West Ham 2 Everton 1
Former West Ham manager David Moyes whose Everton team was beaten on his 63rd birthday at the London Stadium due to a late goal by West Ham’s Callum Wilson said after the game:
“West Ham have got momentum at the moment. They need to keep it going. In the Premier League you need to keep that if you can.”
There is momentum and there seems to be a newly established bond between the West Ham fans and their team, irrespective of their continuing disdain towards those running the club. Happy West Ham manager Nuno Espirito Santo said: “It was special to hear the fans in the stadium. It gives extra energy for the boys. We still have two games here at home and it’s going to be beautiful.
“The boys appreciate playing at home and they believe in the energy from the fans. As long as we give them something, the fans are going to give back. It’s going to be a big fight until the end. The good thing is that we don’t give up.”
How it stands:
BBC wrote about the fans’ feelings in a relegation battle in their match report:
“For any fan who has gone through a relegation battle supporting their club, it is an experience that can feel to significantly age you.
The whole process can see you experience a range of emotions over the course of a few weeks, but West Ham supporters lived through it all in one dramatic second half.
There was no hint of what was to come in a drab first 45 minutes as neither side created a chance of note, but that all changed after Soucek struck six minutes after the restart.
The experienced midfielder – making his 200th Premier League start for the Hammers – crashed home a trademark header from Jarrod Bowen’s corner to put the hosts ahead.
At that time, West Ham were going four points clear of the bottom three with Spurs being held by already-relegated Wolves.
But things dramatically changed in both games as full-time approached.
First, Joao Palhinha put Tottenham 1-0 ahead against Wolves and moments later Dewsbury-Hall levelled at West Ham.
That combination of scores put the Hammers in the bottom three and there was an air of deflation around the London Stadium.
But that all changed when Wilson struck two minutes into the eight added on.
The dramatic nature of this win will provide a significant boost to West Ham’s morale as they bid to stay in the Premier League.”
Brady Gone After 16 Years
In a statement, issued on April 21st, West Ham informed that Baroness Karren Brady (57), Vice-Chair of West Ham United, would step down from her role at the Club. On the same day West Ham United confirmed that Executive Director Nathan Thompson had stepped down from his role with immediate effect after over nine and a half years at the Club.
“The conflict over West Ham’s move from Upton Park has been at the heart of her 16-year tenure, with supporters left lamenting the loss of east London identity and her legacy is a stadium hated by the fans,” Sam Wallace writes in The Telegraph. Effectively it handed West Ham a new stadium for free – and an opportunity that any club in their position, at any time in their history, would have seized. The 99-year lease agreed originally at a cost to West Ham of just £2.5m a year, which is around £4m now, was dubbed “the deal of the century”, but West Ham remain a club without a home they can call their own. And the losses of more than £100m in the financial results for last season did not inspire confidence.
The stadium lies isolated in the Olympic Park, and the nostalgia for the lost Upton Park is felt ever more keenly, especially as Brady’s promise of “a world-class stadium with a world-class team” was never fulfilled and the club is fighting relegation again – not for the first time within the ten seasons that the Hammers have played at the “bowl” in Stratford.
Jacob Steinberg in The Guardian reminded his readers that chairman David Sullivan (who bought the Club in 2010 together with late David Gold and remains in his role) argued in 2017 that playing in the London Stadium meant West Ham no longer felt like a tinpot club. But the vibes were superficial, Steinberg says: “Feeling like a big club only goes so far. There are plenty of deft clubs in the top flight and West Ham are lagging behind. After 10 years in Stratford all the evidence shows that the stadium cannot cover up the structural flaws. Brady leaves with West Ham fighting for survival. It is a questionable legacy. In a season of few wins the overwhelming majority of supporters regard Brady going as a victory, but the work is far from done.“
The slogan “No more BS” now will change to a simple “Sullivan Out”, but regardless of the fact that some protests are going to continue, every supporter’s first and foremost duty must be to support their club in the fight against relegation – a fight that has now effectively become a two-horse race between West Ham and Tottenham, following Nottingham’s 5-0 victory over Sunderland on Friday night. Come on you Irons!
The 2025/26 final run-in
With only five rounds to play and Wolves and Burnley being already 11 respectively 14 points behind Tottenham (currently ranking 18th in the Premier League table) we can assume that these two clubs are virtually going down come the end of the season. Which one out of four clubs will be relegated to the Championship along with them? Here’s the run-in (final five Premier League fixtures) for these four clubs fighting relegation this season (results will be added as soon as the games have been played):
🔵 Tottenham Hotspur
- Wolves (A) 0-1
- Aston Villa (A) – May 3
- Leeds (H) – May 11
- Chelsea (A) – May 17
- Everton (H) – May 24 (final day)
⚒️ West Ham United
- Crystal Palace (A) 0-0
- Everton (H) – 2-1
- Brentford (A) – May 2
- Arsenal (H) – May 10
- Newcastle (A) – May 17
- Leeds (H) – May 24
🌳 Nottingham Forest
- Burnley (H) 4-1
- Sunderland (A) 0-5
- UEFA EL semifinal: Aston Villa (H) – Apr 30
- Chelsea (A) – May 4
- UEFA EL semifinal: Aston Villa (A) – May 7
- Newcastle (H) – May 10
- Man Utd (A) – May 17
- Bournemouth (H) – May 24
⚪ Leeds United
- Bournemouth (A) 2-2
- FA Cup semifinal: Chelsea – Apr 26
- Burnley (H) – May 1
- Tottenham (A) – May 11
- Brighton (A) – May 17
- West Ham (A) – May 24
Spurs remain in relegation zone
Pedro Porro and Kevin Danso sank to their knees, Xavi Simons looked ready to cry and the Tottenham Hotspur fans filed out of the club’s £1bn stadium feeling like their team had been beaten once again, The Telegraph writes in his report on Tottenham‘s 2-2 draw with Brighton on Saturday.
In their fight against relegation Tottenham Hotspur’s have appointed a new manager in Roberto de Zerbi, but also in his second game in charge he could not stop Spurs’ winless run in the league. Against de Zerbi‘s former club Brighton, Spurs twice took the lead, but in the fifth minute of added time the Seagulls levelled for a second time. Spurs last victory was on December 28th last year, and they now haven’t won for 15 matches, just one short of the club’s worst-ever winless league run set 91 years ago.
BBC reports that only the Championship’s rock-bottom club Sheffield Wednesday have picked up fewer points (four) than Spurs (six) across English football’s top four tiers in 2026. Relegation looms for the first time since 1977 with only five games to go – and the situation could worsen with relegation rivals Nottingham Forest and West Ham yet to play this weekend.
De Zerbi has said that his immediate attention is on restoring confidence – something which seems to be crucial for a group of players who have now failed to win each of their last five Premier League games in which they led. However, with rock-bottom club Wolves being their next opponent, Spurs’ first win of 2026 could be only one week away.
Therefore West Ham, whose fans of course celebrated Brighton’s late equaliser, must look at themselves and make as many points as possible to avoid being pegged back into the relegation zone which they have left only a week ago. On Monday evening they play Oliver Glasner‘s Crystal Palace away.
The Eagles have reached the semifinal of the Conference League last Thursday. They eliminated Fiorentina and will now have to beat Shaktar Donetsk in order to reach the final which would give Austrian manager Glasner the chance of winning a European Cup for the second time. Four years ago he beat West Ham in the Europa League semifinal with Frankfurt and went on to win the final in Sevilla against Glasgow Rangers. One year later though the Irons won the Conference League by beating Alkmaar in the semi and Fiorentina in the final at Prague.
Come on you Irons!
Joh 3:16
„Denn Gott hat die Menschen so sehr geliebt, dass er seinen einzigen Sohn für sie hergab. Jeder, der an ihn glaubt, wird nicht zugrunde gehen, sondern das ewige Leben haben.“
Johannes 3:16 HFA
https://bible.com/bible/73/jhn.3.16.HFA
Tim Tebow spielte für die Denver Broncos als Quarterback. Er wurde in der Saison 2011 zum Starter und revitalisierte ein schwächelndes Team – er führte die Broncos zu ihrem ersten Division-Titel und Playoff-Sieg seit 2005.
Der berühmte Playoff-Sieg (Januar 2012)
Der Höhepunkt seiner NFL-Karriere war das Wild-Card-Spiel der Playoffs, als er auf dem ersten Snap in der Overtime einen siegbringenden Touchdown-Pass gegen die Pittsburgh Steelers warf.
Nach diesem Sieg schieden die Broncos in der nächsten Playoff-Runde aus. Kurz darauf verpflichteten die Broncos Superstar Peyton Manning als Quarterback – und Tebow wurde im März 2012 zu den New York Jets getradet.
Karriereende
Nach erfolglosen Versuchen bei den Patriots und Eagles versuchte er 2021 noch einmal ein Comeback – diesmal als Tight End bei den Jacksonville Jaguars, wurde aber nach einem Preseason-Spiel entlassen.
Heute arbeitet Tebow als Analyst für College Football bei ESPN und dem SEC Network und ist als Autor und Sprecher tätig. Seine christliche Überzeugung war stets ein prägendes Merkmal – das Niederknien zum Gebet auf dem Spielfeld wurde als „Tebowing” weltbekannt.
“Must win” won!
“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing!” And the Irons did exactly what was needed on Friday evening against Wolves: they won and moved out of the relegation zone, changing places with Tottenham!
Britain’s Gifts to the World
There was not only a last-minute-goal at the London Stadium, but even two goals in injury time in this FA Cup match! Though with West Ham 0-1 down at halftime, and 0-2 after 75 minutes, I had thought this was “game over” and had left the pub where I was watching the match, “The Tube Station”, after 90 minutes. I had no idea what I would be missing out on!
The unexpected and unlikely happened: Mateus Fernandes in the 93rd and Axel Disasi in the 96th minute equalised for the Irons and took the game to extra time!
However, after an other West Ham goal was disallowed (Taty‘s second “goal” of the afternoon which did not count, and the Argentine had also been unlucky when his header just hit the post!), fortune was hiding again when the tie had to be decided on penalties. West Ham’s skipper Jarrod Bowen and Pablo could not convert their penalties, and the Irons lost the shootout 2-4. Now Leeds will play at Wembley, in their first FA Cup semi-final in 39 years, against Chelsea! The other semifinal is Southampton vs. Manchester City.
West Ham manager Nuno said on the performance of his team: “We prove to ourselves that we can never give up. The game is not done until the referee says so and we have to take that into our future starting on Friday [against Wolves].“
“It will take more time to recover. The legs go when you win and recover quicker. We have the sadness and that will drag into this evening and tomorrow, but we have to react. We have important games [against Wolves, Crystal Palace, Everton, Brentford, Arsenal, Newcastle and Leeds], so we will keep fighting.”
Well, parts of the game were really good; we came back well, and that could give us confidence for the upcoming matches. Unfortunately, we were unlucky with two offside goals and hitting the woodwork twice. 😬
Come on you Irons!
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