With Covid-19 continuing to bring a halt to everyday life, a lot of pressure has come on football clubs, players and owners to do the right thing financially in these difficult times. A lot of West Ham fans will be surprised the club hasn't already decided to furlough non-playing staff during this period, and instead have decided to find alternative ways to raise money and continue to operate with vastly reduced revenue streams. Meanwhile, Spurs have done the disgraceful thing and asked the taxp...
Apr 08, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 80
Coronavirus lockdown continues but so does the We are West Ham podcast! The Hammers emphatically confirmed this week the club has precedent over baseball and athletics if the Premier League season spills over into the summer and no running track will be visible if football games are played. James Jones and Will Pugh accompany Charlie Hawkins for another remote installment and -speaking of athletics - the lads are joined by Roshane Thomas, West Ham correspondent for THE Athletic. Roshane talks al...
Apr 01, 2020•58 min•Ep. 79
Coronavirus has seen football wiped out across Europe and the Premier League is no different. The English top flight is suspended until April 30 but the football blackout is expected to continue well beyond that date. But while the country is locked down and West Ham remain home from training, the boys try to bring a bit of light relief and Hammers chat during these uncertain times. James Jones and Will Pugh are joined by Charlie Hawkins as the three conduct the show via Skype video link for the...
Mar 25, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 78
During an unprecedented time in peacetime Britan, and even the world, football has taken a back seat while we all try and survive the Coronavirus pandemic. But that hasn't stopped there being a number of pressing talking points, not least what the sport should do for the rest of the season. Should they play behind closed doors? Should they follow Karren Brady's lead and just null and void the campaign? Should we just end the season with the league tables as they are? Either way, West Ham will be...
Mar 18, 2020•52 min•Ep. 77
West Ham lost 1-0 at Arsenal on Saturday and Michail Antonio fluffed three clear cut chances before Alexandre Lacazette got the Gunners' 78th minute winner. The Hammers showed heart and desire for the third game running but just as they did at Liverpool they walked away empty handed. Will Pugh and James Jones discuss any positives to be taken away from the Emirates and West Ham legend John Moncur joins the lads to give his views on the Irons and #GSBOut. Jarrod Bowen and Jeremy Ngakia get mentio...
Mar 11, 2020•48 min•Ep. 76
West Ham put Southampton to the sword on Saturday after thousands of fans took part in a pre-match #GSBOut protest march against David Gold, David Sullivan and Karren Brady. Jarrod Bowen opened the scoring on his first Hammers start while Sebastien Haller and Michail Antonio notched the final two to secure David Moyes' second win since he took charge... again. Will Pugh and James Jones are back in the studio after their superstar appearance on Sunday night's Match of the Day 2 (still available o...
Mar 04, 2020•51 min•Ep. 75
It was a week of two very different performances against two of the best teams in world football and we only came out of it three goals worse off. The 2-0 defeat to Man City involved a very defensive approach while the 3-2 loss at Anfield came via the sort of attacking, positive and meaningful performance we've been craving from the team all season. In truth, we deserved to take something from Anfield but an uncharacteristic performance from Lukasz Fabianski ensured we left empty-handed. Perhaps...
Feb 26, 2020•52 min•Ep. 74
West Ham were without a game this week but Uefa stepped in to ensure Man City were handed extra motivation ahead of Wednesday night's clash at the Etihad. City's FFP breach saw them handed a two-year Champions League ban and some Hammers fans kindly suggested West Ham also refuse to play in the competition for two years in a noble act of solidarity. Will Pugh and James Jones are back to discuss this as well as Winston Reid's departure to MLS side Sporting Kansas City on loan. Football.London ’s ...
Feb 18, 2020•52 min•Ep. 73
West Ham managed to prolong the inevitable on Sunday as Storm Ciara saw their game with Man City postponed. It's been rescheduled for February 19 but is that a good or bad thing? Will Pugh and James Jones discuss the looming thrashing at the Etihad as well as the continued press backlash against West Ham. Oliver Holt used his Mail on Sunday column to unload both barrels at the board in the wake of the club's extraction of an apology from Sky and Sunday Supplement. The boys look at how sincere hi...
Feb 11, 2020•51 min•Ep. 72
You really can't write it at West Ham. At a time when a bit of positive PR would have done David Gold, David Sullivan and Karren Brady the world of good, the Hammers decide to issue the first legal complaint Sky Sports' Sunday Supplement programme has ever had. The seemingly petty nature of the challenge at a time when there are surely more important things to worry about - like impending relegation from the Premier League for example - sparked a thoroughly unsurprising backlash from the mainstr...
Feb 05, 2020•51 min•Ep. 71
A few years ago we were promised a "world-class stadium and a world-class team." Today we have neither, and the realisation that the board have averaged a net spend of just over £20m a season on transfers over the last 10 years just goes to show how little they are committed to making that promise a reality. The truth is, while they may not be committed to it, they're also very clearly incapable of making it happen, hence the even louder calls for them to step aside and allow someone with a bit ...
Jan 29, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 70
Last weekend the protests went by without incident and will have caught the attention of those responsible for taking our great club to where it is - nowhere. Will they react? Will they even listen? Well, given the current transfer window innactivity there's a chance they won't. But we have to keep making a noise or we're going to be stuck here forever. On the pitch, the Everton game wasn't exactly brilliant but at least we didn't lose. If anything, it only further highlighted how thin and slow ...
Jan 22, 2020•51 min•Ep. 69
NEW YEAR SPECIAL - PART 2! The nostalgia series is different from your usual weekly offering from We Are West Ham. Its aim is to look back at seasons past with fondness or fury and hopefully evoke memories of West Ham that otherwise might be forgotten. This is part two of episode one and of course the lads (William Pugh and WAWH quizmaster Reece Bayliss) chose the last season at Upton Park to kick off with. Don't forget, it might be worth going back to listen to part one first unless you don't m...
Jan 18, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 68
On the same day it emerged West Ham are the 18th richest club in Europe and Karren Brady claimed the board are "trying very hard in the transfer market", the boys discuss the tragic trio's burnt bridges and broken promises. The lads desperately tried to put a new spin on the "How rubbish is VAR" chat after the remote ref intervened at Bramall Lane on Friday to rob the Hammers of a point. Paul McParlan from TheseFootyTimes gave an opposition view ahead of Saturday's clash with Everton. And after ...
Jan 15, 2020•50 min•Ep. 67
NEW YEAR SPECIAL! The nostalgia series is different from your usual weekly offering from We Are West Ham. Its aim is to look back at seasons past with fondness or fury and hopefully evoke memories of West Ham that otherwise might be forgotten. This is part one of episode one and of course the lads (William Pugh and WAWH quizmaster Reece Bayliss) chose the last season at Upton Park to kick off with. Sections are as follows in case you want to skip to a certain part: 0:00 - Martin Peters tribute 3...
Jan 11, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 66
We're back! After a couple of weeks off for the festive period, the We Are West Ham return this week to pour over what has been a pretty crazy fortnight at the club. Manuel Pellegrini was finally sacked but then the board did what they did best and showed their complete incompetence by re-appointing David Moyes on an 18-month deal. The initial outrage was clear - are we ever going to move forward!? Luckily, the early signs of Moyes' second coming have been positive. A 4-0 thumping of a terrible ...
Jan 08, 2020•50 min•Ep. 65
With a Christmas break approaching for We Are West Ham and actual West Ham, the boys tried to sign off the last live show until the New Year with some festive cheer. But Felipe Anderson made that quite difficult... AGAIN! David Martin picked up an injury vs Southampton which means we may not see him in a West Ham shirt again as Lukasz Fabianski is reportedly close to a return. Martin's Sky Sports interview in the week was lovely and it is truly heart warming to see just how much this time has me...
Dec 18, 2019•49 min•Ep. 64
It felt wrong to run with the usual format this week. The boys would have usually reviewed the previous game and cracked on but this week it just didn't feel right as there is so much more going on at West Ham United than one soulless defeat to Arsenal. Many people don't recognise the club anymore and the feeling that it is rotten from the top down continues to grow among the fan base again. With some real emotion and real passion, the boys lay it all on the table about the state and more import...
Dec 11, 2019•51 min•Ep. 63
David Martin crying with joy in the arms of West Ham legend dad Alvin is exactly the sort of thing this club and the fans needed. The heroic win at Chelsea - the Hammers' first at Stamford Bridge since 2002 - made Frank Lampard the first Blues manager to lose at home to West Ham in 17 years... shame! Aaron Cresswell's beauty took the pressure off Manuel Pellegrini for now but his touchline argument with Felipe Anderson seemed to prove rumours of a rift between the pair. Will Pugh and James Jones...
Dec 04, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 62
It's difficult to find any more words of anger, disgust or sadness to describe the current situation at the club, but on this week's show Hammers legend Martin Allen summed it up perfectly. Mad Dog believes the win over Manchester United a few months ago led the team to believe they'd completed their journey to becoming a top team and that everything else would naturally fall in to place and everyone would be happy. He believes there are currently too many players in the squad who just aren't pr...
Nov 27, 2019•50 min•Ep. 61
Tottenham at home always promises to be a special fixture, but suddenly this weekend's clash has been given an extra twist. They've sacked Mauricio Pochettino, the man who had earned the right to be completely untouchable in North London, and replaced him with Jose Mourinho just days before they travel to Stratford for their first away win in the league since January. Whatsmore, they made the announcement while we were live on air and previewing the weekend's game! To say it was the craziest 20 ...
Nov 20, 2019•48 min•Ep. 60
This is unacceptable. This is ridiculous. This is a joke. This is West Ham United. But how long do we go on like this? No win in six league games since that victory over Manchester United has seen us go from serious top six contenders to 16th in the league and mere mid-table candidates at best - all in little over a month! Not good enough, but we've been here before. Manuel Pellegrini doesn't seem to know how to change it, spending big over the course of two summers has only masked the worrying ...
Nov 13, 2019•49 min•Ep. 59
Much has been made of The West Ham Way in recent years. The older generation of football fans will know that it did once exist, while modern-day football fans scoff at the idea of football existing before 1992. Yet what we are currently seeing is the modern edition of The West Ham Way. Definition: Win when you're supposed to lose, lose when you're supposed to win. Be inconsistently inconsistent. Occasionally show signs of promise, always revert to the norm soon after. So this week, James Jones a...
Nov 06, 2019•50 min•Ep. 58
West Ham were blunted by the Blades on Saturday which opened the door to some bizarre calls to sack Manuel Pellegrini. Now James Jones and Will Pugh don't agree on much but there was ferocious agreement in the studio that anyone who harked back to the Sam Allardyce or David Moyes days after the Sheffield United draw is a dross merchant. Jonjo Heuerman also joined the lads to talk about his inspiring 'Upton Park bricks' project and the fantastic work he is still doing for the Bobby Moore fund. Th...
Oct 30, 2019•51 min•Ep. 57
After the worst performance of the season at Everton, the postmortem started in severe fashion as the boys tried to dissect what went so badly wrong. John Moncur helped shine a light on the disastrous showing and revealed the names of the "world class" players he played with at West Ham. Manuel Lanzini and Felipe Anderson are supposedly the best players at the club but are they pulling their weight at the at the moment? All of that before a look ahead to Saturday's HUGE clash against Sheffield U...
Oct 24, 2019•51 min•Ep. 56
The international break has given us the perfect chance to reflect on the first couple of months of the season. The defeat to Palace was frustration but not the end of the world and the boys will no doubt be up for putting it right when they visit Goodison Park this Saturday. But while James Jones and guest Danny Lewis discussed our chances against Everton this weekend, a large part of this week’s show was dedicated to West Ham’s youth players, who have been very impressive of late. A 16-game un...
Oct 16, 2019•51 min•Ep. 55
Despite the defeat to Crystal Palace last weekend, we've still enjoyed a good start to the season. We've lost just two of our opening eight Premier League fixtures and we're currently 8th in the standings - not too bad, eh? However, James Jones believes all the talk about Manuel Pellegrini instilling a big team mentality at the club needs to stop publically, as it's harder to accept defeats when in the lead against the likes of Palace at home. William Pugh obviously disagrees and loves Pellegrin...
Oct 09, 2019•49 min•Ep. 54
If there was ever a week that summed up our club, it was last week. In typical West Ham United fashion, we followed up a dominant 2-0 victory over Manchester United with a 4-0 defeat in the Carabao Cup to Oxford United before taking a very respectable point from 2-1 down at Bournemouth to go 3rd in the Premier League. It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who has supported the club long enough to know this isn't anything out of the ordinary, but it doesn't take anything away from the fact it...
Oct 02, 2019•50 min•Ep. 53
Manuel Pellegrini's 'Big Team Mentality' is beginning to shine through, and that win over Man United last weekend suggested it's here to stay. Last season we saw glimpses of it but suffered from inconsistency, which prevented us from making a serious challenge for a top-seven finish. So far this season, though, we're showing signs that we're more than capable of competing. On this week's show, James Jones and William Pugh waxed lyrical about the victory over Man United and asked why the Hammers ...
Sep 25, 2019•50 min•Ep. 52
West Ham were lucky to escape Villa Park with a point in the end on Monday. Especially after King Arthur Masuaku's second-half red card - which strangely made the team play better. That was the general consensus on the show this week. Sebastien Haller seemed disinterested and immobile while Andriy Yarmolenko will want to forget his night in a hurry. But after a slow start Declan Rice really came into the game while Manuel Lanzini showed no signs of the 10,000 mile round trip to Texas he made dur...
Sep 19, 2019•50 min•Ep. 51
