Archive for March 13, 2022
1-0 to the Ukraine Boy
Coming back from two weeks off because of the war in Ukraine, Andriy Yarmolenko came on for Michail Antonio and scored the first goal in West Ham’s match against Aston Villa (70)!
With this goal – and the second one scored by Pablo Fornals (82) – West Ham’s remarkable goal scoring record in home matches continues: the Hammers and Liverpool are the only teams that have hit the back of the net in every Premier League home game so far this season.
Michail Antonio and Aaron Cresswell unfortunately were forced off with injuries in the win over Aston Villa and now are doubts for West Ham’s most important second leg of the Europa League last-16 tie against Sevilla at the London Stadium on Thursday, 9 p.m. (MET).
Result: 2-1 (0-0)
👍🏼⚒🇺🇦
“A goal for West Ham – and Ukraine,” heralded the London Stadium announcer
Claret & Blue vs. Claret & Blue
This Sunday afternoon we’ll watch West Ham hosting the team from which – according to a common, but also disputed story – they got their first claret and blue kits around 1900.
The story is that the kits were won in a bet at a Birmingham fair. William Belton, a well known London based sprinter is said to have beat four Aston Villa players in a race, and when they were unable to pay the bet, a complete team’s football kits where handed over and finally given to the Thames Ironworks team where Belton was involved in coaching. Subsequently claret and blue was also used in addition to the original Oxford blue colours of Thames Ironworks.
The club was reorganised and named West Ham United in 1900 and moved into their “Boleyn Ground” near Upton Park tube station in 1904. In 1903 the Hammers permanently adopted claret and blue as their home colours, using them until today.
EXTRA TIME 
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