STOP! Hammer Time - The West Ham Podcast
Sep 10, 2026 · 51 min · 20 segments
Phil, Jim, Mark Sandell and Joe Sandell try to sum up a three game turnaround on a Zoom. They triumph obviously…
Phil WhelansHost
Jim GrantHost
Joe SandellGuest
Mark SandellPanelist
One thing that we've sort of learned from the six games we've played so far this season is that they're not going to be easy.

We now have quite a kind of satisfactory haul from those games, having the three-game mark have a very disappointing return on three matches.

I think there was a feeling afoot that, you know, last season was so dreadful, getting relegated was awful, but at least we'll romp in this division.

I don't think, I've never felt that that would be the case particularly, but, you know, sort of grinding these results out when you perhaps don't play very well, I think there's going to be a lot of not playing very well and that'll be down to the other teams as much as us.

The first goal, I wonder what the mood was like amongst the fans, because it was one of those ones that had that been scored in the Premier League, do you remember those days? If that goal had been scored in the Premier League, how long would it have taken to award that goal? They would have looked at so much about that goal, wouldn't they?

But, you know, it looked like it from my friend initially, it just looked like the goalkeeper had spilled it.

And increasingly what is apparent about it is that it's designed for the television watching public and not the stadium watching public.

And it's just another example of the way in which fans who go to games are treated with disrespect, in my view, by the game as an institution.

One thing that we've sort of learned from the six games we've played so far this season is that they're not going to be easy.

We now have quite a kind of satisfactory haul from those games, having the three-game mark have a very disappointing return on three matches.

I think there was a feeling afoot that, you know, last season was so dreadful, getting relegated was awful, but at least we'll romp in this division.

I don't think, I've never felt that that would be the case particularly, but, you know, sort of grinding these results out when you perhaps don't play very well, I think there's going to be a lot of not playing very well and that'll be down to the other teams as much as us.

The first goal, I wonder what the mood was like amongst the fans, because it was one of those ones that had that been scored in the Premier League, do you remember those days? If that goal had been scored in the Premier League, how long would it have taken to award that goal? They would have looked at so much about that goal, wouldn't they?

But, you know, it looked like it from my friend initially, it just looked like the goalkeeper had spilled it.

And increasingly what is apparent about it is that it's designed for the television watching public and not the stadium watching public.

And it's just another example of the way in which fans who go to games are treated with disrespect, in my view, by the game as an institution.
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