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Jose Fonte told Sky Sports cameras “Obviously very disappointing, not the performance we wanted to produce, not the performance the fans deserve, we need to look at ourselves in the mirror because this cannot happen, this happened a few times last season. We have to put this right. We are West Ham and it’s just […]

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Many will accuse us of being reactionary in running a poll directly after the latest disappointing Premier League defeat. But the truth is that Slaven Bilic has only managed twelve Premier League wins in thirty-nine games spanning a full twelve months. We ask whether Slav’s time is up and he should go immediately; whether he […]

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Despite widespread reports, West Ham are NOT holding an emergency board meeting today to decide whether Slaven Bilic should be sacked! Speculation has been swirling around since last night’s shock result that Bilic could be out of work by the weekend as a result of such a meeting. It was first promoted last night but […]

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West Ham are drawing up a list of candidates to take over from Slaven Bilic after the disastrous events of Friday night and Brighton. The club knows it has a serious problem and is quickly looking at limited options but the promotion of Terry Westley as even a temporary replacement while the club looks at […]

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“It was a bad performance,” Bilic told sky Sports. “The goals killed us, the first one very quick. Between the first and second goal we were dominating the game.” “They defended the box really good and at the end of the first half we conceded from a bit of skill from their player. It is […]

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A Spokesperson of the Ayew family, Fiifi Tackie has rubbished claims of a sex-scandal involving West Ham player Andre Ayew. French news site melty.fr on Monday reported on their website that the West Ham midfielder had relations with Shay, a female rapper with Paris-based group 92i. The website alleged that the sex scandal involving Ayew […]

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West Ham goalkeeper Joe Hart has been robbed by a gang of moped bandits in Romford. The 30-year-old keeper had his smartphone, wallet and watch snatched by three scooter-riding thieves who pounced on him close to the club’s training ground. The Sun quotes a source close to the England keeper as saying it happened near […]

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Angelo Ogbonna last night appeared to endorse a West Ham fan social media message saying Bilic Out!   West Ham supporters were quick to spot that the West Ham defender liked a message on Instagram late last night.

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The omens were there from the very start last night at the London Stadium, the Claret and Hugh crowd-funded flag was missing and they couldn’t get the massive TV screens working in the stadium so it was impossible to know how many minutes were left to play throughout the game. Although West Ham fans sang loudly […]

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Memo to the Board Enough is truly enough – last night felt like the end of the world and there is only one group of people who can do anything about the disaster that has now fully opened up beneath us…YOU! Slaven Bilic is a lost man as demonstrated in his interview following the game. […]

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The Hammers hit the lowest of lows against Brighton last night giving their worst performance in many years. Here’s how fans responded on the ClaretandHugh Facebook forum O I have no more words now. Just gutted at this gutless performance. O Sullivan won’t act. Bilic won’t walk as he is as deluded as Sullivan. He wont […]

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Slaven Bilic looked like a man waiting for the sack immediately after the game. Asked bout his position at the club by the Sky after match reporter he declared: “The board will do what they decide to do!” And asked why the team put in such a thorough despicable performance he added: “I don’t know. […]

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    Hugh has the shocking job of rating the West Ham players – let’s get this over FAST     Hart: Isolated for first by some shocking defending , beaten – perhaps a tad too easily for the second – and spot kick sealed his awful night 4 Zabaleta: Until a wild challenge led […]

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West Ham 0 Brighton and Hove Albion 3 David Sullivan said before the game in an interview with Gary Neville that Slaven Bilic would get the three years three years on his contract to prove himself. We can only hope he was joking or bluffing because tonight West Ham is a club in the deepest […]

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David Sullivan has declared that Slavn Bilic will get the three years he has signed up for and that he is expecting things to get better at the club. Speaking to Gary Neville on Sky ahead of the game against Brighton the co chairman said: “He didn’t sign up for one or two years – […]

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We’re getting unconfirmed reports that Aaron Cresswell has suffered a sickness bug and may be forced to drop out of tonight’s line-up against Brighton. We stress that these are unconfirmed at this stage but it seems possible that Arthur Masuaku could now step into the left back role. Should that turn out to be the […]

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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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BBC pundit Mark Lawrenson believes West Ham have turned a corner and believes they will beat Brighton this evening at the London Stadium. Speaking to the BBC website Lawro said: “I do feel like West Ham have turned the corner since the start of the season, even if Andy Carroll’s red card probably cost them victory at […]

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Brighton boss Chris Hughton returns to his roots tonight declaring himself  “very much a West Ham lad.” Although spending most of his career with Spurs the former Hammer – having spent to years at Upton Park in the 90s says: ” We ended up getting promotion from the old Second Division to the First Division, […]

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Manu Lanzini has made no bones about his mission for the rest of the season after missing the early games through injury. He has no doubts about the quality of the irons squad but intends to play an integral part in keeping things swinging along the right way. Speaking to the Official programme for tonight’s […]

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Sky Sports football pundit Paul Merson predicts a narrow West Ham win this evening The former Arsenal footballer told Sky Sports website:  “West Ham to win this by a goal. I watched West Ham the other week against Swansea, they fell over the line in the last minute. I look at Brighton, they play a […]

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Slaven Bilic admits he’s “very excited” at the prospect of seeing Chicharito up front in a central role tonight (Fri). The vast majority of fans have been confused at the wide left role handed to the Mexican in early games and and the manager has explained why he has not been playing him that role […]

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West Ham loanee Reece Oxford has ruled out an early return to West Ham this January saying he will remain in Germany and is only focussed on training and the chance to play. The 18-year-old did confirm he has a clause to return early but says he is not looking to activate it. “It’s true […]

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London Legacy Development Corporation CEO David Goldstone, was paid £263,000 last year including £39,000 in bonuses, £26,000 in pension contributions and £1,000 in expenses making him one of the highest paid civil servants in the land despite the London Stadium suffering transformation overspend making massive operating losses during the same year. His 2016 salary an […]

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Diafra Sakho’s back injury has ruled him out of the match against Brighton tomorrow night (Fri) and highlighted the big decision the Hammers have to make over the striker’s future in January. Whilst ClaretandHugh was assured the player is set to return for ib time for either the Spurs or Southampton games, Sakho has again […]

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Len is up to his usual mischief and this time he’s sending up our owners and club legend Billy Bonds as well as having his own say on who should be benched on Friday night against Brighton Hove Albion. We also hear the owners (well their animated selves anyway) views on the increasing complex goalkeeping […]

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