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Tottenham may be denied Olympic option for 2017-18 exile Legacy corporation would welcome Spurs Spurs to move away for a year because of stadium delays Tottenham purchase on radar of US investment group West Ham United have the power to prevent their Olympic Stadium home being shared with Tottenham Hotspur for the 2017-18 season, Press Association Sport understands. The Hammers have been awarded a 99-year lease to become anchor tenants of the landmark London 2012 venue and are set…

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Largely through spending insane amounts of money, the Premier League has bought back some of its old prestige The most expensive transfer window so far Manchester United to carry on big spending in January window Premier League clubs spent around £850m in the summer transfer window just closed, a new record and an increase of £220m on the previous year. The total was ramped up by Manchester Uniteds …

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Player has joined from Marseille for undisclosed fee He was on loan at West Bromwich Albion last season Morgan Amalfitano has become the ninth summer signing for West Ham United, joining the club from Marseille for an undisclosed fee. The 29-year-old midfielder, who has won one France cap, joins the recent loan acquisition Alex Song as well as other summer signings Carl Jenkinson, Enner Valencia, Diafra Sakho, Cheikhou Kouyaté, Diego Poyet, Aaron Cresswell and

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West Ham fan Jordan Dunn, 22, from Dover, Kent ran on to the pitch and took a free kick in game against Tottenham Hotspur A football fan has admitted to running on to the pitch and taking a free kick during a Premier League match. Jordan Dunn, 22, from Dover in Kent, became an internet sensation after he kicked the ball towards the goal West Ham United were defending at Upton Park against Tottenham Hotspur last month. Continue reading…

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Former Arsenal midfielder heads back to the Premier League West Ham is looking to be a very, very big club in the future Transfer interactive: how much has your club spent? West Ham have announced the signing of the Barcelona midfielder Alex Song on a season-long loan. The 26-year-old Cameroon international struggled to hold down a regular place at Camp Nou following a move from Arsenal in 2012 and returns to the Premier League with the …

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Former Arsenal keepers move to Cagliari called off Almunia has heart condition that can cause sudden death Manuel Almunia is expected to announce his retirement after a heart condition that can cause sudden death was detected at a routine medical. The former Arsenal goalkeeper was close to joining Cagliari earlier this month as a free agent having played the past two years at Watford. However, The Serie A club abandoned the signing of the 37-year-old…

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West Hams latest big-money signing Enner Valencia missed the decisive penalty after an even Capital One Cup tie at Upton Park. There are now two divisions separating the clubs but it is Sheffield United who progressed into the third round after Valencia, a £14m signing from Pachuca , was the only player to miss his spot-kick as the tie could not be decided after extra time. Continue reading…

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Mutual loathing as Bramall Lane club return in League Cup Relegation after Argentinian signed for West Ham still festers The second round of the League Cup is not usually associated with vitriol, venom and downright loathing but there will be an abundance of all three at Upton Park on Tuesday evening when West Ham welcome Sheffield United for the first time since the clubs had an ever so minor disagreement over a certain Argentinian. The memory of Carlos Tevez and…

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For 15 minutes, Crystal Palace were pretty good. They pushed West Ham back, created some good chances and the atmosphere was just as buoyant and defiant as it was during that gleeful ride to survival last season. Tony Pulis, who needs Tony Pulis? Not Palace. It was his loss, not theirs, and he did not deserve them anyway. You could sense supporters getting giddy. Palace were too good for Pulis. They were going to beat the odds again. Stick together…

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Crystal Palaces supporters arrived determined to roar their side on and give a bad week a happy ending. The Palace ultras, that vociferous little group of fans behind one of the goals at Selhurst Park, banged their drums and led the chants and briefly it seemed that everything was going to be all right; it did not matter that Palace have been unwittingly caught up in the Malky Mackay scandal, that their …

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Answer a simple question and you could be off to Selhurst Park to watch some live Barclays Premier League football Continue reading…

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Our picks of the best images from the seasons opening day Sam Allardyce spoke about the number of opportunities created by West Ham. He pointed to the penalty that Mark Noble missed in the first half, said that the way his team outplayed Tottenham Hotspur gives him great encouragement for what lies ahead and laughed off suggestions that his job could be under threat after this galling defeat. If theyre going to do it after one game, …

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Alan Pardew and Sam Allardyce need patience and luck to avoid the early-season sack at Newcastle and West Ham respectively The computer game Football Manager categorises the “job status” of its fictional coaches in four bands: secure, stable, insecure and very insecure. Few actual Premier League managers would admit to belonging to the first two brackets. In a profession in which even the perceived best are only three consecutive defeats removed from …

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Senegalese midfielder arrived at Upton Park for £7m in the summer after seven seasons, and four titles, with Anderlecht Cheikhou Kouyaté has never been afraid to suffer for his art. West Ham Uniteds new midfielder is used to it and he has been making sacrifices for a long time, ever since he left his family home in Senegal as a teenager and moved to Europe on his own. He has learned to be tough and hard work feels…

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Speaking ahead of Tottenham Hotspur’s match against West Ham United, Spurs head coach Mauricio Pochettino says his team has a good mentality and is ready to compete. He adds that he wants his team to win a three-point margin in order to start the league with confidence. Tottenham Hotspur play West Ham at Upton Park on Saturday Continue reading…

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David Sullivan and David Gold appeal directly to supporters Racism, antisemitism and homophobia will not be tolerated David Sullivan and David Gold have urged West Ham United supporters to avoid any unwanted behaviour when they start their Premier League campaign at home to fierce rivals Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday. With West Ham having come under scrutiny in the past antisemitic chanting and hisses designed to imitate the gas chambers used during the Holocaust…

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Sympathy for Sam Allardyce is in short supply but the in-fighting must stop if West Ham are to have a successful season Guardian writers predicted position: 11th (NB: this is not necessarily Jacob Steinbergs prediction but the average of our writers tips) Last seasons position: 13th Continue reading…

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To the chagrin of many West Ham fans, Sam Allardyce remains in charge at Upton Park, having been told in no uncertain terms that the team must play better football this year. Andy Carroll is injured yet again, but Ecuador striker Enner Valencia has arrived for £12m. Frankly, who knows what the new season has in store for the Hammers? Continue reading…

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Eye-catching summer captures from Arsenals goalkeeper David Ospina to Rémy Cabella in the final third for Newcastle United Continue reading…

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Wickham has one year left on contract with Sunderland Gus Poyet reluctant to lose England Under-21 striker West Ham United have made a bid, believed to be in the region of £5m, for Connor Wickham. Gus Poyet, the Sunderland manager, is reluctant to lose the England Under-21 striker, whose goals helped to keep the Wearsiders in the Premier League last spring, but Wickham has only a year remaining on his current contract and is stalling …

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Promoted trio all have recent top-flight experience and can continue trend of surviving beyond their first season It always used to be so easy to predict. The three clubs promoted to the Premier League would ruffle a few gilded feathers before ultimately returning from whence they came 10 months later, promising to be back soon. Yet in the landscape of ever-more lucrative television rights and parachute payments, those days now seem in the dim and distant past. Not since the 200708 season…

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In the second half of their previews, WhoScored analyse Manchester United under Louis van Gaal, Tottenham under Mauricio Pochettino and Southampton under Ronald Koeman Statistical previews: Arsenal to Manchester City Having ended David Moyes tenure as manager and replaced him with the vastly successful Louis Van Gaal, who comes to Old Trafford on the back of a fantastic World Cup performance in Brazil, United fans are optimistic this season. A disappointing campaign culminated in their worst…

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David Sullivan: club have offers in for three or four strikers Hugo Almeida and Samuel Etoo among names reported The West Ham United joint-chairman David Sullivan has revealed that the club have made a number of offers for strikers as they target cover for the injury-enforced absence of Andy Carroll. Stoke Citys Peter Crouch is the Hammers main target, but reports state that interest has also been shown in Hugo Almeida of Besiktas, …

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West Ham player accused of threatening Reah Mansoors life Harassment charge added to two counts of common assault West Ham Uniteds Ravel Morrison threatened to throw acid in the face of his ex-girlfriend and have her killed, a court heard today. The former Manchester United midfielder Morrison, 21, is also accused of threatening to blow up her house in a course of harassment against his ex-girlfriend Reah Mansoor lasting four years, Manchester magistrates court heard. Continue

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Todays piffle is having to divert at the last minute Going Dutch is the in thing at the moment. Whether its paying for your own food and drink at some wildly overpriced summer pop-up restaurant, or paying for somebody else to give Wayne and co a kick up the arse and implement a fluid 3-5-2 system on a previously mojo-less set of Manchester-based footballers, everybody seems to be doing it. …

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England international is Sam Allardyces sixth summer signing West Ham was always the place I wanted to go to West Ham have signed the Arsenal defender Carl Jenkinson on a season-long loan. The 22-year-old right-back has been linked with a host of Premier League clubs and decided to move across London for the 2014-15 campaign. Continue reading…

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