In the eyes of many (most of who are not West Ham fans) Sam Allardyce was public enemy number 1 at West Ham and miraculously, after a good start to the season, we now love him and he can do no wrong.
Well that's not strictly true, don't get me wrong, we'll back the manager when results are going well but what club doesn't? Big Sam deserves the plaudits, no doubting that - but its worth mentioning that the board deserve a lot of credit.
1) For sticking with Sam during a difficult and mind numbingly tough time of football and lacklustre performances.
2) For making funds available to the manager, therefore, allowing changes to be made for the better.
3) The 3rd and final reason. They deserve praise for willing to defy the manager. By this I mean the collective decisions to bring in players like Mauro Zarate and Diafra Sakho when the manager initially decided against it. A decision that would have been ridiculed if the transfers didn't work out.
As I mentioned above, Diafra Sakho has been a real revelation upfront and has formed somewhat of a formidable partnership with fellow new boy, Enner Valencia. It's well documented that Sam didn't like the look of Sakho and didn't see the point of wasting funds on the prolific forward - and a deal looked unlikely, until David Sullivan stepped in and made the deal happen - and although it's still early days, its safe to say that the deal has worked out well for both parties.
These are just a few examples I have mentioned, since taking over, Gold and Sullivan have taken a club on the verge of financial meltdown, to a stable top ten Premier League club with aspirations to move forward into a new stadium and maybe even European football.
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