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IronHerb

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West Ham made three trips

3rd October 1945 v Combined Services in Berlin

9th October 1946 v Combined Services in Celle

4th June 1947 v Combined Services in Brunswick (Braunschweig)

Programmes issued for all of these

https://www.footballprogrammecentre.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=169301&sid=a582377fbbb4beb9105a2a5a51eae415#google_vignette

Not Sure What Thread/Where to put it (from Feb 2026)

MunichHammer

November 13

Whilst carrying out a bit of a family history for my granddad, my father came across this titbit:
“3rd Oct 1945- Association Football Match between West Ham United and a team from British Army of the Rhine (all were professional players). For many of the over 10,000 spectators in the Olympic Stadium, Berlin, this game must have been the first professional soccer seen for several years. It was a very good game and ended in a draw 2 – 2.”
West Ham was invited by Field Marshal Montgomery (Chief of the British Forces in Germany) to become the first foreign club to play in Germany following the end of World War II.

Can our stattos confirm this?

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claretandbluesky

November 10

Vlad just put this up on Twitter.. I would love him playing in the Champo for us.

https://x.com/Coufi5/status/2120273527685460370?a=2sBJ5NMuLiY_fJCkEK4&s=20

Blackburn Rovers v West Ham Sat 7th November 15.00

Lukerz

November 8

It’s not difficult to see where the issues lie. I know we can all be angry in the moment, but we let in way too many goals, despite not having to face that many shots. Cardiff barely had any shots Weds - yet scored 3 (maybe slightly misleading, as they were a screamer, pen & corner). Blackburn barley had any shots or attacking play, yet scored twice (counter & goal that should not have stood). It’s not just Mads, it’s the whole unit. We go 1-0 down nearly every game.

I actually felt we played fairly well at Blackburn, but you can’t go 2-0 down no matter how well you play or how in control you seem. The same as you can’t go 3-0 down to Cardiff, 3-1 down to WBA & 3-1 down to Saints. Too many goals are going in, from minimal attacking phases by our opponents & it’s making wins impossible.

If you were being lenient, you may say the stats from the last two games are misleading & won’t continue - are teams just being incredibly clinical & that’s unusual? Are we a little unlucky? But then we have been letting goals in all season & we’re a 1/3 way through now.

I genuinely felt our squad & signings at the start of the season was good enough for top 2. I think I was wrong. I only see Mukasa & Kanté coming out of this season with any real credit (possibly Bowen/Kilman). We don’t have a first choice LB, we have a weak keeper, we don’t know who our best RB is, we have a young midfield, we are not sure who are best LW is & we have strikers that don’t score.

The players’ attitude has dramatically deteriorated after the Swansea away win. Was it complacency? We knew we were top of the league/second without playing well. Did we think we were going to carry on doing that? Nuno won MOTM for September. It has been a huge decline in a short space of time. We are only 6 points off the top, but others will argue that may become 12 in a months time.

I think a lot of it comes down to a desire to defend well, more than ability. Veltman, Mavropanos, Kilman, Morato can defend, but do the really want to? Do they stay 100% focused all of the time? Do the full-backs genuinely want to stop that cross coming in & close down? Do the wide players really want to run back to help? Do the midfield want to track back & put that tackle/block in that may sting? Or is this overall defensive lethargy due to this expectation we should/will win games with our quality so we half-heart the dirty work? I’m not sure we’d see this level of sloppiness, from the same players, if we were in the PL. I think we’d be sharper.

I am not sure we will go up this year, but I do think Parker is the right manager for us longer term in this league. So, if we don’t, I think he should stay next season too. We played well second half against Cardiff & played well until 1-0 against Blackburn. IMO, a lot more composed than I have seen under Nuno. He’s only been here 4 days.

But, he has got to sort this defensive issue out fast as we have almost lost as many games as you can lose in an entire season, if you want to go up automatically. Top scorers in the league by 5 goals should not be 9th after 15 games.

But he can’t do it in four days & a 45 minute training session.

Kante

OutcastLondoner

November 7

Shared an article a little while ago that was very interesting. He only really started playing for a club at 15 and had a rapid progression from small Paris club to Paris FC then us. His mum passed from an illness during that time and his father had already died when he was younger.

He’s rough because he hasn’t been in the football system for very long and there’s a lot of raw talent there that we’re watching develop. I feel like he’s already got a lot better during this season and, given what he’s been through, hope he can develop into a big talent.

Other matches 6/7 November

chicagohammer

November 7

And in other news - the mighty Urchins took league 1 side Blackpool to extra time but succumbed 2-1 after initially taking the lead in the first half of normal time.

My ITKs admitted that Blackpool were the better side so deserved to go through but Hornchurch made it difficult for them and they had to work for it.

A good game by all accounts