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West Ham stalwart Winston Reid has admitted the Irons players started to doubt themselves during the Watford game and now need a bit of luck. But he made it clear there’s no easy fix for the team’s present form saying: “We have to work hard to get out of the situation. There’s no big solution […]

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A 17-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of violent disorder and possession of an offensive weapon. The teenager was arrested on Friday morning in Benfleet, Essex and was taken to an East End police station for questioning. On Wednesday evening Karren Brady told the Supporters feedback panel that four arrests had been made at the […]

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David Gold has produced another classic put down of a fan attempting to give him a hard time on Twitter. As the discontent contines to rumble on over summer signings, Gold made it clear why the club was unable to sign Carlos Bacca. And he used a colourful explanation of why that was the case. […]

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Sometimes trying to make head or tail of West Ham political machinations is a job with which the world’s greatest trobleshooter would struggle. In terms of newspaper coverage the major stry this week was Karren Brady’s ‘culture’ comments which, as we blogged, were in our view entirely misrepresented. However, it has to be said that […]

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London Stadium trespasser Harry Gallagher has been arrested after getting caught climbing another building in Stratford called the Sidemen building. Harry and his team called Nightscape broke into the London Stadium and filmed themselves dangling their legs over the roof.  The youtube video has made them famous with over 1.6 million views.  However Harry was […]

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Young Reece Oxford is still hoping to emulate Rio Ferdinand by making a permanent breakthrough into the Hammers team. Despite not getting a chance so far this season, the fact that he has not been sent out on loan would siggest his chance may come. However, the team’s form will need to turn upwards first […]

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Hammer Tony Cottee remains totally convnced that Slaven Bilic is the right man to lead the club into a brighter period starting at Crystal Palace next weekend. TC was one of the Croatian’s biggest supporters before hisl appointment and said: “Slaven has earned the right to put things right after his first season. He has […]

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Karren Brady has used her Sun newspaper football diary to re-enforce that she believes in West Ham’s move to London Stadium and says the noise will disappear once when the Hammers start winning home games. He points out we can never go back so we have to look forward together. Early feedback from our poll […]

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This weekend’s poll seeks to discover when fans expect  the London Stadium feel like our new home? There have been widely publicised problems which the club have called “teething issues” after our move to the London Stadium. While any move to a new home takes time to settle we ask the simple question how long […]

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A meeting will be held tomorrow afternoon (Sat Oct 8th) aimed at setting up a new Supporters Trust. The kick off meeting will held at the Hammers Social club in Castle Street off Green Street at 3pm . In a statement the group delivered to CandH and other fan sites they say: “Discussion has been […]

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Ravel Morrison could be set for a Premier League return. The 23-year-old is currently with Lazio but is out of first team favour with much speculation he could soon be on his way. The former England Under-21 international has made just eight appearances for the Serie A side since moving to Italy in 2015. Lazio […]

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Fifteen fans – representing the Irons supporters base – were involved in a lively three hour meeting in front of a  panel consisting of Board members, senior staff members and representatives from London Stadium and the Metropolitan Police  on Wednesday evening. The fans were selected to take part from the hundreds who have provided feedback […]

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The Metropolitan police will deploy more officers outside the stadium for the West Ham v Chelsea game EFL cup game than were used for the mach against Millwall in 2009. ClaretandHugh’s associate editor, Sean Whetstone attended a Met police football unit meeting in Lambeth on last night (Thurs) alongside Amanda Jacks from the Football Supporters’ […]

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Operators London Stadium 185 together with caterers Delaware North will ban the sale of bottles from the Premier League match when West Ham face Sunderland later this month. The London Stadium Safety Advisory Group (LS-SAG) which met earlier this week have decided all bottles must now be decanted and liquid contents poured into plastic glasses […]

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Dimi Payet’s wonder goal against Middlesborough may have got everybody out of their seats but it still can’t eclipse the best goal ever seen by a West Ham player. A ClaretandHugh poll asked whether the Frenchman’s amazing solo effort was better than Paolo Di Canio’s fabuou volley against Wimbledon back in 2000. Over 1200 voted […]

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Aaron Cresswell is hoping to be in action for the next League match against  Crystal Palace. He has made a much quicker than expected return from tje knee ligament injury he sustained during the pre-season game against Karlsruher. Cressie played 50 minutes in a training ground match against the Hammers PL2 side today and with […]

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A super computer is predicting a finishing position of 13th for the Irons this season. After seven matches the Hammers are third from bottom with just one win and four points but will finish the campaign in 13th a drop of six places from last season according to the talkSPORT’s super computer Sunderland will finish bottom […]

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Today ClaretandHugh are calling for an end to the Premium line rip off number for the ticket office. Many supporters continue to receive large mobile phone bills after calling the West Ham ticket office. 0871 numbers are regarded as premium numbers and not included in any mobile call plans. West Ham do point out the costs […]

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Karren Brady’s comments about the club have been the only show in town over the last 24 hours. She’s been knocked from pillar to post – along with the owners – by the media but here’s what the fans at ClaretandHugh’s Facebook forum have to say at https://www.facebook.com/groups/363174467150521/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/363174467150521/ O There will always be those that […]

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Karren Brady has let slip that a film called Iron Men is being made about the Boleyn Ground. West Ham commissioned Spark Media to make the film in their final season at the Boleyn Ground and eagle eyed supporters would have spotted the film crew on match days in their high visibility vests last season […]

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Enner Valencia has been met by police and lawyers in Ecuador following a training session while on international duty. The striker a was faced by authorities holding a judicial order, with lawyers representing the mother of his five-year-old daughter seeking an alleged £13,350 in maintenance,reports the Liverpool Echo. The 26-year-old was greeted at the Atahualpa […]

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After another day of media frenzy focusing on West Ham, their fans, the London Stadium, the owners and Karren Brady. ClaretandHugh Associate editor Sean Whetstone called up Talksport radio station to try to balance up some of the biased media attention which has beset our club in recent weeks. You can hear the full interview […]

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Nineteen year old Alex Pike has spoken of how he was left bloodied but unbowed after his Checkatrade Trophy clash withthe strongest man mountain  in football –  Adebayo Akinfenwa. The young Hammer clashed with the the immovable object as the League Two side beating our kids s 3-0 with Bayo sscoring the opener in a typically […]

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Karren Brady is widely reported today on the comments she made at the Leaders Sports Business Summit at Stamford Bridge ysterday (Wed). In pursuit of a stick with which to beat West Ham, the media at large leapt on her remarks about the club’s “culture” prior to the Davids arrival and spun them out of […]

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West Ham winger Michail Antonio has fulfiled al promise made to a Birmingham charity. Good guy Michail pledged a signed shirt for Libby Mae’s Little Angels to founders Richard and Charlotte Sharratt, but ran out of time to post it before last Saturday’s auction for neonatal units across the region. So he went out of […]

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Turkish football fans are furious over the Gokhan Tore song published on youtube over the weekend. The video has been viewed by over 17,500 people but Besiktas fans say we have Tore all wrong and he is too good for West Ham. One Turkish fan commented:“Why don’t you idiots tell that your single victory of the […]

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