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“I think Chicharito has been brilliant,” former Hammer Dean Ashton has told whufc.com: “It’s always difficult to come into a new side and get off to a good start. What he does, which the fans love, is he gives absolutely everything. He runs around like a lunatic. He puts himself about. He gets in the […]

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West Ham skipper Mark Noble has used his Matchday programme column for a rallying cry to supporters for tonight’s game Noble writes in the programme “We’ve spoken about those three games, and we have worked hard to put things right on the training pitch, our season starts again tonight, really. If I am being honest, […]

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Hammer Michail Antonio admits West Ham have made a bad start and have made a couple of mistakes but says they can pick themselves up and move forward. Stating the obvious he told WHUFC.com that it is important to win and get some points on the table. Speaking to the official website “It’s just one of […]

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Birthday boy Slaven Bilic has shared his thoughts on the official website ahead of tonight’s game. Speaking to WHUFC.com he said “Tonight’s game is a big one. There is no getting away from it. And I am facing up to that in the way I have always done throughout my career when in a difficult […]

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The Guardian took to their favourite sport of West Ham bashing again on Sunday.  Senior researcher at the Directory of Social Change, Rachel Cain wrote an article which appeared to blame West Ham for a short fall in charity funding. She wrote “As West Ham United kick off a new season in the Olympic Stadium where […]

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Stan Collymore writes in the Daily Mirror today that he is prepared to give both the board and the manager the benefit of the doubt for West Ham’s poor start. He points out that history tells us the owners are not sackers but says it can see it going one way with the end of […]

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Slaven Bilic has spoken out on Diafra Sakho’s ill fated attempts to join Rennes and admitted he doesn’t know the full story behind things. The manager has not been shy of making it clear that the player wanted to go to the French club and isn’t sure whether he had permission to do so or […]

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Slaven Bilic is looking for home comforts when the team run on to the London Stadium for the first time this season this evening. Commenting ahead of the game he said: “It’s good to play at home again – the home form is the key “The players know we have to begin physically, to go […]

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The only surprising aspect of the apparent current tension between David Sullivan and Slaven Bilic is that anybody is in the least bit surprised. For if you re-visit the build-up to the manager’s appointment you find that he was behind the likes of David Moyes, Rafa Benitez, Jurgen Klopp and Carlo Ancelotti. Even Steve McClaren […]

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It’s been a week of sound and fury at West Ham this week with the club going through another divisive period in a history of making crises from dramas. And as usual Nigel Kahn has keeping a cynical eye on everything as one problem appears to have led to another with seemingly nobody knowing what […]

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Two-year-old Hammers fan Isla Caton has been diagnosed with a rare form of child cancer called Neuroblastoma, only one hundred children in the UK are diagnosed with this cancer each year. It is the same disease which was bravely fought and lost by young Sunderland fan Bradley Lowery. Isla currently having treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital […]

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Reports and speculation that the Hammers are globetrotting in search of a new boss are nonsense and can be totally forgotten by the fans. The West ham board have no intentions of firing the manager despite the unwise public announcement from David Sullivan that it is now down to the boss to do the job. […]

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Operators London Stadium 185 have decided against a Manchester United type bag ban this season at the former Olympic Stadium. Supporters at Old Trafford are not permitted to bring a bag larger than a small handbag (20cm x 15cm x 5cm) with them or they will have to leave it in a new bag drop […]

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A report that the West Ham board have earmarked Napoli coach Maurizio Sarri as the man they want to replace Slaven Bilic appears to be very wide of the mark. The Sunday Express claims the 58-year-old who replaced Benitez at the Italian club is being lined up as a possible replacement for the West Ham Croatian […]

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Former West Ham manager Sam Allardyce has told Sky Sports that former Hammer Ravel Morrison was the biggest waste of talent he ever worked with in his management career. Big Sam explained: “He was that good but because of the mental side of his game and his life he couldn’t produce that talent on a […]

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Ashley Fletcher – who made a £6 million switch to Middlesbrough from the Irons –  again failed to make the starting line up as Boro sauntered to a 3-0 away win over Bolton in today’s Championship match. He didn’t appear until the 82nd minute and had no impact on proceedings whatsoever. That  was his first […]

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Slaven Bilic has denied the suggestion he is too nice.  “I don’t see myself as an especially nice guy,” he told Bianca Westwood on Soccer Saturday “I also can lose my temper and I was doing that very recently – or last season. When I feel it’s needed, I do that. I think I have it [a […]

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Huddersfield Town boss David Wagner believes all three of his latest signings are all pushing  for places in Monday night’s team at the London Stadium. The Premier League manager of the month for August brought in  in No10 Abdelhamid Sabiri from Nuremburg, Florent Hadergjonaj from Ingolstadt and ex-England and West Ham goalkeeper Robert Green from […]

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Tom Ince knows he will suffer the “sins” of his father when he arrives at the London Stadium on Monday night. The 25 year old winger has had to block out or fight off unwanted attention from Irons fans knowing  the jibes, sneers and mocking is never far away when he comes into opposition with […]

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West Ham has quietly increased ticket booking fees at the London Stadium by 100% for all Season Ticket Holders. With the introduction of the new Ticket Master contract season ticket holders were charged just £1 per online transaction or £1.95 if using the telephone. Previously supporters had been charged £1.50 per transaction under the See Tickets contract. The […]

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Former West Ham Manager Sam Allardyce has revealed a bizarre transfer meeting when he was West Ham manager. Speaking to the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast on Talksport radio he said  on Eder “We arranged to meet up in a hotel after the game … with the president of the club and the secretary of the […]

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West Ham fans are hoping that photos of the new shirt sleeve sponsor’s logo are only photoshopped mock-ups which will improve when used for the first time on West Ham shirts for real. Supporters pointed to white type face logo on a red background sticking out on the current home kit and pointed to the […]

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Criminal Jack O’Brien is said to be planning a revenge attack on Andy Carroll after sneaking a mobile phone into Chelmsford Prison claims the Sun today. Jack O’Brien is said to be fuming over his sentence and threatening to take revenge against the star. The Sun says he has told fellow lags he is planning […]

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Head of West Ham Medical Gary Lewin says Andy Carroll is his own worst enemy. Speaking to the Newham Recorder before the International break Lewin said of Andy Carroll: “He has been training for just over two weeks and with the international break it will be even more by the time we get to Huddersfield, so […]

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West Ham’s official partner club in Nigeria has hit the headlines in Africa after nine players from FC Ifeanyi Ubah have been hit with 12-match bans for attacking a referee. A vicious August clash against 2-1 winners Niger Tornadoes ended in chaos with Ubah left with nine men after red cards for Godwin Obaje and […]

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Manuel Lanzini and Javier Hernandes have joined Andy Carroll on in an updated mural on London Stadium wall outside the turnstiles. Andy Carroll famous scissor kick replaced a previous mural of Dimitri Payet last season after the sulky Frenchman engineered a move away. Embarrassed at Carroll’s lack of games after his famous goal against Crystal […]

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