By Alessandro Schiavone While Arsenal look increasingly likely to cement their serial bottlers status once more on current form following their 2-1 defeat at Man City yesterday, their hated rivals from down the road Tottenham Hotspur are flirting with a shock relegation, and two-time European kings Chelsea could miss out on the Champions League once again, with fifth-placed Liverpool now holding a SEVEN-point lead. And that with only five fixtures left to negotiate before

By Football Reporter Taty Castellanos warned that there's still a lot of work ahead of West Ham after the 4-0 trashing of Wolverhampton. The Argentine sealed a 99-second brace in Friday's must-win game which temporarily lifted the Hammers out of the bottom-three. The £25million January transfer from Lazio has been a central cog in West Ham's survival bid, with his arrival even evoking memories of Carlos Tevez's devastating impact at Upton Park back in 2006. He told Capital Fo

Mateus Fernandes stressed the importance of West Ham not getting carried away after the 4-0 win over Wolves. If anything he urged his teammates to "forget" about yesterday night's capitulation of the Old Gold. A brace apiece by Konstantinos Mavropanos and Taty Castellanos shoved the Midlanders a step closer to relegation. But Fernandes told Capital Football that the storms may not have passed with things "changing very quick". The Portuguese said: "We just focus on the thing

Exclusive by Alessandro Schiavone Former West Ham star Sebastien Schemmel spoke exclusively to Capital Football. At Upton Park between January 2001 and June 2003, right-back Schemmel was part of a star-studded Hammers team that included the likes of Defoe, Di Canio, Carrick and Repka to name but a few. But despite the ridiculous talent, it was a team that was relegated all the same. In his first full season in east London, the club finished 7th before dropping down from the

Exclusive by Alessandro Schiavone in Madrid Will Still joked that he wouldn’t be able to coach the Hammers given his love of the club. Still grew up in Belgium supporting West Ham and has privately and publicly never made it a mystery that the London Stadium is his Holy Grail. Only three years ago, Still was hailed as one of the most budding and up-and-coming managers in world football when he led lowly French side Stade Reims to a 19-game unbeaten run. Just a year after walk

Last week we told you about the next budding talent to come out of the famed Slavia Prague academy in the name of Mubarak Suleiman. This week we have asked his manager Jindřich Trpišovský about how far the youngster, who is currently winning every popularity contest in the Czech Republic after hitting the ground running, can go. Yet despite his pace, trickery and grace Trpišovský is of the opinion that Suleiman is better suited to Italian football than our London sides. He t

By Alessandro Schiavone in Prague West Ham United famously love a Slavia Prague talent when they see one. And to this day the Hammers have yet to regret dialing the Czech giants’ IBAN and transfer money. Because it’s always been cash well spent and rarely did they have to pay top dollar for it. Vladimir Coufal, Tomas Soucek and El Hadji Malick Diouf have all gone on to taste terrific success after swapping southeast Prague for the eastern part of London. Coufal was a reliable

By Alessandro Schiavone at epet Arena, Prague Andy Irving should have walked into his new stadium as if he owned the place. With Premier League experience under his belt, the man West Ham thought could be no useful in their relegation dogfight should have taken to the Chance Liga like a duck to water. Instead Irving looked like a Czech top-flight player finding his feet in England's top-tier. And not the other way round. Slow, sloppy, predictable and inefficient in both trans

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

By Capital Football Reporter at London Stadium West Ham 1-2 Nottingham Forest Goals : OG Murillo 13' (WH), Dominguez 55' & Gibbs-White penalty 89' (NF) A win would hardly have shifted the dial on West Ham's survival chances in most people's eyes. But the bitter 2-1 defeat in the relegation six-pointer with closest rivals Nottingham Forest has now cut the Hammers seven points adrift. In footballing terms tonight's defeat is an unspeakable tragedy of perhaps unquantifiable spor