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By Tom Coles It has not been a good start and Slaven Bilic remains in the firing line for the poor performances on the pitch. The pressure has again been mounting but in recent weeks there are marginal signs he is slowly starting to turn things around. The narrow 1-0 victory over Swansea last week […]

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Phil Parkes remembers the day when former boss Lou Macari turned to him and said: “You should stop drinking because it’s a bad example to the kids.” But he  got a very quick reply from the goalkeeper who said: “I can stop drinking at any time but I’ll stop now if you agree to stop […]

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Former West Ham manager Lou Macari has explained his concerns to find out Hammer Phil Parkes could not train when he joined the club saying he could only do fitness work on an exercise bike. Speaking Exclusively to Moore Than Just A Podcast Macari said: “I couldn’t do anything about Parkesey not being able to train every day, […]

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I’ve seen a lot of comments on social media suggesting that those who booed West Ham this weekend against Swansea are “plastic fans” and didn’t deserve to go to the game and back the team. How can they be plastic fans? I have only been a season ticket holder at the club for five years and over the past few games it has been perhaps the most frustrating to watch West Ham play. Our excuse last season for …

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Terry Westley saw his under 23s beaten 3-0 by Villareal at Dagenham last night but was happy to see his team challenged in a different way during the Premier League International Cup. Striker Adrian Dalmau’s hat-trick killed off our youngsters but despite the scoreline we had our chances with two shots cleared off the line. […]

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It’s been a couple of weeks since our last Cup of Tea (well not literally of course because I live on the stuff) and as ever there is much to discuss. Christmas Eve fixtures, managerial links, the three biggest flops and successes of the start to the season as well as our usual Q&A all […]

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A Claret and Hugh poll on whether football should be played on Christmas Eve has received massive thumbs down with nearly 87% of supporters saying football should not be played the day before Christmas. With 1,274 voting, 1,108 (86.97%) said No football should not be scheduled on that day and only 166 (13.03%) said Yes they had […]

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Carlo Ancelotti has announced he intends taking a 10 month break from the game after being sacked by Bayern Munch. And that means there is no likelihood of him taking the West Ham job now – or indeed in reality – for the the 2018-19 season. His had been the first name linked to the […]

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A report claims that West Ham along with Everton, Man City, Man United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool are backing a change the way overseas Premier League TV money is split at a Premier League meeting in London today. Premier League boss Richard Scudamore has been lobbying clubs over the distribution of the next round of multi-billion […]

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Slaven Bilic admits talking about improvement being on it’s way all sounds a bit shallow but he does believe things will soon be on the up with performance levels improving. Speaking to the official site he said: “Points-wise, since the last international break, which we went into with zero points after three games and conceded against […]

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With the international break upon us Claretand Hugh has taken a long look at the systems and players used by Slaven Bilic over the first seven Premier League games of the season. We are very grateful to new CandH stats man Chris Jones who has produced what we believe are some highly interesting and revealing facts and figures […]

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West Ham have made it clear there has been no inquiry for  Andy Carroll from anywhere. The Sun ran a story several days ago claiming Everton boss Ronald Koeman saw the striker as the answer to his problems up top after selling Lukaku. It created a huge buzz between fans at both clubs but it […]

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After 25 years the Premier League has seen its fair share of great goalscorers. But it has also witnessed a fair amount of mediocrity in its time.

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The Irons have opened talks about a contract extension with the hugely exciting teenage midfield star Domingos Quina. The 17 year old is regarded as one of the most highly skilled players within the academy and the club want him tied down as soon as possible. The  Portuguese youngster’s current deal expires in 2019. He was […]

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Cheik Kouyate battled through yesterday’ s game against Swansea City after suffering a bout of sickness in the team hotel on Friday night. The midfielder may have been hit by the same bug which saw Marko Arnautovic miss the game despite silly internet and social media messages that he had been omitted following a row […]

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Hammers 1 Swansea 0 ‘Bad Boy’ Diafra Sakho came good at the London Stadium and and may just have saved Slaven Bilic’s job at the same time. Many are still refusing to forgive the Hammers striker following his summer theatricals in France but his attitude has been exemplary since his return and his last minute […]

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The club has written to hundreds possibly thousands of West Ham supporters who bought Commemorative Champions Stones at the London Stadium up to 18 months ago telling them they will need to wait until six months until they are finally installed meaning they will be installed two years after their order in some cases. The […]

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The Hammers lost their first three matches of the season, conceding 10 goals, but with Slaven Bilic’s job supposedly on the line they beat Huddersfield and drew at West Brom.

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Carlo Ancelotti and Rafa Benitez are on West Ham’s list of potential candidates to replace Slaven Bilic, who is fighting for his job after a poor start to the season.

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West Ham have already ruled out a move for sacked Carlo Ancelotti. No sooner had new of his sacking from Bayern Munich had emerged than some delusional speculation started that he would be perfect for West Ham. Well no doubt, as he would for many other League clubs, but the chance of him finding his […]

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West Ham co-owner David Gold has revealed Michail Antonio’s groin injury is not as bad as was first feared.

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The last four years have bought nine goals against Spurs October 2013, Winston Reid, Ricardo Vaz Te and  Ravel Morrison score at White Hart Lane December 2013 and it was Matt Jarvis with the equaliser and Maiga with the late winner to put West Ham through to the league cup semi finals. May 2014 at […]

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Slaven Bilic admits Tottenham play the most attractive brand of football in the Premier League, but insists West Ham can upset their London rivals on Saturday.

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West Ham are likely to be allocated an away allocation of 5,000 for the 4th round of the League Cup in October. Like the third round, against Barnsley, Spurs are unlikely to sell tickets in the upper tier of Wembley Stadium. Wembley’s lower tier holds 34,303 spectators with the middle titer holding a further 16,532 […]

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Declan Rice has his heart set on emulating Bobby Moore and Billy Bonds. The teenager has started both Caraboa Cup matches this season and is now eyeing a run all the way to Wembley on Final day. He may have to be part of a successful team at the famous stadium before that by perhaps […]

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