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Manchester United will travel to Championship side Bristol City in the Carabao Cup quarter-final. Arsenal host West Ham while Chelsea face Bournemouth and Leicester play Man City.

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In this highly articulate and deeply felt blog, lifelong Hammer Bobby Galbraith looks at the various issues that he believes bedevil this club and makes some intelligent suggestions on how they can be cured. By Bobby Galbraith A post-mortem is the examination of a body after death. These are usually carried out with the aim […]

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West Ham progressed to the last eight of the Carabao Cup after coming from 2-0 down to beat London rivals Tottenham 3-2 at Wembley on Wednesday night.

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Rush Green will host a West Ham family fun day this Sunday when West Ham United Ladies take on Queens Park Rangers in the FA Women’s Premier League Plate on 29 October. The Hammers Ladies take on their London rivals at Rush Green and alongside the action on the pitch with a host of activities […]

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Slaven Bilic is likely to make massive changes to the team which were defeated so embarrassingly at the London Stadium on Friday night partly to give others a chance to prove themselves to him but also to rest players for the Hammers crucial away game against Crystal Palace this weekend. Bilic has already confirmed that Adrian […]

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Diafra Sakho remains adamant that he wants to leave West Ham and says ‘nothing has changed’ to stop him pursuing a move to France in January. Sakho tried to engineer a switch in the summer.

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Slaven Bilic has ruled Michail Antonio out of the match at Wembley tomorrow night (Wed) despite the player’s official website declaration that he was so looking forward to playing at Wembley. Updating the fitness situation Bilic said: “We have Andy Carroll back in the squad. Michail Antonio will definitely be out tomorrow because he had a […]

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West Ham have been given the opportunity of taking a sigh of relief after the woes of Friday night and the fall out since. For as they prepare for Spurs at Wembley this week they have learned that they may be spared the threat of goal machine Harry Kane. The striker was subbed in the […]

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KIERAN GILL AT LONDON STADIUM: Two goals by Glenn Murray and a super strike by Jose Izquierdo secured Brighton their first away win in the top flight since March 1983.

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David Sullivan’s belief in morality will be severely tested after this humiliation. When West Ham United’s co-owner appeared on television before kick-off, he pinpointed a desire to do “what’s right” as the reason for backing Slaven Bilic when speculation over the manager’s future mounted last month. By full-time, however, those noble sentiments had a hollow feel. Chairmen tend not to worry about shows of loyalty when they see their side display the tactical cohesion of a pub team…

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Slaven Bilic is planning to put out probably his most attractive side so far this season when we go into action against Brighton and Hove Albion at the London Stadium this evening. Everybody is describing this as a game we must win game and our early shout of the team suggests that we will be […]

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Get the latest team news and stats ahead of the Premier League clash between West Ham and Brighton at the London Stadium on Friday night.

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We welcome new blogger Max Willow to ClaretandHugh. Max is based in Australia and has been a fantatical Hammer since the early 1960s. He is a regular contributor to the CandH forum and also writes for West Ham World. In his first blog he puts the spotlight on Pedro Obiang as he looks back at […]

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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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Irons u23s 4 Man Utd u 23s 2 Toni Martinez was on a goal charge as the Hammers completed a great six goal win over Manchester United’s under 23s. And Declan Rice returned with a top performance as skipper after missing out on a squad place for the seniors against Burnley yesterday. Despite the visitors […]

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Tony Cottee refuses to budge from the opinion that Diafra Sakho is the best all round striker at West Ham United. And stats released on the official site show the Sengalese striker has the best strike rate of any Irons front man in Premier League history. It reveals that Sak has scored 17 top-flight goals […]

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Slaven Bilic and a squad of 19 players are travelling up to the north west in pursuit of a win over Burnley tomorrow. And as the manager said at his presser, James Collins is the only notable absentee but analysing the squad it looks as though either Declan Rice or Angelo Ogbonna will be the […]

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Slaven Bilic has no big feelings about the Irons playing a Premier League match on Christmas Eve. It is now highly unlikely the Irons will be pitched against Newcastle United on December 24 but it appears it wouldn’t be much skin off the manager’s nose if it were to happen. In his pre-Burnley presser he […]

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Slaven Bilic generally leaves little doubt in anybody’s mind about plans for a weekend match – until today perhaps! His press conference ahead of the game against Burnley provided more questions than answers and try as I may I find myself no wiser about the likely team for the weekend now than before he opened […]

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David Gold has revealed the Irons have an entirely fit squad for the trip to Burnley with two exceptions. Only James Collins and Domnigos Quina have failed to recover from injury as the squad face a trip to the Premier League surprise packets. So far the Clarets have beaten Chelsea away, and draw at White […]

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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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West Ham will meet a team at Burnley on Saturday who appear to have developed the art of defending down to a near fine art. After seven games the Clarets have conceded a mere five goals – four of  them coming on away trips to Chelsea, Spurs  and Liverpool where they were unbeaten. And the […]

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Aaron Cresswell believes West Ham team-mate Andy Carroll could play his way into England’s squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

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Graeme Souness has hit out at Jack Sullivan’s bulletins on Twitter as being unacceptable within the modern game. The Scotsman has had much to say in today’s Sunday Times and the hammers fans on ClaretandHugh’s Facebook forum have not been slow in responding to the former Liverpool midfielder’s moans. O I think that they have […]

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Moore Than Just A Podcast presenter Nigel Kahn tracked down former West Ham manager Lou Macari for a feature length interview to give his side of his short time managing West Ham. Macari followed in the footsteps of John Lyall but was in charge of West Ham for just seven months and 28 matches – […]

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