West Ham: How a Cockney Football Club Became a Global Metaphor for Late-Capitalist Angst
West Ham and the Decline of Western Civilisation: A Dispatch from the Olympic Stadium’s Third Tier London, 2024 – Somewhere above the floodlights, in the thin alpine air of the London Stadium’s upper ring, a man in a knock-off Corinthians shirt is explaining to his eight-year-old why bubbles still matter. Below them, West Ham United—once…