Fans Archives - Blowing Bubbles

‘We no longer throw games away at the death – we rescue them’

March 6, 2022 Emily Pulham 0

Our 2-2 draw against Leicester taught me an important lesson about playing to the whistle and why, if Craig Dawson hasn’t given up on the match, neither should I. With 87 minutes gone, and West

‘Our 2021 record breakers can achieve great things under Moyes’

January 11, 2022 ExWHUEmployee 0

Last year was a year like no other for us West Ham fans, both on and off the pitch. We had all the lockdowns and measures which were frustrating at the best of times but

The Ex Files: ‘Away days are back – I didn’t realise how much I missed them’

September 12, 2021 ExWHUEmployee 0

Isn’t it brilliant to have football back as we know it? I was lucky enough to go to the first three games this season and it really has made me appreciate how much I missed

Phil Parkes: This bizarre season’s over but the hard work begins now for Moyes’ boys

May 23, 2021 Phil Parkes 0

It was such a frustrating end to the season after we showed so much promise for much of this campaign. I know it’s been a really weird season for many reasons with some strange results

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.

What do you do with your lucky socks in this new normal?

September 24, 2020 Brian Williams 0

Television is one of humankind’s greatest technological achievements. Association football is generally considered to be the world’s greatest sport. They should be a marriage made in heaven, but I’m not a huge fan of televised

Match-going fans are ‘no longer essential’ and this is a sad day

June 9, 2020 David Bowden 0

The importance of the football fan has been criminally underplayed by the Premier League, the FA and the media for decades now. Since the start of the Premier League era in 1992 more greed in

Fans must back the boys if we are to escape the drop

March 22, 2020 David Meagher 0

So here we are again at the business end of the season with us up to our necks in a relegation dog fight. Having gone on a seemingly relentless slide down the table, we are