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Bim-bam thank you Wan! One of the many players who helped secure the 2-0 win against Manchester United in an all-around top performance.

Our Czech warrior secured the first goal with a great link-up between Kudus and AWB, and the second goal was similar with Mo Kudus making a run, finding Wan-Bissaka and a slotted ball to Bowen secured the second goal and three points.

Three extremely valuable points, as now not only are the two Europa League finalists in the bottom five, but we’ve moved up two positions, which effectively gives us £6,000,000 extra! Which I’m sure dithering Dave upstairs is licking his lips too, especially with the contract news midweek.

The balance has been an issue with us all season, but we got it right today, finally, the players didn’t possess the ‘ultra defensive’ mindset after scoring today and it was nice to see us attacking after we scored, even in the 90th minute, which nearly saw us score a third through JWP. Even the late substitutions didn't come back to haunt us, it felt as if all the pieces went in perfectly.

A performance of passion and one that couldn’t be faulted, a joyous moment to have in such an abysmal season.

It’s games like these that remind you why you’re a Hammers fan, I’ve been reeled back in far too quickly! However, doing the double over United is a feeling of great satisfaction.

Boring, lame, uninspiring and apathetic are words you might anticipate a Hammers fan uses to describe how this dismal season has been; however, it could also be used to describe Umbro's kit designs for the club since 2015, two of the only memorable kits going towards the 'Farewell Boleyn' kit, alongside the third kit which was the black and gold design that they'd made for the 125th aniversary of the club's existence, with all the others being fairly lame.

Umbro is now no more, New Balance will be the kit manufacturers from the 2026/27 season onwards. Fortunately, the Hammers declined the opportunity to be with Castore, who have notoriously been known to manufacture poor quality kits and ones of which many teams have complained about in the past.

Regarding the design, if a classical, common, plain design is to your liking, then New Balance will fit it to a T.

Amidst the company's surge back into the Footballing world and the Premier League since 2015, New Balance has now acquired the contract for two future clubs, West Ham United and German giants Bayer Leverkusen.

It's nice to have a change, but it feels as if the ownership is toying with us. We asked for signings and got Ings, and we've all been calling for balance within the squad, and they went and got New Balance! Not exactly what we've been after Macaulay, but we'll let you off for now, hopefully the attention goes towards the 'squad' now

Now that's Boyle Sports and New Balance as our future sponsors sorted, who's next?

No win since February and that still continues into May, the Hammers suffered yet another draw in what was anticipated to be one of the most underwhelming London derbies in a while.

A game consisting of the following highlights of Lord Olivier calling a staggering 33 fouls, Max Kilman’s mistake, and my sunglasses being checked by the LS security despite them being on top of my head.

Kilman’s horror show of an error came after booting the ball twice at Tel, seemingly followed by a complaint for handball, and before you could blink, it was 1-0. Each game it seems we’re trying to challenge ‘who can have the easiest goal of their career’, Odobert currently must be taking the cherry.

Despite the dismal defending, the driving pressure was too much and finally a gap was found with AWB slotting it for Jarrod, through Vicario’s legs and just like that 1-1. An unknown West Ham player also booted the ball in a Spurs fan’s face after the goal, probably up there with the highlight of the season.

The Stratford sun started bright and at the end of the 90 the sky was grey, which sums up the performance today. No wins in 8 games, yet still a 50% point rate.

There’s only one game left at the Bowl and two others elsewhere, for those who are counting, it’s now 21 days until the final day.