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West Ham Under 23’s finished off a great season by beating Newcastle Under 23’s at St James Park 2-1 in the Premier League 2 Play-Off Final to win promotion from division two to division one. The Magpies went ahead in the nineteenth minute from a corner. It’s a deep delivery from the right, and left-back Kyle […]

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West Ham’s under 23s tonight turn out at Newcastle in the biggest game of their season – a Play Off Final which could catapult them into the big league alongside the likes of Arsenal, the Manchester clubs Chelsea and the like. After a lost Hammers generation of youngsters over the last 10 years this really […]

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Birmingham City forward Che Adams is being linked with a move to West Ham by the Mirror. The 20-year-old scored seven goals in 40 appearances for Birmingham this season following his move from Sheffield United, for a fee in the region of £2m. He was playing for non-league Ilkeston before joining Sheffield United in 2014, […]

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Vodafone has pulled out of a naming rights deal for the London Stadium after reporting massive annual losses of £5.2bn, due partly to a big write-down in the value of its Indian business. The mobile phone giant, which operates in 26 countries, wrote down the value of its Indian unit by 3.7bn euros after a major […]

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The ClaretandHugh flag was still proudly fluttering but the empty seats spoke volumes for the feelings of most after the shocking defeat by Liverpool. Yes we have supported them through the most frustrating and disappointing season in a long time but the message beamed out from the club after the embarrassing exit by the fans […]

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Manu Lanzini is “not for sale at any price.” New reports have surfaced this morning that Everton are keen to bid for our star midfielder given the likely loss of Ross Barkley in the summer. Toffees boss Ronald Koeman is an admirer of Lanzini who has also been linked with the other merseyside outfit Liverpool […]

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Everton wants to sign West Ham playmaker Manuel Lanzini according to rthe Daily Mirror. The tabloid claims the Hammers face a summer fight to keep hold of the South American over the summer. Friend of this site, Darren Lewis claims  Everton boss Ronald Koeman is hunting creative options with Ross Barkley increasingly likely to decide […]

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Emre Can’s overhead kick against Watford was voted Goal of the Season by Monday Night Football viewers – but Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville did not agree with the result.

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A top ten finish for West Ham now appears to be out of the reach for the Hammers with inferior goal difference compared to West Brom, Southampton and Bournemouth now all on 45 points. The Irons are currently on 42 points in twelfth place in the Premier League table and are six goals behind the Cherries, […]

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Aaron Cresswell was left fuming after a West Ham supporter tried to steal his shirt he was trying to give a young Hammers fan on Sunday.  The 27-year-old player had just finished a lap of honour around the London Stadium to a depleted crowd after the Irons collapsed to four nil defeat to his boyhood team. As […]

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A photo of a Liverpool fan in a High visibility Steward’s jacket went viral on social media on Sunday as it purported to show the lengths Liverpool fans would go to get into the game. The twitter post with a photo said “Crazy Liverpool fan dressed as a Steward at the West Ham game to get […]

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Watch from behind the sofa  or through the cracks in your fingers as I take my camera to the London stadium for the final time this season only to witness a thrashing. A game too far or a Spurs hangover? . .  . . .Who knows but it wasn’t pretty despite starting the day in […]

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It is no secret that West Ham United will be looking to add at least one striker this summer. Plenty of names have been banded around, such as Michy Batshuayi and Jermain Defoe, but a new target has popped up in media reports recently. Birmingham City starlet Che Adams is on West Ham’s radar ahead […]

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Moody Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger appears to have stuck a knife into the Irons by suggesting the were “on holiday” against Lverpool. The Hammers collapse meant that the Gooners are outsiders to finish in the top four and he was obviously lookimg for us to do him and his squad a favour. Jurgen Klopp’s Reds […]

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West Ham United will rival Everton in the battle to sign Gylfi Sigurdsson, according to The Mirror. Gylfi Sigurdsson has played a key role in keeping Swansea City up in the Premier League this season. The Swans will be desperate to keep the Icelandic international star at the club but they might be powerless to […]

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Exclusive Terry Westley hopes and believes he will see a crop of his finest  youngsters breaking into the first team over the next three years. Speaking exclusively to ClaretandHugh the academy boss said: “The job isn’t done yet and I believe we have some outstanding prospects.  He hopes that players from the academy are set […]

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Exclusive by Hugh Southon West Ham’s under 23’s head for St James’ Park tomorrow night knowing that a Play off final victory will put them in amongst the “big boys” next season. And in an exclusive interview with ClaretandHugh boss Terry Westley explained he believes the lads will beat the Geordies and take their place at the […]

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Following another round of Premier League fixtures, Ref Watch returns to debate a number of the weekend’s controversial talking points.

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Carol Combes -an admin on the ClaretandHugh Facebook group and website – isn’t one of our usual bloggers. But such was her anger at what she saw against Liverpool that she has been movcd to tell the squad exactly what she thinks of them! A message to the West Ham squad: As a long-standing West […]

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Adam Lallana feels Liverpool passed a major test of character in the race for a Champions League spot by thrashing West Ham on Sunday.

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West Ham decided to return to the bad old days and allow Liverpool to run over them. It was one of the worst performances of a terrible season and here’s how the ClaretandHugh Facebook followers responded @https://www.facebook.com/groups/363174467150521/ O They’re already on holiday O The atmosphere here in the stadium is as if the fans have […]

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Winston Reid continued to preach a message of “we will learn from this season” in his comments after yesterday’s match against Liverpool. And he was keen to pay tribute to the Reds saying: ““It turned into a game that we really didn’t want. They are really good. They have good quality players and have a […]

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Yaya Toure is set to receive a new offer from Manchester City which will give him another year at the club, effectively killing off any projected move to West Ham. The possibility of a Hammers move – unlikely though it seemed – was raised last week in the media but never seemed a goer given […]

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Some things are just wrong and taking the kids to work is one of them. Alarm bells were rattling all over the place when I watched Winston Reid and the others carrying their kids on to the pitch yesterday afternoon. We had heard all about focus, intensity, doing a Spurs on Liverpool and then the […]

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Slaven Bilic was bitterly disappointed with this afternoon’s performance revealing that he expected a similar display to the one that put paid to Spurs’ Title hopes. He said: “We were slower than on Friday night and they were quicker. “We could have got the first goal and it would definitely have affected the game. We should […]

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  Neil McDonald hands out the marks on a horrible afternoon     Adrian: Like going back in time four months – half a dozen superb saves but still let in 4! 6 Byram: Would have been different if he’d hit the target in the first five minutes. Maybe. 4 Reid: Not even sure I can […]

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