2015-07-13 11:08
"Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information..."Lying tranquilly some 120 miles off the east coast of Madagascar, bobbing alone in the Indian Ocean, the tropical island of… Read More
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2015-06-25 10:46
It was on a derelict scrub of land in the middle of a housing estate that the young Pedro Mba Obiang Avomo first caught the eye. "He was fourteen years of age and playing in the Alcalá&hell…Read More
2015-06-16 12:46
In the beginning there was chaos, and football was without form. Then came the Victorians, who codified it, and after them the theorists, who analysed it. So wrote Jonathan Wilson in his exc… Read More
2015-06-12 14:02
Unchain the colours before my eyes,Yesterday's sorrows, tomorrow's white lies.Scan the horizon, the clouds take me higher,I shall return from out of fire.In January 2012 Slaven Bilic had an… Read More
2014-06-05 19:01
Home, penned TS Eliot, is where one starts from. It is the reason why Winston Reid will be looking to put on a show for his family and friends when West Ham United travel to New Zealand next… Read More
2014-05-30 17:14
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his… Read More
2014-02-27 19:50
Panting, he runs up the wing. On one side await the heavens of glory; on the other, ruin's abyss. The player, penned Eduardo Galeano, is the envy of the neighbourhood; the professional athle… Read More
2014-02-03 21:06
"You're not a thoroughbred racehorse. You're a donkey. You can become a very fast donkey, but you'll never be a thoroughbred......."Flashback to transfer deadline day August 2011 and AC Mila… Read More
2014-01-29 02:29
La Gazetta Dello Sport's Massimo Cecchini once described the life story of Marco Borriello as a tale of murder, sex and money. The 31-year-old, he stated, has for far too long been a prisone… Read More
2013-11-08 14:26
Satan is inspecting Hell, or so a much told Romanian joke begins. As he strolls down the various alleys he arrives at a sector where the doomed are being boiled alive in vast cauldrons fille… Read More
2013-10-14 23:12
What makes for a prodigy is a difficult question. In some spheres it means extraordinary achievement at an inordinately early age. George Steiner had this definition in mind when he claimed… Read More
2013-10-11 02:02
Home is where, noted Robert Frost, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. So it was that this afternoon Carlton Cole made his long awaited comeback for West Ham in a behind-clo… Read More
2013-08-09 21:42
I'm on a tightrope, baby, nine miles highStriding through the clouds, on my ribbon in the skyI'm on a tightrope, one thing I've foundI don't know how to stop, and it's aLong, long, long, lon… Read More
2013-08-03 18:24
Happiness can exist only in acceptance... Perhaps Thomas Wolfe was wrong. Maybe you can go back home to your family, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to lyri… Read More
2013-08-01 21:13
"One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you..." It is now well over two and a half years since Sam Allardyce’s chicken-brained sacking by Blackbur… Read More
2013-07-29 01:11
"Though much is taken, much abides; and thoughWe are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by t… Read More
2013-07-26 19:21
He's a gushy romantic and she's a cynical realist. This is the truth behind the move to the Olympic Stadium. Both versions.Or that's why God made other football stadiums. Because no matter h… Read More
2012-07-19 09:17
West Ham United have officially announced the signing of Mali international forward Modibo Maiga. The 24-year-old joins the Hammers from French side FC Sochaux-Montbeliard for an undisclosed… Read More
2012-07-18 01:10
If you're looking for a thrill that's newTake in Fords , Dartford Tunnel and the river tooGo motorin' on the A13Pre-season games are not supposed to be like this. Usually these games are pla… Read More
2012-07-12 01:43
I was living in a Devil TownDidn't know it was a Devil TownOh, Lord, it really brings me downAbout the Devil Town West Ham United respected the point with a 1-1 draw against Blue Square Bet… Read More
2012-07-08 22:29
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.West Ham United were beaten 3-1 by Fußballklub Austria Wien in their opening pre-season fri… Read More
2012-07-05 22:51
And then sweeping up the jokers that he left behindYou find he did not leave you very much not even laughterLike any dealer he was watching for the cardThat is so high and wildHe'll never ne… Read More
2012-06-29 15:34
It is an imperative that you transform yourself from a consumer of the rich man's bullshit, to a manufacturer of the people's truth. Yeah, sticking it to the man with some more paywall pilfe… Read More
2012-06-27 11:03
The following is an amalgam of a couple of related articles liberated from the Times paywall dungeon when the sentinels averted their gaze a few weeks ago...The vice-chairman of West Ham is… Read More
2012-06-26 22:38
It was 12.24am, local time, when Alessandro Diamanti walked forward for the final, decisive kick and, when it was all done, sparked the match that would exsiccate English Euro dreams to ash… Read More
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