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West Ham are ready to offer Marcus Browne a new contract claims a report in the Daily Mail. Browne scored four goals against Everton youngsters on Monday night in front of watching scouts from RB Leipzig, Leverkusen, Napoli and Sevilla. The Mail claim West Ham insiders believe the 20-year-old, rated at £5million, can make the step […]

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West Ham has been ranked thirteenth in the Premier League for net transfer spend over the past two seasons. Social media account Premier League Panel have compiled a list of all Premier League Clubs since June 2016. Man City: £354m Man Utd: £257m Everton: £92m Palace: £85M Arsenal: £82m Chelsea: £72m Watford & Leicester: £59m […]

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2018 makes the centenary of the debut of the song ‘I’m forever blowing bubbles’ which was first performed in a musical called ‘The Passing show of 1918’ on 25th July 1918 at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York.  The music was written by John Kellette. The lyrics are credited to “Jaan Kenbrovin” — actually a collective pseudonym for […]

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London Stadium owners E20 Stadium LLP want £170,000 per year to allow West Ham to broadcast Sky Sports TV in the stadium bars on match days. It is the latest bizarre demand from the stadium owners who seem intent on squeezing every last penny out of West Ham. West Ham want to decorate the LS concourse […]

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Four goal Marcus Browne – having scored all of them in the Under 23s win at Everton – described the massive feat as “one of his best days in football.” It saw the Hammers soar into fifth place in the Premier League 2 Division One table after their promotion last season and followed a 0-1 […]

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Mark Noble has dropped the heaviest of hints that Chicharito may and perhaps should have a Hammers future next season. The captain was thrilled and relieved to see the Mexican international find the net against Chelsea as the Hammers earned their fabulous point at Chelsea. The Hernandez future has been a vexed question all season […]

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Joe Hart insists that he remains as in love with football as ever despite a rocky season which has disappointed Hammers fans in the main and threatened his World Cup hopes. However, his display against Chelsea was a huge boost to him, the club and England boss Gareth Southgate as he produced three stunning saves […]

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Website Euro club index say there is a 57% chance of staying up in the Premier League with 35 points with a 43% chance of going down while 37 points gives clubs a 81% chance of staying up and only 19% chance of relegation. Euro Club index says the Premier League relegation battle is now […]

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Sadiq Khan is playing political games with West Ham United which has no place in football or any other sport. Our club and game is part of the leisure industry with the aim of bringing people together – by it’s nature politics DIVIDES.. You may remember that following his broadside against West Ham fans following […]

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David Moyes has not entirely ruled out offering Joe Hart a new deal if he can show the same form he demonstrated against Chelsea on Sunday. One swallow does certainly not make a summer in the manager’s world but Hart’s fine performance at the Bridge appeared to show there was a lot more in his […]

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Mike’s back with his weekly look at all things West Ham – even WINNING. In the latest video from Mr Manera he looks at the reaction of the fans – err perhaps that should be fan  whose face you may recognise- and the continuing spat between the club and Mr Sadiq Khan. Mike is always […]

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Andy Carroll is expected back on the bench for the game against Stoke City at the weekend along with Manu Lanzini. The big striker was working with on his own with Stuart Pearce on the training field last week and kicking balls and is being expected to join in with the squad this week. Carroll […]

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Eleven days ago Mayor of London Sadiq Khan received 10 questions from ClaretandHugh following his outburst over the events during our match against Burnley. He quickly smashed into West Ham fans ensuring massive publicity for his position but hasn’t been anything like as rapid in answering questions from CandH aimed at helping him he develop […]

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No Winston Reid…no Sam Byram, no Manu Lanzini, no Michail Antonio,no Pedro Obiang…no Andy Carroll! Result A 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge, a result  that nobody other than the most supreme optimist would have called – a few will want to argue with that of course. Given fine big absences ( some may wanna consider […]

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It sounds so straightforward when you read the words but stop for a second – what you are about to read from Chicharito all happened within milimteres of a moment. The Mexican scored one of the most valuable goals possible when he beat Courtois to give the Hammers a share of the spoils yesterday and […]

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West Ham’s away army of 3,000 supporters at Stamford Bridge led the way for the tributes to Ray Wilkins at Stamford Bridge. Hammers in the away end were first to join in the applause for the 61-year-old before the official one-minute tribute began at kick off and joined in again at the eight-minute mark to show […]

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David Moyes watched his Irons “stay in the game” and declared that was the key to a point today (Sun). The outstanding point at Chelsea means we have taken four from six off them but none of them was more valuable than today’s as we went six points clear of the relegation zone. And the […]

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Joe Hart produced an outstanding World Cup-bound performance for the Irons today with a series of spectacular saves as the Hammers ground their way to a fabulous point. But the stopper – recognised as one of the game’s Mr Nice Guys – first thoughts were for Chicartito whose fine second half strike gave us a […]

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ClaretandHugh’s PlayerWatch reporter Danny Leach kept his eyes on young midfielder Edi Fernandez this afternoon and it wasn’t always a pretty sight. After a long spell out injured he comes under the spotlight today retaining his place on the team after an impressive performance against Southampton after coming on for the injured Antonio. 36 – […]

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ClaretandHugh Facebook forum ratings expert Sergey Novysh hands out his marks Hart: Produced a few super saves and few decent ones. We need more performances like that. 9 Rice:  Difficult day for our defence overall, but that fella looked good. Nullified Morata on few occasions and stopped few dangerous counter-attacks. 7   Ogbonna: Another solid performance, no silly mistakes 7   […]

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Academy boss Terry Westley watched his defensive protegee Declan Rice produce an awesome performance against the club that let him leave and said: ” The lad has got the lot.” Proud Westley has been saying for months that the 19 year old is the “real deal” and after what looks like a true “coming of […]

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West Ham vice-chairman Karren Brady has taken a pop at Chelsea’s transfer policy. Brady has slammed Chelsea for letting go Mohamed Salah, Kevin de Bruyne and Romelu Lukaku. “Name three of the outstanding half-dozen players in the league and surely Mo Salah, Kevin De Bruyne and Romelu Lukaku would be among them,” Brady wrote for her Sun column. “Each of them was tried and […]

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A Claret and Hugh poll of 685 West Ham season ticket holders claim nearly 26% of supporters do not plan to renew their London Stadium seats. If this percentage was carried through to all 52,000 season ticket holders then over 13,400 supporters do not plan to renew for next season. Over 51% of supporters claim […]

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A report in the Sun newspaper claims that Sam Allardyce will attempt to make a £25m bid for West Ham’s Aaron Cresswell this summer. According to a Sun on Sunday source, the Liverpool-born 28-year-old is keen on a return to his hometown – although he has previously admitted to being a boyhood fan of the Reds. Allardyce […]

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  By Allen Cummings   Football memories come in all shapes and sizes…great games, unbelievable results, superb performances, total disasters. I’ve sampled them all many times over and today  when we visit Stamford Bridge I’ll be remembering one special game  over there in west London which In my opinion, the best performance I can ever […]

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Angelo Ogbonna has never been on a losing Hammers side in four meetings with Chelsea. And having played under Antonio Conte at Juventus he knows a little bit about the man’s methods and will certainly nbe in unsentimental mood when he runs out at the Bridge later today.   He said: “I am still close to […]

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