October 2025 - Blowing Bubbles

Relegation Reality Check: Why West Ham must secure 12 points by Christmas to survive

October 31, 2025 Milly Thomson 0

The Prague Dream Fades: Relegation Fear What’s happening to our club? We are slowly watching us drift away from where we always hoped we would be after that win in Prague. Two bad seasons and

Nuno’s Dreadful Start: Why the ‘inverted full-backs’ experiment has failed West Ham’s defence

October 30, 2025 Gary Pitty 0

Trust Wavers: A Dreadful Start for Nuno I ended my October piece by saying: ‘In Nuno, we have to now trust’ because, as supporters, we have to try and trust the manager. But it is

Tactical genius or transfer disregard? Analysing Nuno’s baffling West Ham line-ups

October 29, 2025 Holly Worthington 0

Optimism Meets Bewilderment: Nuno’s Questionable Start Nuno’s appointment brought a sense of optimism and change; something that we’d needed so desperately. Yet just a few games into his reign, his squad selection and tactics have

West Ham 0-2 Brentford: The low that defined the modern era by apathy, not anger

October 27, 2025 Olivia Elliott 0

The Boycott and the Pain of Apathy I didn’t go to the Brentford game. Not because I couldn’t get a ticket or couldn’t face the weather, but simply because I joined thousands of others in

The Czech Sphinx: Analysing four years of Daniel Křetínský’s enigmatic West Ham stake

October 26, 2025 Paul Brand 0

The Last of the Barrow Boys vs. The Modern Moneyperson Our current majority shareholder is, for better or worse, the last of the barrow boys: one of those working-class geezers who did so good that

Lucy’s Last Word: Why West Ham fans can’t shake the Nuno skepticism

October 25, 2025 Lucy Farrell 0

There’s a new name at the helm, which should be a time of promise and optimism. So why does it feel a bit dark and gloomy? Because we have the same board, that’s why. Potter’s

The great betrayal: How Lyall’s £2M transfer failure sealed West Ham’s relegation

October 25, 2025 Robert Banks 0

Tony Cottee left for Everton in the summer of 1988 for a then British record fee in excess of £2m. Manager John Lyall chose to spend less than half, investing £600,000 in David Kelly and

The greatest goal I ever saw: Reliving Di Canio’s immortal volley

October 24, 2025 Gary Pitty 0

It was the 26th of March 2000 that I witnessed something that can only be described as incredible. I was in my third season of being a season ticket holder with my mates at Upton

The price of Prague: Have West Ham gone backwards since Bowen’s winner?

October 23, 2025 Milly Thomson 0

It’s been two years and four months since Jarrod Bowen scored the winner in Prague but has the club gone backwards since? We saw David Moyes have one more year, Julien Lopetegui was with us

Opposition View: “Leeds are back where we belong”

October 22, 2025 Olivia Elliott 0

Back Where We Belong: The Fight for Survival How are you feeling about Leeds being back in the Premier League Kenny? Kenny: Honestly, it just feels right to be back where we belong. I think

Month: October 2025