West Ham 2025/26

ninjamonkey said:
To the surprise of nobody. You can't go from Moyes' pragmatic football to Potter, especially without being given the funds to make a drastic overhaul of the squad. Potter was stupid to ever take the job and ruin his reputation, was never going to work. That west ham squad need a pragmatic, defensive manager to get them to work, Nuno is so clearly and obviously the man that even the VAR officials could get the replacement right.
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Exact same mistakes the rags have made every time they have sacked a manager since 2013
 
normskih said:
I don’t, always had a soft spot for West Ham. Mervyn Day, Trevor Brooking. If they get the Nuno fella, I think they will do alright.
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Clyde Best and Mervyn Day, Frank Lampard senior. Used to love watching them on the Big Match.
I read a very good book about Ade Coker, Clive Charles and Clyde. It was supposedly the 1st time 3 black players played on the same team in a top level match and how they all eventually emigrated to the States and played there.
Can't recall the name exactly but it was something like " East End heroes to American Kings"
Its incredible to see all the great players who started at West Ham and left to further their career.
 
Sly sports will now predictably play the pity card for him, after weeks campaigning for him to be sacked
 
Xhavenjoe said:
Clyde Best and Mervyn Day, Frank Lampard senior. Used to love watching them on the Big Match.
I read a very good book about Ade Coker, Clive Charles and Clyde. It was supposedly the 1st time 3 black players played on the same team in a top level match and how they all eventually emigrated to the States and played there.
Can't recall the name exactly but it was something like " East End heroes to American Kings"
Its incredible to see all the great players who started at West Ham and left to further their career.
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On April 1, 1972, West Ham United made sports history by becoming the first club from the highest echelon of English football to field three black players in League competition.

Clive Charles was born in Canning Town, just a few miles from the Hammers' Upton Park home; Ade Coker came to London from Nigeria; and Clyde Best had made his way to London's Docklands from Bermuda.

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All went on to great success in the United States. After being named by Pelé in the all-time greatest NASL team, Charles managed the leading College side Portland Timbers, guided the American Women to World Cup glory, and achieved historic results in Olympic competition with the U.S. Under-23s. Best grew to be a legend in the NASL, and along with Charles, was one of only four former West Ham players to manage at international level when he took over the Bermudan national side.

Coker was another leading light in the modern game and represented the U.S. at international level, overcoming devastating injury. Painstakingly researched, with a foreword and interview with entertainer Kenny Lynch on the nature of support in the 1970s from a black perspective, this book tells the story of three young black men who changed sports history.
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Xhavenjoe said:
Clyde Best and Mervyn Day, Frank Lampard senior. Used to love watching them on the Big Match.
I read a very good book about Ade Coker, Clive Charles and Clyde. It was supposedly the 1st time 3 black players played on the same team in a top level match and how they all eventually emigrated to the States and played there.
Can't recall the name exactly but it was something like " East End heroes to American Kings"
Its incredible to see all the great players who started at West Ham and left to further their career.
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I never had a clue about that fact, had always assumed it were the 'Three degrees' at WBA who took that accolade.
 
paulchapo said:
No surprise Potter has gone, it's crazy how far his stock has fallen since Brighton.
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Looks like his methods worked until about 2022, then he’s failed to adapt his style of play and has been left behind.

Think he’s done in England for the time being. If he wants to reinvent himself, he needs to go abroad again and create a new style of play that works.
 
Maintainin said:
I never had a clue about that fact, had always assumed it were the 'Three degrees' at WBA who took that accolade.
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It was in the back of my head. They were all around the same time.
Luton had Ricky Hill and one of the Stein brothers too but not sure were they in the top division at the time.
How times have changed and all for the better.
 
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