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Watch highlights as Slaven Bilic’s West Ham earned their first points of season with a 2-0 win over Huddersfield.

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What will happen when West Ham host Huddersfield in Monday Night Football? Paul Merson completes his round of predictions…

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Ashley Fletcher – who made a £6 million switch to Middlesbrough from the Irons –  again failed to make the starting line up as Boro sauntered to a 3-0 away win over Bolton in today’s Championship match. He didn’t appear until the 82nd minute and had no impact on proceedings whatsoever. That  was his first […]

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The son of former Hammer Paul Ince was asked if he was prepared for further abuse from West Ham fans on Monday night, Tom Ince said: “Yeah, I suppose you could say that. I’m not a popular name round there but it’s part of football, it’s one of those things. That’s why I’m glad it’s […]

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Former Hammer turned pundit Tony Gale says Bilic is the right man for the job and that the board are to blame for our current problems. “It’s the players that have got to do it for Bilic on Monday night, it’s a pressure game against Huddersfield, a real pressure game and they’ve got to rise to the […]

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There appears to be a growing movement suggesting the board should quit. The ‘board out’ slogans are being prepared but want does that actually mean and what do they hope to gain? David Sullivan and David Gold are directors of the holding company W H Holding Limited but they are also 85% shareholders. While it […]

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In times like these it is perhaps as well to remember some West Ham history and ask: “Should I be this wound up given what’s gone before at this club?” The last few days have been intense and social media makes things feel so much worse – we live with it or choose to turn […]

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Edimilson Fernandes has suffered an injury while on International duty with Switzerland U21’s. Rumours circulated social media that he had broken his foot and was currently in hospital but club sources have played down the severity of his injury. A club source told Claret and Hugh this afternoon that they are still awaiting the results of various medical […]

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The world’s best players will be playing in the Premier League in coming years, according to Christian Purslow.

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Nuno Almeida is a Lisbon-born blogger, a top ClaretandHugh Facebook Forum member and a passionate football man. A Sporting Clube de Portugal fan and member since the day he was born 🙂 he is also a huge fan of English football and West Ham. He’s been a Hammer since 1980, the day he watched the FA […]

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Andy Goldstein and Jason Cundy were joined by actor, presenter and Celebrity West Ham fan James Corden on Talksport Sports Bar on Thursday night. The host of America’s popular ‘The Late, Late, Late Show’ is a massive West Ham fan and admitted he is now doubting whether Slaven Bilic is the right manager for the […]

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Diafra Sakho will not be leaving West Ham despite spending two days trying to push through a move, say Sky sources.

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Diafra Sakho will tomorrow meet  Slaven Bilic at the Rush Green Training Ground and should he choose not to turn up will be fined a week’s wages – £27k. And that would come on top of the £54k the club will take from him his monthly pay cheque for his trip to France which resulted […]

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The wantaway Senegal striker met briefly with West Ham club secretary Andrew Pincher late this evening despite being told no directors were available to meet with him and there was no point in coming in. Pincher again confirmed to the striker in person his previous phone conversation from the afternoon that no directors were present […]

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West Ham’s first team squad have been given NO extra time off over the international break. Our club insiders have totally rubbished social media and general internet stories claiming that to be the case and have made it clear to ClaretandHugh that after the Newcastle  defeat the players only had their normal Sunday and Monday […]

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There has been comment in the press recently suggesting that some managers would like the summer transfer window to be adjusted so that it closes before the new season is upon us. This seems to me to be a very logical proposal. Preparing for the first game of a season must surely be the top priority at any club, big or small, and continuing speculation as to transfers, in or out, cannot fail …

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West Ham are in talks to sign Abdul Majeed Waris from French club Lorient, according to Sky sources.

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West Ham will be forced to subsidise Robert Snodgrass’s wages following his move to Aston Villa this afternoon. The Scotland international was finally reunited with his former boss from Hull days Steve Bruce after the Hammer hammered out a compromise deal with the Championship outfit. It was thought Villa would only pay 50 per cent […]

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CANDH EXCLUSIVE by Hugh Southon West Ham have this afternoon pulled the plug on the Wiliam Carvahlo deal and unless Sporting Lisbon perform a massive U turn, the deal is officially ff. The long and drawn out discussions have tried the Hammers patience to the limits as the Portuguese cub has consistently moved the goalposts […]

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Robert Snodgrass is to have a medical at Aston Villa ahead of a planned season-long loan move from West Ham, according to Sky sources.

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KIERAN GILL AT THE LCI RAIL STADIUM: Anything but a win would have had Slaven Bilic wondering if a list of replacements really is being drawn up by West Ham’s board. Thankfully for him, the Hammers won.

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Adrian has the chance to put some heat on Joe Hart this evening although the majority of us will probably be hoping otherwise. We need no further dramas in a season which has got off on entirely the wrong foot with Hart himself looking uncertain at the start of his Hammers loan spell. A top […]

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By Jack Lebeau Follow on Twitter @JackLeabeau66 West Ham U23 miraculously came from 2-0 down at half-time to beat Spurs 3-2 at Hotspur Way on a very rainy afternoon. We started the better of the two teams, with Spurs rarely getting out of their own half. This was supported by us having a good couple […]

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Keith Hackett will have done absolutely nothing to redeem his tattered reputation among Hammers fans with long memories after laying into Marko Arnautovic following his red card dismissal at Southampton. It was HACKETT’S  disgraceful decision which saw Tony Gale sent off in the 1991 FA Cup semi final against Nottingham Forest at Villa Park – […]

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  Club-record signing Marko Arnautovic saw red in a first-half moment of madness, as a late Charlie Austin penalty was enough to give Southampton a thrilling 3-2 victory over us at The St Mary’s Stadium yesterday afternoon. The encounter, which was a tale of two halves, also Javier Hernandez’s first goals in Claret & Blue, but not even they were enough to stop Mauricio Pellegrino’s men notching a contentious …

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Charlie Austin snatched a stoppage-time winner from the penalty spot as Southampton beat 10-man West Ham United. Austin sent Joe Hart the wrong way as Mauricio Pellegrino clinched his first win as Southampton manager in dramatic crescendo. After going two goals behind, Javier Hernández had rolled back the years with two poachers finishes to very nearly get the Hammers off the hook. Southampton had sailed into a two-goal lead, thanks to Manolo Gabbiadini and a Dusan Tadic penalty, before West…

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