Rory Smith
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1,580 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
Rory Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There is this idea that it was this uncontrollable bear pit, but I used to go to a lot of games at West Ham for work and West Ham lost most of them because if Man City or Arsenal or Chelsea or whatever go to Upton Park, chances are they win.
I think what
What the problem is with the London Stadium is that it represents what's happened to West Ham more broadly, which is, like Chapa says, like the soul's been ripped out of the club.
It feels like... They feel like they are tourists in their own ground.
There are also a lot of actual tourists there who are there to watch Premier League football, which is fair enough, because it's a massive global product and people want to go and see it.
That then affects the atmosphere.
But the principal thing is that on the pitch, you've got a club that has no identity, that has no kind of other reason for being than...
staging football matches to have access to the TV money in the Premier League, which keeps them in the Premier League, keeps them one of the richest clubs in the world and kind of keeps them going.
West Ham, I don't think at any point, certainly since Moyes, have given the impression that they want to be anything other than a Premier League team.
They've not tried to reinvent themselves as like a springboard club or as a data club or whatever it might be.
They're just kind of there.
Like Andros says, they kind of sign whoever's around.
It's based on relationships.
There's no real kind of...
There's no strategy about recruitment.
If you look at their squad, it's a really weird patchwork.
I actually don't know, apart from Bowen and Mateus Fernandes, is there anyone else in that squad that anyone's going to want to buy in the summer?
Even at Wolves, there's two or three you can see people kind of
plucking a couple of players from there but with West Ham given the money they've spent I'm not sure who gets I'm not sure how many Premier League clubs are thinking do you know what West Ham have gone down we'll take that one out of there I'm not sure that happens a lot this summer I think the problem with the stadium is
And then would your agent be, if you had two or three teams kind of looking at you, two or three options, would one of the kind of potential deal makers, deal breakers for those teams be, how much is the relegation drop?
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