Tarred By A Minority: On West Ham United At White Hart Lane Yesterday
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Match Of The Past: West Ham United
We are nearly at the end of our summer long series of videos featuring matches involving the clubs of this seasons Premier League, and the latest in this series features...
Match of the Weekend 1 – The Championship Playoff Final: West Ham United 2 Blackpool 1
West Ham United are back in the Premier League, after Ricardo Vaz Te’s late strike gave them victory over a doggedBlackpoolside. In a match that inevitably gets linked with the...
West Ham United’s Faustian Pact Bares Its Teeth
A quite, considered hush fell over Upon Park about ten minutes into the second half of West Ham Uniteds match against Reading yesterday afternoon. As the visiting team dispatched their...
Red Devil To Hammer: Ravel Morrison’s Opportunity For Self-Reinvention
It was, as things turned out, a mercifully quiet transfer deadline day, but the most curious acquisition of the day ended up involving a young player with just a handful...
Match Of The Week: Reading 3-0 West Ham United
The last week or so in the Championship have acted as a sudden reminder to anyone who may have thought that the two automatic promotion places might already have been...
How Literal Will The Premier League’s Survival Sunday Be?
In an August 2009 Radio 5 Live programme on the Premier League’s financial troubles, Supporters Direct Chief Executive Dave Boyle addressed the issue of the “chasm” between Premier League and...
West Ham United’s Uncertain Future
As West Ham United’s relegation from the Premier League was confirmed this afternoon with a match still to spare, supporters of the club may well be left wondering what the...
Use Hearing Protection: Six FA Cup Final Songs
Amid all the talk of the “devaluation” of the FA Cup (and it should go without saying that we should all wish an eternal curse on that rogue organisation, the...
Video Special: Six Great FA Cup Finals
It may have escaped your attention, but it is the FA Cup final on Saturday. Manchester City and Stoke City will take the pitch at Wembley on Saturday afternoon, with...
Match Of The Week 2: Stoke City 2-1 West Ham United
Seriousness versus frivolity. Aesthetics versus the dour practicality of not having the money to be able to spend on the very best players in the world. It has felt this...
Imperfect, Impractical And Immoral, The Olympic Stadium Fiasco Holds A Mirror Up To The True Values Of British Sport
If, as seems likely, the decision to grant the post-2012 use of the Olympic Stadium in Stratford to West Ham United is rubber-stamped over the next few weeks, we should...
91 Years Of Football Through 7 Players: From Leeds United, 1920 to West Ham, 2011
An article on the front page of the When Saturday Comes website bemoaned the airbrushing from history of anything from before the beginning of the Premier League, but the time-line...
A Rant Or Three
While I was ‘away’ at the Asian Cup, English football ‘personalities’ maintained their capacity to infuriate – through stinking hypocrisy as much as the usual pig ignorance. Brady Everybody on...
The Olympic Stadium’s Legacy Must Be As It Was Intended
The final submissions, then, are complete and now comes the waiting game. The tug of war over the Olympic Stadium has become one of the more unseemly events of the...
Spurs And The Olympic Stadium: Stratford Hotspur Or A New Beginning?
Supporters of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club are well-versed in the history of where their club comes from. The stories of grammar boys meeting under gaslight on a street corner are...
2010: A Football Financial Review
You could frame it. If you wanted a short, pithy representation of all that has been wrong with football finance in 2010, you could do no better than quote a...
Match Of The Week: Sunderland 1-0 West Ham United
They could have been forgiven for believing that they had turned a corner, of sorts. Going into this afternoon’s match at the Stadium Of Light, West Ham United had won...
Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United and The Olympic Stadium
A week ago, it all seemed to be just about decided. A public meeting with Haringey Council ended with a vote that was unanimously in favour of the planning proposals...
The Premier League Previews 2010/11, Part 18: West Ham United – Owner Over-Occupied?
It’s been an interesting few years when you look at the financial side, and the stewardship of West Ham United. When the club were last relegated in 2003, chairman Terence...