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Pedro Obiang is focuses on the FA Cup and determined for a Wembley return…but this time he aims to play at the stadium. Speaking about Sunday’s match on the official site the Spanish international revealed: “I came to England with the Spain Under-18 team but didn’t get the chance to play there. We all travelled to […]

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Mark Lawrenson has made one of his ultra rare prophecies. The BBC pundit reckons the Irons will score a 2-1 win over Blackburn Rovers and thus advance to the quarter finals of the FA Cup. Maybe the pressure from the Irons fans is is finally getting to the old boy who says we are a ‘decent […]

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With  Andy Carroll out of  the weekend FA Cup clash at Blackburn, ClaretandHugh blogger Peter Ellis has taken a look at his injury ravaged West Ham career. Here are his findings. Since permanently signing for the club AC l has played in a total of 44 league games out of a possible 102 (including sub appearances) – a return […]

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West Ham midfielder Mark Noble picks his #One2Eleven of players he has played against on The Fantasy Football Club.

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Injury-jinxed West Ham striker Andy Carroll is back on the treatment table and will miss Sunday’s FA Cup clash at Blackburn Rovers.

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Blackburn Rovers manager Paul Lambert has called on his supporters to get behind their team and buy a ticket for the Sunday match with West Ham. The biggest crowd Lambert has experienced in his three months in charge of the Rovers came in his first home game in charge when 15,837 fans watched the 2-2 […]

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David Gold has told ClaretandHugh he can see Martin Samuelsen becoming the next Dimi Payet whilst club insiders have explained that ideally they want to see the teenager as part of the Irons first team squad next season. Currently on loan at Peterborough United, the League One club would love to keep Martin for another […]

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Michael Antonio likes Ewood Park! The high energy Hammers grabbed a couple there last season when with Nottingham Forect and admits he’s looking forward to his return this Sunday. He said: “Last time I played at Ewood Park I scored two goals so it’ll be nice going back there. One was a header; one was […]

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Andy Carroll has suffered a fresh injury blow and will miss West Ham’s FA Cup fifth-round tie away to Blackburn Rovers on Sunday.

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The Brentwood Gazette are back at making up headlines again and both the Metro along with the Daily Express seem happy to fall for their articles and repeat them without questioning their authenticity. The Metro and Daily Express claim “West Ham are lining up a shock move to sign Chelsea captain John Terry this summer, according […]

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Former West Ham transfer, Burak Yilmaz linked with the Hammers in the January transfer window has become the latest footballer to move to China. The experienced Galatasaray striker  officially completed his move to Beijing Guoan today, following a four-year stay with the Turkish team. Galatasaray previously claimed that West Ham offered €5m (£3.8m) for the […]

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Exclusive West Ham are hoping the Martin Samuelsen will be ready to become a key member of the first team squad next season. Although the teenager has years in front of him his progress at Peterborough has excited the club ho believe he could well be ready to stake his claim next season. Although the […]

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Tony Cottee is thrilled with the Dimitri Payet deal declaring “it’s a huge statement of intent by the board.” And the former striker said: ” There a lot of football supporters that complain about the huge wages that players get these days, but I can’t imagine any West Ham fan moaning about the salary of Dimitri […]

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David Sullivan has joined his co chairman David Gold in paying his personal tribute to the Irons fans. The fans have astonishingly snapped up the entire 7,200 tickets allocated by Blackburn for the fifth round FA Cup clash this weekend. And after DG had paid a massive tribute to them, Sullivan told the official site: […]

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Andy Carroll could be recalled to lead the line against Blackburn Rovers in Sunday’s FA Cup Tie as the boss weighs his options for the weekend. Co chairman David Gold tweeted earlier today that the player was available for the game declaring:” Andy is fit and I expect him to play against Blackburn.” The Irons […]

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West Ham trio Dimitri Payet, Slaven Bilic and Adrian, alongside the Moore Family Foundation project, have been nominated for awards at the 2016 London Football Awards, which won’t come as a surprise to many. Following an incredible season for the Hammers so far, the awards evening could see West Ham collect three of the eight

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The FA Cup has become of the utmost importance to us Hammers this year but ClaretandHugh FB member CAROL COMBES fears that Football Association suggestions to turn it into a midweek competition with no replays will harm it irreparably. She declares: “It’s not about the football…it’s about the money.”   Remember the F.A. Cup? That […]

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Darren Randolph is set for another FA Cup outing against Blackburn Rovers but the ‘Adrian pressure’ is growing on boss Slaven Bilic. Randolph has been quite sensational so far and looked the equal of the No 1 on his FA Cup excursions but ClaretandHugh understands that the boss is having to think about his involvement […]

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Before his career began in east London, Emmanuel Emenike had become entangled in several extraordinary events, not least being thrown in jail after being accused of match-fixing in Turkey.

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You really do have to hand it to our fans. Once again they have shown themselves to be the most devoted in the land as FA Cup weekend approaches at Blackburn Rovers. This is a game being shown live on the box yet every one of the 7,200 tickets for the fifth round game has […]

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Claret and Hugh understands the club are looking into the possibility of staging an England XI v Germany XI match at the Boleyn Ground before the season ends to commemorate the contribution Bobby Moore, Martin Peters and Geoff Hurst made in winning the World Cup in 1966 fifty years ago. A crowd of 93,000 spectators – […]

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West Ham has sold all 7,200 tickets for Ewood park this Sunday. Son of the chairman, David Sullivan Junior confirmed the news this evening on twitter by saying “We’ve sold out 7,200 ticket allocation for Blackburn, 5 days in advance. Bare in mind it’s a 4/5 hour trip and on TV. Best fans going ⚒” […]

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ClaretandHugh has again been assured this afternoon that reports of Nikicia Jelavic’s transfer to China nrtting the club a transfer fee of £4 million are false. Various media outlets have claimed the Hammers sold the Croatian for £4 million but that was rubbished by a highly placed source at Upton Park. Such a fee would […]

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Sources close to club insist Mark Noble’s testimonial will go ahead on Easter Monday 28th March despite the threat of a rail strike in the 24 hours before kick off at the Boleyn Ground. Our source told us “We are aware of the threat of a rail strike but we have nearly sold out tickets […]

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