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Three successive defeats have put the brakes on West Brom’s storming season. “With all the games in December you can quickly get into a good run or quickly into a bad run,” said the Baggies manager Steve Clarke. “We’ve got into a bad run and the first objective is to stop that.” West Ham have lost three of their last four but these have been hard games, not helped by a growing injury list, to which George McCartney’s…

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The former Chelsea and England player scored for the Reds at West Ham on Sunday, but his time at Anfield has seemingly been frustrated at every turn Joe Cole had waited 20 months for a Premier League goal and could not celebrate when it arrived. It reflected well on Cole’s character to respect the club that shaped him but illustrated his fortunes at Liverpool that a rare moment of release had to be restrained at West Ham. Cole has …

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Jonjo Shelvey was the only Liverpool player to celebrate a goal here at Upton Park and as well he might. Cast in the role of the false nine, as his club arrived in London without a recognised striker, due to the suspension of Luis Suárez and Fabio Borini’s injury, Shelvey compensated …

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Minute-by-minute report: How will Liverpool fare without Luis Suárez against in form West Ham at Upton Park? Find out with Daniel Harris Daniel Harris

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The football club can ensure that talk of regeneration and ‘convergence’ does not price out the traditional community West Ham United is, once again, lined up to occupy the post-Games Olympic Stadium , golden heart of London 2012. For the club this could mean ascent to football’s super elite. For London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, it could avert the threat…

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West Ham United and the mayor of London want the same outcome and are testing each other to see who will fold first “Jarndyce v Jarndyce drones on,” wrote Charles Dickens in Bleak House of the infamous, seemingly endless court case. “This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least, but it has been observed that no two Chancery…

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• Club is first choice to be main tenant at £429m stadium • Further negotiations needed to secure a binding deal West Ham have taken a key step towards relocating to the Olympic Stadium after they were named the highest ranked bidder for the £429m venue. Following a board meeting, the London Legacy Development Corporation announced that the club was its first choice to be the stadium’s …

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• Photographer claims he was assaulted in Republic • West Ham striker was with team-mates for party West Ham United’s Andy Carroll has been interviewed by police in the Republic of Ireland after a photographer was allegedly assaulted. The on-loan striker was with team-mates in Dublin for a weekend Christmas party after Saturday’s win over Chelsea. The 23-year-old denies any wrongdoing. A spokesman for the Garda press office in Dublin said officers received a…

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Our pick of the images from the latest games in the top flight

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• Fans voice their opinion to club owner • Chelsea’s worst league run in 17 years The chant went up from those in the lower tier of the Sir Trevor Brooking Stand while the rest of the arena was bouncing in frenzied celebration at Mohamed Diamé’s belted finish. “Roman Abramovich, is this what you want?” asked…

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• Champions Manchester City biggest spenders at £10.54m • Liverpool second with £8.6m, QPR spent £6.82m Bottom-of-the-table Queens Park Rangers paid the third-highest amount to agents over the past year, their figure of £6,818,688 topped by only the champions Manchester City and Liverpool, the Premier League revealed on Friday. City were the…

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Liverpool and Tottenham are entertaining but incomplete, United have a goalkeeper touched with genius on the bench and more • Watch video highlights of all the midweek action (UK only) 1) Work in progress x 2 So much to admire during Wednesday’s Tottenham-Liverpool match , yet in a way that added frustration to an at-times thrilling match. Both teams showed lots of qualities yet also betrayed deficiencies that must exasperate their managers: you were left with…

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• Hammers on the verge of being named preferred tenants • Announcement expected next week on stadium’s future West Ham United are on the verge of being named as preferred tenants for the Olympic Stadium in Stratford amid final negotiations to fill a £20m funding gap and bring the long-running saga to a conclusion. The future…

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• Former United striker delighted by Van Persie’s ‘fantastic start’ • Wayne Rooney worried about West Ham’s Andy Carroll Ruud van Nistelrooy believes Robin van Persie can be the key to Manchester United reclaiming the championship from Manchester City this season. Van Persie has made an impressive start in his debut season, scoring 11 times. …

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• ‘I was very disappointed to hear what went on,’ says Allardyce • Co-chairman David Gold to lead investigation into chants Sam Allardyce has condemned the West Ham supporters responsible for the antisemitic chanting that marred Sunday’s match against Tottenham at White Hart Lane , urging the authorities to punish the perpetrators who mocked …

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• On-loan midfielder tweeted condemnation of abuse • Two fans arrested and cautioned by police over incident West Ham’s Israeli midfielder Yossi Benayoun has said he was “embarrassed” by the alleged antisemitic chanting by a section of the club’s supporters during their team’s Premier League match against Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane on Sunday. West Ham fans were heard apparently mocking the Holocaust …

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For a West Ham fan, there is nothing bigger than a match against Tottenham. Yet on Sunday, as the Spurs goals flew in, I found myself not caring very much about the outcome Eight years ago, I was in my usual seat in the lower tier of the Bobby Moore Stand with a few friends for a nondescript Championship match between West Ham and Plymouth. Indeed the match was …

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• FA spokesman says investigation ‘is likely’ • West Ham fans appeared to mock the Holocaust The Football Association is set to investigate apparent antisemitic abuse by West Ham United fans towards Tottenham Hotspur supporters at White Hart Lane. An FA spokesman said it was “likely” that the governing body would launch a formal investigation once the match officials’ reports had been received. Hammers fans on Sunday appeared to mock the gassing…

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• FA to consider investigating White Hart Lane incidents • Some West Ham supporters took part in unsavoury chants Tottenham Hotspur fans were subjected to antisemitic abuse from a section of the travelling West Ham United support during their 3-1 derby victory. The Football Association will consider whether to investigate the matter, after it studies reports from the various match officials and delegates and, although the managers from both clubs were nervous about making comment, the situation…

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It is eight-and-a-half years since Jermain Defoe left West Ham United but the club’s fans will never forget. The Tottenham Hotspur striker’s every touch here was jeered and the abusive choruses from the away enclosure left him in no doubt as to where his stock stands in the East End. His response on the field, though, was articulate and emphatic. Tottenham had lost their momentum from early in…

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The stage was set for West Ham United. The club had never been better off at this stage of a Premier League season, confidence was high and Stoke City’s away form had been terrible. Sam Allardyce’s Movember tache looked magnificent and the evening called for his team to cement their…

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Owen Gibson says there are currently two options for the Olympic Stadium in Stratford. Premier League football club West Ham could move in at a conversion cost of £190m (the preference of London mayor Boris Johnson), or it could be used – more quickly – as…

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West Ham aim to consolidate their place in the top six, which would set them fair for a tilt at European football. This was not part of the script upon the London club’s promotion but they have thrived as one of …

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• Charges over alleged ‘unlawful obtaining of information’ • Complaints made by West Ham and park’s legacy company Three people have been charged with fraud over allegations of unlawful obtaining of information linked to Tottenham’s failed bid to take over the Olympic Stadium. The investigation was …

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There were so many men facing their former clubs that it was inevitable a goal from one of them would decide the game. The man was Kevin Nolan, whose fifth goal of the season earned West Ham their first victory on …

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The Premier League’s only unbeaten show rolls on. Manchester City are yet to find anything like the sweetly nasty rhythm that chewed sides up during the opening of last season, though a hunch is that sometime soon Roberto Mancini’s men will finally offer an opponent a…

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