Up The Hammers – Latest West Ham United FC News

Now it’s not like ClaretandHugh to normally ask such a question but we have to wonder whether the manager has been reading these pages overnight! 🙂 For yesterday in this story http://www.claretandhugh.info/time-to-give-this-iron-real-game-time/ we pleaded the case for record signing Andre Ayew of given a run of games. The £20 million record signing has been brought on […]

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BT Sport picked up on West Ham fans on social media unhappy with Bilic’s tactics on Saturday and the Sports channel screened their comments live on TV. West Ham Central “Slaven Bilic FC. Play players out of position, concede numerous goals, repeat. Tactical dinosaur.” West Ham Fan Zone “I am not saying he should be […]

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West Ham have finally launched their ticket forwarding scheme which was originally promised at the beginning of the season. The functionality allows season ticket holders to legally electronically forward their seat onto friends or family without handing over their season ticket access card. The friend or family member need to registered on West Ham’s ticketing […]

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West Ham have published an official London Stadium seating for the first time to show seating banding categories. The publication coincides with the announcement of season ticket renewals with a deadline of 31st May. Season ticket holders will be able to relocate their seat subject to availability elsewhere. A new website for season ticket renewals […]

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West Ham have officially announced that they will be freezing season ticket prices for those renewing for the 2017/2018 campaign. Season ticket holders have been given a deadline of 31st May to renew with club claiming the season ticket waiting list has now grown to an incredible 55,000. The club will also give every season […]

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Robert Snodgrass has revealed he played through the pain barrier only to suffer bitter defeat anyway against Bournemouth. He received 10 stitches after suffering a knee injury against Chelsea and then fell awkwardly after coming on against the Cherries. He said: “I twisted my ankle and stretched my ligaments but we only had defenders and […]

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West Ham have reportedly triggered an option to keep Adrian at the club. With the 30 year old’s  deal due to run out at the close of the campaign the club and Slaven Bilic are keen for him to remain at the London Stadium. The Spaniard hasn’t been involved in any first team action since […]

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West Ham have this evening confirmed that Winston Reid will be given a new £70k plus a week contract in the summer. Reid has seen his wages eclipsed by Jose Fonte’s arrival and the club are ready to offer him parity and beyond to reflect his value to the club. And a similar deal will […]

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Andy Carroll has joined co chairman David Sullivan in condemning the Hammers squad for yesterday’s performance at Bournemouth brutally admitting: “It was a terrible performance from us.”   The striker – who was anonymous himself for the most part – declared: “We didn’t really get going and their two penalties could have really finished the game, […]

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David Sullivan is a very unhappy man and is openly discussing team situations “that cannot go on.” He has gone public on the club’s official site to make things clearer that before declaring: “”I was very disappointed and frustrated with the manner of our defeat at Bournemouth on Saturday. “We went down there determined to […]

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West Ham co-chairman David Gold said last Wednesday “I think the majority of fans are happy with the Stadium given the alternatives and if all goes to plan it will be the biggest in London. dg” On the back on Mr Gold’s statement, Claret and Hugh ran a poll to ask West Ham supporters the very […]

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Let’s think a little about Andrew Ayew as the nasty cloud of post Bournemouth dust starts to settle a little. Here’s the club’s £20 million record signing – sanctioned by the manager as part of what is a transfer window think tank collective – unable to get a start in the first team. Now this […]

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West Ham away fans were pleasantly surprised by a Bournemouth steward who clapped along with Hammers songs during yesterday’s 3-2 defeat. One life long West Ham supporter called Bez posted the video below  on social media of the unnamed steward joining in with ‘West Ham’s Claret and Blue Army’   Bez tweeted out “Why can’t we […]

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I had to find some sort of antidote to the worst West Ham performance in a long time before I started writing this morning. When you wake up feeling totally and completely gutted on a Sunday morning something has to be done so for the first time in a long long time I sat down and […]

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Gathering outside the London Stadium last week, campaigners from The East London Citizens Organisation (TELCO) delivered a letter calling on stadium owners, the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) to pay all workers at the London Living Wage of £9.75 per hour. The action follows discussions with security staff and caterers at the ground by charity […]

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Michy Batshuayi remains very much at the top of the Hammers summer hit list to replace Andy Carroll as the club’s No 1 striker Despite him having become a total Chelsea misfit  Slaven Bilic still has a very high regard for the Belgian front man he tried so hard to sign last summer. And there […]

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Co-chairman David Gold has generously rated West Ham’s pitiful display at Bournemouth as a 6/10, despite us losing the lead and giving away two sloppy penalties. DG has probably given the side three more points than us at CandH could manage if pushed to give our verdict on this truly horrible performance He took to Twitter […]

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Michail Antonio has put West Ham’s Bournemouth Blues down to a lack of composure. Speaking on the official site after the game he said: ““It was a dramatic game, but a frustrating one for us. It was end-to-end stuff and we should have stayed a bit more composed when we went into the lead – […]

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Nothing has changed – the problems that have been at the root of all our issues this season come back now and again to haunt us as they did today at Bournemouth Tonight is not a night for wearing claret and blue tinted spectacles and attempting to convince myself or anyone else that everything will […]

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It’s the first time I have had to say this about Slaven Bilic but his post-match comments really are well wide of the mark. The manager sounded as though he had suffered from a bad bout of sour grapes after we slipped to a dismal Bournemouth defeat. But thankfully ended with a reasonable appraisal if […]

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Hugh hands out his ratings Randolph :  No blame attached for the goals – saveed a pen and made three or four great stops 7 Kouyate: Run of the mill but tried to get forward   5 Fonte: Uncertain and nervous…it spread across the back line 4 Reid: Not on his game at the start, […]

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  Bournemouth 3 West Ham 2 Well, that was about as bad as West Ham get. This was a dreadful performance where we were beaten by our own mistakes and  a faster moving and more creative side. But to have got back to 2-2 with seven minutes left through Ayew before the record signing gave […]

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French prosecutors investigating whether bribery was involved in the award of the 2021 world athletics championships to the U.S. city of Eugene are also looking into cash-for-votes allegations surrounding the award of sporting events including looking at decisions by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to give their blue riband event to London for […]

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Slaven Bilic is convinced that Michail Antonio’s formshould see him back in the squad. The versatile Hammer of the Year favourite returns to the squad at Bournemouth today and Bilic has made a timely call for his inclusion in the international squad. Gareth Southgate is soon to name his men for  this month’s games against […]

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A former West Ham  star is being hunted by cops after failing to show up to court. 41 year old former Hammer Shaun Newton,  was charged with burglary after being arrested in May last year. But the former winger failed to appear at Kingston Crown Court on October 13th. He appeared in Merton Police’s most wanted […]

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Bournemouth have been fined £35,000 ahead of their game against West Ham after admitting a breach of Football Association anti-doping rules.The Premier League side were charged after failing to ensure their club whereabouts information was accurate on three occasions. All clubs are required to provide accurate details of training sessions and player whereabouts so they […]

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