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Enner Valencia has been met by police and lawyers in Ecuador following a training session while on international duty. The striker a was faced by authorities holding a judicial order, with lawyers representing the mother of his five-year-old daughter seeking an alleged £13,350 in maintenance,reports the Liverpool Echo. The 26-year-old was greeted at the Atahualpa […]

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I’m absolutely sick to the back teeth of waking up to headlines aimed at tearing my football club to bits. This time it’s over some words which might have been more carefully chosen from Karren Brady – last week it was segregation and policing, before that it was standing and prior to that even it […]

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After another day of media frenzy focusing on West Ham, their fans, the London Stadium, the owners and Karren Brady. ClaretandHugh Associate editor Sean Whetstone called up Talksport radio station to try to balance up some of the biased media attention which has beset our club in recent weeks. You can hear the full interview […]

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Nineteen year old Alex Pike has spoken of how he was left bloodied but unbowed after his Checkatrade Trophy clash withthe strongest man mountain  in football –  Adebayo Akinfenwa. The young Hammer clashed with the the immovable object as the League Two side beating our kids s 3-0 with Bayo sscoring the opener in a typically […]

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Karren Brady is widely reported today on the comments she made at the Leaders Sports Business Summit at Stamford Bridge ysterday (Wed). In pursuit of a stick with which to beat West Ham, the media at large leapt on her remarks about the club’s “culture” prior to the Davids arrival and spun them out of […]

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MATT BARLOW SPECIAL REPORT: West Ham lost 3-0 and yet Terry Westley, their head of player development, was satisfied that his players were gaining valuable experience.

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West Ham winger Michail Antonio has fulfiled al promise made to a Birmingham charity. Good guy Michail pledged a signed shirt for Libby Mae’s Little Angels to founders Richard and Charlotte Sharratt, but ran out of time to post it before last Saturday’s auction for neonatal units across the region. So he went out of […]

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Speaking at the Leaders Sport Business Summit at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, Karren Brady revealed West Ham are to release a film about the club’s move to the London Stadium.

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Karren Brady has risked riling discontented West Ham fans with her view that the Olympic Stadium move has been ‘well received’. Brady did not mention the seating and violence concerns.

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Turkish football fans are furious over the Gokhan Tore song published on youtube over the weekend. The video has been viewed by over 17,500 people but Besiktas fans say we have Tore all wrong and he is too good for West Ham. One Turkish fan commented:“Why don’t you idiots tell that your single victory of the […]

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Karren Brady has risked riling discontented West Ham fans with her view that the Olympic Stadium move has been ‘well received’. Brady did not mention the seating and violence concerns.

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Supporters representatives of both West Ham and Chelsea will meet with the Football Unit for the Metropolitan police on Thursday evening ahead of the EFL Cup game on 26th October. ClaretandHugh Associate editor, Sean Whetstone will be present as a guest of the Football Supporters Federation (FSF) who arranged the meeting to raise fan issues […]

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Gokhan Tore’s agent has made it clear the winger is determined to turn his form around and contribute to the Hammers cause. Ali Pektas has spoken to Fanatik this week about Tore’s start to life at West Ham and said: “Gokhan is happy to be in London. He already played at Chelsea (youth-team) before so knows […]

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West Ham fans on social media have torn into Karren Brady after completely misunderstanding her remarks about the club having no corporate culture! Brady has become an easy target for many fans after the move to the London Stadium and her remarks to a Leaders in Sport conference have been seized on as another stick with […]

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West Ham Vice chairman Karren Brady has been speaking today at a Leaders in sport conference in London. Among the audience was Guardian journalist Owen Gibson who has been relaying her speech via social media which can be found below. “Karren Brady says Olympic Stadium was an opportunity to “rebrand” the club. Also says club […]

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The West Ham Supporters Club also known as the Hammers social club based in Castle street next to the Boleyn ground is likely to close it’s doors soon unless trade drastically picks up ClaretandHugh have been told. A source close to the social club told ClaretandHugh “We took over £15,000 in takings at the last […]

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Pedro Obiang has signalled a change of Hammers fortune belieiving they are on their way back – and he’s keen to play a part in it! After a fine performance against West Brom it looks as if hs time may finally have come. He told the official site: ” “Maybe the international break has come […]

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Alan Pardew will be without both Loic Remy and Jonathon Benteke for the clash against the Irons. And with James Tomkins ready to face up to his old side for the first time aready the anticipation is underway. Tomkns has revealed that this will be a massive match for him and he could be in […]

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An international break gives time for reflections and my own generally involve the Bolyen. I adoped the Hammers as my club in 1962 and as I wrote in a Facebook status a few days back it has probably represented the biggest adventure of my life. I added: “In terms of unpredictability, intrigue and gossip, there […]

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Michail Antonio, the West Ham winger called up for the last two England squads, is in danger of giving footballers a good name with the way he fulfilled a promise made to a Birmingham charity.

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A review of Tuesday night’s action in the Checkatrade Trophy as Everton U21s, West Ham U21s and Stoke U21s all crashed out.

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Simone Zaza’s father/agent Calcio Mercato has claimed this evening that the Irons will have to buy his mis-firing striker son permanently should he play ten games in the claret and blue. However, our understanding is, from sources inside the club, that the figure is closer to 16. Some game playing is cloearly going on from […]

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Former England,  Nottingham Forest and Hammers hero Stuart Pearce forsees Michail Antonio following enjoying a great Three Lions career. The former Irons left back gave the £7m Hammer a glowing reference saying: “Antonio is someone I know well and he’s a great player. I was really pleased when he got the call-up for England!” Speaking […]

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Former Hammer Rigobert Song will be flown to France for treatment after coming out of a coma his doctor claims. 40 year old Song suffered a stroke on Sunday after he collapsed at his home in Yaounde and was immediately transported to hospital in the Cameroon capital. Dr Louis Joss Bitang A Mafok, director of the emergency […]

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17-year-old disabled Middlesbrough fan, Owen Swift was one of the 3,000 Boro fans who made the trip to the London Stadium at the weekend and was caught up in the crowd problems. He told the Middlesbrough Gazette“We could see West Ham fans drinking alcohol in the stands and they weren’t watching the game,” “When West Ham scored […]

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Slaven Bilic wants to train at the London Stadium and has been told it is not a problem. “We can train here as many times as we want,’ Slaven Bilic told reporters last week ‘I asked for that. It’s not a question of can we? We can.’ It is myth that West Ham only gets 25 […]

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