Up The Hammers – Latest West Ham United FC News

Yesterday, Claret and Hugh revealed as many as 25,000 West Ham supporters on the Olympic Stadium priority list could be disappointed as demand for OS season tickets outstrips supply. There are believed to be fewer than 9,000 season tickets remaining for next season for the 34,000 strong waiting list who have paid a tenner piece […]

Read the full story

Michail Antonio is convinced the the injury-hit Hammers squad can mount a sustained Premier League push for a European place, as well as an FA Cup run.   He said: “We’ve definitely got the squad. We’ve got depth. We’ve already shown it this season. “We lost six of our strikers and hung in there. Now […]

Read the full story

West Ham are now very “hopeful” that Cheikhou Kouyate will become the second player to commit his future to the club in a few days. Talks are now proceeding between Davis Sullivan –  Director of Football in all but name – and the Sengalese midfielder aimed at agreeing a four year deal. Just four days […]

Read the full story

The sight of Hammers fans patiently waiting to collect paper tickets will soon be a thing of the past next season. The club has confirmed  the very latest in turnstile technology will be employed at the former Olympic Stadium. . It is understood that could include access using your smartphone in the future which is […]

Read the full story

Share This:

Read the full story

The Daily Mail are reporting that the new five and a half deal signed by Dimtri Payet this evening will keep his basic wages at £68,000 per week but add-ons will push his pay package over £100,000 per week at least for the first year of the new deal. Payet is understood to be receiving an add-on […]

Read the full story

Nobody wants a match report after a game like that – it’s all written in our heads. Only one moment mattered of course and that came at the very death when Angelo Ogbonna headed a perfect goal across Simon Mingolet to sort out the Scousers for the THIRD time this season. But it was what […]

Read the full story

Slaven Bilic described it as a classic FA Cup tie which will go into the history books as one of West Ham’s great games. And afterwards as he entered the presser he was close to tears  as he declared: “It was a wonderful victory – a wonderful night.” He was thrilled that Ogbonna scored the […]

Read the full story

Kick off 7.45 The Boleyn Ground We’ll keep you up to date with live text reports if you are nowhere near a TV tonight. West Ham boss Slaven Bilic: “We’ve played Liverpool many times this season, twice recently with different line-ups. “We played their strongest team and then a team with five or six regular starters, […]

Read the full story

Dimi Payet has sent a brilliant tweet assuring the fans that he wants to stay at our club for many years. Fair play to West Ham and its media department it has moved quickly to quash rumours of unrest surrounding the player. After being hit by stories in the Fleet Street’s gutter press suggesting that […]

Read the full story

West Ham have this morning issued an official statement on Dimitri Payet’s contractual situation revealing they are involved in “amicable and productive talks about an improvement and extension to his contract.” And they are saying that those talks were initiatted by themselves rather than giving way to any demands made by the player’s agents. The […]

Read the full story

David Sullivan has reminded the squad that victory tonight put them within 90 minutes of an FA Cup semi final appearance! It may sound a little like stating the obvious but put that way the reality and importance of tonight’s game really kicks in. Speaking on the official site he says: “We are now preparing […]

Read the full story

Darren Randolph is ready for Liverpool – let’s hope he doesn’t have to be a hero again! A nice quiet night would be handy after his brilliance kept us in the hat for the next round after a superb performance at Anfield. And speaking to www. whufc.com the keeper said: “I hope we can get the job finished. […]

Read the full story

Liverpool v west ham in Cup clashes don’t leave may happy mmories – 2006 remains particularly raw! I can remember being at the 1981 League Cup Final games, where yet again we payed above ourselves but again came up short. Howev, on a November night back in 1988 West Ham faced Liverpool in a league […]

Read the full story

David Sullivan has sent a personal apology to fans hit by the telephone booking line chaos as they tried to buy tickets for the Liverpool FA Cup replay. ClaretandHugh brought various issues to him – notably that one person had spent nearly four hours on the phone and still hadn’t managed to buy a pair. […]

Read the full story

Enner Valencia tends to split opinion among Irons  fans. After suffering his share of injuries he has managed four goals and  goals and two assists in six games so are we convinced this is a 12 million player. ClaretandHugh’s Facebook forum members have been discussing the Ecuadorian international @https://www.facebook.com/groups/363174467150521/ Here’s what they are saying: O […]

Read the full story

Slaven Bilic has failed to make the top two in the January Manager of the Month competition. The Irons boss was nominated with winner Ronald Koeman, runner-up Mauricio Pochettino and Manchester City’s Manuel Pelligrini. Koeman has been credited for having won three out four league games in the first month of 2016 – finishing off […]

Read the full story