Why Talk Of Tottenham And The Olympic Stadium Feels Wide Of The Mark
Supporters of both Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United could have been forgiven for choking a little if they happened to see this article on the BBC’s website today. On...
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Video Of The Week: Anderlecht vs West Ham United – 1976 CWC Final
This week’s Video Of The Week comes courtesy of RSC Anderlecht’s YouTube page, and is the complete 1976 European Cup Winners Cup Final between Anderlecht and West Ham United. West...
Video Of The Week: Hooligan
This week’s “Video Of The Week” is “Hooligan”, a 1985 documentary made by Thames Television about a problem which, at the time, seemed to more or less intractably woven into...
The Premier League Ponders A Salary Cap
The Premier League’s Annual General Meeting this summer will provide stringent salary cap regulations for English football’s top tier, to judge by the plethora of club chairmen who have offered...
A Bad Week At The Office For West Ham United
The last few days haven't been entirely happy ones for West Ham United. Their win against Birmingham City last week lifted them out of the relegation places, but they had...
Woz It The Sun Wot Won West Ham For Sullivan & Gold?
The battle for control of West Ham United was fought as much in the pages of the sports press as it was between the parties concerned, and it was the...
Dean Ashton’s Career Has Been Cut Short By Injury
Dean Ashton's career is over at the age of just twenty-six. Tragedy though this is, he can at least reflect upon the fact that he made it in the first...
Did The Police Get West Ham vs Millwall Wrong?
The most glib response that one can give to the issue of football hooliganism is to say that it has simply gone away for good. Anybody that regularly goes to...
Match Of The Midweek: West Ham United 3-1 Millwall
The League Cup Second Round is probably the least inspiring week of the early part of the new season. In front of swathes of empty tip-up seats, youth and reserve...
John Hartson
That retirement comes at such a young age is one of the curious contradictions of football. No sooner has a professional player reached his prime than he is sliding down...
10 Footballing Cricketers (And Vice Versa)
Seeing as how the Ashes have started and England aren’t – at the time of writing – being thrashed seven shades of black and blue by Australia (though there is...
West Ham United & Sheffield United – Friends At Last?
Almost two years after the event, and at a considerably lower price than the offenders might have expected, Sheffield United and West Ham United have finally reached a settlement over...
FA Cup Third Round Preview
Another FA Cup Third Round has come around, and again the biggest clubs in the land have to get down and dirty against teams that they don’t usually have to...
Fortune’s Always Hiding?
West Ham United have been, financially speaking, probably the English football club that has been the hardest hit by the recent changes in the international financial climate. At the start...
Hammers, Blades & The Damage Done
Such was the effect of Bryan Robson’s predictably disastrous spell of Sheffield United in charge the following season, the saga of The Blades, West Ham United and Carlos Tevez has...
A Word From Our Sponsors
The collapse of the holiday firm XL has had a significant effect on tens of thousands of tourists that found themselves stranded without anywhere to go on holiday, and it...
A Tale Of Three Cities
It is a grim irony that the newspaper headlines have been consumed with the travails of three clubs who, at various points over the last two years or so, have...
The Managerial Merry-Go-Round Grinds Into Gear
It usually takes approximately three matches before the rumour mill starts to rotate, so it is that time again. Already, there is talk that Alan Curbishley is going to be...
Football, Hooliganism & The United States
For those of us watching from the other side of the Atlantic ocean, Major League Soccer is, to say the very least, an education. English football developed into what it...
Crossing Swords At Upton Park
In the football anthology “My Favourite Year”, Nick Hornby ruminates upon the subject of generation gap in football and the irony of seeing Peter Lorimer (in his final season at...