West Ham United F.C.

Quite possibly the best team to support in the world. It's fun being a West Ham fan, although you never win anything, you get used to losing (something everyone has to get used to in life), you meet a lot of very interesting people, you get to watch a club produce world class local talent rather than buying over rated foreign players, you get to support a team with a fantastic history (Bobby Moore, World Cup, the ICF and so on), you get to have a laugh with your friends in the local pubs in plaistow and East Ham, you get to have a great sing a long with a set of supporters who make up three quarters of the songs in the English leagues which are then stolen by other ...  Read the complete review

Following such a disappointing week when we lost to Bolton 2-1 and then got knocked out of the FA Cup by Middlesbrough 0-2 the weekends visit by Manchester City didn't look all that promising. If you add into the mix the return of Craig Bellamy who left the Hammers to go to City in the January transfer window it was certainly going to be an exciting match! We sat in the corner between the Dr Martins and Centenary stand. Having had a season ticket in the Bobby Moore lower tier for 8 years it made a difference to see the game from another angle. The atmosphere was very good and I was surprised that we were able to stand up as we had previously been forced to ...  Read the complete review

The result an Anfield last night was the best thing to happen to West Ham United for a while. After the sacking of Alan Curbishley earlier in the campaign things were supposed to improve with the appointment of new manager Gianfranco Zola. Normally, teams with newly appointed managers have a real upturn in form, sometimes referred to as the 'honeymoon period', during which the team plays much better and becomes really hard to beat, as was seen at Tottenham Hotspur when Harry Redknapp took over the reigns from Juande Ramos. This simply hasn't happened at West Ham and instead they have been beaten on a regular basis. The ongoing saga over the illegal playing of ...  Read the complete review

Full name West Ham United Football Club Nickname(s) 'The Hammers', 'The Irons' Founded 1895 as Thames Ironworks Ground Boleyn Ground (Upton Park) Capacity: 35,647 Chairman: Björgólfur Guðmundsson Manager: Gianfranco Zola 2007-08 Premier League, 10th If you're a football fan and you don't have a soft spot for West Ham then you should. They are still the London academy of football for English talent and you can reel off the current and past England players that came through there... Rio Ferdinand, Joe Cole, Michael Carrick, Glen Johnson and Frank Lampard, to name but five of the current ones; Bobby Moore (the number six ...  Read the complete review

West Ham United is actually the team my husband supports, meaning I have to listen to his endless chats about the team, the manager and the great players of the past. In light of this I thought I would write a review on them. Although, I have no doubt my husband will have a part in this too once he's read MY review and decides to add his own bits. Early History; -The East London club were founded in 1895 by local workmen, originally called Thames Ironworks F.C, later reforming in 1900 as West Ham United. You can clearly see where the team got their nicknames of the 'Irons' and the 'hammers'. -Their stadium has been the ...  Read the complete review