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Mike recorded his thoughts on tonight’s League Cup game from his season ticket seat as the match drew to a close and Masuaku launched his brilliant goal into the top corner.    

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The Hammers will ring the changes tonight as the team take on Bolton Wanderers in the League Cup clash at the London Stadium. Slaven Bilic  has reveled that Andy Carroll will miss the game as he can’t take three in a week and that his training regime has been changed to accommodate that. There’s a likelihood […]

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Bolton Wanderers will arrive at the London Stadium winless in the Championship this season for Tueday night’s League Cup clash. They sit rock bottom of the Championship and on the face of it the Hammers should cruise into the next round of the competition. Life of course is not like that and the Irons made […]

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The ironic cheers from the home fans when the home side belatedly decided to see if Joe Hart was still awake summed up the hopeless lack of entertainment here. It reflected poorly on West Bromwich Albion that Hal Robson-Kanu’s tame header was one of their better chances on a dull, grey afternoon, and there were loud boos when Paul Tierney put everyone inside the Hawthorns out of their misery by blowing…

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Paul Allen 1979 – 1985 If you watch any sort of footage of the 1980 Cup Final you will see a teenage Paul Allen either sobbing with delight at having collected his winner’s medal or being callously hacked to the ground by Arsenal centre half Willie Young while he is bearing down on the Arsenal goal. With this appearance Allen became the youngest player to appear in an FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium at the…

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Claret and Hugh Associate Editor Sean Whetstone was joined by podcasters George Bucci, Nigel and guest presenter Iain Dale for this week’s episode of the popular West Ham podcast called Moore Than Just A Podcast. In the 50 minute episode, the boys discuss the Huddersfield victory, there views on the Slaven Bilic and David Sullivan rift and […]

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Street traders on the route to the London Stadium could soon be a common sight again on West Ham match days. A request has been made the London Stadium Safety Advisory Group chaired by Newham Council to introduce street traders on certain routes to the stadium. The minutes of London Stadium SAG were recently made public […]

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A little deviation from our usual ‘Your Shout’ which see’s regular contributor Mike given his own weekly platform to discuss all things West Ham from his own perspective.

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Pablo Zabaleta received widespread acclamation for his outstanding performance against Huddersfield and is pretty pleased with himself and the team’s display. Commenting to the official site he said: “I played as a wing-back against Huddersfield. It’s been a long time since I played in that position, but I was happy with the performance. “I always […]

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West Ham centre back James Collins took time after the West Ham win against Huddersfield at the London Stadium to speak to Andy Goldstein and Jason Cundy on the Talksport radio Sportsbar late night to give his thoughts on the home win. Listen below Claret and Hugh Associate Editor Sean Whetstone also spoke to Talksport this […]

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Paul Ince just can’t help himself it seems. Sadly the former Hammer appears to be trying to make a name for himself in the mainstream and  social media these days – currently at our club’s expense. Late last week he was taking a pop at the board and following last night’s game it was the […]

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The Hammers goalkeeper shut out Monday’s opponents to repeat a feat he last managed way back in January 2017 while on loan at Torino

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Slaven Bilic is looking for home comforts when the team run on to the London Stadium for the first time this season this evening. Commenting ahead of the game he said: “It’s good to play at home again – the home form is the key “The players know we have to begin physically, to go […]

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Huddersfield Town boss David Wagner believes all three of his latest signings are all pushing  for places in Monday night’s team at the London Stadium. The Premier League manager of the month for August brought in  in No10 Abdelhamid Sabiri from Nuremburg, Florent Hadergjonaj from Ingolstadt and ex-England and West Ham goalkeeper Robert Green from […]

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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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Slaven Bilic has used his London Evening Standard column to speak about William Carvalho for the first time. Slav writes:  “The other thing which has dominated the last week or so has been our attempt to sign William Carvalho from Sporting Lisbon, an attempt that ultimately failed. There has been much said and written since. […]

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KIERAN GILL AND JACK GAUGHAN: Premier League clubs have voted to close the transfer window before the season kicks off in a controversial move that has angered the Manchester giants.

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Planned protests at the London Stadium on Monday night Huddersfield  game appear to be suffering from a shortage of on line funding. A social media twitter account called @WestHamAction-  with 186 followers-  has set a £1,000 fund raising target but at this moment £60 has been raised @ https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/westhamaction The fund raising page says “Weʼre raising £1,000 […]

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To say the Hammers and Sporting Lisbon are at war is putting it mildly! David Sullivan has produced an e mail published in which an offer appears to have been made. Sporting’s president Bruno Carvalho has hit back since and appears ready to report us to Fifa for an illegal approach. Here’s what the fans […]

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Cheikhou Kouyate and striker Diafra Sakho could play in a World Cup qualifier replay in November after FIFA ordered Senegal’s result with South Africa should be scrapped. The qualifier will be played again after the referee, Joseph Lamptey was found guilty of match-fixing in a game which saw South Africa win 2-1 last November. Lamptey has now […]

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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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West Ham are set to have the entire squad fit for the clash with Huddersfield – although Marko Arnautovic will serve out the last game of his suspension. And that could see Slaven Bilic  put out the strongest West Ham team we have seen in months and months. ClaretandHugh has learned that both Winston Reid […]

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Andy Carroll is  confidently predicted to be in the squad which meets Huddersfield Town on next Monday evening. And that is causing alarm bells to ring in Yorkshire where one local paper made a lead story of his likely return this morning. Carroll has now been missing for months with a recurring thigh injury but […]

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West Ham United have confirmed they will be taking legal action against Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon. Tensions mounted over a failed move for Portugal midfielder William Carvalho.

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Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder has given a great insight to transfer deadline day for a football manager after he allowed cameras from the Bleacher report to follow him around for the day.  Within the video, the truth is revealed why the Domingos Quina move collapsed. He explains a week earlier, the signings Jerome Sinclair, […]

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