
Editorial Team
Site Editor: Dean White
Dean loves three things: West Ham, Dr Martens and Paulo Di Canio. As he grew up in south east London, Dean started to follow the Irons and regularly visited Upton Park with his dad Colin. He’s been writing about the club since his teenage years and continues to obsess over tactics and transfer stories to this day. Read more from Dean here.
West Ham Zone Pundits
Pundit: Frank McAvennie
Two stints with the club and still a firm favourite with the fans all this time later, thanks to lines like these from his autobiography: “It was the tops. The place to be. I wouldn’t give a monkey’s what the pay was. I’d play for West Ham for free.” McAvennie will bring you all the latest news and opinion about all the big news stories from
West Ham. Read Frank’s expertise on the Irons here.
Journalists
Senior Contributor: Mike Southey
Mike is a diehard Iron who’s been there, done that and got the t-shirt. From defeats to Astra Giurgiu and Oxford United to Bobby Zamora’s play-off winner against Preston and our farewell to the Boleyn, Mike has seen it all. He bleeds claret and blue and loves writing about the club he supports. Read more from Mike here.
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Senior Contributor: George Overhill
George is a sportswriter with degrees in Sports Journalism (MA) – University of Brighton – and Politics (BSc) – University of Southampton. Sport, and especially football, has been his first love since the age of four, although football tests that sometimes. Also particularly interested in the women’s game and the NFL. Read more from George here.
Senior Contributor: Pranav Shahaney
Pranav is a sports journalist who graduated from St. Mary’s University, London, with a Distinction in Sports Journalism (MA). He has over six years of experience working inside newsrooms and has been writing about football since the age of 15. Long-form tactical articles and investigative pieces hold a special place in his heart. Read more from Pranav here.
Senior Contributor & Social Media Editor: Daniel Feliciano
Daniel is a football writer who has a great thirst for the Premier League and other major European leagues. A lover of the beautiful game and a firm believer that the eye test is better than statistics. Also an avid MMA fan. Read more from Daniel here.
Contributor: Sam Stone
Sam is a sports journalism graduate from the University of Brighton. Sam has a huge passion for football writing, particularly the EFL, having visited 68 of the 92 EFL grounds. Sam has previous experience working on radio stations and loves to play cricket and golf in his spare time. Read more from Sam here.
Contributor: Anthony Onifade
Anthony is a sports journalism graduate from the University of Brighton, with a huge passion for football writing and journalism, done over a span of seven years since Euro 2016. Loves to analyse and provide stats from the game and plays a lot of football and is a Christian youth leader and mentor in his spare time. Read more from Anthony here.
Contributor: Jonty Banks
Jonty is a sports journalism graduate from News Associates, Manchester, with a gold-standard NCTJ diploma. Away from his love for football, Jonty enjoys nothing more than settling down to five days of test match cricket at the start of the English summer. Read more from Jonty here.