Stand your ground and fight

May. 15 | I am not even going to start expressing my disappointment at the way my team has been managed tonight when relegation is so raw. That will come over time. But instead a look back at my memories from that first season 7 years ago in the second tier of...

Don’t believe the hype

May. 7 | Every Monday I look at my email account with trepidation. Since the first week of the season around 3pm I get that “ping” sound signifying the arrival of the latest excuse from the pen of Avram Grant. Although it is obviously not from Avram,...

There’s only one Scottie Parker..or Joey Barton

Apr. 14 | Scott Parker or Joey Barton? That is the question that has been debated long and hard for the past two weeks by Andy Hudson and yours truly for the past two weeks. Below are the cases for each player as posed by the two of us and then there is a chance...

My first game – Andrea Ryder

Feb. 16 | Leyton Orient v West Ham United Pre-season friendly Brisbane Road August 2000 West Ham United had always been a big thing for my family, but going to games was not a frequent occurrence for financial reasons. My dad had taken us to see the Boleyn Ground...

My first game – Nigel Fuller

Feb. 9 | West Ham United 2 Leeds United 3 Football League Division 1 16th January 1971 Attendance: 34,396 In the mid to late nineteen-sixties when United were at the beginning of what was to be a lengthy reign as one of the top teams in the country, they found...

It could have been so much worse

Jan. 28 | More often than not you remember games you have been to for the right reasons. A day out in a cup final, a thrashing of your local rival or just a game where everything just seems to click. However, sometimes there are events that you will always remember...

Getting a leg(acy) up

Jan. 20 | Here is a little secret for West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur awaiting the decision on who will get the Olympic Stadium next week. Whisper it quietly, but football fans rarely want to watch football in an Olympic Stadium. Why do I say that? Well...

Thirty years ago…when we were good

Nov. 25 | When I get depressed about the latest plans to ruin the club I have supported since I was a child I think back to time gone by. I was lucky in that I was the youngest in a family of West Ham fans, meaning that I spent a lot of time following the club...

Rock Bottom

Nov. 13 | At 1.30pm on Saturday afternoon I was handed my “Get out of jail free” card. This was supposed to be a treat for Lolly, but my little battle hardened football daughter finally admitted defeat on her heavy cold and declared herself unfit to...

Giggles galore with a Bishop, a Rook and Avram Grant

Nov. 11 | Now here was a turn up for the books. Me, in London, on a Tuesday? Well too bloomin’ right. And lo and behold not just one game this week, but TWO! First up was a trip up the M11 to watch the mighty Rooks trying to extend their 3 match unbeaten...