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Who’ll be crowned the 2016 PFA Players’ Player of the Year?

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Former Hammer John Moncur has revealed that Slaven Bilic used to smoke at the back of the bus on the way to West Ham games when he was a player. Speaking to BT Sport Moncur said of his playing days with Slav: Interviewer: “You guys used to play together” Moncs: “Yea, I think he was […]

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Martin Samuelson has been recalled to West Ham from Peterborough despite two league games remaining for the league one side.  Samuelson turned eighteen last week and is set to start in the Under 21 Premier League cup on the Boleyn ground on Monday evening. Terms of the season-long loan brokered by director of football Barry […]

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With less than three weeks before our last league game at the Boleyn Ground, there is an opportunity on Monday to have one extra night under the Boleyn Ground lights watching the Hammers play in the U21 Premier League Cup final. The final will be the final U21 game ever played at the Boleyn Ground, […]

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West Ham boss Slaven Bilic is weighing up a move for Celta Vigo star Manuel “Nolito” Duran, reports Steve Bates in the Sunday People today. Bilic is keen to land former Barcelona and Benfica star Nolito, who played in Spain’s friendly win over England last November. The talented attacking midfielder has scored 11 goals in […]

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West Ham have beaten off competition from Arsenal to sign Chelsea teenager Domingos Quina, according the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Daily Star who picked up the story from ExWhuEmployee. The report says the 16-year-old midfielder will sign after being persuaded that he had a better chance of progressing through to the first team in West […]

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Reece Burke has drawn astonishing reviews at Bradford City after a hugely impressive loan period at the club this season. The Bantams are sitting in the play off places in league One and much of that is down to the defender who has been performing like a colossus. Fans of the club appear to believe […]

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With the PFA Awards ceremony on Sunday evening, we asked the Soccer Saturday pundits which players they think deserve to scoop the top awards.

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Newcastle’s fight to stay in the Premier League did the Hammers a favor today after the Magpies came back from two nil down at half  time to take Liverpool to a 2-2 draw at full time. Liverpool had a game in hand on West Ham before today and they were just two points behind us before […]

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Back in the day before they moved the pitch towards the Alpari, the players used to have to lean on the wall of the chicken run to take throw-ins. This led to lots of comical exchanges and two I recall with great amusement involved Frank Lampard snr and Tim Breaker.Frank was in that tradition of […]

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The club has made no secret of the fact a big name striker is top of their transfer agenda this summer. As a result, we’ve been linked with so many strikers we could’ve only dreamed of signing a few years ago. No each and every one of them are realistic targets. From Marseille’s Michy Batshuayi

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Exclusive West Ham will not be making a move for Arsenal winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. A story emerged this morning that the Irons had been offered the former England international but we have had it confirmed that there is very little interest from our side. With Arsene Wenger planning a clear out in the summer, the […]

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West Ham will receive no share of the lucrative ‘Pourage Rights’ from the  former Olympic Stadium when they move in.  The rental agreement of the former Olympic Stadium published last week reveals that  the stadium owners E20 Stadium LLP “shall be entitled to retain all revenue received from any beverage company, which is exclusively in respect of […]

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Enner Valencia could become a Chinese takeaway once the summer transfer window opens. The club is ready to offload the misfiring striker and ClaretandHugh can reveal that options in China are currently being explored. The player has been able to recapture the form he showed when forging a successful partnership with Diafra Sakho on his […]

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West Ham are expected to announce the capture of highly-rated former Chelsea wonderkid Domingos Quina today, according to MirrorFootball. The 16-year-old is regarded as one of the brightest prospects to come out of Portugal in recent years and is expected to become a regular full international in the future. MirrorFootball claim the Hammers have managed

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The highly-rated 16-year-old midfielder will sign this week after being persuaded that he had a better chance of progressing through to the first team in West Ham’s set-up.

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Rewind all the way back to last May. We’ve parted ways with Sam Allardyce and have begun an ambitious search for a new manager who is capable of successfully guiding us in to a new era. The media are fuming, they’re saying we’ve made a huge mistake and that we should ‘be careful what we

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Arsenal’s Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has reportedly been offered to West Ham . And given the news was broken by friend of ClaretandHugh’s, and Mirror reporter, Darren Lewis we tend to believe the stry can be taken seriously. Darren says in his piece: “Arsene Wenger is poised to stage a clear out this summer following the club’s […]

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West Ham Vice Chairman, Karren Brady is off to meet US president and West Ham fan, Barack Obama this morning. Tweeting this morning Brady made the ultimate name drop by posting: “Off to see Barack Obama….” In 2008, Obama declared his fondness for the Claret and Blues quarter of east London. According to US reports, the […]

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West Ham are interested in signing Newcastle United midfielder Moussa Sissoko, according to calciomercato.com. The report claims AC Milan are the main club interested in the 26-year-old ahead of the summer, but also name West Ham as another suitor. Sissoko has struggled for form this season, but he previous been an influential figure in an otherwise

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Pragamatic David Sullivan doesn’t do sentiment and romanticism that well! So it was no surprise when ClaretandHugh asked him – as a lifelong supporter – for his greatest Boleyn Memory  to be greeted with the words: “The win over Watford….because the last win is always the most important.” However, he did select one game for […]

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Newcastle United’s Moussa Sissoko is a summer target for the Hammers according to the Sun today. The report confirms what Claret and Hugh have been saying for some time, namely that West Ham will not pursue a permanent deal for on-loan midfielder Alex Song from Barcelona at the end of the season. The Sun suggest that […]

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Journalist friend of Claret and Hugh, Darren Lewis claims ‘Arsenal’s Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has been offered to West Ham’. Writing in the Daily Mirror, Lewis writes : ‘The confirmation that the 22-year-old attacker is available this summer is sure to spark a scramble for his services.’ Oxlade-Chamberlain has 24 caps for England and last scored for the […]

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ClaretandHugh has invited readers to send their best Boleyn Memories as we approach the end. Send yours to claretandhgh@gmail.com. More tomorrow! I was out washing cars during the school holidays in the summer of 86, I was 13. My pal Andy AND  I weren’t getting much interest. We got to a house with a dirty […]

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