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Posted on 28 February 2018. Tags: author, club news, manager, Moore Than Just a Club, podcast, west ham news
19-year-old West Ham United defender Declan Rice has stated his overwhelming admiration and appreciation for his club captain and role model Mark Noble. Speaking in an exclusive question and answer video for West Ham’s Official Website, the Irish youngster had this to say about the one-club man and Academy of Football product Noble when asked about who his Hammers idol was growing up, “Mark Noble always stood out obviously as captain and …
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Posted on 28 February 2018. Tags: blues, charity, club news, facebook, manager, Moore Than Just a Club, online soccer news
The latest English Top-Flight fixture changes for April were announced yesterday by the Premier League and it’s two United Kingdom broadcasters Sky Sports and BT Sport. The announcement covered the remaining 2017/2018 PL ties through to the end of April, leaving only the penultimate and final weekend of the term’s fixtures unconfirmed as of yet. West Ham United were widely affected by those alterations, remarkably seeing every single one of…
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Posted on 28 February 2018. Tags: article, environment, footy news, Goal.com, kenya, latest football news, swansea, transfer news
After putting up a five-star performance against Sheffield Wednesday, the forward is already looking forward to their next clash against the Hammers
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Posted on 28 February 2018. Tags: News, sky sports, super sunday, whispers
West Ham will offer Manu Lanzini an improved deal in the summer despite him already being contracted to the club for another two years with a one year option. The Argentine midfielder has been regularly linked with a move – notably to Liverpool – but the club are preparing a new deal which will be […]
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Posted on 28 February 2018. Tags: football latest, News, super sunday, transfer news, whispers, whtid
Adrian has spoken of his pride at being shortlisted for the London Football Awards Goalkeeper of the Year. The other four are Chelsea’s Thibaut Courtois, Watford’s Heurelho Gomes, Tottenham Hotspur’s Hugo Lloris and Brentford’s Daniel Bentley . The award, which will be presented at Battersea Evolution on Thursday 1 March. Adrian’s bigger moments probably came in […]
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Posted on 28 February 2018. Tags: News, online soccer news, sports news, super sunday, west ham news, westham, whispers
What an irony! It seems the north London enemy Spurs are going to find themselves in precisely the same situation as West Ham were at the beginning of this season in a few months time. A report in The Independent – which is usually very reliable – claims that the Spuds are set to play the […]
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Posted on 28 February 2018. Tags: football news, footy news, News, premier league, whispers
David Moyes is set to return to his winter midfield targets once he has signed a new deal with the Irons at the end of the season. And that will mean the end of the road for Pedro Obiang who despite being injured currently remains very much on Firontina’s website. The Serie A outfit want […]
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Posted on 28 February 2018. Tags: australia, facebook, health, london, science, west ham news, westham news
Here, Sportsmail’s DAN RIPLEY continues to count down in our top 50 Premier League hat-trick series by checking out the 30th and 21st best… and everything in between. Michael Owen features.
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Posted on 28 February 2018. Tags: Goal.com, huddersfield town, liverpool, qatar, swansea, west ham
All the key stats from Opta ahead of week 29 in the Premier League
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Posted on 27 February 2018. Tags: cricket, cycling, facebook, gold, green, News, West Ham United
Speaking on The Debate, Ian Wright and Andy Townsend choose their north v south XIs, and some interesting choices for managers.
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Posted on 27 February 2018. Tags: News, West Ham United, whispers
Swansea struggled past Sheffield Wednesday in their FA Cup replay on Tuesday, before their clash with West Ham this weekend. The Swans fielded a relatively strong team against the Championship outfit at the Liberty Stadium as they looked to avoid an upset. But they were held to a nervy stalemate in the first half, with […]
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Posted on 27 February 2018. Tags: News, west ham united fc, whispers
The Scottish Sun claim Jose Fonte refused to take part in a behind closed doors practise game arranged by David Moyes Davie Proven writing for the Scotish tabloid said “A couple of weeks ago I mentioned David Moyes arranging a reserve game to get an injured player match-fit. The game was at Dagenham and Redbridge and […]
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Posted on 27 February 2018. Tags: east london, News, transfer news, westham news, whispers
All four of West Ham fixtures in April have been rescheduled for Sky TV. The Hammers’ game away at Chelsea will now be shown on Sky Sports on Sunday 8 April, with a 4.30pm kick-off, although this fixture is subject to change should they be in UEFA Champions League action the following Tuesday. Next up […]
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Posted on 27 February 2018. Tags: after-failing, east london, football news, midfield, moyes, the-midfield
West Ham intend to reignite their interest in Leander Dendoncker this summer after failing to secure a deal for the 22-year-old in January, as reported by MirrorFootball. It is no secret that the midfield is one of the team’s major weaknesses and requires big investment during the summer transfer window. It is believed at least […]
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Posted on 27 February 2018. Tags: coming, david-moyes, fredericks, moyes, rumours
Sam Byram is expected to leave West Ham this summer, according to football.london. In a report that reveals David Moyes’ transfer intentions during the coming summer transfer window, the website claims that 24-year-old is ‘likely’ to leave London Stadium with Pablo Zabaleta expected to stay on for another year. The Hammers beat Everton to Byram […]
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Posted on 27 February 2018. Tags: galatasaray, inter milan, nagatomo, nerazzuri, transfer rumours
If reports by FC Inter News are to be believed, West Ham are keeping tabs on Inter Milan left-back Yuto Nagatomo. The 31-year-old was sent on-loan to Galatasaray in January having failed to hold down a first team spot for the Nerazzuri in the first-half of the campaign. The Japan international, capped 101 times by […]
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Posted on 27 February 2018. Tags: black, charity, depression, fish, Moore Than Just a Club, westham news
At the beginning of this season I was in a general state of well being, content in my slumber and fat with relief that West Ham had escaped the misery and would go again into another campaign…surely it would be so much better than the last? The search was made, scoured throughout endless web pages to find that consumable we so desperately needed, placed the order and waited for it to arrive…but did it ever? Only a note stuck…
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Posted on 27 February 2018. Tags: charity, columnist, cracks, facebook, Moore Than Just a Club, upton park
Young Academy graduate defender Bondz N’Gala was at one time, one of West Ham United’s brightest prospects, spending four years at the club between 2006 and 2010. But, why did things never quite pan out for the robust centre-back in Claret & Blue? Did he ever go on to fulfil his potential in football? And more importantly, where is he now? Bondz N’Gala The boyhood West Ham fan was born in Forest Gate in September 1989 and always dreamed of becoming a…
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Posted on 27 February 2018. Tags: desktop, facebook, News, sports, west ham news, West Ham United
The Manchester and Merseyside derbies are among the fixtures to be shown live on Sky Sports in April.
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Posted on 27 February 2018. Tags: News, sky sports, transfer gossip, west ham, west ham world, whispers
Patrice Evra’s performance at Liverpool has taken a hammering from former France international Christophe Dugarry. The former Marseilles, Bordeaux and Barcelona striker now has his own radio show on RMC Sport and invited Frank Lebouef and Emmanuel Petit to join him. Dugarry – who also played 30 games for Birmingham City for a mere six goals […]
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Posted on 27 February 2018. Tags: boxing, hammers news, madrid, microsoft, online soccer news, whtid
West Ham stars Michail Antonio and Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernandez teamed up with the CS:GO team of esports organisation Ninjas in Pyjamas for a CS:GO and football challenge
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Posted on 27 February 2018. Tags: author, black, european, french, london, Moore Than Just a Club, podcast, united-kingdom
In the first edition of our weekly On This Day series, we take you back in time to relive a memorable West Ham United clash that occurred on this very day two years ago. Cast your minds back to the late winter of 2016, “7 Years” by Lukas Graham was at the very summit of the United Kingdom Music Charts and a British nurse had just been admitted to a London Hospital believed …
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Posted on 27 February 2018. Tags: author, barcelona, club news, facebook, manager, Moore Than Just a Club, westham news
West Ham United defender Patrice Evra bared all on his imaginative Twitter account on Sunday afternoon, showing the true price of his second Premier League debut against Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday afternoon. The 36-year-old was signed on a short-term contract by David Moyes’ side at the beginning of February and made his first start since joining up with the Hammers on Merseyside at the weekend. While his new club were downed 4-1 by Jurgen Klopp’s Reds courtesy…
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Posted on 27 February 2018. Tags: latest football news, News, west ham, whispers
Reports have linked West Ham with Inter Milan’s Japanese defender Yuto Nagatom currently on loan in Tukey. The 31-year-old Japanese who joined Inter from Cesena in January 2011 has hopes of getting in games prior to this summer’s World Cup in Russia. The former FC Tokyo player, who has 101 caps for Japan, has appeared in […]
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Posted on 27 February 2018. Tags: football banter, News, upthehammers, whispers
A former Hammer accused of gambling £16,000 using a card stolen from a pensioner has had the case against him dismissed. Ex-West Ham winger Blair Turgott was accused of withdrawing the cash and exchanging it for chips during a night at the Playboy casino in Mayfair. Jurors at Southwark Crown Court failed to reach a […]
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Posted on 27 February 2018. Tags: football banter, News, transfer news, west ham, whispers
The current Premier League table shows the real divide between the haves and the have-nots when it comes to money and success in the League. The top six of Man City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Spurs, Chelsea and Arsenal all have positive goal difference between +15 and +59 while everyone else outside the top six including West Ham has a […]
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