Opinion

Written by: Jonathan Lee So, what a thrilling start to the season against Newcastle, eh? Was that performance a hangover from the Diangana sale, just a bad night at the office, or something deeper – let’s hope it was not the latter, otherwise we’re already in trouble. Fab – 6 not tested for large parts…

Written by: Graham Keeffe Over the past 30 years, the West Ham academy has produced some of the finest players in England. Frank Lampard, Rio Ferdinand, Joe Cole and Michael Carrick have all represented their country and enjoyed immense success at club level. Since the turn of the millennium, academy graduates have featured for the…

Written by: Harry Fitzpatrick Since the days of Moore, Hurst and Peters in the late 50’s and early 60’s, West Ham have had an Academy that any club would be proud of. Every Hammers fan gets excited when they see a youngster’s name on the team sheet for the first time. This was no different…

Written by: Jonathan Lee So, we approach the start of the 2020/21 season, which of course will continue to be played against the empty backdrop of various stadia around the country, effectively negating any tangible home or away advantage, with Russ our music man under orders to play goal music – just wrong on every…

Written by: Neil Shaw-Smith “Don’t go to bed. dg” – that infamous David Gold tweet deadline day 2015 about the imminent signing of Adebayor that never happened (more like Adebay-bore). Bullet dodged, as he then only scored one more goal in the Premier League, for Crystal Palace. Yes, we have had our fair share of…

Written by : Dan Woffenden Having finally secured their Premier League status for at least another season, West Ham are yet again in the shop window ahead of an imminent return to footballing action. With David Moyes aiming to strengthen his troops, the latest player to have been linked with a move to the London…

Written by : Jonathan Lee So, the fixtures are out (Arsenal, Wolves, Leicester, Spurs, Man City, Liverpool in first seven games, just lovely … but, finally, no Big Six team first up, and a home Boxing day game, hurrah!) and we are only a couple of weeks from starting a new season, albeit still behind…

Written by: Conor Culverhouse Hammer of the Year. Backup Captain. England starter. Declan Rice has had an amazing year in, let’s be honest, an awful side and he is still underrated by many people. I have followed West Ham intensely for about 10 years since I turned 12 and really began to understand football. I…

Written by: Nick Moore “But no manager can ever be a hundred per cent sure about a signing: his fingers are always crossed.” Ron Greenwood   Suddenly having just about clambered on to the lifeboat at the end of the longest season the transfer window is open. Strangely, for us, the last window was a…

Written by: Nick Moore So here is a question for you. Imagine you are the West Ham manager or perhaps Director of Football. To be honest I am surprised you haven’t been given the job already. OK, so another club come in and offer you £25 million or whatever we actually paid for Pablo Fornals….

Written by: @JGriffithJourno Everybody loves player ratings. They give that little bit of insight after a match to indicate who were the standout performers and who will likely be warming the bench the following week. Post-match player ratings are a feature we always provide, so it only seemed fitting to write a post-season player ratings…