now maybe Di Matteo's lack of experience at League 1 level will see him through at that level, but Zola's experience,which goes as far as the assistant coach for a poor Italian under 21 side, will surely be tested in one of Europe's top leagues.

I'd love to know how Zola conned the West ham board in bringing him in. What could he have possibly said to the question; 'How is your lack of managerial experience going to hinder your success rate at West Ham?. The answer to that question is a lot.

As with every manager there will be a honeymoon period, to be honest there couldn't be a better first game for Zola to value his squad while watching from the stands at the Hawthorns on Saturday. Zola has really got a job on his hands. An injury prone squad which circles around just one player, Dean Ashton in hope for success. How Zola can do anymore than Curbishley, Pardew or even Harry Redknapp for that matter really does confuse me.

The board really should have made more of an effort to keep Alan Curbishley, he was a manager who you knew could do a good job, he had experience and unless he was pushed he wouldn't leave the club for a bigger one. If Zola was in mind for the job then my mind tells me that the board tried to get Curbishley out without burning there own fingers. Why would you get rid of a reliable manager for an inexperienced Italian?

Well in the next few weeks we will find out, and for all I know it could be a partnership that will work as well as Zola did with Chelsea, if it does then West Ham really will be in dream land.