{"id":29402,"date":"2025-07-29T07:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29402\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T07:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:10:08","slug":"chelsea-reject-on-course-for-massive-hammers-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/29402\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea reject on course for massive Hammers season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playing in front of over 80,000 supporters- in what was the biggest USA audience for a football match this year, could have phased some players who are not used to the atmosphere generated by such a big crowd \u2013 especially away from the \u2018tepid\u2019 atmosphere recently at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/hammers-embroiled-in-new-london-stadium-row\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">London Stadium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The three late substitutes against Manchester United who cameo\u2019d (if that is a word) in such an impressive manner \u2013 Freddie Potts, Luis Guilherme and surprise pick 18 year old Preston Fearon acquitted themselves brilliantly alongside old hand Lucas Paquet\u00e1 and you\u2019d have to wonder what the outcome would have been if they\u2019d had longer on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Potts and Guilherme are well known to Hammers fans but I\u2019ll bet there were a few reaching for their \u2018phones to Google the highly ambitious young Fearon upon his introduction in the latter stages. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whufc.com\/news\/fearon-it-was-big-moment-me-and-my-family\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">whufc.com<\/a> he\u2019s anticipating going all the way, pretty fast:<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n<p>\u201c100 per cent [I want more of this],\u201d he confirmed. \u201cI\u2019m hungry to get on that pitch. Obviously it\u2019s pre-season but these games will get you prepared to play in the Premier League and that\u2019s what I want. I\u2019m young and my career\u2019s just starting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having been released by Chelsea four years ago and overcoming a serious back injury in 23\/4, Fearon has certainly got the tenacity to succeed. Graham Potter and Mark Noble have now found a way to fast track talented youth through to the cusp of the senior squad and it could well be that having impressed against Manchester, Fearon has more time on the pitch in the next two games ahead of what could be a massive, breakthrough season for the youngster.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham now seem to have \u2013 finally- a policy of \u2018If you\u2019re good enough, you\u2019re old enough\u2019 mimicking Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City who have all brought teenagers through into their starting XI\u2019s. The upside of a poor transfer window for West Ham is that there\u2019ll be shirt numbers available for young talent, unlike last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Playing in front of over 80,000 supporters- in what was the biggest USA audience for a football match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-29402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}