Is Jarrod paying the price?
- Monday, 3rd August 2026
- Paul Walker
Penny for those thoughts now Jarrod Bowen. Some might say you agreed to a new contract to stay at West Ham to help the fight for an immediate return to the Premier League. Now someone has moved the goalposts.
Reality bites
- Wednesday, 29th July 2026
- Paul Walker
There’s little over four weeks to go before the transfer window slams shut on 1 September and the reality of what we are and where we are has started to hit home.
Hope not hate
- Tuesday, 21st July 2026
- Paul Walker
We’ve heard a lot about hope this week, haven’t we? Mainly from an unrepentant Everton fan who has found himself with a new gaff in central London.
When West Ham won the World Cup
- Thursday, 16th July 2026
- Paul Walker
Well, it’s not coming home (again) and a nation is in mourning (again) and there wasn’t a West Ham player in sight.
A world of difference
- Wednesday, 8th July 2026
- Paul Walker
Distracted as everyone else is by the wonders of the World Cup, or Donald Trump’s stand-up routine—whatever is the most entertaining---down West Ham way, we hope we are entering a brave new world.
Down to the wire
- Monday, 29th June 2026
- Paul Walker
There was once a famous grouchy Scot (aren’t they all after this World Cup?) who coined the phrase 'squeaky bum time'.
The king is dead, long live the king
- Thursday, 18th June 2026
- Paul Walker
The sight of sunny uplands in the distance are still glistening in the eyes of West Ham fans, less than a week after Danny Kretinsky took control and the evil empire was no more.
Least we should forget
- Monday, 8th June 2026
- Paul Walker
The miracle of Prague, the European victory that should have been the catalyst to a golden future for West Ham. Three years ago almost to the day, don’t ever let the people who have run and ruined our club forget it.
Bowen, going, gone?
- Wednesday, 3rd June 2026
- Paul Walker
Let’s be honest now, if Jarrod Bowen is still wearing a West Ham shirt when we kick off in the Championship next season, pretty much everyone will be amazed.
No more Nuno
- Tuesday, 26th May 2026
- Paul Walker
Let’s be honest. Nuno Espirito Sancho should have been sacked in the tunnel at Molineux on 3 January. West Ham have a history of that sort of behaviour, but never was it needed more.
David Sullivan, repeat offender
- Wednesday, 20th May 2026
- Paul Walker
So this horrible, heartbreaking season goes to the death. One last chance at the London Stadium for West Ham to save their Premier League lives.
Losing our soul
- Monday, 11th May 2026
- Paul Walker
It wasn’t any easier to stomach in the cold light of day, the decision that could give Varsenal—as they are now known—the title and send West Ham United to the Championship.
The time is Rice
- Wednesday, 6th May 2026
- Paul Walker
The irony shouldn’t be lost on anyone. Declan Rice, of all people, returns on Sunday to play his part in the increasingly likely relegation of West Ham, who he captained to European glory almost three years ago.
One moment in time
- Monday, 27th April 2026
- Paul Walker
If you were there, you will never forget it. Eleven amazing minutes that could change the future of West Ham forever. We certainly all hope and dream so.
End of the road? Not just yet
- Wednesday, 22nd April 2026
- Paul Walker
The dust may not have settled on a momentous day in the history of West Ham, but are we experiencing the beginning of the end of David Sullivan’s control of the club.
Tears for souvenirs
- Tuesday, 14th April 2026
- Paul Walker
It did bring a tear to my eyes, watching us finally produce a memorable victory, something to cling onto, something to give us all hope.
Why always us?
- Tuesday, 7th April 2026
- Paul Walker
The morning after our shattering exit from the FA Cup felt more like the end of the world, didn’t it? A glimmer of light and hope at the end of a season of horrors was snatched from us.
Days of the magnificent seven
- Tuesday, 31st March 2026
- Paul Walker
It was my own fault, really. As soon as the FA Cup quarter final draw was made I instinctively referred to Sunday’s opponents as Dirty Leeds. Force of habit, 50 years in the making.
Masking the reality
- Tuesday, 24th March 2026
- Paul Walker
It’s not quite time for the grim reaper at West Ham, but there’s grim reality in the air after the dread display at Aston Villa.
Reunited - and it feels so good
- Tuesday, 17th March 2026
- Paul Walker
Better late... well, here we are with players that look like a team, a squad that believes and fights for every inch, a squad that want to be here and are desperate to fright for the shirt. It's been a while coming.
Turning point to the good
- Thursday, 12th March 2026
- Paul Walker
What a week that was. The good, the bad and the ugly, from delirium to despair. Just 14 minutes outside the bottom three and an FA Cup quarter final with dirty Leeds on the horizon. Those of a certain age know, we certainly owe them one.
The stench of failure
- Monday, 2nd March 2026
- Paul Walker
Dress it up all you like, but our great club is being led into financial Armageddon by this board. The question now surely is are we seeing the beginning of the end of Sullivanism?
When will we see the like again?
- Wednesday, 25th February 2026
- Paul Walker
It’s been a week of memories, legends and heroes. Stark, sad reminders maybe of what West Ham once were.
Smiles all round - well almost
- Thursday, 19th February 2026
- Paul Walker
It’s been no joke following West Ham this season but these last few weeks have been smiles better, even if it’s been no laughing matter for some at the London Stadium.
The real cost of failure
- Tuesday, 3rd February 2026
- Paul Walker
If there was any doubt about the current financial state of West Ham and the potential bleak future - and the way David Sullivan runs transfer business - then this January window just about sums it all up.
A jigsaw without enough pieces
- Thursday, 29th January 2026
- Paul Walker
Jigsaws have their uses. I was never a great fan, but a good mate sent me one recently, 500 pieces to finally rebuild a beautiful picture of the old Boleyn Ground. I bet a lot of you wished that was for real.
Just another week at the circus
- Thursday, 22nd January 2026
- Paul Walker
For one fleeting moment, we got our club back. Callum Wilson smashes home the winner at Spurs and all is right in the world.
Fitted up by the fuzz
- Thursday, 15th January 2026
- Paul Walker
You’ve got to laugh, haven’t you? There’s not been much fun around West Ham in this shambles of a season with us staring relegation in the face.
The shame and humiliation of Molineux
- Monday, 5th January 2026
- Paul Walker
Humiliation is the only word. Humiliation of a coach, a team, humiliation of the whole club in full, painful view of the whole football world.
All our yesterdays, again
- Wednesday, 31st December 2025
- Paul Walker
Sometimes you just want answers to questions, without much hope of being enlightened... but here goes. Why on earth did Nuno Espirito Santo take the West Ham job?
Unhelpful distractions
- Tuesday, 23rd December 2025
- Paul Walker
It wouldn’t be West Ham if there wasn’t some annoying, utterly pointless distraction when we have a serious relegation battle on our hands.
Reality strikes
- Thursday, 18th December 2025
- Paul Walker
When reality strikes and you are at your lowest ebb, well it hurts. And that’s how so many West Ham fans feel at present.
All the young dudes
- Thursday, 11th December 2025
- Paul Walker
It was better than forcing yourselves to watch that Champions League stuff, wasn’t it? The opportunity to experience something uplifting, for a change.
The greatest Hammer
- Tuesday, 2nd December 2025
- Paul Walker
It was a hammer to the heart of such emotional devastation that you couldn’t move. Lost for words, motionless, as we discovered the dreadful news that Billy Bonds had left us.
And the circus is back in town
- Tuesday, 25th November 2025
- Paul Walker
Here we go again. A dodgy draw, only a couple of wins and there are seriously folk walking amongst us who want the manager axed.
Tales of the expected
- Thursday, 13th November 2025
- Paul Walker
I suppose we all knew we would be in this entrenched position in the wake of the biggest anti-board march in the club’s history. But I’m not sure we expected such confrontational attitude, such pettiness, such defiance.
Rice seconds our emotions
- Wednesday, 5th November 2025
- Paul Walker
Of all people, and in an iconic stadium in West Ham history, Declan Rice couldn’t have underlined any clearer why West Ham fans will be marching against the current regime this coming weekend.
The sadness of a club in despair
- Thursday, 30th October 2025
- Paul Walker
If you step back just for a moment and view the basket case my club, your club, our club has become, the overriding emotion is sadness - isn’t it - to see the mess that West Ham has become.
The glare of the spotlight
- Tuesday, 21st October 2025
- Paul Walker
You couldn’t quite see the whites of their eyes as West Ham’s under fire regime glared out of the directors box at the mess they have conceived - but you could see all those white seats.
Seven key questions: leadership and governance
- Saturday, 4th October 2025
- Paul Walker
Here at KUMB.com, the Editor is a hard taskmaster, dishing out assignments like confetti asking various contributors to knock up a few words on whatever the current hot topics of the week are in the West Ham United universe.
Where there’s a will
- Wednesday, 1st October 2025
- Paul Walker
The contrasts were obvious, on and off the pitch as new coach Nuno Espirito Santo’s first game in charge of West Ham produced an encouraging point and display at Everton.
John Sissons at 80
- Tuesday, 30th September 2025
- Paul Walker
It’s hard to believe I’m actually writing these words. John Sissons, the boy wonder of the sixties golden era is 80 this week.
Come on up for the rising
- Monday, 22nd September 2025
- Paul Walker
It’s up and running now, seemingly no going back, as the campaign to rid West Ham of the David Sullivan regime gained momentum.
Apathy is not an option
- Monday, 15th September 2025
- Paul Walker
They say it’s the hope that kills you in the end, but let’s make sure it’s not apathy instead - from the longest suffering fans in the land - that lets this hated regime off the hook.
Window to our world
- Wednesday, 3rd September 2025
- Paul Walker
It’s finally over, and I doubt any of you are anything but relieved. A transfer window that just underlined the vast, widening gap between the big boys and the rest of us.
The end of the road
- Thursday, 28th August 2025
- Paul Walker
To those who witnessed it first hand, it was the last straw. To those on the pitch, it was pretty much the last hurrah of a ageing, dying team who should have been put to rest a long time ago.
Who knew it would come to this?
- Thursday, 21st August 2025
- Paul Walker
Maybe it's a bit trite to say it's a surprise anyone is really surprised about the worsening West Ham crisis, the whole circus from transfers, finances, even the future of the man who must be the most hated club owner in the country.
Money for nothing and the blame for free
- Wednesday, 13th August 2025
- Paul Walker
It’s been a terrible watch this summer, the transfer window that for most of the time has seen West Ham on the outside looking in.
A battle that Potter must win
- Wednesday, 6th August 2025
- Paul Walker
Graham Potter by now knows he exists in a parallel West Ham universe. On one side of the pond he has been knocking into shape a squad that’s constantly been told they are not good enough and are going to be shipped out.
Mr Wilson, we’ve been expecting you
- Thursday, 24th July 2025
- Paul Walker
Now come on, raise your hands if you thought that we would not see Callum Wilson’s name in the frame to join West Ham? No? Thought not.
The letter that shames us
- Friday, 18th July 2025
- Paul Walker
Sometimes it takes just one guy, one long suffering fan, one scream of rage from the darkness, to put into words the frustration and dissatisfaction felt by many, many thousands over the running of our great club.
A sad end of the road
- Wednesday, 2nd July 2025
- Paul Walker
In the end, Michail Antonio’s “departure” from West Ham went out with a whimper. The end of an era... or not?
Everything comes to those who wait
- Thursday, 26th June 2025
- Paul Walker
It’s not a popular view, but you can’t help feeling a little sorry for Graham Potter as this painful transfer window has unfolded.
Not 19 forever
- Wednesday, 18th June 2025
- Paul Walker
In the midst of this shocking apology for a transfer window as far as West Ham are concerned, it is our bright youngsters who are giving us reasons to be cheerful.
The blame game
- Thursday, 12th June 2025
- Paul Walker
Maybe David Sullivan feels he should have stayed on his hired holiday yacht on the gentle Mediterranean sea, rather than be hit by the tsunami of abuse from fans furious with West Ham’s very public transfer nightmare.
The time of our lives
- Tuesday, 3rd June 2025
- Paul Walker
Two years ago this week... June 7. Prague. I defy anyone in the West Ham world who can’t remember to the second, where they were, who they were with, who they hugged, when Jarrod Bowen’s shot hit the back of the net.
Suffer little children
- Tuesday, 20th May 2025
- Paul Walker
Supporting West Ham is personal, isn’t it? You want to look on the bright side, you want to see your family heritage sustained and grow.
The long goodbye
- Wednesday, 14th May 2025
- Paul Walker
Don’t you just wish time could stand still for just a few days as you take in and celebrate something really momentus, something you’ve wished for all your life?
Let’s make West Ham great again
- Thursday, 8th May 2025
- Paul Walker
Looking back at past glories is always the antidote to the reality of a worrying future. Well that’s how it is in this house.
We’re skint and we know we are
- Thursday, 1st May 2025
- Paul Walker
In the end, the feeling is of sadness as you watch helplessly as the club you’ve loved and supported all your life plunges deeper and deeper into crisis.
And the German for hitting the fan is?
- Wednesday, 23rd April 2025
- Paul Walker
As cats and pigeons go, our big f***ing German made quite the impact after yet another horror West Ham show in front of their now totally disillusioned fans.
Learnings from Liverpool
- Monday, 14th April 2025
- Paul Walker
Leaving Liverpool is usually a chastening experience. Invariably beaten, usually heavily and that nasty feeling that the red machine has just rumbled all over us again. And you are expected to smile nicely and be grateful it was by less than five goals.
Tales of the expected
- Thursday, 10th April 2025
- Paul Walker
Declan Rice, world class? Well, what did you all expect? In fact I’m surprised anyone is surprised. We sort of told you so.
Meltdown over Molineux
- Thursday, 3rd April 2025
- Paul Walker
We all knew it was going to be like this, didn’t we? But when the shockwaves of what is wrong with West Ham crash over you in one horrible match, it’s still hard to take.
Check out the Czechs
- Thursday, 27th March 2025
- Paul Walker
It had to be all about the Czechs. One who seemingly wants out but can’t find the way, and another who probably wants to stay but looks unlikely to get the chance.
Soucek again
- Monday, 24th March 2025
- Paul Walker
He’s 30, he can’t pass, he can’t play, he’s a relic of David Moyes’ past. Tomas Soucek, the un-cool hero of West Ham.
You’ve got super David Moyes
- Thursday, 13th March 2025
- Paul Walker
Well we all knew it was coming, light follows day and all that. We’re off to see “Super David Moyes”, now back firmly embedded in his spiritual home at Everton - Celtic notwithstanding.
All’s well that ends well?
- Thursday, 6th March 2025
- Paul Walker
Hands up anyone who would be happy to see the end of this dreadful season now? Thought so, me too.
Gunned down - and loving it
- Monday, 24th February 2025
- Paul Walker
Days like the glorious gunning down of the Gunners don’t come around too often - particularly in this awful season. So we will celebrate it as long and hard as we like.
How to unite a fan base
- Friday, 21st February 2025
- Paul Walker
It was no doubt intended to be a ‘soft as butter’ interview by Karren Brady. No difficult questions. Move on, nothing to see here.
Tribute to a hero
- Saturday, 15th February 2025
- Paul Walker
It seems just like yesterday. 2 May 1964, the sun shines over Wembley and a beaming Ronnie Boyce, arms aloft, runs behind the goal having just headed West Ham’s Cup Final winner. Pretty much right in front of me.
Tears for souvenirs
- Thursday, 13th February 2025
- Paul Walker
There were always going to be a few tears, you know, when you consider why we are not in Europe. It never ceases to upset me.
All change
- Thursday, 6th February 2025
- Paul Walker
It’s only been the best part of a month, but it seems more like a lifetime as Graham Potter continues to get a grip of West Ham.
Potter putting the 'United' back into West Ham
- Wednesday, 15th January 2025
- Paul Walker
It’s been hard to be positive about West Ham over the opening months of a dreadful season. But Graham Potter has changed all that after just two games.
The longest goodbye
- Wednesday, 8th January 2025
- Paul Walker
It’s been the most painful, the most heartless, the most embarrassing long goodbye you could ever imagine.
2024: a year to forget
- Thursday, 2nd January 2025
- Paul Walker
As if 2024 could not get any worse. But even on the last day, there was another vicious kick in the teeth.
An unmanaged decline
- Monday, 23rd December 2024
- Paul Walker
I wonder what it’s like to support a team that’s sixth in the table and with their best half season points tally in a Premier League campaign, and in a European quarter-final too?
Please Mr. Postman, what about us?
- Thursday, 19th December 2024
- Paul Walker
It’s not often that you wake up to see West Ham’s badge plastered all over the early morning TV news channels, and no way was it anything to do with a new manager. Far too prominent for that.
A grim year to forget
- Wednesday, 11th December 2024
- Paul Walker
History will not be kind to West Ham when this terrible year is chronicled, a decline that has shocked as much as angered our fan base.
Go now
- Wednesday, 4th December 2024
- Paul Walker
When it’s over, it’s over. Nothing more need to be said, Julen Lopetegui is a dead man walking now as West Ham’s head coach.
Grabbing at positives
- Thursday, 28th November 2024
- Paul Walker
The art of being positive has escaped many of us West Ham nutters this season, For good reason, it’s been a nightmare of our club’s own making.
Bowen lifted the gloom, but will Sullivan?
- Thursday, 21st November 2024
- Paul Walker
Don’t you just love Jarrod Bowen? West Ham fans have had absolutely nothing to get excited about this dreadful season, but our skipper stepped up to the plate this week while on international duty.
Times really have to be a’changing
- Wednesday, 13th November 2024
- Paul Walker
Well, someone’s got to say it. Only West Ham could foul up the sacking of a lame-duck manager, who it seems has lost the players as well as disheartened fans.
Another fine mess
- Wednesday, 6th November 2024
- Paul Walker
Just another week in the fantasy world of West Ham football. Is the coach going? Is the technical director going? Are the players revolting?
Time not on your side, Mr. Sullivan
- Monday, 21st October 2024
- Paul Walker
Something has to be done now, surely, because doing nothing cannot be an option now that the Premier League is taking place without us. You must have noticed.
A comedy club without the laughs
- Thursday, 17th October 2024
- Paul Walker
We used to be a circus, now we are just told we are the most laughably impossible club to run in the Premier League.
Heroes and villains
- Wednesday, 2nd October 2024
- Paul Walker
We’ve had heroes and villains, a coach under more pressure, dressing room unrest and walletgate. Thank heavens for Tomas Soucek.
A whole new ball game
- Friday, 27th September 2024
- Paul Walker
Here’s an idea. Let’s all stop talking about David Moyes. He’s gone, we all have an opinion about the Scot and that’s now where it should end.
Hero to zero: you cannot be serious!
- Wednesday, 18th September 2024
- Paul Walker
It didn’t take long , did it? Julen Lopetegui has gone from being flavour of the month, the saviour of football as we know it, to being branded a fake and a fraud.
Moore than just a milestone
- Monday, 9th September 2024
- Paul Walker
It’s 66 years ago this week that Bobby Moore made his West Ham debut, a fresh faced blonde 17 year-old, the beginning of a golden era for club and country than none of us who experienced it will ever forget.
The wind of change
- Saturday, 31st August 2024
- Paul Walker
It’s finally over - the most traumatic, extensive transfer window in West Ham’s history as new head coach Julen Lopetegui stamps his name on the club’s future.
Revolution
- Monday, 12th August 2024
- Paul Walker
It's not quite a revolution but certainly the biggest transformation of West Ham in a long time, maybe even our history, that has dominated the build-up to the new season.
Mind the Gap, we have a new cult hero
- Tuesday, 6th August 2024
- Paul Walker
Just like London buses, you wait four weeks for something to happen and then four - or even more! - arrive at the same time.
Let’s be ‘avin you!
- Thursday, 25th July 2024
- Paul Walker
The silence is deafening, certainly from West Ham’s money-grabbing rulers, but the campaign against the axing of concessions is growing louder by the day.
The shadow of shame that won’t go away
- Wednesday, 17th July 2024
- Paul Walker
This week should be about the launch of the brave new world under Julen Lopetegui, who we all desperately want to be a tremendous success.
A Labour of love
- Thursday, 11th July 2024
- Paul Walker
Of course, football’s coming home because we have a Labour prime minister. And without revealing any sort of political leanings, we all hope that’s true.
Whatever happened to the West Ham family?
- Thursday, 20th June 2024
- Paul Walker
Sometimes it’s good to look at the West Ham bubble from the outside - from as far away as possible, even - and it’s not always a pretty sight.
The ticket row that won’t go away
- Tuesday, 28th May 2024
- Paul Walker
Throughout the Premier League, season ticket increases continues to rattle a few more cages, with West Ham’s renewal deadline next week.
Good luck Julen: you are going to need it
- Friday, 24th May 2024
- Paul Walker
Only at West Ham, eh? In with the brave new world, out with the old and then smack between the eyes, a crisis we all hoped had gone away ruins what should have been a confidence-boosting day.
Lambs or lions?
- Thursday, 16th May 2024
- Paul Walker
Two reigning European champions going head-to-head on the last day of the season - what could be better?
Be careful what you are forgetting
- Thursday, 2nd May 2024
- Paul Walker
It’s around the month of May when we find ourselves celebrating all the big days of our past, of which there have been scant few in the last 40 or so years.
Such a sad, disrespectful end
- Thursday, 25th April 2024
- Paul Walker
It was always going to be like this, wasn’t it? The end of one era and the beginning - as yet unknown - of another.
The shame of our lost season
- Tuesday, 16th April 2024
- Paul Walker
End of the line, end of the road, we've reached a crossroads - or any other transport cliché you can think of. It’s how it looks for West Ham and David Moyes.
Don’t worry, be happy
- Monday, 8th April 2024
- Paul Walker
I have to ask, what makes you happy about West Ham?
Moyes: a managerial Millwall?
- Thursday, 4th April 2024
- Paul Walker
It's getting silly now, isn’t it? David Moyes has seemingly become our managerial ‘Millwall’... everybody hates him, but he doesn’t care.
The price of everything - and the value of nothing
- Thursday, 28th March 2024
- Paul Walker
Our beloved club do have the insatiable ability to tick off their fans at every given opportunity and then try to make us feel guilty for daring to moan.
A tribute to a boyhood hero
- Tuesday, 26th March 2024
- Paul Walker
We lost another one of Ron Greenwood’s 1960s generation at the weekend, 77-year-old midfielder Peter Bennett after a long battle with cancer.
That’s entertainment - well, almost
- Wednesday, 20th March 2024
- Paul Walker
This ‘next level’. Has David Moyes taken us there, and how much further can he take West Ham under the current regime? Billionaires all in a row but desperately looking to sell shares, make a killing and drag in new investment.
Bobby Moore, gone but never forgotten
- Thursday, 24th February 2022
- Paul Walker
The memories never fade away, but you have to be in your late fifties now to have seen Bobby Moore play for West Ham.