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Alan Dickens: ‘As a fan, I asked do I deserve this? but I knew I’d done well in my first season’

February 27, 2025 Julian Shea 0

As a qualified London taxi driver, former West Ham midfielder Alan Dickens has passed the encyclopaedic geographical test known as The Knowledge. This requires cabbies to be able to find their way between any two

James Tomkins: ‘It was just too weird coming back to play against West Ham after I left’

January 22, 2025 Brian Penn 0

There are pivotal moments in a player’s development that set the tone for his future career, and Basildon boy James Tomkins was no exception. ‘I joined West Ham as a kid when I was seven

Neil Finn: ‘I loved my time at West Ham; There was a fantastic togetherness’

December 28, 2024 Julian Shea 0

If you are only going to get one shot at the big time, you may as well take it with both hands – and that is precisely what former West Ham goalkeeper Neil Finn did.

Paul Brush: ‘Bobby Moore once gave me a lift in his car – it was absolutely magical’

October 26, 2024 Julian Shea 0

There are few things that warm the hearts of football fans quite like the thought that the players on the pitch are fans of the team, just like them, and if they are locally born

Stuart Pearce: ‘It was like the Dirty Dozen walking into that West Ham changing room for the first time’

June 5, 2024 Marcus Johns 0

You signed for the club in 1999. How did your move to West Ham come about? Basically I was playing for Newcastle at the time, but not really getting a game so I personally picked

Leroy Rosenior: ‘West Ham is a club that stays embedded in you always’

April 22, 2024 Julian Shea 0

To those who were not alive then, football in the 1980s was a very different beast. Terraces, mud bath pitches, brutal tackling and affordable tickets are just some of the fixtures of the 80s that

‘It’ll be a special day when I can return to watch West Ham as a spectator’

March 12, 2024 Julian Shea 0

When Croatian international defender Slaven Bilic returned to his hometown club Hajduk Split in 1999, bruised and battered and approaching the end of a playing career that had kept him away from home for six

Slaven Bilic: ‘I was only a player for a short time but my bond with the fans is strong’

February 14, 2024 Julian Shea 0

Sometimes in football, hero status is not about how long a player spends at a club, or even what they achieve on the pitch, but the impact that their ability and their personality make on

Matty Etherington: ‘West Ham helped me prove to the world that I was a Premier League player’

January 24, 2024 Julian Shea 0

Cornwall is famous for many things. Cream teas (jam first, cream on top, of course), stunning coastline and the legend of King Arthur are just three things that spring to mind when mentioning the southwestern

David Connolly: ‘The chance to play for a club like West Ham was worth taking a cut for’

December 17, 2023 Julian Shea 0

Sometimes, the tone of a season can be set right from the start. In 1988-89, an opening day 4-0 rout at Southampton, while Tony Cottee scored a first half hat-trick on his Everton debut, was