West Ham have made it back to the Premier League at the first time of asking, with a 2-1 Play-off victory at Wembley this afternoon.
Sam Allardyce promised at the start of the season to take the Hammers back into the Premier League and he was good as his word, as Ricardo Vaz Te’s last gasp winner sent the West Ham fans into ecstasy and ensured a bumper pay-out for the football club to the tune of an estimated £90m in revenues.
Blackpool certainly played their part in a pulsating game and in the second half looked the most likely to go on and win the game after a sluggish first half. Whatever Holloway said at half time had the desired response and the Tangerines gave it a real go; however it wasn’t to be their day as they failed to take their chances in the final third. It wasn’t too be but Blackpool can take a lot of heart from their performance.
Sam Allardyce was delighted at the final whistle and is glad to be back in the Premier League once again:
“I’m just delighted to be back in the Premier League. It means everything to me, I had been in the Premier League for 10 years or so. It was difficult at the start to turn this club around but we have come good at the end.
“It is great, right up there with the best for me because of the size of West Ham and the pressures,
“Missing promotion would have been devastating, according to the owners who would have had to decimate the wage bill by £10m, off-load players for little or no fee and still achieve what fans want.”
“I’ll look forward to the celebrations first before I start worrying about the Premier League next year.” (BBC)
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