The Newcastle United manager denies that there are divisions in the dressing room between French and English speaking players
Posted on 03 May 2013.
The Newcastle United manager denies that there are divisions in the dressing room between French and English speaking players
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Posted on 28 April 2013.
• Central defender may pay World Cup price for losing place • Manchester City irregular hopeful of playing in FA Cup final Polite yet frank was Joleon Lescott’s response when asked about the threat posed to his England place by John Terry following the Chelsea defender’s decision to end his international…
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Posted on 28 April 2013.
Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series
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Posted on 27 April 2013.
Until a Yaya Touré rocket settled home nerves on 81 minutes, this was a Manchester City display to illustrate why they have frustrated all season. As with the defeat at Tottenham Hotspur last time out, City were the dominant force but appeared unable to put the boot to West Ham United’s throat to finish them off. Even after Touré’s left-foot stinger …
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Posted on 27 April 2013.
Minute-by-minute report: Let’s be honest, there’s not much riding on this one. But who knows, it could be entertaining. Join Simon Burnton Simon Burnton
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Posted on 26 April 2013.
Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini admits that Manchester United were better than his team across the season
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Posted on 24 April 2013.
A collection of work created by life-long West Ham fan and music mogul Kosmo Vinyl. Since 2011, he’s honoured every West Ham match in poster-format using appropriated imagery, bold typography and a simple punk aesthetic. Jonny Weeks
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Posted on 21 April 2013.
• Latics lost again despite dominating possession • Manager confident three wins will keep Wigan up Three wins from their final five games, the manager Roberto Martínez believes, will be sufficient for Wigan Athletic to pull off their now customary feat of avoiding relegation by the skin of their teeth. Given the last of those games is against Aston Villa…
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Posted on 20 April 2013.
The likelihood that this may be the season in which Wigan Athletic do not win their customary Premier League survival battle is growing. The Latics were their usual attractive selves, passing the ball with a precision that few sides can match and creating any number of promising positions, but failed to make the most of just one of them to equalise Matt…
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Posted on 19 April 2013.
Reaching a first FA Cup final has made this a season to remember for Wigan but if they fail to escape from the bottom three then it will also become one to forget for the club. Roberto Martínez’s side hit encouraging form recently but they have drawn and lost their last two matches and are running out…
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Posted on 19 April 2013.
• United name same squad for Aston Villa on Monday • ‘Rooney was not playing as well as Shinji Kagawa’ Sir Alex Ferguson is relieved at having left the “war zone” of Upton Park with no injuries to his Manchester United players following the 2-2 draw with West Ham United . The United…
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Posted on 17 April 2013.
• We all know how West Ham play, says Ferguson • When Andy is travelling at 15mph, he can’t stop – Allardyce Sir Alex Ferguson accused Andy Carroll of making a red-card challenge on David de Gea and expressed disbelief that the West Ham United striker remained on the pitch, as arguments flared after Manchester United’s 2-2 draw at Upton Park . …
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Posted on 17 April 2013.
The Hammers’ tactics gave the league leaders a scare but their focus was formidable and this was no replay of 1995 Every Manchester United fan aged roughly 25 or over remembers precisely where he or she was. They also remember precisely what they said. On 14 May 1995, a spring’s afternoon at Upton Park and Andy Cole, confronted by Ludek Miklosko, has the …
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Posted on 17 April 2013.
Minute-by-minute report: A late equaliser by Robin van Persie kept the United title bandwagon on the move against West Ham Paul Doyle
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Posted on 16 April 2013.
• ‘We’re going to have long balls to deal with’ • United have no new injury worries Nemanja Vidic expects a tough test at West Ham United on Wednesday evening as Manchester United try to claim three of the seven points they require to win a 20th championship. On Sunday United’s 2-0 win over Stoke City stretched their advantage to 15 points over …
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Posted on 15 April 2013.
• West Ham manager wary of financial fair play restrictions • ‘In one fell swoop Carroll can’t sign for us from Liverpool’ The West Ham manager, Sam Allardyce, feels that new financial fair play rules in the Premier League next season could “blow the whole deal” in regards to the club’s desire to keep Andy Carroll. The striker, who is on loan from Liverpool…
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Posted on 14 April 2013.
• On-loan striker does not rule out staying at West Ham • ‘It has been great here and every minute has been fantastic’ Andy Carroll is open to joining West Ham permanently but is unsure as to where his future lies. The football world was taken aback two years ago when …
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Posted on 13 April 2013.
Andy Carroll earned West Ham a hard-fought point in miserable conditions at Southampton, bringing the hosts’ three-match winning streak to an end. The on-loan 24-year-old missed last weekend’s trip to parent club Liverpool but made an immediate impact on his return to Sam Allardyce’s starting lineup, …
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Posted on 05 April 2013.
Nigel Adkins comes face to face with Mauricio Pochettino, Paolo Di Canio can finally let the football do the talking and Harry Redknapp on why QPR don’t need a miracle Is another Carlos Tevez sulk on the way? The Argentinian has already demonstrated occasional reluctance to gad about in a high-vis bib since joining Manchester City, famously declining to warm up…
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Posted on 01 April 2013.
West Ham’s future home gets a makeover from you, the reader, in this week’s entries
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Posted on 31 March 2013.
• England manager sees striker score twice against West Brom • Carroll trusts he will be involved in England set-up again Andy Carroll hopes his impressive two goals will persuade Roy Hodgson that he deserves an England recall this summer. Carroll has endured a difficult time since he joined on loan from Liverpool last August, but the 24-year-old looked back to his…
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Posted on 30 March 2013.
Andy Carroll gave Roy Hodgson a timely reminder of his talents as he inspired West Ham to an impressive win that eased any lingering hopes of relegation at Upton Park. He was not in Hodgson’s party for England’s trip to Montenegro on Tuesday and on this evidence Hodgson will surely considering recalling him for this summer’s …
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Posted on 29 March 2013.
With tricky fixtures to come in April against Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United, as well as an awkward trip to Southampton, Sam Allardyce will be looking for maximum points at Upton Park to halt any lingering relegation fears. He welcomes back Kevin Nolan from a broken toe, and needs his captain to hit form immediately if they are to breach a stubborn West Brom…
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Posted on 23 March 2013.
The week in football: Public money, social change, the week’s best ambush plus a ‘two-bob servant of Satan’ Appointment of the week Greg Dyke: hired by the FA to rebuild their fractured relationship with Fifa’s top executives – three years after he gave his view on the football family : “Football is the only business where …
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Posted on 22 March 2013.
Questions remain about the club’s relocation to the Olympic Stadium and there is not enough transparency in the figures Peering through unseasonal gloom into an Olympic Stadium that, in three years’ time he hopes will be a sea of 54,000 fans clad in claret and blue, David Gold is battling to dismiss speculation that his rationale for moving from Green Street is to make the club more attractive to potential…
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Posted on 22 March 2013.
• Former sports minister believes club are getting cheap deal • Caborn wanted original stadium designs to include football The former sports minister Richard Caborn has branded the deal to lease the Olympic Stadium to West Ham as “the biggest mistake of the London Olympics”. Caborn said that he welcomed the fact that the future of the stadium was now settled…
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