West Ham United

Middlesbrough won by five goals to one at Bolton Wanderers on Friday night and finished the round top of the Championship, and Queens Park Rangers beat Swansea City 5-0 on Saturday. All twelve games listed for…

West Ham beat Swansea 1-0 to go second, a point behind the leaders, West Brom came from two goals down to beat Blackburn, and Burnley lost at home to Wolves for a 21st home league game without a win. All…

West Ham scored six at Lincoln against nine men, Swansea won at Millwall with a goal in the 90th minute on a night when police began investigating a report of racial abuse, and Neto Borges scored at both ends…

Burnley won a league game at last, Southampton beat Portsmouth with ten men, and a twenty-one-year-old goalkeeper on loan from Manchester City stopped West Ham going top of the Championship. The league came…

Five of the fourteen games finished 2-2, and Millwall were 2-0 up in two of them. That is the round in one line: a division where almost nobody could hold on to anything, and where Swansea City went back to…

Thirty-seven goals, six different scorers in one game on the Friday night, and three clubs finishing the weekend on the same number of points.

Matchweek two of the Championship ran across Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 August. All twelve games are reviewed here, along with a table that already contains one club sitting in the relegation places with a…

This round-up was first published on 16 August, when nine of the opening round's twelve games had been played. It was updated on 18 August with the three that remained: Watford 2-1 Southampton, Burnley 2-2…

How does a side win 3-1 while having less of the ball and matching its opponent for shots? This piece explains how West Ham’s brief burst either side of half-time decided a League Cup tie Portsmouth had shaped…

Tottenham's £85m midfielder scored a wonder goal within three minutes of his first appearance for the club - but a behind-closed-doors friendly against League One opposition raises an obvious question about…

Every relegated club has one player the whole summer hinges on, and for West Ham that player was always Jarrod Bowen. With Nuno Espirito Santo already committed to the Championship rebuild, the captain's…

Tottenham have agreed a club-record £85m fee for West Ham's Mateus Fernandes and seen off Manchester United to do it. This piece works through what the deal actually costs Spurs, what they are buying in the…

West Ham's ownership story has taken a sharp turn, with serious allegations against one co-owner arriving at the same moment the club is scrambling to return to the Premier League. This piece examines what the…

This piece covers serious allegations of sexual exploitation and predatory behaviour made against a prominent football club owner. It draws on accounts from seven women and examines what the story means for…

West Ham's confirmation that Nuno Espirito Santo will remain as manager raises as many questions as it answers. This piece examines whether the logic behind the decision holds up, what the club must sacrifice…

Less than three years after lifting European silverware, West Ham have dropped out of the Premier League. This piece looks beyond the result and into the structural, financial and personal questions that will…

Sunday's final day of the Premier League season carries genuinely historic weight for two of London's biggest clubs. This piece looks beyond the permutations and into the financial wreckage, managerial…

Newcastle's encouraging home performance on Sunday afternoon told two very different stories: one of a team rediscovering its rhythm at exactly the right point in the season, and another of a West Ham side in…

The disallowed Callum Wilson equaliser at the London Stadium has split football opinion right down the middle, but Jamie Carragher has stepped forward with one of his most direct Monday Night Football verdicts…

The decision to disallow Callum Wilson's stoppage-time equaliser against Arsenal was described as the biggest VAR ruling in Premier League history — and it has forced an uncomfortable conversation English…

What happens when a single officiating decision carries the weight of a title race at one end of the table and a relegation battle at the other? This piece examines the four minutes and 11 seconds at London…

This report examines how West Ham's afternoon at the Gtech Community Stadium unravelled through a combination of their own misfortune and Brentford's clinical finishing. We look at what the result means for…

Baroness Karren Brady has ended her 16-year association with West Ham United, stepping down as vice-chair on 15 April 2026. Her departure comes at one of the most precarious moments in the club's recent…

Wolverhampton Wanderers are on the brink of becoming the first club confirmed as relegated from the Premier League this season, with a congested weekend of fixtures set to decide their immediate fate. We have…