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• Arsenal confirm game postponed due to industrial action • Match will be played on 23 or 26 January instead Arsenal have confirmed that their Premier League match against West Ham on Boxing Day has been postponed due to the planned industrial action on the London Underground. Arsenal, who postponed their Boxing Day game last year for the same reason, …

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West Ham’s visit to West Brom on Sunday afternoon threatened to put the Hawthorns crowd to sleep, but have you seen worse? A few hours before the great and the good of British sport gathered in east London to celebrate the heroes of 2012, West Brom and West Ham played out a turgid nil-nil draw at…

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West Bromwich brought their three-game losing streak to an end at The Hawthorns but could not get back to winning ways thanks to a determined and occasionally dogged display from West Ham. The Hammers were so stretched by injuries that Sam Allardyce named only six substitutes, three of them youngsters who have never made a Premier League appearance. So at least they had an excuse in a first…

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MBM report: Can West Brom get back to winning ways or will West Ham locate their best form? Join Ian McCourt to find out Ian McCourt

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Queens Park Rangers are desperate to avoid doing a Swindon; Manchester City look far more comfortable chasing the leaders 1 QPR desperately need some festive cheer This Queens Park Rangers vintage is now officially corked, the season turning sourer than the cheap plonk served up by the hapless Swindon sommelier John Gorman …

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Manager’s ability to see the bigger picture has helped him find the right pieces for his jigsaw West Ham do not look like newcomers in the Premier League. While Reading and Southampton strive to find their feet, the team promoted via the play-offs are already into a stride that suggests their aim for this season should be more than merely surviving in the top …

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Last week West Ham faced a team containing a striker badly out of form, this week they face a team with no striker at all as Liverpool arrive in east London shorn of the suspended Luis Suárez. It will be up to Jonjo Shelvey, a boyhood Hammer, to lead the visitors’ attack, a role he impressively carried out during…

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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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• 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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Chelsea’s retreat into the chasing pack continues apace. Rafael Benítez’s side contrived to surrender a grip on this derby and end up overwhelmed and overrun at this venue for the first time in nine years, ensuring the disillusion that festers within the European champions gnaws away at them into another week. The winless league run has been extended to seven matches, their worst sequence since February 1995, yet this felt properly traumatic than any statistic. It said much about the…

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Minute-by-minute report: Rafael Benítez’s painful start to his time at Chelsea continued as West Ham roared to victory Tom Lutz

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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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• In pictures: the best of Wednesday night’s action Manchester United managed to avoid their season-long habit of conceding first by opening the scoring here, but the performance still stuttered enough to concern Sir Alex Ferguson. The Scot’s side maintain their status as Premier League leaders by a point from Manchester City, who also won , but…

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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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Minute-by-minute report: A busy programme features eight games. Follow all the latest with Barry Glendenning NOW Barry Glendenning

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West Ham manager Sam Allardyce says the supporters who were responsible for antisemitic chanting against Tottenham will be punished

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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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Emmanuel Adebayor’s sending-off during last week’s north London derby undeniably skewed the outcome of a match Arsenal went on to win 5-2, but the reality for Tottenham is that they have lost four of their last five league games and are performing like a team short of belief and purpose. That is in contrast to West Ham, whose spirits are high following a good start to their first season back among the elite, although that is sure to be tested by the tough set of seven fixtures to come. This could prove the…

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Legacy board is still split over the future of the Stratford venue It already seems a long time ago. At one point during Danny Boyle’s madcap, moving Olympics opening ceremony in July the band struck up a few bars of I’m Forever …

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• Conversion for Premier league football would cost £200m • Legacy board will discuss stadium’s future next month If West Ham United are chosen to move into the Olympic Stadium at a crucial London Legacy Development Corporation board meeting next month, the now iconic Stratford stadium is …

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Minute-by-minute report: Will West Ham solidify their place in the top half of the table? Join Rob Smyth NOW to find out Rob Smyth

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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 remain committed but ‘not at any price’ • LLDC wary of projected figures on annual running costs West Ham United delivered a final “take it or leave it” offer to the London Legacy Development Corporation on Friday as the long running saga over the future 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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• Ed Warner attacks lack of progress as ‘ludicrous’ • Stadium will not re-open until 2015 at the earliest The delay in re-opening the Olympic Stadium has been branded “a farce” by the UK Athletics chairman, Ed Warner. The London …

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