Hi everyone it's Adam Leventhal and welcome to the Athletics Premier League

countdown podcast with the return of the 2019-20 season only days away now we're releasing 20

podcasts on the Ornstein and Chapman feed each one dedicated to a different

Premier League team so that's two podcasts today, every day, up until football returns.

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to enjoy the best football writing anywhere just as a season makes its long-awaited

return. Now in this episode we're discussing West Ham. They sit 16th in the Premier League table.

We can welcome the athletics West Ham writer Roshain Thomas and his co-host on our dedicated

Hammers podcast, You Irons, Sam Delaney, gents, great to have you on board.

Just take us into the podcast if you can. What have we been enjoying during lockdown and maybe prior to that?

And what have we got to look forward to with West Ham?

Well, we've taken the opportunity to spend a lot of time chatting to our heroes

and to some legends of the club talking over old times and you know I'm

sure everyone's felt this but I've actually welcomed the opportunity to immerse myself in a bit of nostalgia, especially like if you support West Ham and there hasn't been much to

celebrate in recent years, it's fantastic to sort of press pause on all that stuff and get back to the days

when you know there is some happy memories

attached we speak it spoken to the lights of Ian Bishop

Alvin Martin John Monker, Tony Cottie, Marlon Harewood was fantastic about

West Ham's run to the 2006 FA Cup final and his sort of vivid and quite moving memories of that sort of sad day really, sad but happy day in our sort of recent history.

Ian Bishop was really fascinating last week talking about how his personal life was

affected by rumors of a homosexual relationship

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