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The London Legacy Development Corporation’s appeal against  a ruling by the Information Commissioner obliging them to release the full details of the 99-year lease agreed between the corporation and West Ham has been adjourned until the 17th March Claret and Hugh understand. The three person panel headed by tribunal judge, Melanie Carter met two weeks ago on […]

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Exclusive Peterborough’s director of football Barry Fry told ClaretandHugh this morning that Martin Samuelsen’s appearance in the FA Cup Final fourth round replay against West Brom last night was his first full match since joining Peterborough United on loan from the Hammers last year. Samuelsen was in fabulous form but Fry said: “He’s still a […]

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Dimitri Payet’s financial arrangements and dip in form from his own incredibly high standards have dominated West Ham United affairs this week interrupted only by a magnificent 120 minutes of Cup football. Sadly his form dip – which is what we will be addressing here – has coincided with the club claiming they initiated talks […]

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A  marketing video put together by West Ham’s 3D digital partner www.iCreate3d.com appears to show US president Barack Obama among the West Ham fans visiting the former Olympic Stadium presumably to watch West Ham. The video published by Icreate3D on video site Vimeo has since been taken down after Claret and Hugh highlighted it’s existence early […]

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Dimitri Payet has been offered a wide range of  improved pay deals and is now facing ‘make your mind up time.’ After the club had revealed in an official website statement yesterday that talks had been initiated with the playmaker’s agents, ClaretandHugh  has discovered that he is being ‘spoiled’ for choice But one thing is […]

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Kick off 7.45 The Boleyn Ground We’ll keep you up to date with live text reports if you are nowhere near a TV tonight. West Ham boss Slaven Bilic: “We’ve played Liverpool many times this season, twice recently with different line-ups. “We played their strongest team and then a team with five or six regular starters, […]

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Ii’s a sobering thought that those crowded into the Boleyn this evening will be watching West Ham’s last ever Cup game under those famous old lights. It has of course been mentioned many times in the build-up to a game which has all the hallmarks of a real thriller which I’m taking the Irons to edge […]

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Pay demands from Dimitri Payet’s agents dominate the headlines this morning after ClaretandHugh exclusively broke the news yesterday that the midfielder’s advisers wanted talks on a new deal. Theplayer signed a deal worth £68,000 plus £10,000 per appearance just eight months ago but our pal Darren Lewis over at The Mirror confirms what we told […]

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A very lively debate from the Hammers Chat boys on tomorrow night’s match between the Irons and Liverpool. Prepare yourselves for a row on the merits of Valenica and Moses! Share This:

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It was always going to kick off wasn’t it? Thankfully, however,the story  it was only in The Sun and repeated a little later by The Star. According to Flreet Street’s ‘not so finest,’ Chelsea and Manchester United are interested in Dimi Payet just as Man City were in Aaron Cresswell and Chelsea (again) were in […]

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James Tomkins has been ruled out of tomorrow evening’s clash with Liverpool and could be out for up to a month. Speaking at his morning presser the manager said: “James Tomkins got injured in the Southampton game, he felt it before during the warm up but he said he was OK. “At half-time he said […]

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Manu Lanzini and Diafra Sakho have “outside chances” of being included in the squad for tomorrow evening’s FA Cup replay against Liverpool. But it’s far more likely the top duo will return to the fray against Norwich at Carrow Road on Saturday. Both players have been training with the first team squad for several days […]

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Talks have started on giving Slaven Bilic a new five year deal. Is that as it should be or should the board wait to see what he achieves at the end of the season. ClaretandHugh Facebook forum members and site followers give their views   O Slaven should be rewarded, he has us heading in […]

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Some things have to be done …and this is one of them. There is little point in ClaretandHugh – or any other independent website claiming it is here for the supporters – if it doesn’t raise their perfectly justified complaints. Last week we drew attention to the wicked problems people were encountering in trying to […]

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I have no problem with patient football….to a point. Certainly it’s an awful lot better than hoofball which in the context of yesterday’s match against Southampton would have served us no better than the pass and “probe” (I use the word carefully) approach we adopted against a well drilled defence. Yes I understand the team […]

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West Ham new boy Sam Byram will need to be on his very best first team behaviour until the start of the Aptil. The £3.8 million right back found himself back in the referee’s black book yesterday which leves him staring at a two game suspension should he stray the wrong side of the law […]

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Slaven Bilic has agreed that the Irons missed out on a “great opportunty” at Southampton yesterday declaring: “Of course we are gutted.” And he added: “It’s a game we didn’t deserve to lose – we made a sloppy start but were the better team for three-quarters of the game.” However, once again he was forced to […]

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The other West Ham turned up at Southampton this afternoon and failed to trouble a ten man home team. Here’s how members of the ClaretandHugh FB forum reacted @https://www.facebook.com/groups/363174467150521/ O Another team to whom we showed too much respect O Why are we are happy to sit back and defend rather than come out attacking. […]

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Saints boss Ronald Koeman does not believe the clash against us tonight is anyay a European football decider. He has enormous respect for the Irons having come out of the Upton Park match a a 2-1 loser a little over a month but says  it’s far too early to think in terms of deciders with […]

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MAURO ZARATE has revealed that his move to West Ham was a well paid mistake. Zarate split opinion in a big way among the fans but was wished all to sucess in the world by club offiials on Twitter when clinching his move to Fiorentina. Now he has declared that life at Upton park was […]

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The Hammers Chat boys are back with their preview of tomorrow evening’s game against Saints. Good stuff from the lads. Share This:

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Slaven Bilic has again warned against the fanciful idea that a big stadium makes you a big club. For months – with some justification – the club has been singing the OS praises and YES it will be terrific. But the idea that in itself it can make us into the club we has always […]

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Slaven Bilic has failed to make the top two in the January Manager of the Month competition. The Irons boss was nominated with winner Ronald Koeman, runner-up Mauricio Pochettino and Manchester City’s Manuel Pelligrini. Koeman has been credited for having won three out four league games in the first month of 2016 – finishing off […]

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It’s often worthwhile taking a long look back at possibly unpromising situations and working out how they led us to a place of unexpected high achievement. Two issues have prompted this thought – a column from the Mirror’s excellent Darren Lewis which I happened upon this morning and the fact that Slaven Bilic’s predecessor returns […]

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