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So it’s official, West Ham are the Premier League’s draw specialists. Our 1-1 stalemate at Villa Park on Boxing day made it five draws in a row, although one positive is that we finally managed to find the back of the net thanks to Aaron Cresswell. However, despite being unbeaten in five we’re still without

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So we travel to rock-bottom Aston Villa today in the hope recording our first win in eight Premier League outings. It’s been a strange period in our season. Despite not winning in seven, we’re unbeaten in our last four, which goes to show that although we’ve perhaps struggled to kill games off without our key

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So here we are, Christmas time, and facing seven games between now and the end of January. The prevalent mood seems somewhat gloomy, with three scoreless games in succession, and no wins in the last seven outings. In this article, I advocate the use of a series of aggressive formations, which if adhered to, with

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Seven more sleeps to go! Seven more sleeps ’til…. TRANSFER WINDOW! Good tidings Hammers fans, it’s me again… the annoying ginger Twitter troll! January 2016 is fast approaching and there’s plenty of regurgitated transfer rumours knocking about… “Zaza to sign on loan.” “Zaza to sign permanently.” “Andy Carroll to sign for Newcastle.” Blah blah blah! SHUT

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The Hammers Chat crew have been previewing Boxing Day’s trip to Aston Villa this week. Having drawn four on the bounce – three of which have been goalless – we’re in desperate need of three points to give us some festive cheer on Sunday. Slaven Bilic said earlier this week that he’ll probably stick with

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Back in the summer it was looking increasingly likely that James Collins would be leaving the club for a second time. But instead he opted to remain in east London to fight for his place in the team, clearly in the belief that he’s still good enough to compete at the highest level. And he

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So Matt Jarvis has left the club permanently and it seems most West Ham fans are delighted. Norwich completed a £2.5m deal to make his loan deal permanent earlier today, which means we’ve made around a £6m loss on the winger. Sam Allardyce told us he’d forked out a club record fee for him in

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Like your trivia? Well here a load of interesting facts about the club you may or may not know… The new West Ham United manager writes his own lyrics and plays in a Croatian rock group called Rawbau. Slaven Bilic has a win percentage of 53.5 as a manager across more than 220 games at

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Sunday’s goalless stalemate against a struggling Swansea City side was the fourth consecutive draw for West Ham. Despite being unbeaten in the last four league games, we have not gained maximum points since the 24th October, in that memorable 2-1 home win against Chelsea. However, against a Swansea side without a manager, as the Welsh

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Not too long ago we were in dreamland. We were effortlessly disposing of the finest teams that the English Premier League has to offer. We were almost unstoppable at full flow when we counter-attacked, with Dimitri Payet and Manuel Lanzini exquisitely composing each move. Fast forward to today and we have been struck with an

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Hammers cult hero John Moncur will never forgive Sam Allardyce for the way he treated West Ham’s youngsters during his four-years at Upton Park. In a wide-ranging interview in Blowing Bubbles Monthly, the 49-year-old said his handling over the Academy of Football’s rising stars was an “absolute joke”. But, despite his son’s “disappointing” departure, he

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When Carl Jenkinson joined West Ham on loan from Arsenal last year, he quickly endeared himself in the squad and performed very well as an attacking right back. His runs down the right wing were breathtaking, and he was objectively assessed as the fastest player in the Premier League. He seemed to be the perfect

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It’s hard to remember the last player to have had such an instant, meteoric impact at West Ham than Dimitri Payet.  Some will claim the likes of Carlos Tevez and Paolo Di Canio are up there, but both didn’t excite as instantly as our new French hero. Put simply, he’s the best player to have

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Despite the lack of goals in our recent games, there is much to enthuse in relation to the approach of our current squad of players. In the past two games, we created three to four ‘near’ goals. When Enner Valencia was given his 30 minute period against Stoke, it became apparent how important he is

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This is a lighthearted look at West Ham’s injury list and an XI made up of some of the more unfit, injury prone, woeful and the more unlikely looking footballers to wear Claret and Blue. But first, what a week of football and it just keeps getting better with the news of Winston Reid’s hamstring injury likely

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This week’s combined side is a little trickier because Stoke have only been in the Premier League since 2008 so I only have only been able to select from the past seven years… GK – Danzelle St-Louis Hamilton Danzelle St-Louis Hamilton is the player who qualifies best for the goalkeeper position in this team. Even

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Enner Valencia left his hometown, San Lorenzo, Esmeraldas, to participate in the youth system at the Caribbean Club Deportivo Junior. In 2008, he joined Emelec, one of the two major professional teams in the city of Guayaquil, in south Ecuador. After finding first team playing time difficult to attain, his fortunes changed in early 2010

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It has not been a great few weeks for West Ham fans, and it doesn’t get much better with the news that Diafra Sakho will be out for around three months, adding him to the growing list of injuries. Manchester United have conceded one home league goal all season, so if we are going to

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I hope not, anyway I think in reality, we all knew this was a season in transition and that there would be highs and lows along the way. I’m sure we all knew there would be injuries too, as they are unavoidable in most respects. The injuries are a concern because they have happened to

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Much of the debate amongst West Ham fans this season has been whether Michail Antonio has been given a fair crack of the whip since joining the club. We were all excited about his arrival after he sealed his £7m deadline day switch from Nottingham Forest at the beginning of September. But since then, and

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Since the arrival of Slaven Bilic in the summer we’ve been able to witness a much more exciting style of football than in recent seasons. The combination of Diafra Sakho, Dimitri Payet, Manuel Lanzini and Victor Moses made us one of the most dangerous attacking teams in the Premier League. But injuries to Sakho and

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Our worst fears were confirmed today when it was announced Diafra Sakho is expected to be out for around two months after picking up a muscle injury against West Brom on Sunday. It means we’re now three key players down for long periods of time already, and such an injury crisis is threatening to derail

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We welcome West Brom to the Boleyn Ground today in a clash I would say is our first ‘must-win’ fixture of the campaign. We’ve only picked up one point from our last three outings, following a run of seven league games unbeaten and the last thing we need is a run of bad form that

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Since his arrival in London last summer, my estimation of Slaven Bilic has grown even further from my initial ‘base-line’ perspective. He is a very likeable fellow, always pleased to talk to his players and maintain good relations with the press. Until now, he has hardly put a foot wrong. So in a short time

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Even the most ardent and parochial Hammers fan could not have disagreed that Spurs totally outclassed a West Ham side lacking in penetration, and displaying a worrying frail defence last week. So where now for the Cockney Boys? Super Slav told us there were no excuses and is looking to put that right this weekend

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Transfer deadline day over two months ago was probably the most exciting an avid West Ham supporter has ever witnessed. Midfield unit Alex Song was brought in for a second loan spell, Victor Moses came in on a temporary basis from Chelsea, Croatian international Nikica Jelavic was also added to increase the depth of the

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