221. The season of juxtaposition

The week started with a drab, underwhelming 1-1 draw in Belgium against Gent and ended with a wonderful, unexpected 2-2 home draw with Premier League leaders Arsenal in Stratford. The debate for some time now has been, would you take relegation if it meant us winning the Conference League, or would you prefer us to stay in the Premier League over winning silverware? It's a rather odd juxtaposition that we find ourselves as we head into a huge week in the club's history. We're 90 minutes away from yet another European semi-final but on Sunday we face Bournemouth in a huge game that will go along way in deciding our Premier League status. This week we discuss all of that and, of course, review the superb performance against Arsenal on Sunday, where we all rocked up to Stratford expecting to be thrashed, only to see us leave with a hard-earned point having gone 2-0 down inside the opening 10 minutes. We're then joined by Scott Coyne from the Belgian Football Podcast to preview Thursday night's Conference League quarter-final second-leg, before Bournemouth football correspondent Graham Nickless returns to give us the full lowdown on a very impressive and in-form Cherries side. Let us know your thoughts in the comments below and make sure you subscribe! 🗣️ Send us your Voice Note: https://www.speakpipe.com/WeAreWestHam 🍻 Buy us a pint: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Wearewestham 🎧 Subscribe: https://podfollow.com/we-are-west-ham-podcast 📱 Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WeAre_WestHam​​​​​​ 👍🏻 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wearewesthampod 📸 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wearewesthapod 🎥 Subscribe to our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WeAreWestHamPodcast 📧 Email us: wearewesthampod@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices