Greatest team in the Galaxy

New Year's Day saw West Ham win at Everton followed by Graham O'Brien on Doctor Who wearing a West Ham scarf. Graham, played by real-life Arsenal fan Bradley Walsh, is the second Doctor Who companion to support the Irons, following Donna Noble who learned to whistle "up West Ham". Clearly the Irons are big among Gallifreyan fellow-travellers. 

Graham has now left the Doctor to live in Sheffield with grandson Ryan, where he will presumably be laughing at Sheffield United and watching West Ham win on Sky while also hoping the Doctor can change Lionel Scaloni's timeline in the 2006 FA Cup Final.

Irons on board the Tardis

Well, an impressive debut by Jodie Whittaker on Doctor Who. But wasn't companion Graham, played by Bradley Walsh, wearing a West Ham scarf? It was certainly claret and blue and as he's a London geezer it would fit in with the character. Walsh, Ryan's step-grandad, has an air of perpetual bemusement ("Why's she running at another alien?") that will be familiar to all West Ham fans. Irons supporters are used to disaster, starring into the abyss and evil plots to conquer the universe. While the Hammers have previously been mentioned by a companion. In Planet of the Ood Donna Noble told David Tennant's Doctor that she learned to whistle "up West Ham". Yes, it makes sense to have a Hammer in the Tardis a well as a sonic screwdriver.