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West Ham’s Cheikhou Kouyate is available to face Arsenal on Saturday after his red card against Crystal Palace is overturned.

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Any club wanting to get Dimi Payet out of West Ham will need to find a MINIMUM fee of £50 million a year whilst offering the player £200,000 a week over four years. Although the suggestion that Real Madrid and Barcelona could be locked in a tug of war for Dimi this summer has only […]

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Teamtalk.com say West Ham have come off worst from referee decisions this season with just four decisions going our way which we didn’t deserve but a massive thirteen incorrect decisions against us which. The table leaves us nine decisions adrift while Manchester United and Leicester City top the table with seven more decisions in their […]

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Slaven Bilic has spoken of the fitness concerns over Dimi Payet during the game against Crystal Palace. The brilliant French international scored another sensational free kick to take hisset piece to goals conversion rate to 50 per cent. But afterwards the manager said: ““It was a brilliant goal. I expected him to try and bend […]

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• West Ham will appeal against Cheikhou Kouyaté’s red card in 2-2 draw • Alan Pardew plays numbers game with Crystal Palace squad over lack of win Slaven Bilic does not want his players to look up or down. He does not want them studying the fixture list. West Ham United’s manager will be happy as long as they relax, play with passion and quality and, as the old cliche goes, take each game as it comes. “You can’t approach it differently,…

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Re-cyled reports in The Sun that the Hammers are interested in Watford’s Odion Ighalo is “on West Ham’s list for a big-name striker” are entirely wrong. The Hammers were interested earlier in the season and even made an inquiry which is presumably where this report has been resurrected from. But ClaretandHugh, when inquiring as to whether […]

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Exclusive David Gold believes Dimi Payet has already become a West Ham legend. He doesn’t share the view that you need to be at a club for a certain length of time to inherit such status declaring: “If you do something legendary it will always be remembered.” Speaking exlsuively to ClaretandHugh he said: “Dimi has […]

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Fed-up David Gold has had enough of incorrect refereeing decisions and has called for technology to be introduced NOW. Taking again about the Mark Clattenburg decision to send off Cheik Kouyate he told ClaretandHugh: “Nobody wants to see this and it is happening to us week after week. “I have called in the past for […]

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What happens if you put an amateur football team on a six-week training programme with a Premier League club?

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David Gold has told ClaretandHugh that everybody at West Ham is ready for the step into the big time the club is  set to make. DG drew plenty of sceptical comments and glances when he declared way back in the season that the top four would be looking over their shoulders at West Ham and […]

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It’s been a marriage made in heaven! Dimi Payet loves West Ham United with a passion and as made the fact very clear indeed via some quotes in today’s mwdia at the end of the week which saw him make a sensational international return for his country. He declared: ““It’s such an exciting time to […]

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Hopefully you have all worked out by now that Ann Summers will not be the new naming parter of the Olympic Stadium and it was our poor attempt at an April Fools joke. Sorry but in reality no naming rights partner will be revealed in the near future. When Claret and Hugh spoke to the […]

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Slaven Bilic admits to some deep concerns over tomorrow’s game against Crystal Palace. He fears the international break has disrupted the team’s preparation and is worried the game will come too soon for some players. He said: ““This international break, on one hand we didn’t want it because we had that momentum and we want […]

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Regular readers should have cash to play with after this column nailed three draws at 45/1, four aways at 20/1 and a 19/5 single last time out. Here’s this week’s tips for the Premier League and more.

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A misinformed piece in the Daily Mirror has suggested Dimitri Payet would not be able to play for West Ham if the UK were no longer part of the European Union. The article by Joe Mewis says: “Britain goes to the polls on June 23 and a Brexit vote could radically change the face of […]

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The Mark Noble didn’t quite follow the script. Sorry to ruin the illusion but the real life fantasy football match was finely scripted to finish in a six all thriller and then go to a penalty shoot up but the referee didn’t follow the plan by ruling Marlon Harewood’s goal offside which entirely failed to […]

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West Ham stopper Darren Randolph kept his place as first choice keeper for the Republic of Ireland and repaid the faith manager Martin O’Neil put in him by keeping a clean sheet. Ireland beat Switzerland one nil thanks to a Ciaran Clark header but Randolph needed to make one vital save on the 34th minute  to […]

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David Sullivan’s new movie – The Fall of the Krays – will be released to video on Easter Monday and today we are launching a competition which will allow you the chance to win a signed copy. The co chairman has kindly made three copies of the movie available to ClaretandHugh exclusively and we are […]

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And so it begins….! It was no surprise at all this morning to open up the tabloids and see Christian Benteke plastered all over them claiming he’s sorry he ever joined Liverpool given how he’s been treated under Jurgen Klopp. Just a few days after West Ham have claimed they like him but can’t afford […]

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  David Sullivan has told the Sun newspaper that while Beneke is a player the club admire most clubs would struggle to afford his huge wages. The chairman reconfirms the club’s commitment to find a twenty goal a season striker “He’s a player we admire but the problem is that he is on huge wages […]

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West Ham chairman, David Sullivan has confirmed West Ham have now sold out their initial 54,000 capacity of the Olympic Stadium. However, he admits the club could have earned more if he had raised the prices but decided to price to please rather than  extort money from fans. Sullivan told the Daily Mail: “We’re sold out […]

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West Ham are certain to offer Slaven Bilic a new deal at the end of the season. Earlier in the season Bilic commenting on the probability declared: ” “I have a contract, I said the same at  Besiktas – my contract is my work and only good work guarantees me that.” Since then he has gone […]

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West Ham midfielder Cheikhou Kouyate has signed a new long-term contract.

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Michail Antonio’s verbal approach is precisely the same as his playing style – fearless and to the point. So it’s no real surprise to hear him declare: “We can turn them over!” Speaking to www.whufc.com he declared: People are starting to take notice. They probably thought we’d be a top 12 team, that kind of position, […]

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Former Hammer, Harry Redknapp has been confirmed as  the manager of the Jordan national team for their next two World Cup qualifiers, 48 hours after being appointed a football advisor at Derby County. It is Redknapp’s first jobs in football since he quit as QPR boss last year. Prince Ali Al Hussein, president of the […]

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