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Andre Ayew has warned his West Ham team-mates not to get too carried away with the victory over Huddersfield… and to prepare for a big battle next up at West Brom. Slaven Bilic’s side chalked up their first Premier League win of the campaign in last night’s crucial 2-0 win over the Terriers at the London Stadium, thanks to second half goals from sub Ayew’s strike and Pedro Obiang’s deflected shot. The hard-fought triumph …

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Second-half goals from Pedro Obiang and André Ayew sealed West Ham’s first win of the season and alleviated the pressure on Slaven Bilic. The West Ham manager admitted the sacking of Frank de Boer by Crystal Palace earlier on Monday had been “in the back of my mind” before the match. On the night, West Ham United did not look like a team of experienced, expensively recruited players. Their style was disjointed, their shape questionable…

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Two-year-old Hammers fan Isla Caton has been diagnosed with a rare form of child cancer called Neuroblastoma, only one hundred children in the UK are diagnosed with this cancer each year. It is the same disease which was bravely fought and lost by young Sunderland fan Bradley Lowery. Isla currently having treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital […]

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Former West Ham manager Sam Allardyce has told Sky Sports that former Hammer Ravel Morrison was the biggest waste of talent he ever worked with in his management career. Big Sam explained: “He was that good but because of the mental side of his game and his life he couldn’t produce that talent on a […]

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West Ham Supporters flags have been relocated to the West Stand next to Club London West Ham have confirmed this afternoon. The club introduced the supporter flag initiative last season to help with the look and feel of the new stadium. Stadium operators have now installed new LED mid tier advertising screens where the flags hung […]

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The Daily Mail claim today that West Ham could face another season of disruption at the London Stadium in 2022 due to a bid for the European Athletics Championships. UK Athletics chief executive Niels de Vos told the Sport Industry Breakfast event he intends to take advantage of a clause in West Ham’s concessionaire agreement allowing […]

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Manu Lanzini’s knee problem will today be examined by Gary Lewin’s medical staff after the midfielder’s return from the Argentine yesterday. The player was eventually forced to travel to South America at the insistence of his international bosses who wanted to check out that the injury was “real.” It recalls the days when Diafra Sakho […]

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Former West Ham and England striker Dean Ashton has revealed that he tried to forget about being a footballer altogether after his career was ended by injury. In an interview marking nine years since his last appearance for the club, West Ham’s former record signing told Blowing Bubbles magazine that total shutdown was the only […]

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  Ok, let’s all take a break for a few minutes and remember why we are all Hammers. Nigel Kahn – producer of Mock the WHUFC Week – has put it perfectly in the video here as he time travels over the years of West Ham history. This video takes us from the beginning of […]

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Andre Ayew could be missing from the Irons team which takes on Huddersfield next Monday night. The Ghana international’s run of poor form continued against the Congo in a World Cup qualifier last week – a performance that was widely condemned by supporters of his nation on Twitter. Ayew was taken off with 25 minutes […]

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West Ham Vice Chairman Karren Brady has revealed that West Ham insists on a financial penalty if West Ham players on loan do not get plenty of first-team time. Speaking in the Sun newspaper Bardy said Loan spells are now an essential part of football saying Youth players on the fringes of first team football […]

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Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder has given a great insight to transfer deadline day for a football manager after he allowed cameras from the Bleacher report to follow him around for the day.  Within the video, the truth is revealed why the Domingos Quina move collapsed. He explains a week earlier, the signings Jerome Sinclair, […]

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A social media poll of nearly 6,000 conducted on twitter by @WestHamTransfer shows 85% of those who took part want the current board out. Of the 5,952 who voted just 15% wanted the board to remain. In March this year David Gold said “If 86% of West Ham fans voted for me to go I […]

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David Sullivan has delivered his verdict on this summer’s transfer window and claimed -amid a social media meltdown – that the board are behind the manager. The co-chairman and David Gold have been at the centre of some pretty vicious attacks on their transfer policy but have allowed it to pass over their heads. And […]

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For the first time this season, Premier League clubs are allowed to display sleeve sponsors on their kits in the 2017/18 campaign.Shirt sleeve branding has been prominent throughout European leagues for years but has always been banned in the Premier League. Top-flight clubs have been allowed to sell advertising on their shirt sleeves for the first […]

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I wasn’t expecting much, I really wasn’t but when I woke up on the morning of transfer deadline day, (known as Thursday to the rest of the non-football watching world) I was given a glimmer of hope. The oracle that is the yellow ticker tape on Sky Sports News was indicating that West Ham were […]

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West Ham have officially launched the Club’s new Third kit for the 2017/18 season. The design recreates the first-ever strip worn by the Hammers in the 1900/01 Southern League season – the Club’s first as West Ham United – and is adorned with the first known crest to appear on a West Ham jersey, from the […]

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Exclusive by Hugh Southon West Ham tonight missed out “at the death” on a deal that would have brought Barcelona’s Andre Gomes to the London Stadium. The Spanish giants changed an agreed deal at the last moment to include a clause which was entirely from left field with next to no negotiating time left. The […]

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Stories arriving out of Sky Sports News this evening that Diafra Sakho turned up at the London Stadium to discuss personal issues have been denied by West Ham. In fact the striker had rung the club and been told that none of the directors were able to see him as they were in various parts of […]

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Darren Randolph knew he had to get out of West Ham for the good of his career stating there was a race to see who could get out the door first. Randolph told The 42 website in Ireland: “I heard about Joe Hart coming in at the end of last season, I went away on […]

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Paolo Futre  1996-97 Highly decorated in Portuguese and European football, Futre was one of the most sought after players in Europe during the late eighties and early nineties. By the time he joined West Ham injuries had diminished his fitness but not his talent. Sadly his time at West Ham is mainly remembered for his refusal to wear any other shirt apart from the number 10, which is alleged to have been taken off John Moncur to appease the Portuguese playmaker. Moncur was alleged…

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By Hugh Southon Ok, he splits opinion like nobody since Ravel Morrison but Diafra Sakho’s world on Wednesday August 30,2017 needs to be examined a little more closely before hard and fast judgements are made about his behaviour. And the truth surely is that at a time when the manager’s man management is so heavily […]

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    Hughie Southon considers a couple of possibilities but hopes that if any rabbits are too emerge from hats they won’t to too old!     So we head into Deadline Day with all the spotlight on the silly Diafra Sakho Affair and we will discuss that in a separate blog but for now […]

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Diafra Sakho will not be moving to another club in August, according to West Ham co-chairman David Gold.

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The West Ham striker, 28, pictured yesterday, was targeted as he drove his green Jeep home from training and smashed into at least 10 cars as he escaped, Basildon Crown Court was told.

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Newcastle’s Aleksandar Mitrovic is facing a three game ban after being charged with violent conduct against Manu Lanzini in the weekend match. A  Football Association   statement said:  “Aleksandar Mitrovic has been charged for an alleged act of violent conduct which was not seen by the match officials but caught on video. “The Newcastle United […]

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