Ferguson's future - is Potter up for the fight?
- Monday, 31st March 2025
- Allen Cummings
I have to admit there had been very little on the football front to capture my attention over the past 14 days or so of Premier League inactivity.
Potterball: necessity, not design
- Monday, 17th March 2025
- Allen Cummings
So what actually is Potterball? The derogatory made-up word banded around by some in our fanbase as a reference to the style of play Graham Potter has adopted since his arrival as successor to Julen Lopetegui.
JWP: a player our GP prescribed
- Monday, 10th March 2025
- Allen Cummings
When Graham Potter, after much media speculation, was finally confirmed as West Ham’s new head coach on a two-and-a-half year contract, the mid-season transfer window had already been open for nine days.
In Potter we trust
- Tuesday, 25th February 2025
- Allen Cummings
It was towards the end of last year I wrote a blog for KUMB saying never, in my 65 years-plus of supporting West Ham, had I felt so detached from the club that has been such a constant part of my life.
Potter's happy - we should be too
- Thursday, 13th February 2025
- Allen Cummings
There were an awful lot of West Ham fans left disappointed by the lack of activity in the recent January transfer window – and very vocal in sharing their feelings across social media. Although it’s also fair to say for those of us with reasonable memory it wasn’t totally unexpected.
Two to be grateful for
- Friday, 31st January 2025
- Allen Cummings
As Monday's transfer deadline draws ever closer the usual social media hysteria continues to rachet up to what appears to near suicidal levels for some of our fanbase.
Tourists - why do we dislike them so much?
- Monday, 13th January 2025
- Allen Cummings
This is a tricky one I know – so I’ve got my grandad’s old Home Guard tin hat at the ready. Could we have a civilised debate about ‘tourists’? Not visitors to our country but visitors to our home ground – the London Stadium.
Lucky Lopetegui - but for how much longer?
- Thursday, 2nd January 2025
- Allen Cummings
My old mum was a great one for her sayings. She had one for almost every occasion and every eventuality.
What's the point when the bar's set so low?
- Saturday, 21st December 2024
- Allen Cummings
So what can we as fans expect from the visit of Brighton to the London Stadium this weekend? If it’s anything like what our esteemed leadership appears happy to accept, the answer has to be ‘not a lot’!
Christmas cheer - of a kind - but for how long?
- Wednesday, 18th December 2024
- Allen Cummings
We have to respect the point we got from our visit to Bournemouth!
The agony for Bowen is clear to see
- Monday, 9th December 2024
- Allen Cummings
The saddest sight for me last Tuesday evening – apart from the King Power’s big screen showing ‘Leicester City 3 West Ham United 1 at the end of another shambolic 90+ minutes of football – was a little earlier in the evening a close-up TV shot of a dejected and despondent-looking Jarrod Bowen after yet another lung-bursting run forward had come to nothing!
I've become a reluctant Hammer - and I hate it
- Monday, 25th November 2024
- Allen Cummings
I saw a comment from a West Ham social media account the other day which actually resonated with me! That in itself is something of a rarity.
Time to give Paqueta the chop
- Friday, 1st November 2024
- Allen Cummings
Not that very long ago it’s a decision only a madman would have even contemplated let alone acted upon.
Lopetegui's made his mark once - would he do it again?
- Tuesday, 8th October 2024
- Allen Cummings
The more I’m seeing of Julen Lopetegui, the more I’m warming to him.
Lopetegui sailing close to the wind?
- Tuesday, 24th September 2024
- Allen Cummings
I’m not a sailor, by any stretch of the imagination.
The ins and outs of a West Ham summer
- Tuesday, 10th September 2024
- Allen Cummings
There was considerable excitement when the summer transfer window opened and it was reported Tim Steidten had jumped aboard a flight to Brazil – not for the first time it has to be said – to secure the signature of what we were told was an exciting 18-year-old Brazilian kid by the name of Luis Guilherme.
Roll up, roll up! Players for sale!
- Saturday, 24th August 2024
- Allen Cummings
Car Boot sales are traditionally a Sunday affair – where those of us with items surplus to our needs hope to move them on to someone willing to take them off our hands.
Is Duran still Lopetegui's man?
- Monday, 19th August 2024
- Allen Cummings
Julen Lopetegui should've been banging on Sullivan’s door first thing on Monday morning insisting he stumped up the cash to finally get the player who had sealed all three points for Aston Villa on Saturday – and left us with nothing on a day of great expectation.
The fight must go on
- Friday, 16th August 2024
- Allen Cummings
'Boycott the Betway' may have run its course. The game against Celta Vigo may have passed. That particular moment may have gone.
What a song and dance
- Friday, 26th July 2024
- Allen Cummings
There is no way I can pass myself off as a child of the 1980s – or any kind of expert of the music from that era.
No compromise
- Monday, 8th July 2024
- Allen Cummings
The signing of Max Kilman – almost certain to be the biggest outlay by West Ham in this current transfer window – is an important moment early in the reign of our new head coach Julen Lopetegui.
Stranger things have happened
- Friday, 28th June 2024
- Allen Cummings
I know there’s still a way to go yet until the new season begins – and maybe more importantly right now, until the current transfer window closes.
Time for Tim to stand up and be counted
- Monday, 10th June 2024
- Allen Cummings
Reputations will undoubtably be on the line when the new Premier League season kicks off on the weekend of 17/18 August.
The King is dead! Long live the King!
- Friday, 24th May 2024
- Allen Cummings
Maybe that’s a tad over-dramatic in describing the end of David Moyes’ reign as West Ham manager, and the start of Julen Lopetegui’s tenure as Head Coach (spot the subtle difference) - with a start date of 1 July now officially announced.
Roll up! Roll up! The fun's only just begun
- Friday, 26th April 2024
- Allen Cummings
It looks like the circus is back in town...
The final curtain can't come too soon
- Sunday, 21st April 2024
- Allen Cummings
I love my football – always have done! It’s been my go-to salvation for as long as I can remember being on this earth.