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Whether you refer to him as “John Paintsil” or “John Pantsil,” the Ghana national team legend was a popular figure in East London, wearing the famous Claret & Blue between summer 2006 and summer 2008. However, what famous mistake overshadowed his time at the Boleyn Ground? Why did things never really work out for the defender with West Ham? And more importantly, where is he now? John Paintsil The future professional footballer was born in June 1981 in Berekum…

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West Ham’s injury woes are finally easing and David Moyes will have a near full squad to pick from this weekend as the team get set for Stamford Bridge. Manu Lanzini and Chicharito are both fit but with the manager presumably adopting a more defensive approach it would be no surprise to see them both […]

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West Ham will want a minimum £12 million for on loan Robert Snodgrass should Aston Villa want to sign the 30 year old midfielder in the summer. However, David Moyes still wants to take a look at the player in pre-season before deciding on whether the  Slaven Bilic signing should be sold. ‘Snoddy’ has had […]

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The Redknapps are pretty good at upsetting the Hammers apple cart – or trying to – when they get the opportunity! Harry has long since disappeared over the horizon but has had plenty to say about things in the past – notably over the sacking of his mate Slaven Bilic. But this time around it’s […]

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Rumours were alight on social media last night that the London Stadium was on fire as big black billowing smoke was seen for miles around appearing to come from the former Olympic Stadium. London Fire Brigade were scrambled to tackle the blaze close to the Olympic Park yesterday evening. A London Fire Brigade spokeswoman confirmed […]

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David Moyes has joined the chorus of praise for the latest big thing on the Hammers scene. The club hasn’t had much to cheer this season but the emergence of Declan Rice is clearly giving everybody great joy including the manager. The boss explained: “He’s a young centre-half, I’ve said before centre-half is probably the hardest […]

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Make no mistake – we are starting to witness the changing of the West Ham guard led by the brilliant Declan Rice! With the youngster performing superbly at such a tender age in the highest pressure match of the season we have a player with maybe the world at his feet. With Martin O’Neill watching […]

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David Moyes is convinced the Hammers are a better team than recent results but was grateful for some terrific fan support at the London Stadium today. Delivering his verdict on the 3-0 victory over Southampton he told the official site: “I’ve got to say we made a great start and we had great support from […]

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Marko Arnautovic is showing everyone why West Ham spent big on him during the summer, according to David Moyes.

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  Hugh hands out the marks on a day to relish Hart: Barely troubled behind a defence which had things all it’s own way 5 Zabaleta: Same as ever – steady reliable and no flash 6 Ogbonna: Excellent performance when required which wasn’t too often 7 Rice: Classy, always on hand when danger threatened and […]

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In the 24th Volume of our Classic Match series, we delve deep through the archives once more to take you through another memorable West Ham United clash from down the years, this time around, it involves Saturday’s visitors to the London Stadium, Southampton. Cast your minds back to the early autumn of 2012, “Don’t You Worry Child” by the Swedish House Mafia featuring John Martin was at the very summit of the British Music…

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The Manchester City title march resumes this weekend but there’s plenty of issues below the runaway leaders to keep us interested as the Premier League returns for the home stretch.

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Patrice Evra refuses to tell the Hammers fans how to behave because the fact that 50,000 of them are inside the London Stadium says it all for him. The joke a minute left back took time off from his various comedy routines to make some very serious points cheif among them that there is nobody […]

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Southampton manager Mark Hughes wants his team to get on the scoresheet early at the London Stadium to pile on the pressure and hopes the atmosphere and anxiety amongst West Ham fans will affect the Hammers performance negativity. Hughes told reporters at his pre-match Press conference “West Ham have their own problems to deal with, it […]

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Quite rightly, many questions have been asked of the West Ham United board and the move to the London Stadium. We have seen the protests and whatever side of the fence anyone sits on there is surely nobody would question anybody’s right to ask the questions. Certainly not us! All the arguments have had an […]

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Take a look at Saturday’s match in total isolation to everything else going on at the bottom of the table and it looks one of those MUST WIN games. In reality of course it’s not and although I expect us to win it’s my view that a draw would be a  reasonable outcome at this […]

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I’m not sure how many Irons players have been trotted out over recent days pleading with the fans to behave themselves on Saturday and give massive support to the team. Skipper Mark Noble is the latest to emerge doing so in what appears to be another piece of media office thinking. It’s not as though […]

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National newspaper journalist and  mega Manchester City fan Scott Loney has sent ClaretandHugh this very personal blog to remind Hammers fans their current London Stadium problems are not unique. By Scott Loney Sheikh Mansour dropped roughly £210m of his estimated £20 billion fortune when he acquired my beloved club Manchester City back in August 2008. […]

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West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan’s lawyers are today seeking a retraction of a story in The Times which they say wrongly claims  he “acted illegally in his tax affairs” .   Sullivan is challenging their report that he illegally avoided £700,000 in tax after placing money into West Ham United from his family company in 2010. The story […]

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SAMI MOKBEL: Southgate is planning to name Hart in his squad for Russia — but not as No 1. Pickford is leading the race to be the World Cup goalkeeper with Butland his main rival.

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A West Ham fan who was born in Dagenham and lived for several years in Plaistow, a stone’s throw from the Boleyn Ground needs help after suffering appalling injuries in Thailand in a motorcycle accident. Hammer Harry Cross had been travelling Southeast Asia for the last 5 months. On his way to extend his travel visa, Harry […]

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According to Spanish newspaper Don Balon, Barcelona’s Lionel Messi has told his teammate Luis Suarez that Manuel Lanzini would fit in perfectly at the Camp Nou. Lanzini has chalked up 18 goals and 15 assists in 96 appearances for West Ham thus far. He scored his debut goal for Argentina earlier this week much to the delight of […]

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Rumours of a move to Liverpool have not distracted West Ham’s Manuel Lanzini, who says he remains “very, very happy” at London Stadium.

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David Moyes has settled in for the long haul at West Ham – seemingly regardless of which division we are in. The Hammers boss has dropped his heaviest hint yet that he will be here next season and is currently deciding where pre-season will be condcuted. Speaking to the official site he said: ““I’m actually […]

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There’s two hikers in the woods when all of a sudden they hear the growl of a bear in the distance. They both turn away in terror and start to run. As the bear closes in on them one stops. “What are you doing you fool?” yells the other “Putting on my running shoes”. “You’ll never out run the bear” came the reply “No, but I’ll out run you!”. Hopefully our running shoes are on and we don’t take them…

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Michael Antonio grabbed a couple of goals in last night’s fund raising friendly for Dagenham and Redbridge and then declared: “I’ve feel I’ve got the goals in me to keep West Ham up.” The striker is arriving back at his best form and also believes the trip to Miami has helpd the lads explaining that […]

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