Signs of life : Picture by @capitalfootball Just when they seemed dead and buried, West Ham have suddenly sprung to life. A couple of weeks ago they lost at home to relegation rivals Nottingham Forest to plunge the club into despond. Now, a week on from a last-gasp win at Spurs they claimed a 3-1 win against Sunderland to breathe more life into their hopes of survival. A first half blitz brought goals from Crysencio Summerville, Jarrod Bowen (from the penalty spot) and Mateu

By Alessandro Schiavone in Brussels Canadian striker Promise David was quizzed on reports he turned down West Ham due to an apparent unwillingness to be involved in a relegation scrap. The Hammers turned to Lazio's Argentine striker Taty Castellanos when it filtered out the Union Saint-Gilloise hitman wanted to see out the season in Brussels. But David, who has bagged 14 goals across all competitions this term including two in the Champions League, was desperate to set the re

Frank fronts up after the 2-1 defeat to West Ham : Picture by @capitalfootball Pressure? What pressure? Thomas Frank was in fine straight-bat mode as he played down the feeling of mutiny at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium after his side flopped on home soil yet again. Supporters in the massed South Stand were in an unforgiving mood after seeing their side slump to a 2-1 defeat to rivals West Ham - their sixth home defeat of the campaign. And chants were less than supportive of

High Road hosts : Picture by @YTJourno Premier League Tottenham Hotspur (0 1 Romero 64 West Ham United (1) 2 Summerville 15, Wilson 90+3 Can they take much more of this? Spurs fans did not hold back at the final whistle. The boos and catcalls underlined the derision. It's now six home defeats in the league and still only two home wins. And all this against a West Ham side apparently marooned in the bottom three and certs for relegation. The Irons were well worth their win an

Looking for FA Cup inspiration. It was East v West London today in the third round FA Cup Third Round West Ham United (1) 2 Summerville 45+10, Castellanos 98 Queen's Park Rangers (0) 1 Kone 65, After Extra Time : Score on 90 mins: 1-1 A first Hammers goal for winter signing Taty Castellnos secured West Ham's passage into the forth round of the FA Cup - but not before a gritty Hoops had taken them to extra-time and made life difficult for their cross-town opponents. How the Ir

West Ham United (0) 0 v Fulham (0) 1 Raúl Jiménez 85 By Kaz Mochlinski at the London Stadium Premier League Matchweek 18 This was the one that brought them to tears. Ollie Scarles could not stop himself crying very visibly on the pitch at the final whistle, after his mistake led to the winning goal in the closing stages, but most of West Ham United’s faithful must have felt very similarly. The Hammers’ growing gloom got ever greater on a grey winter afternoon as they were con

Picture: Wikimedia Commons / Adam Haworth A first win at Turf Moor since April 1951 has given Marco Silva's team vital breathing space in the battle to avoid getting sucked into a relegation campaign. Goals from Emile Smith Rowe, Calvin Bassey and Harry Wilson gave Fulham a crucial 3-2 win at Burnley and takes them to 20 points and moves them up to 13th place in the table - seven points clear of 18th placed West Ham , who occupy the third relegation place. It was a perfect s

Exclusive Interview by Alessandro Schiavone in Prague Photo by Alessandro Schiavone A Czech legend revealed that he's a big fan of polarizing West Ham midfielder Tomas Soucek. Soucek regularly chips in with goals and makes life hard for the opposition off the ball as he gives them no inch. But all the same Pavel Horvath, who played for both Slavia and Sparta Prague before retiring in 2015, feels it's a big shout to tell whether the Hammers midfield cog would have had his plac

West Ham United 0-2 Liverpool 'A wonderful man and one of the greatest competitors English football has ever seen'. It was a succinct, yet warm summary of West Ham United legend Billy Bonds at the London Stadium ahead of a minute's applause in his memory. The east Londoners welcomed ‘crisis club’ Liverpool to the capital, but this was one of those occasions holding the weight of the passing of a Hammers’ icon. A 2-0 defeat here leaves the Hammers perilously above the drop zon

By Alessandro Schiavone in Lille Friendly game: Brazil 1-1 Tunisia Goals : Mastouri 23' (T), Estevão 44' penalty (B) Lucas Paquetà missed a penalty as Brazil were held to a 1-1 draw by Tunisia in a friendly in Lille. Having replaced friend and Newcastle rival Bruno Guimaraes on the hour-mark, the West Ham midfield cog blazed over having previously converted 10 in a total of 11 spot-kicks and all seven for the Hammers. The last and only time he failed to guide home from the cl