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London Stadium owners LLDC have budgeted for a further £124.5m over the last five years despite restructuring. A draft budget submission published by LLDC shows predicted losses of £27.3m this financial increasing to £29.3m next year 2019/2010 which starts in April. Losses are forecast to slightly decrease in 2020/2021 to £28.8m before dropping £19.2m of losses […]

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This has been the season of key moments all adding up to demonstrate why so many of us love following this great club of ours. Quite frankly, there’s never ever a dull moment with a mix of good and bad demonstrating what we have always been about although we dare to dream things are changing. […]

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By CandH bloggerAllen Cummings We’ve got an invite to the Palace this Saturday but the chances are it’s going to be anything but an easy day out in the capital. The south Londoners are on the fringe of the relegation battle, and scrapping for every point in an effort to retain their […]

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CandH Exclusive Trevor Brooking is thrilled that his big mate Bill Bonds is joining himself and Mooro by having the third stand named after him at the London Stadium. The Billy Bonds stand will be officially unveiled on March 2 when Newcastle are the visitors and speaking exclusively to ClaretandHugh ‘Sir Trev’ was keen to let […]

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Marko Arnautovic is back in full training and will be available for selection for Saturday’s game at Crystal Palace. There had been rumours that the striker was still not 100 per cent ready following the foot injury he suffered at Wolves but an insider source confirmed to CandH this afternoon that he is training and […]

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So the Hammers ‘holy trinity’ is complete with Bonzo joining Trevor Brooking and the great Mooro is places of honour at the London Stadium. It feels right. It is so right that this should have happend. It’s been a long time coming but the wait has been more than worth it. Mooro will be delighted… […]

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At last…at long long last – Bill Bonds has received the honour he truly deserves. This morning the club has announced – clearly with great pride – that the great man is to be permanently honoured at London Stadium with a stand in his name. The current East Stand will become the Billy Bonds Stand, in […]

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Jurgen Klopp’s outburst that the Hammers may have been favoured by referee Kevin Friend in the second half of Monday night’s match could land him in trouble by the Football Association. The German was not his usual happy-go-lucky self after Manuel Pellegrini’s men had all but won the game against the leaders. And with the […]

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The Hammers are understood to be showing an interest in Benfica striker Joao Felix. We were apparently first interested in – and involved in advanced talks – for the player back in August. Now according to reports from Spanish publication AS, West Ham claim he is valued at around £105 million which sounds like a bit of nonsense […]

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Angelo Ogbonna has shown his worth over and over again during recent games with Fabian Balbuena being injured. The Italian had been regularly linked with a move away from the London Stadium over January and before but he showed on Monday night again his immense value to the team and why the club were never […]

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The club is unlikely to take over responsibility for stewarding of West Ham matches in the short term at the London Stadium Claret and Hugh have learnt today. Last month stadium owners bought out operator London Stadium 185 from French owners Vinci Stadium effectively bringing the operations and day to day management in-house to E20 owned by […]

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Episode twenty-one of season eight of the popular West Ham podcast Moore Than Just A Podcast is now available. Claret and Hugh Associate editor Sean Whetstone and fellow presenter John Bucci discuss the embarrassing Wolves defeat with zero shots on target before turning our attention the amazing turnaround against Liverpool at the London Stadium on Monday night, […]

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Declan Rice won the Claret and Hugh West Ham man of the match yet again against Liverpool last night with an impressive average score of 8.66. With hundreds of C&H readers voting, record signing Felipe Anderson was a close second on 8.52 followed by goal scorer Michail Antonio scoring an average score of 8.35. Fabianski […]

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Ryan Fredericks appearance at right back last night had him commenting that he felt his season only started against Liverpool. But it also opened up an interesting scenario around Pablo Zabaleta whose new contract extension may well depend on how many appearances the former Fulham man makes over the next 15 games. Zaba has hinted […]

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It really was a great night! After all that had gone before the injury ravaged Irons hit back in the best possible way – by making life as tough as they may have found it for the League leaders. Hammers Chat founder – and CandH partner Gonzo – was there to catch every spit and […]

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London Mayor Sadiq Kahn was a VIP guest in the West Ham directors box last night at the London Stadium. Self-confessed Liverpool fan Khan had previously rejected invitations from West Ham Vice-Chairman Karren Brady to watch West Ham v Liverpool but he agreed to be a guest last night after relations between the Mayor and the club […]

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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said the referee’s performance was affected by an assistant referee’s mistake for Sadio Mane’s goal against West Ham. Mane’s opener stood despite James Milner being offside in the build-up. Michail Antonio equalised for West Ham before the break but Klopp says referee Kevin Friend “did not want to open the gap any […]

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Nobody put in a bigger shift than Declan Rice last night as the midfielder’s sensational form goes from greater to greater. Given that he was hauled off in the first game against Liverpool at Anfield it shows that he does learning curves like no other young player we have seen in the claret and blue. […]

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Jurgen Klopp let himself down in a big way on Sky Sports last night! He is often portrayed by himself and others as the joker in the Anfield pack but his comments about last night’s referring and his assistants disasters was way out of order. He accepted – it seems – that the Liverpool goal […]

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West Ham suddenly became a serious threat from set pieces last night, one in particular of course leading to another Michail Antonio goal against Liverpool which was right out of the top drawer. The quality of the goal was everything that the visitor’s wasn’t after Kevin Friend and his assistant had allowed that blatantly offside […]

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Please vote with your personal ratings for West Ham players who played for ten minutes or more in the West Ham United v Liverpool game in the Premier League on Monday evening. Please only vote if you watched the game yourself and select a numerical score between one and ten where one is low and […]

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West Ham have offered a free digital copy of the West Ham v Liverpool match day programme after a printing error led the wrong Manuel Pellegrini match day notes being re-published welcoming Arsenal instead of Liverpool. The club acted quickly when they realised the error and emailed Hammers supporters saying “Due to an error by a […]

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Midfield supremo Declan Rice came under the CandH reporter Danny Leach’s PlayerWatch spotlight last night after being hauled off in the first game at Anfield and he showed just how far he has come since last August. 25 – Clears away a corner after it pinballs in the box 31 – Receives the ball on […]

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Xande Silva – who was believed to have recovered from injury is still feeling problems from a hernia – and may need an operation. The never ending list of injuries continue to pile up and on a night when he could have expected to perhaps make his bow at some point, CandH was told the […]

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The Liverpool goal really was as offside as it gets! Nobody wants to accuse officials of favouring the bigger teams but you have to wonder how on earth paid referees’ assistants can miss something as obvious as this. Everybody inside the stadium and those watching on TV could see clearly that James Milner was a […]

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Some things are best unsaid – some fears are best kept to ourselves! And so it turned out last night as the Hammers totally buried all the anxieties I for one had been keeping very close to my chest. After two horrible defeats you do start to wonder what on earth is going on and […]

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