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It’s going to be very interesting to see whether Ronald Koeman goes with Charlie Austin this evening. I understand the former QPR striker is fit and given the long reported on/off transfer history with West Ham it could be a fascinating sub plot. It’s a game we really will enjoy. I know that for a fact […]

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Slaven Bilic has made it clear: A huge stadium in itself is no key to success and it certainly doesn’t mean West Ham Unite will have arrived. He reckons that will only happen when the club enters Europe adding: ” ‘I don’t even know which division Billericay are in but I remember when I was playing […]

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Slaven Blic has turned a blind eye to Enner Valencia’s “demonstration of passion” when being subbed five minutes from the end of the 2-0 win over Aston Villa. We had suggested in a blog last night that the striker may pay a heavy price for what looked like a fit of pique but we were […]

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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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West Ham this afternoon reacted to angry fans who had been held on line trying to book tickets for the FA Cup replay clash with Liverpool by thanking them for their patience. But it did little to calm fans who had seen the club’s ticket buying operation go into meltdown as fans tried to get […]

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Mark Noble has made it clear the club has to manage carefully the growing expectations among the fans as the players continue to ride the crest of a wave. Already thoughts are turning firmly to Europe as the club maintain sixth position with matches against top placed sides still to come. Noble understands the current […]

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Mark Noble may not have realised it but his words following the match against Villa were hugely ironic. After his own massive performance the skipper Nobes commented:  “We’re making this a tough place to come and play.” In itself that may not men too much to many but the unbeaten record does indeed to back […]

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Robbie Savage re-opened the Mark Noble for England debate during the captain’s outstanding performance against Aston Villa. The former Wales international turned BT Sports pundit was mightily impressed with Nobes and called for him to be included in a Roy Hodgson squad sooner rather than later. But do the Irons fans who see the captain […]

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Magnificent Mark Noble picked up a thoroughly deserved man of the match award as the Irons finally shoved Villa out of the way to pick up three more invaluable points. Once again the Hammers were slowly away in the first half which saw Ayew sent off for the most disgusting elbow in the face of […]

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December 1999 and the Hammers team huddle by the centre circle watching the Penalty shoot-out for a place in the League Cup semi-final after the two sides had played out an entertaining draw 2-2. Lomas, Di Canio, Keller, Rio, Ruddock, Margas, Sinclair, Kitson were just some of those in the team that night, and yet […]

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• Fine display makes striker favourite to lead side into new era • Juan Mata and Shinji Kagawa excel before Tuesday’s derby English football has long overblown the importance of the captain, but on a cold east London evening there was ultimately a sense that it was the performance of the man who filled the role for Manchester United more than their actual victory here that provided this most beleaguered of clubs with hope for better times ahead. That much could…

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Maybe Wayne Rooney will turn out to be Manchester United’s Captain Marvel after all. Not many people expected that to be the case last summer, when he seemed certain to join Chelsea, but anything is possible when Rooney is in this form, even goals from 57 yards out. If he ever scores a better goal than his first in United’s slick 2-0 win over West Ham United, we may have to stop football altogether, because there would be nothing left to see. A …

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Minute-by-minute report: David Moyes takes his team to Upton Park. Find out how the champions fare, with Scott Murray Scott Murray

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• Marc Wilson confident Stoke can finish season strongly • Peter Odemwingie scores two in win over West Ham Marc Wilson feels Stoke are on course for their first top-10 finish in the Premier League. The home win over West Ham means they have lost only once in their past seven fixtures, and they are 11th in the table, level on points with 10th-placed Aston Villa. Eleventh in 2009-10 is the highest position Stoke have finished since they were…

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• Pictures: the best images from Saturday’s Premier League games Stoke City bounced back from conceding early on to see off West Ham United 3-1 at the Britannia Stadium. Andy Carroll opened the scoring in the fifth minute of the Premier League contest with his first goal of the season, rising above Peter Crouch and crashing a header past Asmir Begovic, who had rushed off his line to try to punch the ball away. The hosts equalised in the 32nd minute…

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Minute-by-minute report: It’s a busy round of games in the Premier League and beyond. Follow the latest news with Niall McVeigh Niall McVeigh

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• West Ham striker tipped to have outside World Cup chance • Everton’s Roberto Martínez welcomes input by on-loan forward Andy Carroll’s road to Brazil could have begun before an audience of millions of television viewers on Wednesday. Instead, Sam Allardyce believes it will start in front of a handful of people in a scratch side featuring his lesser-spotted January signings and semi-fit squad players. West Ham’s record signing was a notable omission from Roy …

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It was a sequel to savour for Everton. Romelu Lukaku has made only two appearances as a replacement for them. Both have come against West Ham. On each occasion, he has scored and it has been a late winner. Six months after his debut, the Belgian staged an action replay to end the Hammers’ winning run and restore Everton to winning ways after consecutive league defeats. If it was billed as the…

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• West Ham’s victory against Southampton was fourth in a row • Allardyce: ‘I don’t feel vindicated, I’m just doing my job properly’ Sam Allardyce insisted he did not feel vindicated, but perhaps that question should be asked to the two Davids, Sullivan and Gold. While the rest of the Premier League’s struggling teams opted to make a change at the top, West Ham kept the faith. Now, having secured a …

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From jaded January to fabulous February, West Ham’s season has come full circle. This, their fourth victory in succession, was a win straight from the Sam Allardyce textbook – ruthless, efficient and, at times, unlikely – a further tonic to aid the Hammers’ renaissance and consign the doom around the club last month to a mere lingering memory. Goals from Matt Jarvis, Carlton Cole and Kevin Nolan cancelled out an early effort from Maya …

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If West Ham are to remain a Premier League side this year, then there may be a little pocket in Seville that celebrates with them. The Andalucian city produced their man of the match here, with goalkeeper Adrian coming to the rescue of a side that was often outmanoeuvred and outwitted by Norwich City but eventually emerged victorious thanks to late goals from James Collins and Mohammed Diamé. As Collins capitalised on some poor Norwich …

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• Nolan scores twice in 2-0 win at Aston Villa • Hammers’ 12 clean sheets is the most in the League West Ham have the hallmarks of a Sam Allardyce team again. Over the course of a dozen years the 59-year-old has established a reputation as one of the most unapologetically efficient managers. It is no coincidence his teams have never been relegated from the top flight. While others flaunted possession-based football, Allardyce…

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After the famine, the feast. This had been a strangely barren season for Kevin Nolan, an ignominious campaign in which he had had as many red cards as goals, but it has been transformed in the space of eight days. February has already yielded successive braces for West Ham’s captain. Once again, he is gorging himself on goals. Once again, he is winning them matches, rather than handing opponents an advantage. Nolan’s patron merits some…

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The most damning statistic was that Swansea City did not have one shot on target, even after Andy Carroll’s ludicrous red card with half an hour left. It will lead to the usual criticisms, that Swansea are soft, that they pass the ball too much and could do with a bit more thrust and, whisper it, some good old-fashioned British blood and thunder. Yet their plight is more nuanced than that. It is …

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It felt like it was going to be a moment that summed up West Ham’s tragicomic season. They were coasting at 2-0 up in the second half, were on their way to their first victory at Upton Park since 30 November and one of football’s great bromances had been reunited, Andy Carroll creating two goals for Kevin Nolan. Things were looking up for once. Few clubs have as great a capacity for self-destruction as West Ham, though, and when Carroll …

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