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Premier League football finally returns to The London Stadium on Monday night, as we welcome David Wagner’s Huddersfield Town to Stratford in desperate need of our first points of the season. Slaven Bilic is currently having to deal with rumors of his sacking heading into the tie, with our worst start to a season since the last time that we were relegated tainting August. Whereas, the visitors will be looking…

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Huddersfield are next up for the Hammers, the Yorkshire side come to town on a wave of optimism, 2 wins and a draw in the first 3 games and progress in the League Cup represents a solid start for the Premier League newcomers. The Huddersfield manager David Wagner is a rising star rightly gaining plaudits for Huddersfield’s performances and results. Huddersfield seem a club completely in sync from the chairman through Manager to the players…

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Hooray! The dreaded international break is finally over and it’s now time to turn our attention back to The Premier League and Match Day Four to be specific, as Slaven Bilic’s men face a must-win clash on Monday night Football and the League Leaders travel to The Bet 365 Stadium. Manchester City vs Liverpool (Saturday 12:30 PM) For any football fans that have missed the Premier League over these past two weeks, we are straight into the weekend with one…

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Andy Carroll has been told he has been his own worst enemy when busting a gut to play for West Ham after time out injured. Big hitman Carroll has endured his fair share of time sidelined through being crocked and has yet to feature this campaign through a thigh problem. But he looks set to figure in some way when the Hammers face Huddersfield Town on Monday at the London Stadium …

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In this week’s edition of our weekly Throwback segment, we hear from Bret,18 and a lifelong Hammer about his first experience of East London on a magically festive night at Upton Park. “Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1998, I was brought up to a life of West Ham United and sunshine, a combination that rarely exists in my country of origin. Although my whole family are avid Hammers, living over 10,000 miles from the East End means that it is near…

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Slaven Bilic has been given the backing of West Ham legend Alvin Martin as the Hammers head in to a crucial Premier League clash against Huddersfield at the London Stadium on Monday. Bilic is clinging perilously on to his job after watching his charges lose the first three opening top flight matches leaving them rock-bottom of the table. Pundits and supporters have questioned if Bilic, a fans’ favourite as a no-nonsene player, is…

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We all know that the main talk of the town at the moment in Stratford is the future of Slaven Bilic, with hordes of fans calling for his dismissal just three games into the season. However, it’s now time to look at the reasons why the current crisis on and off the field isn’t the fault of our Croatian manager and that you may have to look higher in the West Ham United pecking order to…

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So, with football fans up and down the land enjoying an enthralling Deadline Day with some historic signings being completed on Thursday. For our dear old Hammers, it was like being grounded as a kid and watching desperately from your bedroom as your mates play without you. However, with deals for the likes of England No.1 Joe Hart, Austrian international Marko Arnautovic, two-time Premier League winner Pablo Zabaleta and …

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Burnley’s win at Chelsea in this season’s opening fixtures prompted me to look at their entry in Wikipedia. The Lancastrian wearers of the claret-and-blue are recorded as having been founder members of the Football League in 1888, F.A.Cup winners in 1914, and League champions twice, in 1920/21 and 1959/60. The second of those championships came in a season which those of us old enough to remember it, will never, ever, forget! Promoted in 1958, the …

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It is now time to analyze last night’s tricky away victory over Cheltenham Town in The Carabao Cup in a little more detail, as we take a look at some of the key Talking Points from the tie. Outstanding Rice The Shining Star At Whaddon Road Measured, collected and simply brilliant, Declan Rice certainly is attracting the attention of the Football World at the moment, and he added to the hype last…

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Last night’s first victory of the season over Cheltenham Town in The Carabao Cup Second Round was certainly a night to remember in comparison to recent results, but which players out performed the rest? And who got the highest ranking? As we take a look at how each featuring squad member rated out of ten at Whaddon Road. Adrian San-Miguel: 8/10 The Spanish shot-stopper was largely untroubled by The Robin’s attack during the …

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Terry Westley’s U23’s completed a remarkable second-half fightback to overcome Premier League 2 Title favorites Tottenham Hotspur and earn the youngsters’ a first-ever victory in Division One. The lunch-time kick-off took place at The Tottenham Hotspur Training Centre in North London and saw the hosts field an impressive line-up that boasted some of the game’s brightest prospects. Wayne Burnett’s side included the likes of England U19 star Marcus Edwards, captain …

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Monday is dragging and the Hammers have conceded SEVEN in just two games. I think we need cheering up, no? Luckily Nigel has been hard at work searching West Ham social media accounts for anything that might make you lot smile. And this is what he has found… The post Mock the West Ham Week Episode 4: We need a smile, don’t we? appeared first on Moore Than Just A Club .

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It’s now time to take a look at how some of our young Academy starlets have fared at their loan clubs in the past seven days, as Josh Cullen and Reece Burke enjoyed more Sky Bet Championship action and Reece Oxford came close to getting his first taste of the Bundesliga. Reece Burke and Josh Cullen (Bolton Wanderers) Bright young Hammers prospects Reece Burke and Josh Cullen are continuing to impress fans at the Macron Stadium, as…

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Welcome to our new ‘I’m the Boss’ feature in which I’ll be analysing Bilic’s tactics and performances each week, before picking my own line up for following weeks fixture. Our opening fixture away at Manchester United was always going to be a tough ask but what’s most worrying was the manner of the collapse in the second half and also the limited number of attempts on De Gea. Bilic set out a 4-5-1 with new boy Chicharito leading the line. Whilst I would…

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After the spoils and thrills of the opening weekend, it is now time to look ahead to Game Week Two as League leaders Manchester United travel to Wales and Slaven Bilic’s boys will be hoping jump off bottom place on The South-Coast in the second round of matches in the 2017/2018 Premier League season. The first Premier League clash of the weekend sees League leaders Manchester United travel to The Liberty…

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John Cleese in clockwise best describes how it is being a West Ham fan, going to Old Trafford is never an easy prospect, but three draws in last four visits there said to me we are not the push overs we have been in the past. At 6 o’clock on Saturday though, it was the fact I had hope before the game kicked off that left a bad taste in my mouth. I have witnessed worse defeats there …

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I was honestly never that optimistic that I’d be sat here writing a first post season kick off article laden with superlatives about our performance at Old Trafford. Even with the undisputable strengthening of the squad that has taken place in recent weeks, it was always going to be an uphill battle from minute one, and so it proved. One thing I was hopeful of, which proved to be in vain, was that the clubs support would acknowledge the good…

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There were shocks a plenty on the opening-weekend of the 2017/2018 Premier League season, as The Champions were shocked at home to Burnley and newly promoted Huddersfield Town ran-riot at Selhurst Park. Gunners Edge Foxes In Thriller The first Premier League clash of the new season saw Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal entertain Craig Shakespeare’s Leicester City at The Emirates Stadium, and it was to be an absolute classic. £75 million man Alexandre Lacazette was making his League debut…

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Nigel is back with the next episode of Mock the West Ham Week which was recorded before the game yesterday – that is, it has nothing to do with the game yesterday as comical as that turned out to be… The post Mock the West Ham Week Episode 3: Forget yesterday, laugh at this instead appeared first on Moore Than Just A Club .

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We face-off with Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United in our opening fixture of the 2017/2018 Premier League season this weekend at Old Trafford. Bilic’s boys make the trip to Manchester after a relatively poor pre-season tour of Europe, where our only win came against Championship side Fulham in Austria. It is the second time in succession that we have ended our preparations with only one victory to our name, and the Claret & Blue Army who are making the 218-mile…

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BT Sport is where the best in domestic and European football go head to head, and West Ham could be in for a great season in 2017/18. Well, at least that’s what BT Sport presenter Jake Humphrey thinks. Speaking exclusively to Moore Than Just A Club, he is impressed by The Hammers summer business – especially the signing of Javier Hernandez for £16 million from Bayer Leverkusen – and believes the new signings can take the club…

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In this week’s edition of our weekly Throwback segment, we speak to Tom, 18 and a lifelong Hammer as he recounts a stunning victory from the 2011/2012 season. “Growing up in Ireland as a Hammers fans is understandably a very individual experience, 380 miles from my spiritual home of Upton Park. My Claret & Blue blood came from my grandfather, who was born and bred a Hammers fan in London’s East-End, he would always show me old videos and DVDs of greats like Bobby…

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U23’s overcome by Billericay A bright young Hammers U23 side that included two-trialists and a number of U18 starlets were beaten 3-1 by Isthmian League Premier Division side Billericay Town at The New Lodge on Tuesday night. The hosts, who have made headlines by signing the ex-Liverpool duo of Paul Konchesky and Jermaine Pennant, were too strong for the youngsters as Terry Westley’s men were condemned to defeat in …

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Hammers land young Montenegrin star It was announced by the club late-last night that we have completed the signing of Sead Haksabanovic from Swedish outfit Halmstads BK. The attacking-midfielder is already a full-international for his native country of Montenegro at the tender age of 18 and is considered to be one of the brightest young talents in Europe. The deal was confirmed to be in the region of £3 million and …

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In the final edition of our weekly journey through some of the worst David Gold and David Sullivan attacking signings during their time at our club, we look at the striker whose very name is the basis of this piece and another fairly awful Argentinian. Jonathan Calleri The dreadful Argentina Olympic star will go down in history as one of the worst Hammers strikers of the modern era, and a player whose performances …

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