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West Ham Vice-Chairman Karren Brady has confirmed that there are plans to introduce a fan zone outside the London Stadium in conjunction with stadium pouring partner Heineken. At the recent West Ham United Supporters Board meeting, minutes confirm that: “Karren Brady confirmed that plans are in place to create a Fanzone, in conjunction with Heineken, which will hopefully encourage […]

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We will soon approach the halfway stage of the season this month when West Ham face Southampton at St Mary’s stadium for our nineteenth league game of the season. With sixteen games played so far, we ask our Claret and Hugh readers who your player of the season is so far. Obviously we expect Arnie […]

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Pellegrini told reporters “I think we deserved the win because, if you review the complete game Crystal Palace had three chances to score, they scored two goals from set pieces and one free-kick that hit the crossbars. After that, they did not have any clear opportunities by playing. “While I was worried about their strikers […]

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David Gold has declared that Manuel Pellegrini takes all the credit for turning around Robert Snodgrass’ career and waiting patiently for £35 million man Felipe Anderson to find his real form. After three wins on the bounce by with three goals scored in each, he is thrilled the lads are now starting to play in […]

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West Ham has confirmed they plan to sell 2,000 half season tickets starting from January next year and will sell a further 1,000 seats on general sale. The confirmation came from Karren Brady at the new West Ham United Supporters Board following a question from Claret and Hugh Associate Editor. Brady replied to the new supporters […]

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A club insider has repeated that the club is comfortable to wait until the summer to sit down with Declan Rice and his agent to discuss his contract insisting time is on their side. A senior club insider told Claret and Hugh via Email: “With options, Declan Rice has two and half years to go […]

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No Arnautovic…no problem – a nice little 3-2 win! And as our blogger Allen Cummings points out on the CandH Facebook page when you consider it was achieved without him, Lanzini, Yarmolenko, Reid, Wilshere, Sanchez and Fredericks all unavailable we have something to start feeling pretty happy about. It’s been mentioned many times in the […]

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Manuel Pellegrini is looking at the top six and possibly beyond this season. Most thought it would take him a minimum of the three years on his contract to take West Ham to the top level but after three wins in three games scoring three goals in each ambition is growing. With 21 points after […]

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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 Crystal Palace win at the London Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Please only vote if you watched the game yourself and select a numerical score between one and ten where one is low […]

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Chicharito is enjoying his football again at West Ham telling WHUFC.com “It’s an incredible feeling, We scored three goals in the first 20 minutes of the second half and that shows the attacking power we have. We knew it was going to be tough as we were one down, but we scored very good goals […]

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West Ham recorded their third league back to back win on Saturday for the first time since 2016. On that occasion, the Hammers beat Sunderland, Spurs then Everton between February and March 2016 under Slaven Bilic. The last time West Ham won four league games on the trot it was under Sam Allardyce in 2014 […]

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Andy Carroll has made it clear he wants to win a new contract at West Ham. Instead of triggering the two year option on his deal it seems AC has realised it’s more likely a new deal will be drawn up if indeed the club decide that’s the way to go. The striker was warned […]

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Some footballers are just downright unlucky and Lucas Perez appears to be one of them. Having spent a lean time during his spell at Arsenal where he made just nine appearances in all competitions and disappeared on loan to Deportivo he had been overlooked most of the season on moving to the Hammers. But after […]

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Manuel Pellegrini obviously reckons that on the law of averages Andy Carroll was likely to grab a couple of goals this afternoon. After Lucas Perez and Chicharito had managed at Newcastle and against Cardiff he imagined Carroll was likely to get a brace . The manager said: “Of course, we are happy that three different players […]

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Felipe Anderson scored a wonder goal as the Irons completed a hat-trick of wins scoring nine goals along the way. And just as against Cardiff all the goals and a vastly improved performance came at the start of the second half although this time they trailed by a first half strike. James McArthur had scored […]

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Robert Snodgrass put the fans first as he gave his overview of the teams third win on the trot against Palace to liftt themselves into the PL’s top tten. Snoddy may not have been at his best in the first half – who was ?- but he was the one who changed the entire mood […]

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After shining as a sub against Cardiff, CandH PlayerWatch reporter Daniel Leach put the spotlight on Lucas Perez after he earned a start today. 2 – Plays a first time pass out to Masuaku on the left wing and he is tripped up by Milivojevic 4 – A back heel to Anderson on the […]

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CandH’s Niall McDonald hands out the marks Fabianski: Pretty quiet afternoon, the 2 goals aside 5 Zabaleta: Defended against pace very professionally today 7 Balbuena: Struggling to think of a strong positive or negative 5 Diop: One beautifully timed challenge on Zaha in ‘diving territory’ stood out 6 Masuaku: Sure others will […]

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Mark Noble will come face to face with the guy with whom he graduated through the Hammers academy this afternoon. And he believes that in James Tomkins the Hammers lost a player who should never have been allowed to depart from the club. Noble and Tomkins have always been big buddies and were the last […]

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Hammers 0 Palace 1 It was very much back to the shoddy and shapeless West Ham we have become a bit to used to this season. It was almost Cardiff revisited as we stuttered our way through the first 45 minutes – producing some sloppy passing and were second best to most balls. We fell […]

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Valencia are this morning reported to be targeting Angelo Ogbonna as a January signing. The report in Goal has emerged as a result of the successful pairing between Fabian Balbuena and Issa Diop with the 14th placed La Liga outfit believing that gives them a real chance of landing the central defender. However, it once again […]

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West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini faces various fascinating choices as he decides on his team to confront Palace today (Saturday). The injury to Marko Arnautovic has created what would have been a remarkable situation had we not become used to the manager’s enthusiasm to use potentially highly promising youngsters. And the confirmation that Xande Silva […]

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Mark Noble has pinpointed the signing of Lukasz Fabianski as absolutely pivotal declaring it to be a purchase like Black Firday times two. Speaking to www.whufc.com ahead of the game against Palace he said: “We’re lucky because we have two fantastic goalkeepers in Lukasz and Adrian. I believe we paid £7 million to Swansea for Lukasz. […]

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Under 23s coach Liam Manning saw his charges throw away a two goal lead in the last ten minutes against Chelsea leaving him bitterly disappointed. Reece Oxford and Joe Powell had given the team a comfortable lead but sub Luke McCormick struck for the Blues and then fellow sub Daishawn Redan and another from McCormick – […]

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Manuel Pellegrini has a reputation among journos as a guy who says very little of consequence and is more than a tad boring. Well rather that than Jose Mourinho although he of course usually provides the headlines they require which is of course what the criticism is all about. We have regularly spoken of the […]

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West Ham’s FA Cup clash with Birmingham City has been rescheduled. The third round tie was set to be played at 3pm on Saturday, January 5, per the Birmingham Mail. But it will now be played at 12:30pm instead, with the tie being selected for overseas television coverage. Of course, David Sullivan and David Gold […]

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