West Ham manager, Sam Allardyce, after his team's comfortable 3-0 victory over Fulham has revealed his relief at finaly picking up three points at home for the first time in three months:
"It's been three months since we last won at Upton Park, and now that we've won it I feel we should have won by many more goals. It's a great relief to have finally won here. I feel a lot happier and more comfortable now, not only because we won the game, but because we put in a very good performance. In many ways we did in fact play better against Aston Villa, but just couldn't find a goal. This time out we scored three, with the substitutes chipping in with a few goals."
"We finally and professionally finished a game off."
"Now the players have to get their feet up and recover ahead of the big game on Tuesday night. I hope we can do what we haven't done in the Premier League since we got promoted, and that is win two games in a row."
Big Sam has also revealed his pleasure at being able to send the fans home happy with a victory, after the side came under scrutiny from the fans in recent weeks:
"It isn't nice to be booed and criticised in the stadium, but we have to be brave enough to say that if we don't want to hear it, we have to go out and peform. "
"It was important for the players to turn in a positive performance today amidst a tense and nervous atmosphere within the stadium. Everybody will wake up tomorrow and have a great weekend, and that's what we're here and paid to do."
