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Sky pundit Charlie Nichols believes West Ham can overcome a weakened Spurs team on Halloween and predicts a 2-1 win for the Happy Hammers midweek. Writing on SkySports.com Charlie says “Playing on Monday night forces Mauricio Pochettino’s hand here as he’ll have to make big changes and give the youngsters a run out because the squad […]

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West Ham’s highly promising under 23 Dan Kemp hopes the lads bounce back from the defeat at Leicester last week by beating FC Porto in their first Premier League International Cup contest of the season tomorrow evening (Tuesday). The Poruguese outfit beat Sunderland and Arsenal respectively in previous seasons to win the trophy and represent […]

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Eagle eyed West Ham supporters spotted the old Hammers badge on display to millions of TV viewers on Saturday evening at the King Power stadium as the Irons took on Leicester. The image of the old Hammers crest appeared on a medical kit bag close to the West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini in the dug […]

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West Ham captain Mark Noble has added his words of sympathy after the King Power Stadium tragedy which took the lifes of Leicester City owner and four others. Nobes explained the team was shocked and there was stunned silence on the team coach when the news first broke after they left Leicester. Noble told WHUFC.com “I’m sure […]

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The Air Accident Investigation Branch are seeking witnesses of the helicopter crash outside the King Power Stadium following the Leicester City v West Ham United Premier League game. A statement by the AAIB on their website says “A team of AAIB inspectors and support staff travelled to Leicester on Saturday night, with further inspectors travelling yesterday […]

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Leicester defender Dan Amartey says he has had successful surgery after a horror injury in his game against West Ham on Saturday. The full-back was stretchered off after appearing to twist his left ankle towards the end of Leicester’s 1-1 draw against West Ham after a clash with Michail Antonio. He appeared to catch his studs […]

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Football fans are fickle …and I count myself among them! Try as one may to remain objective this is a hugely passionate game which creates conflicting knee jerk reactions from game to game and it becomes increasingly impossible at times. The big talking points from the match against Leicester City – although following the helicopter […]

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Issa Diop and Fabian Balbuena’s level of performance has been extraordinary this season and is getting better and better with successive matches. As is always seems to be the case whenever a Hammer does well we have a story that interest has arisen in from other clubs with Diop linked to PSG for a fee […]

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Pablo Zabaleta’s performances for the Irons this season have been nothing less than extraordinary! Maybe it was the arrival of his former boss Pablo Zabaleta that was responsible but whatever the reason the Argentinian deserves all the praise in the world. Bear in mind that Zaba rises 34 years of age in January and yet […]

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Twenty one year old Hammer Issa Diop has got a new West Ham song even if it is very similar to a song about a Frenchman who once played for the Hammers. The song was sung by 3,200 West Ham away fans at the King Power station on Saturday. Lyrics: We’ve got Diop, Issa Diop I […]

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Declan Rice has once again been rewarded with man of the match by hundreds of Claret and Hugh readers by scoring the highest average score in our West Ham player ratings. Rice scored an impressive average of 8.68 just beating Hammers stopper Luca Fabianski 8.51 , Issa Diop on 8.29 and goal scorer Fabian Balbuena […]

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West Ham have released a statement on the club official website WHUFC.com this morning following the tragedy at the King Power stadium. The statement reads: “The thoughts of everyone at West Ham United are with the directors, players, staff, supporters and all connected with Leicester City Football Club following the devastating events at the King Power […]

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Manuel Pellegrini’s enthusiasm for the League Cup is well known after claiming the trophy at Manchester City. And he’s on the record as saying it is important to him as the club looks to end it’s wilderness years in domestic Cup competitions. But as he goes into Wednesday night’s clash with Spurs – despite several […]

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Felipe Anderson has become a Hammers enigma! Bought for a record £35 million, he is continuing to frustrate the Irons fans with a series of performances which brought a flood of comments of the ClaretandHugh Facebook page. Here are some random comments from followers on his contribution at Leicester City yesterday. O He has been poor […]

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Hammer Robert Snodgrass is at risk of a suspension after picking up four yellow cards in recent weeks as West Ham’s midfield crisis continues. Mark Noble picked up a three-match ban for a straight red card on Saturday evening but Snodgrass too is at risk of a suspension if he picks up one more yellow card. […]

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Please give us your personal ratings for West Ham players who played for ten minutes or more in the Leicester City vWest Ham Premier League match at the King Power Stadium on Saturday 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 Vice-Chairman Karren Brady has sent her thoughts and prayers on the horrific helicopter crash outside the King Power Stadium last night confirming West Ham staff and fans were safe. Brady who was not at the game tweeted “My thoughts and prayers are with everyone at Leicester City, horrific pictures on the news, I pray […]

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CandH’s Allen Cummings on the shocking Leicester City tragedy I was at the King Power Stadium on Saturday night with my two sons, doing what we have done for more years than I care to remember – supporting West Ham. In many ways it was a typical Irons performance, a slow start where […]

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West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini said he couldn’t speak about the Mark Noble sending off the incident as he hadn’t seen a video reply but he did reveal that the captain told him that no intent was meant and was only trying to get to the ball and possibly just late. Pellegrini told reporters at the […]

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Hugh hands out the marks Fabianski: Several outstanding saves and real presence but wish he would distribute from hands rather than give it the boot when with only nine in front of him it kept coming back 8 Zaba: Continues to roll back the years with some great defending against younger and faster […]

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by: Dan Briard of www.twistandshoutwhu.co.uk Wilfried Ndidi’s 89th minute strike rescued a point for Leicester to deny the 10-men of West Ham all three points at the King Power Stadium. The Nigerian’s deflected strike flew past Lukasz Fabianski and into the top corner to square things up after Fabian Balbuena’s first half strike for the Hammers. Mark Noble […]

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The Daily Mail is tonight reporting that the helicopter belonging to Leicester owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha has crashed outside the King Power Stadium. The report says that moments after taking off from the centre circle of the pitch, “the helicopter went into a spin” and crashed just outside the stadium.” Police and firefighters are now at the […]

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ClaretandHugh Facebook Group member Sergey Novysh is our guest ratings man – here he hands out his marks for today’s Hammers performances at Leicester. Fabianski: Near-perfect performance, absolutely no chance with the goal. 9 Zabaleta: Rode his luck a little with a possible second yellow card, but had a decent game overall. Never ran out of steam. […]

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Leicester City 1 Irons 1 Gotta be happy with that! We went into the game with seven injuries to influential players…lost another via an act of stupid and dangerous stupidity, and hung on to a precious lead for 50 minutes with ten men before conceding a massively deflected equaliser. It’s always desperately disappointing when the […]

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Man of the match Declan Rice was celebrating a point and swallowing his disappointment at the late deflected goal which deprived the Irons of another two. Speaking to BT Sport immediately after the game the teenager declared: “It was really hard after Nobes got the red but we’ll take the point. I thought that given […]

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