The West Ham United Courier
Match19 Feb 2028
West Ham United tear Bristol City apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Bristol City, and it could have been more.
Player ratings21 Feb 2028
Jalal Abdullai scores twice — 8.62
Two goals and a mark of 8.62 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings21 Feb 2028
A brace, and Manor Solomon takes the afternoon — 8.17
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Manor Solomon provided it, and the 8.17 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match19 Feb 2028
Still nobody has beaten West Ham United
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market21 Feb 2028
Manor Solomon raises the bar for West Ham United
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at West Ham United heard it as anything else.
Market21 Feb 2028
Jayden Danns wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Words exchanged at West Ham United
Sidiki Chérif and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market21 Feb 2028
One of our own: Jason King joins the West Ham United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jason King is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market21 Feb 2028
Stephen White steps up from the West Ham United academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stephen White has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Jarrod Bowen at his very best
- Loan watch Finlay Herrick wants to come home
- The dugout No place for Joël Veltman on the big day