Chris Wheal

MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS

Chris Wheal was born to support the hammers. His granddad, Norman Corbett, pictured lacing Chris’s first pair of boots, was midfielder for the Club and won 306 caps. Norman won a wartime cup medal in 1940, despite famously not playing in the Wembley final because his commanding officer refused him permission to leave barracks in the Essex Regiment. Chris’s mum’s uncle was Bill Elliott, who set up and ran the Junior Hammers and was awarded an MBE in 1999 for “services to the community, especially Young People's Sport, in East Ham”.
Embarrassingly, Chris now lives in south London.