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Your club’s worst day of 2016
Posted on 22 December 2016.
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Noble and the comfort zone
Posted on 21 December 2016.
Mark Noble admits things aren’t flowing yet but maintains the confidence is now returning to the Hammers squad. He makes no excuses for a couple of lucky victories over Burnley and Hull but explains:: “It’s starting to come back for us. Dimi could have had a couple of goals on Saturday . “Points breed confidence […]
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Cresswell suffers problem
Posted on 20 December 2016.
Aaron Cresswell has today suffered a injury but insiders believe he will be okay to play against Swansea on Boxing Day. The left back rolled an ankle and went down during training raising immediate alarms that he would miss the game in Wales. He went over in what seemed fairly innocuous circumstances and rumours started flying […]
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Channel 4 News: “I’ve been a season ticket holder for 40 years but this will be my last season”
Posted on 19 December 2016.
As football clubs like West Ham United move into newer grounds, what happens to the community they leave behind? pic.twitter.com/NKE5Zdhc1I — Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) December 19, 2016
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Ref Watch: City goals fine
Posted on 19 December 2016.
Dermot Gallagher is back to look through the weekend’s biggest refereeing talking points from the Premier League.
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Ravel nominated for Italy’s worst player award
Posted on 18 December 2016.
Former Hammer Ravel Morrison has been nominated for Italy’s ‘Bidone D’Oro’ award meaning ‘Golden Dustbin’. Nominations Bidone d’Oro: Diego LOPEZ (AC Milan) DODO ‘(Inter / Sampdoria) Hernanes (Juventus) Stevan Jovetic (Inter Milan) Geoffrey Kondogbia (Inter Milan) Luiz ADRIANO (AC Milan) Felipe MELO (Inter Milan) Martin Montoya (Inter Milan) Ravel MORRISON ( Lazio) Mario SUAREZ (Fiorentina) […]
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Hammers team for Hull
Posted on 17 December 2016.
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How crucial is Christmas in PL?
Posted on 15 December 2016.
How important is the Christmas period to your Premier League team? We asked our Sky Sports pundits…
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We need to give Hull hell – nothing else will do!
Posted on 15 December 2016.
Right let’s put it out there now. If we can’t give a decent thumping to a very, very poor Hull team this weekend we have a problem! No ifs and buts, we need a convincing and dominant display with a decent two or three goal result at the end of it. Hull City is a […]
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Irons v Burnley – LIVE TEXT REPORTING
Posted on 14 December 2016.
Wednesday 14 December Premier League London Stadium KICK OFF 19:45 Slaven Bilic has picked perhaps his strongest team of the season as the Irons prepare to do battle with a team that hasn’t won on the road this season and has just one point from their travels. The manager has thrown Andy Carroll in from […]
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Irons v Burnley preview
Posted on 13 December 2016.
The Hammers Chat boys are back with their preview of the Burnley game. Give it a listen here.
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Payet hits world’s top 20
Posted on 13 December 2016.
Dimi Payet has hot the top 20 best footballers in the world. He is named at No 17 by European journalists in the 2016 France Football Ballon d’Or. The No27 received one point alongside Real Madrid pair Luka Modric and Toni Kroos, placing him joint-17th in the final Ballon d’Or rankings. Payet was one of […]
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Video: Slaven Bilic Full Post Match Press Conference
Posted on 12 December 2016.
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How many points will we take from the next 4 games?
Posted on 12 December 2016.
How many points will we take from the next four games?
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West Ham manager Slaven Bilic dedicates point against Liverpool to victims killed in Besiktas bomb attack
Posted on 12 December 2016.
DOMINIC KING AT ANFIELD: Slaven Bilic dedicated West Ham’s point at Anfield to the 38 people who were killed by two bomb blasts outside Besiktas’ stadium in Istanbul on Saturday.
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Antonio happy with show of true grit
Posted on 11 December 2016.
Michail Antonio believes the Hammers showed their tremendous resilience after the events of last weekend claiming we showed courage. He said: “We showed we have determination and grit and what happened in the past doesn’t affect us. A great point away and we have to push on and build on this. “I managed to finally […]
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Tragedy hits Slaven Bilic’s former club
Posted on 11 December 2016.
A twin bomb attack outside Besiktas’ new stadium in Turkey’s largest city, Istanbul, has killed 38 people and injured many more. A car bomb hit a police vehicle and a suicide bomber detonated a suicide vest in quick succession late on Saturday. The blasts occurred near the Besiktas stadium after a match against Bursaspor which the […]
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Hammers hit bottom three
Posted on 10 December 2016.
The Hammers have plunged into bottom three for the first time this season after today’s results. Hopefully it wil only be a 24 hour thing but this evening the team sit in 18th place following some fierce scuffles among the relegation threatened clubs this afternoon (Sat). Swansea scored a big 3-0 victory over Sunderland to […]
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Slaven’s injury news update
Posted on 09 December 2016.
Slav told his pre-match press conference that Antonio and Cresswell are training should be back at the weekend but Kouyate will remain out until we face Burnley at midweek. Slav told reporters: “From the three players who got injured in the EFL Cup game, a couple of them should be back. Antonio and Cresswell are […]
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Leroy questions Noble’s form as Anfield beckons
Posted on 09 December 2016.
We have to see a reaction on Sunday – we need to see lessons have been learned not only by the squad but by the manager too. I honestly can’t remember a situation where the boss of a Premier League team has put himself under as much pressure as Slaven Bilic managed last weekend when […]
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Bilic: Liverpool are contenders
Posted on 09 December 2016.
Slaven Bilic says Liverpool are genuine Premier League title contenders ahead of their clash with West Ham this weekend.
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Irons favourite: “Excuses and inquests must stop”
Posted on 09 December 2016.
Paul Merson’s miserable prediction the Hammers will be beaten at Anfield tomorrow has been countered by one of our own – the ever optimistic Phil Parkes. ClaretandHugh blogger Parkesy and top man of the 70s has told the boys to seriously go for it at Anfield on Sunday and defy the prophets of doom. And […]
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Merson predicts Anfield misery
Posted on 09 December 2016.
Sky Pundit Paul Merson predicts another heavy loss for the Hammers this weekend when they face Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday afternoon. West Ham have conceded 29 goals so far this season in the league and Merson believes they could easily ship another three goals in this match without reply. Merson told the Sky sports website: […]
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Hammer grab Wolfsburg midfielder
Posted on 08 December 2016.
Slaven Bilic has moved in on Wolfsburg midfielder Murat Saglam. The youngster was picked out by the manager as a signing for next season with his contract at the German outfit due to expire at the end of this term. And the Hammers are understood to have agreed a five-year deal with the 18-year-old, who will […]
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Young keeper on board
Posted on 08 December 2016.
Promising young Hammers goalkeeper Nathan Trott has signed his first professional contract which will keep him at the club until 2020. The oficial site claims he is one of the country’s most highly-rated keepers and earned his first England call-up, joining up with the U19 squad in October. Starring for the Hammers’ Premier League 2 […]
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Gold’s great sadness
Posted on 07 December 2016.
David Gold has agreed that to place a stone in honour of Jack Howard at the London Stadium would be a really “nice idea.” Twelve year old Jack – always unfailingly smiling in the most desperate of circumstances – really put things into perspective as he staged his valiant but, finally, losing battle against cancer. […]
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