Hammers on Mastermind

On last night's Mastermind semi-final Dan Shoesmith, a legal operations specialist, chose West Ham United 1992 to the present day as his specialist subject. Shoesmith scored a credible 12 points on his West Ham round but eventually finished third. 

Spoiler alert I'm now going to discuss some of the questions. Who scored the winner in the Europa Conference League Final was obviously a tap-in. Most fans will surely have answered correctly when asked to name the bogey side that dumped us out of the Europa League twice - it was of course FC Astra Giurgiu. 

This fan was pleased to name Teddy Sheringham as the only WHU player to score in the 2006 FA Cup Final shoot-out and Simone Zaza as the Italian player we loaned after he scored against us in the Betway Cup in 2016. However my mind went blank when asked to name the side West Ham clinched promotion against in 1993 (Cambridge United) and the goalkeeper who was injured when Di Canio picked up the ball to stop play at Everton (it was Paul Gerrard). While distracted by dog barking and family interruptions I didn't hear the date when asked to name the newly-built London stadium where West Ham were the first away winners in 2019, rushing in with the Emirates instead of Spurs. 

So a mixed set of results but good to see West Ham United is finally getting the intellectual kudos (or Kudus?) the subject deserves.