No, I don't quite see it like that either. This West Ham fan, Iain Dale from LBC who has done the Who are You? at Salut! Sunderland, thinks he was when they had him ... http://salutsunderland.com/2011/05/west-ham-v-sunderland-what-did-bruce-do-to-our-worldbeating-mccartney/ He was fairly useless when he came back at a high price, but I remember rating him when we had him first time around and I knew the Hammers fans loved him. What went wrong?
I remember watching him when he was just a young lad playing in the reserves and I thought he was going to develop into a real star. What went wrong I just do not know.
But he must have done something right to be so popular at West Ham. I seem to remember him playing well for them in the match at Upton Park when we should have got something but lost 3-1.
I bumped into an old flame the last time I was out and went back to hers. Got to say it worked for me