The West Ham United Courier
Squad1 Apr 2047
Jonathan Stewart damages knee ligaments — 100 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 100 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom1 Apr 2047
The scrutiny sharpens at West Ham United
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at West Ham United is running low.
Squad1 Apr 2047
A one-man rearguard from Freek Entius
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad1 Apr 2047
Christopher Davies says West Ham United went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings1 Apr 2047
Up for the corner, and Nicholas Taylor delivers — 7.98
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Nicholas Taylor scored, was marked 7.98, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad1 Apr 2047
Defences have started doubling up on David Atkinson
18 goals and a season average of 7.28 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market1 Apr 2047
David Atkinson wants more than West Ham United are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Player ratings1 Apr 2047
Charles Cook runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match30 Mar 2047
Nicholas Taylor rescues a point for West Ham United
It needed Nicholas Taylor to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Preston, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Benjamin Jackson in it
- Boardroom West Ham United answer back