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• Winger confident about next game at Manchester United • Hammers consider taking Robbie Keane on loan The West Ham forward Matt Jarvis believes the club’s progress into the Capital One Cup semi-finals can act as a springboard for an improvement in their league form as they seek to gain reward from Saturday’s trip to Manchester United. Victory at Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday – their second success at White Hart Lane this…

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• Midfielder to miss Chelsea and West Ham matches • Arsenal struggling to stay ahead in title race Jack Wilshere has been banned for two matches after giving Manchester City’s fans a one-fingered salute on Sunday and will miss the Premier League derbies against Chelsea and West Ham United. Arsenal are struggling to keep their noses in front as the title race reaches its crucial festive period and the loss of the England midfielder could seriously hamper their ambitions. Wilshere reluctantly agreed to accept the Football Association’s …

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James is joined by Barry Glendenning , Jacob Steinberg and Gregg Bakowski for more award-winning podcast action. Plenty for the pod to get stuck into, including: West Ham’s defeat of Tottenham Hotspur in the Capital One Cup, Sunderland’s super fit team beating Chelsea in extra-time, and a preview of the big one between Arsenal and Chelsea. James Horncastle is on the phone to preview the Milan derby and run the rule over the new Watford manager. Giuseppe Sannino. Plus, there’s the pod’s favourite…

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Tottenham caretaker manager Tim Sherwood says the team are hugely disappointed after their 2-1 loss to West Ham

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• Manchester City take on West Ham in other last-four tie • First leg to be played in week of 6 January Sunderland’s reward for beating Chelsea in the quarter-finals of the Capital One Cup is a last-four encounter with the four-times winners Manchester United. Gus Poyet’s side ousted José Mourinho’s men with a victory in extra time at the Stadium of Light on Tuesday and they will welcome United, who comfortably beat Stoke , in…

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Interim Spurs manager has plenty on his plate as his team prepare for the Capital One Cup quarter-final against West Ham For Tim Sherwood, it is the fieriest of baptisms. The 44-year-old former England midfielder and Premier League-winning captain has never managed a professional team. Now he takes charge of Tottenham Hotspur, one of England’s top five clubs over the past four seasons, in a grudge Capital One Cup quarter-final…

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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers says despite Liverpool’s 4-1 win over West Ham, the team are still developing and focusing on scoring more goals

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Anyone mistaken enough to leave Anfield early yesterday may have departed feeling short-changed. A ticket tends to come with the guarantee of copious quantities of Luis Suárez goals, and after the feast, an 80-minute famine followed. Then Suárez struck to take his extraordinary haul at home to 10 goals in four games as Liverpool reeled off a fifth successive win on their own turf. Compared to his spectacular efforts in Wednesday’s 5-1 thrashing of Norwich, this one was comparatively mundane: a far-post header …

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Minute-by-minute report: Keep up with all the action in today’s 3pm kick-offs with Scott Murray’s updates Scott Murray

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• Striker on the mend after double fracture of right foot • ‘I can see the light at the end of the tunnel’ Andy Carroll admits he is itching to return to help save West Ham’s season after returning to the club’s Chadwell Heath training ground for the first time in three months this week. Carroll has not played for the Hammers this season and has spent time in the Netherlands and Belgium recovering from a double…

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Tony Pulis has had his immediate effect. Crystal Palace, a team apparently bereft of hope a few weeks ago, hoisted themselves off the foot of the table with victory in their new manager’s first home game in charge here and, in an instant, safety is only three points away. Life near the bottom does not seem quite so oppressive in that context. These are very early days for the new man at the helm but, with Cardiff City – currently just outside the cut-off – …

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• After six straight defeats, Jol says: ‘It’s not in my hands’ • Fulham manager is 1-8 to be next Premier League dismissal Asked if he thinks he will still be Fulham’s manager when they play Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday night Martin Jol simply shrugged. “It’s not in my hands,” Jol said, after Fulham had failed to register a single shot on target in the course of a horribly meek 3-0 defeat by West Ham United at …

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Sam Allardyce says he is shocked to hear that his former Bolton charge Delroy Facey has been arrested

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AC Jimbo is joined by Jacob Steinberg , James Horncastle and Ian Macintosh to drool over the midweek footie action. It’s 11 games unbeaten for Manchester United and after their 5-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen the pod wonder whether David Moyes has finally found his best team, and discuss what crisis ridden Spurs can do to stop them on Sunday. They ask whether the ‘Özil factor’ has had an effect on Jack Wilshire after his impressive display against Marseille , and debate…

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For José Mourinho and Chelsea, there was beauty in this East End stroll. Needing a victory after the loss at Newcastle and the fortunate home draw against West Bromwich Albion, they found opponents only too happy to oblige. West Ham were a shambles in the first-half. The manager, Sam Allardyce, persisted with his 4-6-0 formation and he watched his team offer nothing and, seemingly, look to do nothing more than cling on. So bad were his tactics and his team …

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Minute-by-minute report: East meets west (London) at Upton Park. Follow all the action with Scott Murray’s updates Scott Murray

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How Sam Allardyce must be craving a fit, battering ram of a striker who could unsettle a Chelsea team whose away form to date this term – five points from a possible 15 – renders them vulnerable. An Andy Carroll, perhaps. The hosts may have Carlton Cole as an alternative, but the visitors will be ready to confront a packed midfield as they search of a derby victory to pep up their title challenge. “We have to do…

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Moyes’s momentum, time for plan B at Fulham and a mid-table clash at the Etihad are just some of things to look forward to West Ham struggling for strikers Anyone with a passing knowledge of West Ham United knew that starting the season with Andy Carroll as their only striker – we’ll not be counting Modibo Maïga, thank you very much – was asking for trouble. But Sam Allardyce went ahead and put all his eggs in one basket anyway and, surprise, surprise, …

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Construction on a new roof for London’s Olympic Stadium is under way as it begins its transformation into West Ham United’s new home

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West Ham manager Sam Allardyce admits his team are struggling with injuries before their clash against Chelsea on Saturday

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• Full-back aggravates problem on England duty • César Azpilicueta likely to continue in Cole’s position Ashley Cole is unlikely to feature in Chelsea’s Premier League derby at West Ham United on Saturday evening after he aggravated a rib problem during England’s defeat to Germany. The veteran left-back first suffered the injury during a win at Norwich last month, ruling him out of two World Cup qualifiers, and was absent from his club’s first team for three weeks in recovery. His …

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• Leyton Orient continue to lobby for groundshare • Floodlights will make way for cantilevered roof The door has been left open for Leyton Orient to share the Olympic Stadium with West Ham United on an occasional basis, as work begins on adding an 84-metre roof as part of a £160m conversion project. The West Ham vice‑chair Karren Brady, who led the club’s bid to win tenancy and move in time for the 2016…

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Bullying in the NFL, the couple who organised baseball fixtures, the basketball coach who exploded, the Irishman with the best job in the world and the fan who played for West Ham Thanks for all your comments and suggestions on our last blog . 1) Man up: declaring a war on warrior culture When Richie Incognito sent threatening text messages to his Miami Dolphins team-mate Jonathan Martin, he did not hold back – concluding them with the pithy: “Fuck you, you’re still a rookie. I’ll…

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The catch was a simple one but West Ham United’s goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen dropped it and so Chris Hughton is still Norwich City manager. That is speculation, of course, but sometimes life really is that simple and it is certainly not far-fetched to suggest West Ham’s clumsy generosity on Saturday evening helped to keep Hughton in his job. In the first half the Canaries were abject, their confidence apparently in pieces as strikerless West Ham passed the …

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Minute-by-minute report: Norwich and Chris Hughton desperately need a win. West Ham desperately need a goal. Something’s got to give. Join Scott Murray Scott Murray

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• West Ham still struggling to score without Andy Carroll • Aston Villa’s defensive resilience earns point Sam Allardyce spent his Friday evening in the front row at the Royal Festival Hall, watching Eamonn Holmes question Sir Alex Ferguson. It was a fairly tame event – questions about David Beckham, Roy Keane or Wayne Rooney were off-limits – but Ferguson’s thoughts on the need to give managers time would have struck a chord with the West Ham United manager. “Stick by …

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