Got, Not Got ― The Lost World of West Ham United

Got, Not Got: The Lost World of West Ham United is an Aladdin’s cave of memories and memorabilia, guaranteed to whisk you back to the Boleyn’s fondly remembered Golden Age of mud and magic, as well as a Hammers-mad childhood of miniature tabletop games and imaginary, comic-fueled worlds. The book recalls a more innocent era of football, lingering longingly over relics from the good old days—West Ham stickers and petrol freebies, league ladders, big-match programs, and much more—revisiting lost football culture, treasures, and pleasures that are 100 per cent claret and blue. If you were a Junior Hammer, one of the army of obsessive soccer kids at any time from Bobby Moore lifting the World Cup to the early days of the Premier League, then this is the book to recall the mavericks—Peters and Hurst, Best and Brooking, Bonds and Cottee—and the marvels of the Lost World of Football.

Derek Hammond has written about soccer and music for FourFourTwo, club programs, mirror.co.uk, and the NME. Gary Silke is editor of the Fox, one of the original and oldest soccer fanzines still in existence. The pair have provided soccer cards for the Onion Bag, BBC1's Match of the Seventies/Eighties, and the National Football Museum.