There was a time when people said West Ham United were too good to go down.
Every now and then a new article does the rounds, maybe a chat with an ex-player or two, that attempts to ‘unravel the mystery’ of the Hammers’ relegation in 2003. How on earth did a side that included Paolo Di Canio and Jermain Defoe fail to beat the drop?
There will be no such pieces this time around. No one is saying that anymore. There is no mystery here. This club, in its current state, is too bad, too broken, not to suffer the same fate.