Jarrod Bowen has promised to do a special celebration if he scores against Chelsea in homage to 90s pop icon

If West Ham United skipper Jarrod Bowen scores in opposition to Chelsea on Saturday, do not anticipate a ordinary celebration from the star ahead.

Bowen will lead the Hammers in a London derby – LIVE on talkSPORT – as they give the impression of being to safe their second win of the season.

One movie star who might be in attendance on the London Stadium on Saturday is Chesney Hawkes – the Nineties one-hit-wonder icon behind the smash hit ‘The One and Solely’.

Hawkes is a passionate Hammers fan and caught the bug when he sat within the away part at White Hart Lane with shut household pals in a sport in opposition to Tottenham

“We misplaced 5-0,” Hawkes informed talkSPORT with amusing.

“All of the West Ham followers are doing the hokey cokey up and down the aisle. I used to be like, ‘Alright, these are my individuals’. Even at 9 years previous, I knew that.”

Hawkes fell in love with a number of gamers who donned the claret and blue through the years, together with Paolo Di Canio, Carlos Tevez, Frank McAvennie, Tony Cottee, Alan Devonshire, Alvin Martin and Billy Bonds.

However Bowen could rocket himself to prime spot in Hawkes’ favorite Hammers based mostly on a daring settlement from the England worldwide.

“I received a promise from Jarrod Bowen,” Hawkes mentioned.

“If he scores a purpose, he will run to the nook flag, seize it like a microphone, and sing his greatest, ‘The One and Solely.'”

Bowen, or Hawkes for that matter, will not care if the ahead scores the one and solely purpose of the match, as long as the Hammers win.

Ought to West Ham beat Chelsea, it will convey Julen Lopetegui’s facet equal on factors with the Blues after 5 matches.

Though it is early within the season, Lopetegui has loads of work to do to steer West Ham to comparable league finishes to that of his predecessor, David Moyes.

Moyes started his second spell with the Hammers within the 2019/20 marketing campaign and steered them to security.

West Ham completed sixth and seventh within the following two seasons earlier than they dropped to 14th, however gained the Europa Convention League that marketing campaign, ending a 43-year await silverware.

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Moyes secured a ninth-place end earlier than he departed on the finish of final season, which coincided with the top of his contract.

Though the Hammers could have gotten off to a sluggish begin this time period, Hawkes believed it was ‘too early to say’ if the group was lacking Moyes.

“I used to be down at Rush Inexperienced [West Ham’s training ground] a few days in the past and everybody was saying how a lot they love him and the way he introduced the squad collectively,” Hawkes mentioned.

“Jarrod Bowen speaks very extremely of him. I simply suppose we have to present him [Lopetegui] time. He is received an entire load of recent gamers in and it takes some time to settle in, does not it?

“We’re already seeing little glimpses of it actually coming collectively and I feel it may come collectively on Saturday.”

West Ham’s conflict in opposition to Chelsea kicks off at 12:30pm on Saturday – with LIVE and EXCLUSIVE commentary of the all-London conflict on talkSPORT.