Why West Ham Will Go Down
West Ham United have just experienced their best season of the Premier League era, with 65 points and a 6th-placed finish ahead of London rivals Tottenham and Arsenal securing a place in the Europa League group stages. Fans can now look forward to a first proper European adventure this century, not including qualifier defeats to Palermo and Romanian minnows Astra Giurgiu. But if these supporters were to take a look beneath the surface of this European haze, the cracks already starting to appear in David Moyes' squad are alarming to say the least, hence why they are my early shout to be relegated from the Premier League in the 2021/22 season. It would certainly be a fall from grace to tumble from 6th to the bottom three in the space of 12 months, but West Ham fans must remember that it is securing European football, not the usual bottom-half finish, that is the anomaly, and that a return to battling relegation would not be quite as big a shock as initially perceived. That being said...