Up The Hammers – Latest West Ham United FC News

Guest Post by Paul Christmas (Joint Chairman of WHUISA) I attended the West Ham Supporter Advisory Board meeting on 24/01/2017 at London Stadium and the attendees were as listed on the minutes (https://www.whufc.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/SAB%20meeting%20minutes%20270117.pdf) .  Over 200 people from our 600 strong membership took the time to send their points of view. The documents filled 2 […]

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David Gold has claimed there was no shame in the defeat by Manchester City last night. The co chairman was as bitterly disappointed as anyone else but takes the view that we met a world class team at the peak of their powers as we collapsed to a 0-4 defeat. There has been much criticism […]

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Jose Fonte has told Hammers supporters the club’s latest humiliation is entirely down to the players who failed to follow the manager’s instructions. The  £8m signing says the blame must be laid firmly at the players explaining: “We worked on a game plan during the week and when the game started we did not apply it. […]

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Former Hammer, Chelsea and England midfielder Frank Lampard has retired, bringing to an end a 21-year professional career which started at West Ham. The 38-year-old, who spent last year with New York City in Major League Soccer in the US, announced his decision on social media on Thursday. Lampard made 649 appearances for Chelsea and won […]

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By Rich Sprent When Michail Antonio was signed for around £7m from Championship side Nottingham Forest there were more than a few questioning remarks. Here was a powerful left winger who was scoring goals for fun in England’s second tier. Could he make the step up? Was he good enough? Would he even play? And […]

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The demolition company has salvaged around 200 memorial bricks from the Boleyn Ground. The bricks bear the names of lost loved ones, names of supporters, personal messages etc. The company has kindly arranged for them to be passed on to Jonjo Heuerman/Bobby Moore Fund to sort and list so that he can help find the […]

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Regular readers of our pages will know that we have much time for the Mirror’s Darren Lewis who is also an occasional blogger for the site. And this morning he has nailed what happened last night following our own blog when we made it clear this was absolutely no time for over-reaction following the Man […]

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A father was separated from eleven year old son after London Stadium stewards panicked and closed the segregation gates outside the stadium early.  The London Stadium operators appear to have been caught off guard when a fourth goal went in on the 67th minute and hundreds, possibly thousands of supporters decided enough was enough and […]

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Slaven Bilic made it clear that mistakes cost us dearly against City and maybe pointed fingers for the first time this season. Speaking after the match the manager said: “We gave the ball away for their first and third goals and we made mistakes. “It’s hard to go so quickly 2-0 down and then we make […]

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West Ham appeared to have learned nothing from the FA Cup defeat as City tore us apart ably assisted by Aaron Cresswell, Pedro Obiang and Jose Fonte. The trio were responsible for three gift goals as the Irons collapsed before a brutally ruthless City side who terrorised us on the break. And it wasn’t until Robert […]

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ClaretandHugh’s Niall McDonald rates the Irons against Man City Randolph: Strange game – no chance with first three, nearly got a hand on the penalty and I can’t remember too many other saves he had to make 5 Byram: I’m guessing Twitter is saying that a decent right-back wouldn’t have been nutmegged by Sane, I’m […]

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West Ham have mocked Manchester City on twitter for suggesting they had taken their official team bus for a tour of London today. The Manchester City official account posted  a photo on twitter  to their 4 million followers showing a bright day with white clouds in Westminster with Big Ben pointing at 3pm!  City said: […]

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The Hammers team appears to pick itself for tonight’s match against Manchester City with Slav likely to name the same team as beat Middlesbrough at the Riverside 3-1 apart from Jose Fonte at central defence. Angelo Ogbonna has undergone successful surgery but is of course out for the rest of the season and the former Southampton […]

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A new Andy Carroll mural has now erased all trace of the previous Frenchman who used to play for us. The silhouette of Carroll scoring his famous London Stadium overhead goal includes a number of social media quotes. ‘Goal of the season’ says one simple message while while it quotes a fan called Noel on […]

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West Ham became the fourth biggest spenders in the transfer window and in some respects that told a tale with which maybe we would prefer to be associated. Despite the view of the club’s critics that we should spend like crazy in January two of the clubs who spent more  are struggling in a big […]

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Hammer Pedro Obiang tops a Premier League table  midfielders making successful tackles. The often underrated and overlooked West Ham player shows his true value to the Irons team with the publication of the latest statistics.  Pedro has made 45 tackles, winning 41 of them to record a success rate of 91.1%. Second in the table […]

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It’s the same every time of course …it’s either a rubbish transfer window or it’s brilliant. Football is so tribal even within the same club that many feel the need to express their disgust or joy – very rarely is there anything in between as the alternatives give everyone the chance to justify their prejudices. […]

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Slaven Bilic has declared there is a great atmosphere around the training ground with everybody looking forward to tonight’s game against Manchester City. And the manager has warned we can’t chase Pep Guardiola’s men around the pitch when beaten 5-0 in the FA Cup because “that’s exactly what they want you to do.” Slav said: “There […]

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David Gold has revealed that Diafra Sakho is in great spirits and can’t wait to get back on the pitch. Despite The Sun proclaiming this evening on line that Aston Villa have blown the Hammers out of the water with a £14 million bid for Scott Hogan, the real truth is that Slaven Bilic was […]

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The West Ham back office staff have gone home, Slaven has gone home, even the cleaners have gone home in the London Stadium for the night. There will be no surprise signings before  the 11pm transfer deadline so you can safely go to bed. Former West Ham striker target Scott Hogan from Brentford has signed […]

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Reading Football Club have announced the loan signing of West Ham defender Reece Oxford, who has completed a deadline day move to the Madejski which will see him represent Jaap Stam’s Royals until the end of the 2016-17 campaign. The Royals swooped to tie him to a loan deal which will see him bolster the […]

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Angelo Ogbonna has undergone surgery and is ready to step onto recovery road. The brave central defender who played throughout the first part of the season in pain has received surgery on his knee and is now tweeting from his hospital bed. His absence was quickly overcome by the arrival of Southampton’s Jose Fonte at […]

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West Ham have made no inquiry for Liverpool’s Daniel Sturridge and will not be doing so. Talksport’s Mick Quinn, former Newcastle and Coventry striker, claimed the player may be at the centre of talks involving a loan deal during the last hours of the transfer window. But our sources claim there is nothing in the […]

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TalkSPORT presenter and former professional footballer Micky Quinn has claimed that he has just been tipped off that West Ham are trying to complete a sensational swoop for Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge on transfer deadline day. Quinn said on twitter just before 11am: “Just heard West ham want Sturridge today” adding  “The deal (is) all […]

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West Ham Manager Slaven Bilic has broken silence on the reason he has cooled interest in Scott Hogan and why he hasn’t signed a right back this transfer window. Speaking to reporters in the pre-match press conference  he said: “I believe that we have really good strikers in our squad and that’s why we won’t […]

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Hammers co chairman David Sullivan has warned the Hammers faithful “not to expect much on transfer deadline day.” In a wide ranging interview on Talksport he revealed that he would like the fans for be patient and “we’ll have another go in the summer.” He explained: “We have Ayew coming back and Diafra Sakho is […]

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