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Following the permanent arrival of Andy Carroll last summer, Allardyce was once again able to persuade the co-owners to use the remainder on acquiring the services of winger Stuart Downing, however it has often been questioned whether Big Sam was right to sign him. A major part of the manager’s thinking was that, with Matt… Read more »

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West Ham face Southampton at Upton Park just days after they faced Sheffield United in the Capital One Cup 2nd Round. Southampton, who are without the likes of Shaw, Lambert, Lallana and Chambers, have signed some potential world class players in Pelle, Forster and Tadic. Injury news: West Ham. – Enner Valencia (Not 100% fit) – Diafra Sakho (Not 100% fit) – Ravel Morrison (Hernia) – Andy Carroll (Ankle) – James Tomkins (Ankle) – Carl Jenkinson (Hamstring) Suspensions: – James Collins (3 matches) Southampton aren’t …

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Ecuador’s Enner Valencia is itching to regain the form that earned him the nickname “Superman” and show fans why West Ham United brought the World Cup striker

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The Under-18s take on Tottenham Hotspur at LIttle Heath on Saturday

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West Ham have early-season injury problems and could be without as many as six first-team players when they welcome Southampton to Upton Park on Saturday.

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Mark Noble’s England credentials splits opinions amongst West Ham fans all over. Some believe he has done enough over the years to warrant a call up to the England squad, others insist he has never been good enough to don the precious Three Lions jersey. Noble captained England at U21 level and has been ever… Read more »

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West Ham United are in talks over a deal for Rennes defender Jean-Armel Kana-Biyik. 

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When the transfer window closes at 11pm on September 1st, West Ham fans will be encouraged by the acquisitions that both the manager and the owners have made over the summer. Although the business has been largely successful, it wouldn’t hurt to make a couple of signings before the September deadline. An injury to club… Read more »

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West Ham manager Sam Allardyce is confident his team can beat Southampton in Saturday’s Barclays Premier League clash despite their injury woes.

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James Collins, known to West Ham fans as ‘ginge’ hasn’t been having the best of times on the pitch recently, but is continuously called into action due injuries to Tonks and last season Reid. We had signs in pre-season that he wasn’t quite up the challenge this year despite scoring a great penalty in the shoot-out, which we could have done with on Saturday but it wasn’t meant to be. At our home pre-season game he was …

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Goalkeeper Sam Howes has been called up for England U18 squad

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Take the case of Manchester City and the New York Yankees who have joined forces to fund the expansion New York City FC next year with Frank Lampard and David Villa signed and sealed to play in the side. Or look at Spurs and Toronto FC linking together with Jermain Defoe’s long-term contract, an agreement… Read more »

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View original post here: League Cup – WEST HAM UNITED LINE UP: Jaaskelainen, Demel, Potts, Burke, Reid, Poyet, Morrison, Diame, Vaz Te, Valencia, Sakho

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In a galaxy far, far away Vacancies in the Premier League are not exactly hard to come by, and it seems that the majority of these vacancies are filled with managers of top level or Premier League experience. Louis Van Gaal joined Manchester United in the summer having been manager previously of similar calibre clubs: FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich for example. The club buckled at the opportunity to allow Ryan Giggs to build experience and …

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Two weeks ago, on Wednesday 13th August to be exact, Sheffield United were hosting, their ‘local’ rivals Mansfield Town in a dour Capital One cup game. How totally uninteresting. Until that is, the Radio Sheffield commentary team mentioned that the winners of the tie would play West Ham United in the next round With 80 minutes… Read more »

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Stewart Downing believes West Ham’s new recruits have already shown that manager Sam Allardyce has spent wisely during the summer.

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Stewart Downing believes West Ham have a stronger squad this season as the challenge of juggling league and cup football beckons.

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For some strange reason, Sam Allardyce, Fat Sam or whatever name you want to call him is still the manager of our beloved West Ham. Last season, if we never had the good run of results in February, we would have been relegated and that would have been the end of him. But we survived… Read more »

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Caretaker boss Keith Millen was unable to rouse enough resistance from his side at Selhurst Park, with Stewart Downing and Carlton Cole scoring for the visitors

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The performance against Spurs last weekend was encouraging. Given the questions surrounding Allardyce’s starting line-up, it turned out to be a decent outing. And I don’t think Allardyce will stray too far from that line-up this afternoon against Palace at Selhurst Park. I think Cheikhou Kouyate will deputise for the suspended James Collins alongside Winston… Read more »

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Don’t get me wrong, when their right back rounded Adrien in the 90th minute to grab victory I felt very sick. Partly because Eric Dier had somehow managed to end up one-on-one with our goalkeeper but most importantly, it felt like we deserved a lot more from the game and we were going to lose… Read more »

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The performance against Spurs last weekend was encouraging. Given the questions surrounding Allardyce’s starting line-up, it turned out to be a decent outing. And I don’t think Allardyce will stray too far from that line-up this afternoon against Palace at Selhurst Park. I think Cheikhou Kouyate will deputise for the suspended James Collins alongside Winston… Read more »

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West Ham face another team from London but this time it’s from the South-West of London. Crystal Palace are the opponents. Both teams started off the season with a loss to other London opposition and both teams lost to a last-gasp goal. Injury news: West Ham. – Enner Valencia (Not 100% fit) – Diafra Sakho (Not 100% fit) – Ravel Morrison (Hernia) – Andy Carroll (Ankle) – James Tomkins (Ankle) – Carl Jenkinson (Hamstring) Suspensions: – James Collins (…

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Sam Allardyce has admitted West Ham will need to produce something special if they are to finish any higher than 10th in the Premier League.

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We are only on our second game of the season and already it seems like a must win game for many reasons. Some people have commented on the fact that we were unlucky against Spurs. Wellm I’m not too sure about that, West Ham had many goal scoring chances and failed to convert any of… Read more »

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Clueless Sam The beginning of the new season comes with fresh doubt over Sam Allardyce’s managerial capability, especially on the subject of the promised “Exciting attacking style of play”. It’s fair to say that the current transfer window filled me with fresh hope that maybe we were about to see a turning point in the boring, slow football that has plagued The Boleyn Ground since Big Sam’s appointment three years ago. Exciting signings such as Mauro Zarate and…

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