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Join Will Pugh & James Jones for a weekly dose of West Ham chat, with regular guests including ex-players, opposition views and well-connected journalists. New episode every week!

We Are West Ham Podcast We Are West Ham

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    • 4.6 • 94 Ratings

Join Will Pugh & James Jones for a weekly dose of West Ham chat, with regular guests including ex-players, opposition views and well-connected journalists. New episode every week!

    Opposition View: Aston Villa, with BBC Sport reporter Tim Warwood

    Opposition View: Aston Villa, with BBC Sport reporter Tim Warwood

    West Ham are through to the Europa League quarter-final after an emphatic 5-0 thrashing of Freiburg in the second leg on Thursday.
    And it’s another trip to Germany for the Hammers as they drew Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen in the quarters. 
    That tie will kick off on April 11 but before that, it’s back to the day job with Aston Villa visiting in the Premier League on Sunday.
    A stressed-out Will, fresh from booking his flights to Germany, complete with Cheltenham hangover speaks to legendary opposition view guest and sports journalist Tim Warwood about his beloved Villa’s trip to the London Stadium. 
    And as always, Tim has come armed with a voice note from his fellow Villa faithful on the Holte End.
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    • 28 min
    Opposition View: SC Freiburg (2nd Leg), with Michael from Fuchsletalk Podcast

    Opposition View: SC Freiburg (2nd Leg), with Michael from Fuchsletalk Podcast

    West Ham must beat Freiburg at home in Thursday’s Europa League last 16 second leg after last week’s 1-0 defeat in Germany. 
    That would mean a third European quarter-final in three years for the Hammers which would be a quite simply staggering achievement. 
    The last two results have not been great but West Ham were not a million miles away from a positive result in either game. 
    Freiburg fan Michael from the Fuchsletalk podcast joins Will Pugh to look back on last week’s game in Germany and ahead to Thursday’s clash in London. 
    It promises to be a nerve-wracking and exciting evening at London Stadium and here’s hoping David Moyes’ boys can get it over the line. 
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    • 23 min
    How many handballs before it's handball?

    How many handballs before it's handball?

    How many handballs does it take before it's classed as handball? That was the question we asked PGMOL over the weekend after West Ham were denied a penalty in the last minute against Burnley because a ridiculous law of the game says that if a player kicks or heads the ball against his own hand, it is not handball.
    In this particular scenario, the ball hit the Burnley player's head, then his left hand and then his right hand. So we asked, does the second handball cancel out the first? PGMOL's answer was "no." Therefore, how many times does a player need to handball it before it's deemed handball? They couldn't answer that one.
    James and Will discussed that incident and loads more on this week's pod, before looking ahead to Thursday's Europa League last-16 second-leg against Freiburg and Sunday's visit of Aston Villa.
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    • 1 hr 20 min
    Freiburg reaction and Burnley Opposition View, with Joe from Turfcast

    Freiburg reaction and Burnley Opposition View, with Joe from Turfcast

    Will made the last-minute decision to travel to Freiburg for Thursday night's Europa League last 16 1st leg clash and traveled back on Friday having regretted every single second of it. A late Freiburg goal and a very, very late VAR calamity means we have it all to do at London Stadium next week, but we are still well and truly in this tie.
    Before then, we host Burnley in Stratford on Sunday.
    In this episode, Will spends the first half of the hour giving his experience in Germany and his reaction to the game, before speaking with Joe from Turfcast ahead of Sunday's top-flight meeting with the Clarets.
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    • 1 hr 14 min
    Opposition View: SC Freiburg, with Michael from Fuchsletalk Podcast

    Opposition View: SC Freiburg, with Michael from Fuchsletalk Podcast

    West Ham United are back in the Europa League knockout stages once again!
    Freiburg is hardly a glamour tie, but after the initial disappointment of not drawing AC Milan subsided, there is a renewed belief among Hammers fans that we can go deep once again and hopefully repeat some of the historic scenes we witnessed the last time we were in the knockout stages of this competition. 
    In this episode, Will speaks to Freiburg fan Michael from the Fuchsletalk podcast ahead of Thursday’s away first leg in the last 16. 
    They cover everything from the train strikes in Germany which may affect travelling Hammers fans to the Bundesliga side’s likely setup and danger men.
    Will is heading out to Freiburg on Thursday morning and like most West Ham supporters, cannot wait to see David Moyes’ mighty Irons in action on the continent once again. 
    This is what we were promised when we were ripped from our spiritual home at Upton Park and dragged to the London Stadium so the We Are West Ham podcast will be damned if we are not going to squeeze every last drop of enjoyment out of it.   
    Thanks for listening everyone. West Ham are massive everywhere we gooooooo!
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    • 26 min
    A heartfelt apology to Alphonse Areola

    A heartfelt apology to Alphonse Areola

    It's funny what a couple of wins can do for morale.
    Back-to-back Premier League victories has led us to 7th in the Premier League and in a strong position for a fourth consecutive season playing in Europe. This time, a lot of the thanks has to go to Alphonse Areola, whose saved penalty and string of saves at Goodison Park led us towards a brilliant 3-1 victory in David Moyes' old stomping ground.
    Speaking of Areola's penalty save; it sparked a heartfelt apology from James this week, who was previously very critical of the Frenchman's failure to get anywhere close to saving any of Blackburn's penalties in the shoot-out defeat last season.
    Also this week, we look ahead to the return of the Europa League on Thursday and then the visit of Burnley on Sunday.
    Also, we mentioned in the podcast that we both completed the London Winter Run 10k in support of Cancer Research a couple of weeks ago. Donations are still open so if you would like to help us reach our £500 target (we're so close!), please click the following link. It would be very much appreciated! 👉🏻 https://www.winterrun.co.uk/fundraisers/wearewesthampodcast
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    • 56 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
94 Ratings

94 Ratings

NPhammer ,

5 stars

Top pod, long time listener since the Love Sport Radio days.

Sissoko's playmate ,

WHUFC

Class, keep up the good work. Ignore the haters!

Irons

Cheers.

Woodstockirons ,

Woodys review

Love the pod lads, long term listener. The new away team chat a few days after is a great idea in my opinion.

Keep up the great work. Up the hammers

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