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David Moyes may be ready to slip into a quick chorus of the Slade classic ‘Merry Christmas Everybody” if the Hammers grab that much required win at Stoke City tomorrow. “ It’s his favourite Christmas song explaining: “I was growing up as a young boy and that would be my favourite Christmas song!” He is […]

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West Ham’s profit share of catering profits at the London Stadium is thought to have been limited to just £75,000 for the whole last season from total profits of £750,000. Stadium owners E20 are thought to have received £675,000 in catering profits for last season from West Ham football games. Catering for the London Stadium […]

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Mark Lawrenson still can’t convince himself that the Hammers are good enough to grab their first away win of the season. The dour BBC pundit has weighed up the match against Stoke this weekend and believes the Irons will come away with no more than a draw. In his weekly set of predictions for the […]

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Adrian has spoken for the first time about spending months without hope under Slaven Bilic. Since being recalled during Joe Hart’s enforced absence at Manchester City the Spaniard has been in outstanding form and is determined to hold onto the sweater. But he admits he was in a very bad place after being told that […]

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Andre Ayew could be on his way from West Ham in the transfer window but speculation that he could return to Swansea is wide of the mark. The £20 million midfielder/striker has featured as a sub for David Moyes but appears to be out of his starting XI plans when the squad is up to […]

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Stadium owners E20 have criticised the French operator London Stadium 185 (LS185) which it awarded a 25-year contract to manage the former Olympic Stadium. In a London Assembly committee, earlier this week Assembly member Jennette Arnold told the meeting: “The E20 board in their minutes are damming about LS185 saying they have yet to prove itself as a […]

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West Ham skipper Mark Noble has made it clear that three points at Stoke City tomorrow is a must! Nobes has been utterly thrilled at the increase in level of performance after a week of games against top opposition but sees the match against the Potters as just as crucial. He said: “We needed results […]

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Diafra Sakho is set to be at the centre of a tug of war between Metz and Cardiff City when the transfer window reopens in January. The Wales outfit are currently second in the Championship and looking for front line reinforcements in their bid for promotion to the Premier League. And ClaretandHugh understands there is […]

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West Ham are hopeful they can now tempt Adrian into signing a new long term deal before the end of the season. The Spanish stopper saw the two year option on his present deal triggered in the summer just ahead of Joe Hart’s arrival on loan and Darren Randolph’s £5 million switch to Middlesbrough. And […]

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Stoke City boss Mark Hughes has reported two key injuries as he plans for the arrival of the Hammers at the weekend. He will be without on-loan Chelsea defender Kurt Zouma (hamstring injury) and Bruno Martins Indi who has been sidelined with a groin-strain following a challenge with Swansea striker Wilfried Bony. It was hoped that […]

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David Moyes has told the Hammers squad they need to be “brave” as they head into their next set of games. The manager is delighted with what’s past but recognises there are big new challenges ahead as we go into games against Stoke, Newcastle, Bournemouth and West Brom. Speaking to the official site he said: “If […]

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David Moyes is heading into a brains trust with his old ‘mucker’ Tony Henry as the January transfer window approaches. Having shown what he’s about with the players at his disposal the manager will now get down to the serious business of deciding on the two or three players the club aim to add to […]

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Mark Noble led the way again, covering 7.78 miles during the midweeks matches with only West Bromwich Albion’s James McClean covering more ground of the 220 players who started Premier League game. Even then McLean covered just 10 metres more than the West Ham captain. Manuel Lanzini ranked third overall, with 7.7 miles midweek with Pedro Obiang […]

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West Ham’s squad came through another fierce examination against Arsenal with no further injury issues. All the squad reported fit this morning and now prepare to meet Stoke in the weekend game with even James Collins back on the bench last night and available for action. Cheik Kouyate is a slight doubt with hamstring injury […]

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Acting LLDC CEO Gerry Murphy admitted to the London Assembly budget monitoring sub-committee meeting “There is a dispute with West Ham about what the contract says in terms of capacity. West Ham have absolutely said that they want to increase the capacity to 60,000. And actually, they want to further increase the capacity to 66,000. “LLDC and […]

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Acting London Legacy Development Corporation CEO Gerry Murphy told the London Assembly budget monitoring committee yesterday that the cost of moving the London Stadium lower seating is forecast to drop to around £4m next summer from a record high of £11.8m this summer. She explained that pre-tender estimates from PHD scaffolding who won a five-year […]

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How great to be wearing a smile again…how great not to have to slink away from those who simply wanna give it large knowing you have no answer to rubbish display after rubbish display. How brilliant to see a squad of players giving it until their legs buckle in exhaustion and how terrific to see […]

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David Moyes handed out enormous credit to the players for their performances against Arsenal declaring: “It was another really difficult game and we knew this period was going to be tough. And he added: “I have to give the players great credit because we defended really well, we are more resolute and harder to play against. […]

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Brilliant Angelo Ogbonna was at the top of his form last night and then made a colourful description of how long he and the team must keep their incredible recent effort going. The Italian central defender made eleven clearances and two interceptions, before Chicharito came within inches of snatching all three points . And afterwards he […]

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Mark Noble spoke of his delight at the clean sheets and four points the Irons have picked up against Chelsea and Arsenal but admitted looking forward with “dread” after the Everton 4-0 hammering. He said:  “To keep two clean sheets in two games, in five days, it’s fantastic and four points is a really good reward […]

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David Moyes is ready to concentrate on the attacking side of the Irons game after three games which have been all about “not conceding.” He said: “When I saw the fixtures in front of us I though’ Here we go’ but we have tightened up. We’ll take the points and the clean sheets but now […]

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Irons 0 Gunners 0 West Ham produced another master class defensive performance and but for the underside of the bar from a late Chicharito shot would tonight have jumped out of the bottom three. David Moyes’ new Irons’ showed tremendous defensive organisation to keep the Gunners at bay before all but pinching the late winner. […]

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Mark Noble has pledged to continue “giving his life” for West Ham United  because the club has “given me my life and career.” And as he showed against Chelsea, should he be involved against Arsenal tonight he will give nothing less than 100 per cent. “We go into the game with growing confidence after beating […]

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West Ham United manager David Moyes recently claimed that he would love to oversee a long period at the London club, similar to his spell at Everton. The Scotsman was at Goodison Park from 2002 until 2013, and during his time there he was regarded as one of the top managers in the Premier League. […]

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This article was commissioned by the London Evening Standard from ClaretandHugh and has just been published in printed form both in the newspaper and on line@ https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/west-ham-analysis-how-david-moyes-has-reversed-clubs-fortunes-a3718681.html?CMP=ILC-refresh We are re-running it here for the benefit of those who might otherwise have missed it. By Hugh Southon Whatever may or may not happen at

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David Moyes is believed to be monitoring Marouane Fellaini’s Manchester United position very closely this winter. The former Everton midfielder is a free agent in the summer and remains a very close friend of the West Ham boss who is known to be looking at the Hammers midfield area as a key part of his reinforcement […]

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