October 2020 - Blowing Bubbles

Liverpool – The Inside Track.

October 29, 2020 Henry Tomlinson 1

West Ham have struggled against Liverpool in recent times, the only positive result recently was a 1-1 draw at the London Stadium last year. Since that game Liverpool have won everything available while West Ham

Hugh Southon’s Last Word: You can take the rough with the smooth but the buck stops here

October 26, 2020 Hugh Southon 0

Making a sensible and realistic appraisal of West Ham United’s place in football generally and among its own supporters right now is a mystery which even Sherlock Holmes may have issues solving. The past 10

It’s going to be a roller coaster season after our bizarre start

October 26, 2020 Geoff Hillyer 0

In this oddest of Premier League seasons – where the campaign has started late, the only sounds to be heard within the grounds are those of the players shouting at each other, and matches are

Football’s ability to take us away from the real world is priceless

October 26, 2020 Brian Penn 0

In a world still coming to terms with Covid-19, we are running alarmingly short on diversions. Online quizzes and split screens eventually lose their appeal and we look for something else to bury our fears.

We still don’t know how big an impact coronavirus will have

October 26, 2020 Danny Lewis 0

Coronavirus was always going to impact football from top to bottom. It was also clear that the way it’s felt by individual clubs will differ wildly based on their circumstances before the virus hit, as

Flashback: Pardew eyes a striker on West Ham’s return to the big time

October 26, 2020 Julian Shea 0

With the current season seeing games played at strange times in empty grounds, and no sign of normal service resuming soon, looking back to previous seasons is becoming an increasingly popular pastime – and for

lrons suffer positive tests as Moyes and Diop struck down

October 26, 2020 Meirion Williams 0

The magazine Private Eye has a regular column called Colemanballs. It was a term coined by the magazine to describe verbal gaffes perpetrated in sports. Well there was one absolute corker a few weeks ago:

Does Yarmolenko have a role to play after surviving squad cull?

October 26, 2020 Greg Richardson 0

Given the alarming lack of new arrivals at the London Stadium this summer and the asset stripping off the squad, the sight of a fit and firing Andriy Yarmolenko could provide us with a smidgen

Irons toughen up as five at the back delivers instant rewards

October 26, 2020 William Pugh 0

Defensive crisis? What defensive crisis? Consecutive clean sheets against Champions League hopefuls Wolves and Leicester, new right-back Vladimir Coufal playing like Cafu and Tomas Repka’s love-child and David Moyes being the best ‘work-from-homer’ in the

Will ‘Mourinho’s Monster’ ever reach his full potential in London?

October 25, 2020 David Bowden 0

Jose Mourinho praised our scouting staff for picking Issa Diop up for a record fee in the Summer of 2018 after he saw his then Manchester United side lose 3-1 to the Irons at the

Month: October 2020