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Sky Sports reveal live Premier League TV fixtures for May

Sky Sports have released their latest batch of live television fixtures in May with Manchester City’s clash with Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium the pick of the action.

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Poll result: Should technology be introduced?

West Ham fans have voted overwhelmingly in favour of new technology being introduced after a series of hugely controversial refereeing decisions. The Hammers will have to appeal Chek Kouyate’s red card after what appears to be another against Crystal Palace. And afterwards David Gold called for technology telling ClaretandHugh: “Nobody wants to see this and it […]

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Exclusive video: The match day experience as we go inside the Boleyn…from train to press conference

ClaretandHugh and Hammers Chat’s top man Gonzo gives you the FULL match-day experience with totally exclusive footage from train to Boleyn press conferences. We were kindly invited by the club to record some exclusive footage from international fans day and are delighted to bring this to you. It’s a video that really reflects the highs and […]

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Hammers want to offer East end housing help

West Ham Captain Mark Noble together with former Hammers Rio Ferdinand and Bobby Zamora are considering extending Legacy Foundation – their housing initiative which creates community, sporting and youth facilities alongside developments –to Barking and Dagenham. The trio met with council leader  and Hammer fan Cllr Darren Rodwell to discuss their plans. “As a West […]

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Further details of new OS wrap revealed

Detailed planning permission and diagrams for the new Olympic Stadium wrap have now been published by the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC). The planning documentation reveals the wrap may not be completed until 1st August this year, just days before West Ham kick off their new Premier League season. The new naming rights sponsor of the […]

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Man in black named for Arsenal game

The Premier League have named Craig Pawson as the referee to take charge of West Ham’s Saturday lunchtime London Derby against Arsenal. Mr Pawson has refereed 23 Premier League matches this season dishing out 79 yellow cards and 2 red cards. His last sending off came in February when he sent off Newcastle’s Jamaal Lascelles […]

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West Ham come off worst in ref decisions in league

Teamtalk.com say West Ham have come off worst from referee decisions this season with just four decisions going our way which we didn’t deserve but a massive thirteen incorrect decisions against us which. The table leaves us nine decisions adrift while Manchester United and Leicester City top the table with seven more decisions in their […]

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Reid on that ref decision

Winston Reid has pledged the squad will brush themselves down after the latest refereeing decision to go against the Irons and “get on with it.” The central defender admitted: “You always get frustrated with decisions, but at the end of the day the referee has made it and then that’s it, you can’t do anything about […]

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Slav options grow ahead of Arsenal

Sam Byram and James Collins are set to join the squad which takes on Arsenal at the weekend. And that looks likely to seethe signing from Leeds and fit again James Tomkins battling it out for the right sided defensive role with Michail Antonio being pushed into his attacking midfield role. Collins has been missing […]

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How teams will build walls against Payet free kicks

Saturday afternoon saw Crystal Palace put seven men in their wall to protect them from a famous Payet free kick when a more usual amount for a mere mortal would be four or five. Teams have become extremely wary that a free kick awarded to West Ham within 35 yards is almost like having a […]

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Poll: Do you agree that it is time to change

David Gold has called for future technology to be introduced to the Premier League as soon as possible to stop the big mistakes like the Kouyate sending off on Saturday. Gold told ClaretandHugh: “Nobody wants to see this and it is happening to us week after week. “I have called in the past for a […]

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TV cash inflation will see duo leave

Emmanuel Emenike’s £8 million price tag demonstrates the extent to which inflation in the game will continue to grow this summer. The Irons will allow the striker to return to his parent club Fenerbahce at the end of the season as they bid to hold onto ever penny for the £20m-£25 million they are planning […]

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Slav shows the art of diplomacy

Slaven Bilic again demonstrated perfectly the art of diplomacy in referee handling after another horrible sending off. Carefully watching his tongue the Irons boss declared: “It is never a red card, for me personally is not even a yellow card. In England maybe not even a foul it was a 50/50 challenge. “We have every right […]

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Slav’s Payet concerns

Slaven Bilic has spoken of the fitness concerns over Dimi Payet during the game against Crystal Palace. The brilliant French international scored another sensational free kick to take hisset piece to goals conversion rate to 50 per cent. But afterwards the manager said: ““It was a brilliant goal. I expected him to try and bend […]

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Mark Clattenburg shouldn’t have sent off Cheikhou Kouyate… the pressure of going to Euro 2016 is getting to the Geordie ref

GRAHAM POLL: West Ham’s run of bad luck with refereeing decisions continued with a harsh red card for Cheikhou Kouyate. It appeared to swing the balance against Crystal Palace.

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Dimi’s amazing free kick/goals conversion rate

Exclusive Regular readers will know us over here at ClaretandHugh aren’t big on stats – news is more our scene! But because we are about to reveal the truth on Dimitri Payet’s amazing free kicks we are happy to make an exception. They show a pretty  extraordinary conversion rate from free kicks to goals since […]

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Hammers respond to Watford rumour

Re-cyled reports in The Sun that the Hammers are interested in Watford’s Odion Ighalo is “on West Ham’s list for a big-name striker” are entirely wrong. The Hammers were interested earlier in the season and even made an inquiry which is presumably where this report has been resurrected from. But ClaretandHugh, when inquiring as to whether […]

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No second thoughts on Kouyate

West Ham intend to go ahead with the appeal against Cheik Kouyate’s red card despite Slave Bilic being fed up with FA appeals. ClaretandHugh was the first to beak the news that an appeal was on the way against Mark Clattenbourg’s game-changing decision against Palace. And this morning David gold -currently holding an open day […]

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West Ham boss Slaven Bilic ‘fed up’ of appealing red cards and won’t challenge Cheikhou Kouyate’s latest dismissal

The West Ham boss said Kouyate’s challenge on Palace substitute Dwight Gayle was not even worthy of a yellow card. Bilic successfully appealed the same player’s dismissal at Blackburn in February.

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Cresswell hands Dimi the highest honour

Aaron Cresswell makes no bones about – he reckons Dimi Payet i the best free taker in the world. Speaking to www.whufc.com of yesterday’s latest amazing shots he said: “I will put Dimi up there as the best free-kick taker in the world at the moment. I was standing right behind him and the ball looked […]

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Football’s stuck in dark ages – let’s get a grip

There’s an old saying that goes: “Once is an accident, twice maybe coincidence but after that you have more sinister thoughts!” The bundling of Darren Randolph into the Manchester United net which led to an FA Cup equaliser and a replay may therefore have been an accident, but the penalty that never was against Chelsea […]

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Irons v Palace – Talk a Good Game

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That free kick – a different view

Alan Pardew’s verdict after the game was  “‘The free-kick was extraordinary. It looked unsaveable.’ Courtesy Mail on Line  Share This:

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Gold: This has to stop

Fed-up David Gold has had enough of incorrect refereeing decisions and has called for technology to be introduced NOW. Taking again about the Mark Clattenburg decision to send off Cheik Kouyate he told ClaretandHugh: “Nobody wants to see this and it is happening to us week after week. “I have called in the past for […]

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Leroy: One of the worst reffing decisions I’ve seen

I probably have been but I really can’t remember when I felt so angry about a refereeing decision as Mark Clattenburg’s when sending off Cheik Kouyate this afternoon. It truly was utterly ridiculous – one of the worst I can recall seeing anywhere at any time – and I’m delighted the Irons immediately announced through […]

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WATCH: Hammers amateur surprise

What happens if you put an amateur football team on a six-week training programme with a Premier League club?

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