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Diafra Sakho has joined West Ham’s injury list for Friday with a re-occurrence of back pain. With Andy Carroll suspended and Chicharito in doubt, it leaves Slaven Bilic potentially without a striker for Friday Bilic told the press this afternoon “We have a couple that are out because of injury. James Collins is out for a […]

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Javier Hernandez has a 75% chance of recovery from a hamstring strain we have been told this morning. The Mexican striker pulled up in training on Tuesday and was immediately sent for a scan in hospital the same afternoon. He missed training at Rush Green on Wednesday but was able to meet the Royal couple […]

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By New Claret And Hugh blogger Max Willow On Friday evening, we welcome Brighton (aka Seagulls) to the London Stadium, for a game of significant importance to both sides. A win for either side could result into a comfortable mid-table position, whereas a loss could send either team back towards the relegation zone. Brighton, have […]

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Former Hammer Tony Cottee says Slaven Bilic will get it right given time. TC told Askfans.co.uk “Given the time he will get it right. Problem is, he’s in the last year of his contract and we’ll have to see what happens. Of course, he’s an ex-team mate of mine so I’m a little bit bias. We played […]

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Spurs could well deprioritise the Carabao Cup match against West Ham next Wednesday evening as the tie sandwiched in-between two important games for our North London rivals. Spurs have three games at Wembley Stadium in the space of eleven days with the Hammers sandwiched in between. Spurs take on Liverpool in the Premier League this Sunday […]

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REECE OXFORD has been told to remain inGermany if he wants to advance his West Ham career. The West Ham central defender 18, faces the prospect of his loan to Borussia Moenchengladbach being cut short in January should he fail to make it into the first team. But Borussia’s sporting director Max Eberl believes it […]

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Adrian will have to sweat it out at West Ham until the summer after making it clear he wants out of the London Stadium. With the World Cup in Russia beckoning the 30 yeareold is desperate for first team football after again being pushed onto the sidelines for the second successive season. And the club […]

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What do Pablo Zabaleta, Michail Antonio and Manu Lanzini have in common apart probably from being our three best players? Answer: A combined transfer fee of £15 million – less than the fees paid for Chicharito, Andy Carroll, Marko Arnautovicm and the combined value apparently of Robert Snodgrass and Jose Fonte. There’s a widespread misapprehension […]

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BBC Match Day of the match revealed that West Ham has the most red cards in the Premier League with twelve sent off since Slaven Bilic took over at the start of the 2015/2016 season. Although to be fair at least four of those red cards were rescinded on appeal. West Ham has had 71 […]

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Andy Carroll’s sending off for a double elbowing at Burnley has gone down like the heaviest lead balloon of all time among the fans. The Hammers 10 men were caught five minutes from time to be deprived of three points and Carroll’s two minutes of madness are being seen as the reason why. Here’s how […]

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Diafra Sakho’s contract with West Ham includes a two-year option that the club can trigger it is claimed by the Daily Mail today. The Senegalese striker signed a four-year deal in August 2014 after joining from Metz for an initial transfer fee of £3.5m on a basic wage of £15,000 per week. His wages were later improved as […]

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This weekends fixture see’s us face Burnley away from home so what better way to get the low-down on the opposition than through their own fans. This week Charlie talks with Natalie who is from the Burnley podcast ‘No Nay Never’ about the Clarets form, expectations and danger-men.  

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A recent Freedom of Information request to London Stadium owners E20 has revealed West Ham have yet to pay business rates for the Club store, ticket office, boardroom, players lounge and office space they lease from the stadium owners. In an official FOI response from E20 they confirm: “West Ham has not paid E20 for […]

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Slaven Bilic has waded into Joe Hart’s critics making a blistering attack on them in one of his most outspoken attacks for a long time. Hart has barely put a foot wrong in an England shirt but continues to be at the centre of complaints from fans who don’t believe him to be worth the […]

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Premier League research has revealed the average ticket price across the league this season to be £32.

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Slaven Bilic has told West Ham youngster Reece Oxford not to think he is Kylian Mbappe after being nominated for the Golden Boy award but to use it to improve.

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In my last ‘idle thoughts’ musings, I wrote of the fascination of old football memorabilia; programmes, handbooks, newspaper articles which could waft you back through the generations and provide you with a glimpse of life as it was in the days of our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers. A typical Hammers’ programme of the early 1920s was of four pages, the front page given over to the editorial and lists of current goal-scorers, the back …

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Lord Alan Sugar made a joke about at the expense of West Ham during last night’s edition of The  BBC Apprentice programme which didn’t go down well with his TV ‘advisor’ Karren Brady. The former Spurs chairman made the jibe following a task in which the contestants had to interior decorate a hotel room at […]

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With less than three months until video technology becomes a reality in English football, preparations for its arrival are going up a gear.

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Original post: Burnley 1-1 West Ham LIVE!

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Former West Ham manager Lou Macari has revealed he turned down an offer to manage Chelsea weeks before he took over at West Ham. Speaking to Moore Than Just A Podcast in an exclusive interview about his West Ham reign Macari said: “Before West Ham, I had an interview with Ken Bates at Chelsea, he wanted me […]

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German magazine Kicker claim West Ham has a release clause to bring home Reece Oxford in January should they want to. Kicker says there is a contract clause in which West Ham could end the one-season loan early to bring the 18-year old back to England. The clause could be activated of Oxford does not reach […]

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Michail Antonio has been honoured with a giant hanging shirt bearing his name and number at London Stadium. He has been celebrated in recognition of his status as the reigning Hammer of the Year – the first recipient of the prestigious award at the LS. The number 30 shirt will now hang in the concourse […]

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Diafra Sakho is very much in the frame to play a part in the World Cup qualifier against Cape Verde with West Ham medics hoping there is no replay of the horrors that last hit him on international duty. The striker’s long term injury problems began on an international treatment table in 2014 whilst on […]

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West Ham would veto any possible disruption to football fixtures because of Athletics championships a source close to the club has claimed today. Recent reports have suggested that UK Athletics could bid for the European and World Athletics championships in 2022, 2027 or 2029 but a senior West Ham source has told Claret and Hugh […]

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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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