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Slaven Bilic is convinced better performances s are on the way once we susscessully negotiate this afternon’s clash with Hull City. The manager has consistently maintained that they will onluy cme with increased confidence from vistories and declared: We said we had to go through an extremely difficult schedule but were then facing a period of […]

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PRODUCT REVIEW: Art of Football’s “Scissorkick” T-shirt This week, thanks to Art of Football , I was lucky enough to receive one of their unique t-shirts from their West Ham range. I have experimented with their products before and have always been pleased with the high quality look and feel of the t-shirts they have on offer. The Scissorkick tee is inspired by that famous Di Canio goal against Wimbledon, an iconic …

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West Ham joint Chairman has defended the club on the ticket exchange scheme. Gold was responding to a message from a West Ham fan called Pete Andrews who said “Why was there so many empty seats last night DG? Thought we had 50k on the waiting list !!” The chairman replied “There is 66k capacity at […]

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Gokhan Tore has been ruled out for the season following surgery on his knee in Germany last week Turkish media are reporting. West Ham had hoped the 24 year old could return to his parent club in January but now they must write off the loan fee and wages for the remainder of the season. […]

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Ref Watch is back to debate another selection of controversial decisions from the midweek round of Premier League matches.

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Wednesday 14 December Premier League London Stadium KICK OFF  19:45 Slaven Bilic has picked perhaps his strongest team of the season as the Irons prepare to do battle with a team that hasn’t won on the road this season and has just one point from their travels. The manager has thrown Andy Carroll in from […]

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Winston Reid believes there is “massive improvement” in the West Ham team and was delighted with the perfomance at Liverpool. And he wants to see a distinct improvement in the opening periods saying: ” I think we can still improve massively, especially in the beginning of each half. We have to do much better, because […]

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Slaven Bilic has spoken in depth of life with Dimi Payet and how he has handled the player during the present campaign. He explained that he’d spoken with the play maker during the week declaring: “We speak often. It wasn’t like, “Come to my office, we h ave to sit down, we have to talk […]

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Paye​t equalises against Liverpo​ol pic.twitter.com/SHbsaMGLmi — Terje (@TerjeAFC) December 11, 2016 Antoni​o puts Wes​t Ha​m in front pic.twitter.com/6PNVWDzIz3 — Terje (@TerjeAFC) December 11, 2016

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Republic of Ireland international Darren Randolph did not feel his crucial save in West Ham’s 2-2 draw with Liverpool at Anfield made up for his error which led to the home side’s equaliser.

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I’m always prepared to admit that things can get lost in translation with foreign managers. However, even allowing for that, I found Slaven’s discussion on the new signings and how they would eventually come good bamboozling to put it mildly. Here’s what the boss had to say on the likes of Zaza, Tore, Feghouli, Nordtveidt […]

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Reports claiming  Dimi Payet has a £15 million buy out clause in his contract are 100% false. The story appeared in The Times this morning (Sat) saying the Frenchman could leave for the fee if the club were relegated That was immediately denied by the highly placed Hammers Insider making his return to the scene, […]

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The Spanish defender backs his manager Slaven Bilic but feels the players ‘should be killing each other a bit more’ over their side’s recent disappointments Álvaro Arbeloa could see them go – they weren’t exactly sneaking out. Even before Alexis Sánchez scored Arsenal’s final goal last Saturday, thousands of West Ham fans had left the London Stadium, those long, painful closing minutes played before sweeps of empty white seats. The Spaniard couldn’t stop them; nor …

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Today’s tittle-tattle is out of control Don’t listen to that voice in the back of your head, Arsène. You know, the one that’s saying that you could probably do without Mesut Özil because Jeff Reine-Adélaïde is showing rich promise and 2017 could be the year when Yaya Sanogo really explodes on to the scene. Sanogo isn’t going to explode on to the scene. He might crackle and froth a bit, like …

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The Daily Mirror Sport claims a supporter punched an Arsenal employee, who works as a cameraman for their in-house TV channel, on the London stadium concourse towards the end of Saturday’s 5-1 home defeat. They say West Ham have now called in the police to try to track down the culprit. Arsenal told the Mirror […]

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West Ham boss Slaven Bilic is understood to have started his training ground shake-up after his weekend outburst about a lack of intensity from the players. We understand from sources at Rush Green that the manager, who has until now, allowed day to day training routines to be supervised by first team coach Edin Turzic […]

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Morning reports that Slaven Bilic’s job is “hanging by a thread” and that he today heads into crisis talks with the board are 100 per cent untrue. The report says the board will decide today whether to persist with Bilic or to give him the two games after Sunday’s Liverpool fixture – both at home […]

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Slaven Bilic is totally confident we will not be in our present position in a month’s time. The manager has remained honest and upbeat throughout the current troubles and has now gone into the prediction business with confidence. Explaining his and the team’s position he declared: “”I am positive that we aren’t going to be in […]

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The West Ham manager is confident the club can turn around its disappointing start to the season in time but realises the clock is ticking “I try to be very open,” sighed a weary looking Slaven Bilic. “I try to be honest as I always am. It ain’t helping if we are trying to wrap things in paper and to hide. We can’t continue like this. We can’t.” As brutal self-assessments go, the West Ham United manager’s …

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Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez celebrated his hat-trick against West Ham by taking a selfie alongside star-struck Hammers ball boys at the London Stadium.   Social media account West Ham Retweets has decided to have some fun by mocking up the Arsenal hat-trick scorer having a selfie with Simone Zaza, David Gold, David Sullivan and Karren Brady. […]

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Slaven Bilic – having publicly criticised the lack of the intensity of players in training – may now be forced into shake- up of his backroom staff. Whilst the manager is responsible for tactics, formation, man management, team selection and identifying transfer targets, he relies heavily on first team coach Edin Turzic and his No […]

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Two West Ham supporters were assaulted while leaving the London Stadium after yesterday’s defeat yesterday evening. The lower risk category B game with Arsenal was largely trouble free inside and outside the stadium but the father and son claim they were assaulted just outside the turnstiles C close to the away segregation barrier. Police officers […]

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Dimi Payet is this morning being reported as target for Arsenal. The Sun declares that should the north Londoners still be flying high in January the French midfielder will become an attractive option for Wenger as he bids to put the finishing touch to a title winning campaign. Payet, 29, just fits the Arsenal manager’s […]

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Cheik Kouyate joined Michail Antonio and Aaron Cresswell on the injury list in training on Friday after suffering a slight injury. However, all three players – who have issues in the groin area – are expected to be back in action next weekend for the crucial trip to Liverpool as the manager comes under more […]

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By the time Alexis Sánchez scuttled through the middle to complete West Ham United’s humiliation and claim his hat-trick with a beautiful dink, Arsenal had produced enough moments of class to underline their title credentials. Related: West Ham United 1-5 Arsenal: Premier League – as it happened Continue reading…

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Andy Carroll will be in the Hammers’ squad for Saturday’s late kick-off, a rematch of last season’s 3-3 draw which saw him net a hat-trick while single-handedly dragging his side back from the dead.

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