Thankfully another international break is over and we can get back to the good stuff, the bread and butter, the real deal. Call it what you like but I much prefer the Premier League over the turgid international calendar. It's a trip to winless Burnley that the lads dust off for, but despite the lowly … Read more
Hammers fan are feeling cautiously optimistic ahead of our trip to Old Trafford, having played Liverpool off the park last weekend. That and United's visibly shaky backline have given grounds for hope of another Jermaine Defoe or Paolo Di Canio moment, but it is tempered with fear of Man United's front line, which has attacking … Read more
The Hammers get back into it after the international break with a tough trip to Hull on Monday night, which you can view courtesy of our friends at Sky. Hull arguably had the best deadline action, signing some key players including our very own Mohammed Diame. Mo will be missed, but is certainly not irreplacable … Read more
Adrian, O'Brien, Tomkins, Reid, Cresswell, Noble (c), Kouyate, Downing, Zarate, Vaz Te, Cole Bench – Jaaskelainen, Demel, Poyet, Morrison, Diame, Valencia, Sakho
Saturday certainly turned out a bit weird – while most would have thought a loss would have Hammers fan's ranting and screaming, the reality was we played well and simply paid the price for a lack of concentration at the last. However, it now becomes important to not go on a run of poor results … Read more
Here's the Hammers line up; West Ham United: Adrian, O'Brien, Cresswell, Reid, Collins, Kouyate, Noble, Nolan (c), Downing, Vaz Te, ColeSubs: Jaaskelainen, Burke, Demel, Diame, Poyet, Valencia, Zarate I understand Jarvis is injured rather than dropped…interesting to see Vaz Te, time for him to prove he can do it at prem level. Great to see … Read more
A warm welcome to Diafra Sakho who has signed for West Ham from French club Metz on a four year deal. Like most others, I don’t know much about the lad, apart from the obligatory youtube clip (featured below). He has a cracking scoring record, albeit at the lower level of French football, and I … Read more
The Hammers have completed the year long season signing of Arsenal’s right back Carl Jenkinson. It’s a solid signing in an area where there threatened to be a gap, but this has now been filled by a capable and exciting young English player. Congrats to the manager and the board on this one and welcome … Read more
So with just a couple of weeks to go, I thought I'd take a look at where we are at in terms of the new season start. In spite of a lot of knicker wetting over some of our friendly performances, squad wise we appraoch this season stronger than last. Carroll is out, no change … Read more
The fixture list has been announced, with an easy 3 points from our North London friends….it's not a bad season to be fair with no more than two 'toughies' consecutiveyl, we don't seem to hasve a nightmare period like we did last December. Here's the list… Sat Aug 16 Tottenham Hotspur HSat Aug 23 Crystal … Read more