Up The Hammers – Latest West Ham United FC News

Slaven Bilic has been giving his last pre match press conference of the season before we face Stoke City on Sunday. Slav told the media “We’ve come in today and touch wood everyone has come through the last game ok. It is the last game of the season and it’s the same for a few clubs […]

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The Metropolitan police claim the Manchester United team bus incident on the corner of Barking Rd and Green Street left four policemen injured. In a statement on their website they say a 20-year-old man was arrested for throwing bottles at police officers at the scene and he has been released on bail until August. Commander […]

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Where was the media outcry when Liverpool fans threw objects and bottles at the Villareal team bus just eight days ago. Where is the UEFA enquiry, the Interpol investigation or trial by media? There seems to be a witch hunt in the media against West Ham fans about what happened on Tuesday night while they […]

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West Ham and Liverpool could face a play-off to determine who qualifies for the Europa League. The Hammers lie sixth in the Premier League before the final round of matches, while Liverpool are eighth. There is a possible scenario that has both clubs level on points, goal difference and goals scored. West Ham would have […]

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West Ham Supporters booked into the Boleyn Ground stadium tours on some dates will not be able to view the changing rooms or dug-outs they were told by club email this evening. Claret and Hugh Associate Editor, Sean Whetstone received this email for his tour booked on Saturday 28th May. The email said: “Please be […]

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With the announcement that the West Ham ladies match on 5th June is likely to be cancelled, a match between the Royal Engineers and Upton Park FC is set to become the last game of football played at the Boleyn ground.The match will be played on Monday 30th May. The Royal Engineers have some history […]

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The last  Premier League game was played on Tuesday night at the Boleyn Ground but they are a number of end of season charity games planned and this was set to culminate with a West Ham Ladies game against a West Ham All-Stars XI organised by the chairman’s son Jack Sullivan. The club promoted the […]

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West Ham have been told they will have to pay 40 million euros for Marseilles striker Michy Batsuhayi. And the club is now reconsidering its position as that’s way above what they were planning to splash out on the striker. Some hard negotiations are going on with several strikers but the Batsuhayi option is well […]

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Elliot Lee has finished his loan with Colchester United and now his future with West Ham is in the balance with his contract with West Ham expiring in 19 days time. The striker took to social media to say “Now it’s time to relax… Been a long, frustrating, enjoyable, up and down, successful season! Looking […]

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West Ham have been announced as one of the three LIVE games this weekend away to Stoke. It will be the fifteenth Premier League game shown live on UK TV this season. Each match earns the Hammers a facility fee of around £875,00 so the total will top £13,125,000 for the whole season, up from […]

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If you thought we were up for the match against Manchester United just look at the interest it created on the Manchester City forums. The Sky Blues were fans were of course entirely desperate for the Irons to do them a turn in European terms and we didn’t disappoint them of course. Have to admit […]

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West Ham chairman David Gold foresaw the problems and  taffic chaos ahead on Tuesday, tweeting from his official twitter account to his 140,000 followers the 79 year old chairman tweeted at 9.48am on the morning of the match “Kickoff tonight is 7.45pm traffic will be horrendous allow extra time. See you there. #FarewellBoleyn dg” Obviously the bronze […]

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Chelsea could ground share with West Ham at the Olympic Stadium while their new stadium is built claims the BBC’s Dan Roan. The Blues want to relocate to Wembley for three years and but it is claimed the FA  want £20m-a-year in rent. But Roan claims they have also held talks with the London Legacy Development […]

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West Ham, Manchester United and  Manchester City will all be live on Sky Sports this Sunday as the race for European qualification reaches its climax it was announced Sky evening as the relegation places for Norwich and Newcastle was settled. The fourth and final Champions League spot will be decided on the final day of […]

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Chelsea drew with Liverpool tonight away at Anfield.  It means Liverpool are now three points behind West Ham but the Hammers have a slight superior goal difference of two. West Ham moved  back up to sixth place yesterday above Southampton yafter our historic win over Manchester United who remain one point above us.  It means […]

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Exclusive Reece Burke was allegedly refused entry to the Boleyn Ground players car park  yesterday by the Metropolitan Police according to several eye witnesses. One West Ham fan told ClaretandHugh, Burke was caught up in the Green Street crush  and attempted to gain entry via the players car park which was guarded by police prior […]

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Guest post by David Griffith, also known as Blind Hammer. Blind Hammer asks if the Police have really learnt any lessons from Hillsborough. I, along with dozens of other West Ham supporters nearly sustained serious injury last night. As it happens my guide and I were lucky to escape with only minor leg injuries. At one stage […]

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While the Manchester United team coach incident grabs all the headlines today, little has been said about the dangerous crush along Green Street before kick-off with many supporters fearing for their safety on the last day outside the Boleyn Ground. By Tuesday lunchtime, several hundred fans had already made their way to Green Street, by […]

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ClaretandHugh cannot and will not make excuses for the people who decided to throw objects and bottles at the United coach. IT WAS HORRENDOUS and they have shamed our great club! However, there remain some key questions that need asking and answering about last night’s debacle which led to a delayed 8.30 pm kick off. […]

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What a great and fitting game of football to finish 112 years at the Boleyn Ground but the closing ceremony was a major disappointment to myself and many of the 35,000 crowd there on the damp night. The highlights of the closing ceremony were the light and pyrotechnic show to the tune of twist and shout […]

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A series of events led to a small minority of so called Hammers fans throwing objects which broke the blackout covering in front of windows on the Manchester United team coach. There can be no excuse for the small minority of Hammers fans that threw the bottles and cans at the bus at the corner of […]

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West Ham players, staff, fans and celebrities were locked into the Boleyn Ground last night around midnight as the police enforced a complete lock-down of the stadium ahead of the departure of the Manchester United team coach. Supporters, players and staff were told they were unable to leave the ground until a replacement coach from Reptons […]

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David Gold watched horrified as events unfolded in Green Street ahead of the Manchester Unitd coach being attacked last night And he told ClaretandHugh exclusively: We were watching from the balcony and we apologise to the Manchester United players, manager and all officials of the club. It is unacceptable.” Whilst the club isn’t responsible for […]

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The 45-minute late kickoff due to the Manchester United late arrival forced major changes to the closing ceremony at the Boleyn Ground last night, the biggest of which was to stage the finale first instead last. UK law prohibits the setting off of fireworks past 11pm except on bonfire night, New Year’s Eve, Diwali and […]

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ClaretandHugh’s Niall McDonald casts his eyes back at a stunning night!   This was an incredible performance given the importance of the game, the emotions and fanfare surrounding it, the quality of the opposition, the delays on the night – and all coming off the back of the debacle against Swansea a few days before. […]

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So in the end the only tears being shed were tears of delight – well perhaps not all but 90 per cent of them. We’re football people you see and at some stage the game takes over. It did last night and as we staged the comebacks of comebacks – and there have been a […]

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