Hi everyone. It's Adam Leventhal and welcome to the Athletics Premier League Countdown

podcast with the return of the 2019-20 season,

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to a different Premier League team. So that's two podcasts a day, every day up until football returns.

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

table. We can welcome the Athletics West Hammer writer Rochane Thomas and his co-host on our

dedicated Hammers podcast, U-Ions, Sam Delaney, gents. Great to have you on board. Just take us into

the podcast if you can. What have we 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 at 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 dam 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 spoke to the likes of i Bishop, Alvin Martin, John Wonkir, Tony Cotty.

Marlon Harewood was fantastic about West Ham's run to the 2006 FAA 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 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

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