The time is ripe for this darkly humorous guide to the unofficial history of West Ham United football club."Oh, East London is wonderful!" Never has there been such an optimistic chant, for it flies in the face of much of the evidence. From the awful deprivation of the 19th century, through the battles of the working classes to achieve a decent standard of living for their families; the devastation of the Blitz; the violence of London's underworld;...