September 2025 - Blowing Bubbles

Grealish and Moyes: Is Everton’s safety net enough for a mid-table push?

September 27, 2025 Olivia Elliott 0

Jack Grealish arriving on loan at Everton was one of the shock deals of the summer. How did you react when you first heard the rumours, and what are your expectations for him? Ethan: Honestly,

The Glasner revolution: FA Cup glory has shifted Palace expectations to Europe

September 18, 2025 Olivia Elliott 0

Palace lifted the FA Cup last season and followed it up by winning the Community Shield – how does it feel to finally see your club bringing home silverware? Liam: Honestly, it still feels surreal.

The Greenock Connection: How a Scottish industrialist founded the forerunner of West Ham United

September 17, 2025 Ross Ahlfeld 2

The Bicentenary: Honouring Donald Currie For we long-suffering Scots Hammers – and especially those of us who are Greenock-born devotees of West Ham United – the 17th of September is a day of quiet reverence,

Inside the FAB: Brady, sub-groups & the struggle for meaningful consultation

September 12, 2025 Chris Wheal 0

The West Ham Fan Advisory Board (FAB) held its first meeting of the new season in August. For the meeting, the club rolled out its big guns: Baroness Karren Brady, CBE, the club’s vice-chair, alongside

Lucy’s Last Word: Can Forest relief banish the Ghosts of relegation seasons?

September 12, 2025 Lucy Farrell 0

It hasn’t quite gone to plan has it? The start of the season that is. Losing on the opening day to a newly promoted team didn’t exactly instill any hope or excitement for the season.

The price of caution: How Lyall’s refusal to spend nearly cost West Ham survival in ’88

September 11, 2025 Robert Banks 0

The lack of investment in the team which had begun in the summer of 1986 continued into the start of 1987-88 with no new arrivals. The only positive thing to happen over the summer was

The FA Youth Cup story: From Bobby Moore to Mubama, what happened to West Ham’s best?

September 11, 2025 Brian Penn 0

Sir Joe Richards’s vision led to the founding of the FA Youth Cup in the 1952/53 season, which soon became an indispensable showcase for emerging talent. The competition is the premier contest for the Under

From bleak to breakthrough: Can Fernandes and Magassa fix West Ham’s midfield void?

September 10, 2025 Holly Worthington 0

Another season is well and truly underway, but despite having a long road ahead, things have felt incredibly bleak. Results matter, and just three games in, we were sat at the bottom of the League

Popcorn and pipedowns: A grumpy old Hammer on what’s missing from the London Stadium atmosphere

September 10, 2025 Blowing Bubbles 0

I write these words accepting that I now fall into the ‘grumpy old bloke’ category of fans. Hammers fans of my generation have enjoyed a vintage period of the club’s history. I was addicted by

The price of pride: Why selling Kudus to Spurs still feels like an ownership betrayal

September 9, 2025 Olivia Elliott 0

Selling Mohammed Kudus to Spurs still doesn’t sit right with me, and honestly, I don’t think it ever will. The owners should never have done business with them, especially not for a player who was

Month: September 2025