Up The Hammers – Latest West Ham United FC News

Martin O’Neill has  called up Declan Rice to his senior Ireland squad for this month’s training camp and friendly in Turkey, O’Neill has stressed that the young West Ham defender, who is still eligible to play senior football for both Ireland and England, will not come under any pressure to decide his international future. “We […]

Read the full story

Moore Than Just A Podcast presenters Sean Whetstone, George Bucci, John Bucci and Nigel Kahn discuss the disappointing Swansea defeat last weekend as well as current problems both on and off the pitch in the latest episode of the West Ham Podcast now in its seventh season. Listen to Sean, George, John and Nigel set the […]

Read the full story

Former Hammer Nigel Reo-Coker has told BBC Radio 5 listeners that Mark Noble and James Collins need to help the Hammers’ foreign players learn what it means to play for West Ham. “They’ve got Mark Noble, they’ve got James Collins and they have both been at the club for a long period of time. They’ve […]

Read the full story

West Ham Joint-Chairman David Gold has been interviewed Dave Walker and Kev Slade from the online West Ham fanzine Sex Drugs & Carlton Cole and serial ITK blogger @exwhuemployee, founder of The West Ham Way website. Gold was the special guest this week on Essex radio station Phoenix FM . In the show which was […]

Read the full story

With injuries continuing to bite into the Hammers squad Josh Cullen’s chances of making a first team appearance soon are on the rise. Season-ending injuries to Winston Reid and Sam Byram COULD see Cheik Kouyate pulled into the back four possibly opening the way for Cullen in midfield. And speaking to the official site Cullen […]

Read the full story

Manu Lanzini has been included in the Argentina squad for matches at the end of March against Italy and Spain and Pablo Zabaleta reckons that’s terrific news for the Irons. The right back told the official site: “It’s great news for Manu to be back in the squad, especially as we are not far from the […]

Read the full story

Our Canadian Hammer Paul has sent in a video with his thoughts on the last two weeks at West Ham. No marches or financial accounts thankfully but a damning overview of the heavy defeats against Liverpool and Swansea. Paul also looks ahead to the must win Burnley game and has some quite forthright opinions about […]

Read the full story

Mark Noble firmly believes all will be well when Burnley come to town. And the captain applauded the fans who made the journey to the Liberty Stadium despite the disgusting weather last weekend. Speaking to the official website he said: “I don’t think we will wilt because we’re at home, which is a big plus […]

Read the full story

West Ham will attempt to battle Arsenal, Liverpool and Watford for Italy international Bryan Cristante in the Summer claims a report. Tuttosport claims the Benfica midfielder, currently on loan at Atalanta, has emerged as a £27million target for a number of Premier League clubs. Cristante has impressed this season, scoring ten goals in 33 appearances across all […]

Read the full story

Former England Keeper Paul Robinson claims West Ham are the reason for Joe Hart’s below-par form this season. “It’s glaringly obvious what has happened to Joe Hart at West Ham. It has been a disappointing loan for him there. He went to Torino and did okay,” Robinson told Fansbet in an interview whcih can be […]

Read the full story

West Ham have been fined £30,000 by the Football Association after admitting to a whereabouts breach of anti-doping regulations. The cub accepted a charge after three whereabouts violations in one year, saying the errors were administrative in nature. A statement from the FA read: “West Ham United have been fined £30,000 after admitting a charge […]

Read the full story

Michail Antonio has been suffering from a severe bout of goal scoring home sickness and reckons it’s time to put things right. Taking to the official site and recalling he hadn’t hit the net on his own manor he said: “I haven’t scored at home since September 2016? Wow! “I thought I was a ‘home scorer’ […]

Read the full story

There was no bigger character in the game than Stuart Pearce during his glory days so he has every right to call for the same type of courage from the Hammers squad. And before the massive weekend clash against Burnley Psycho declared: “I think we’ve got to show some character, especially at home. We’re playing a […]

Read the full story

Reports in Portugal are claiming that Sporting Lisbon midfielder William Carvalho has been “scouted” by the Hammers yet again. Portuguese paper O Jogo (translated and reported by Sport Witness) say that West Ham had representatives at the Estadio do Dragao last Friday night to watch Carvalho and Sporting Lisbon as they lost 2-1 to league leaders Porto […]

Read the full story

According to WestHamWorld.co.uk  Hammers scouts are going to Germany to watch a Bundesliga 2 fixture in the coming weeks. The player in their sites is claimed to be Marvin Ducksch, who is a forward currently playing for Holstein Kiel. The German attacker has scored 13 goals and assisted five times whilst recording three Man of the Match […]

Read the full story

Claudio Ranieri accused former Hammer Dimitri Payet of ungentlemanly conduct after the Marseille midfielder’s refusal to throw the ball back to his side following a stoppage after injury. Payet refused to give the ball back to Nantes after they had purposely kicked it out of play to allow treatment of two injured players. Nantes stopped play […]

Read the full story

Former Hammer Tony Cottee has called for change to resolve current West Ham fan frustration. Speaking on TalkSport radio TC said: “I think you’ve got to understand how the fans feel at the moment, they are very, very frustrated, this has been going on for the last two years really, the last two seasons,  lot […]

Read the full story

  By Allen Cummings   How big is a big game? Seems we’ve faced so many ‘big games’ recently we’ve almost become blasé about them but in the grand scheme of things the visit of Burnley on Saturday isn’t just big – it’s massive! The reason for that is two-fold. Obviously we need the three […]

Read the full story

Pablo Zabaleta has reminded his team-mates their fate is in their own hands and that they have to rely on other teams’ results. The near ever present right back has declared that “the key is to come into training every day, work hard and prepare physically and mentally.” He added: “The pressure is always there, whether […]

Read the full story

Little Isla Caton has successfully had a tumour removed from her brain according to her parents.   The three-year-old, who is suffering from Neuroblastoma and whose plight has captured the hearts of all West Ham supporters has been at the centre of a huge fund raising campaign to send her to America where it is […]

Read the full story

The West Ham United Independent Supporters Association (WHUISA) wishes to register its disappointment that the group has been unable to gain permission to hold a peaceful, lawful demonstration this Saturday, 10th March 2018. Correspondence received today from Newham Council stated “it would be beneficial to all parties if we could postpone for a short period of time […]

Read the full story

Prime minister Theresa May visited the site of the former Boleyn Ground yesterday. Mrs May had been visiting the Upton Gardens development site on Monday, the same day that she delivered a speech pledging to do all she could to tackle delays in house-building in order to get “the right homes in the right places”. May […]

Read the full story

West Ham have made a statement following the release of their financial accounts at companies house today: The summary on WHUFC.com says: West Ham United’s accounts for the 2016/17 season have today been published. Highlights  Profit of £43million in the year, up from a loss of £4.9m the previous year. Sale of Boleyn Ground generated […]

Read the full story

West Ham’s newly announced financial accounts show a record turnover and record profit but mostly due to the new TV deal which came in last season. The accounts published at companies house today show figures for last season up to 31st May 2017. The main areas show: O Turnover increase of 28.9% (£41.2m) from £142.1m to £183.3m […]

Read the full story

The Hammers are this morning being reported as holding an interest in goalkeeper Marco Meneghetti has been confirmed by the president of his current club. The 17-year-old made his debut for Serie C side Pordenone earlier this season and according to Sky Italia is at the centre of major interest from the club. Now Pordenone […]

Read the full story

This may just be the funniest ‘Mike on Monday’ yet. Our favourite West Ham comic is back on the case with events at the club – sad as they are – representing a mine of comedy gold for Mr Manera. In a week of on/off marches, a 4-1 defeat and the confrontation between fans and […]

Read the full story