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Relieved Slaven Bilic was delighted to grab the club’s first three points of the season declaring: “The lads did everything we asked of them.” Speaking to BBC Sport he said: “I am really pleased with how we acted in a difficult situation. After three defeats your confidence is a bit down but the lads did […]

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    Niall McDonald is back on duty handing out the marks for the Irons performances   Hart: Had perhaps his quietest ever first half. Didn’t make a save until 53 mins but was ready for it 7 Zabaleta: Got stuck in and marauded forwards from the start. Always goes down well 7 Reid: Looked […]

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Irons 2 Huddersfield 0 It wasn’t perfect but it was a million miles better as the Hammers jumped off the bottom of the table with their first win of the season. Truth is the Hammers battered Huddersfield but it took the flukiest goal in the world to break the deadlock when Obiang’s shot took a […]

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Confident West Ham were the clear first half winners on points as they pressed forward on their first vistory of the season bid. There could be no complaints apart from the lack of a goal but several goof chances were created starting with Andy Carroll’s cross come shot after two minutes which beat everybody. The […]

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“Yeah, Diafra wanted to go,” Slaven Bilic has confirmed to Sky Sports an interview which will shown before tonight’s game. “But also, that issue is not quite black and white. Did he have permission, permission on paper or just a form or an SMS? I don’t know. The fact is he wanted to go there. He did […]

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With Andy Carroll is fit for tonight’s clash against Huddersfield boss Slaven Bilic has to decide whether it will be him or Diafra Sakho who partners Javier Hernandez up front. And he may have to make an even bolder decision about captain Mark Noble’s involvement as he approaches the must win game. Bilic could name […]

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“I think Chicharito has been brilliant,” former Hammer Dean Ashton has told whufc.com: “It’s always difficult to come into a new side and get off to a good start. What he does, which the fans love, is he gives absolutely everything. He runs around like a lunatic. He puts himself about. He gets in the […]

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West Ham skipper Mark Noble has used his Matchday programme column for a rallying cry to supporters for tonight’s game Noble writes in the programme “We’ve spoken about those three games, and we have worked hard to put things right on the training pitch, our season starts again tonight, really. If I am being honest, […]

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Hammer Michail Antonio admits West Ham have made a bad start and have made a couple of mistakes but says they can pick themselves up and move forward. Stating the obvious he told WHUFC.com that it is important to win and get some points on the table. Speaking to the official website “It’s just one of […]

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Birthday boy Slaven Bilic has shared his thoughts on the official website ahead of tonight’s game. Speaking to WHUFC.com he said “Tonight’s game is a big one. There is no getting away from it. And I am facing up to that in the way I have always done throughout my career when in a difficult […]

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The Guardian took to their favourite sport of West Ham bashing again on Sunday.  Senior researcher at the Directory of Social Change, Rachel Cain wrote an article which appeared to blame West Ham for a short fall in charity funding. She wrote “As West Ham United kick off a new season in the Olympic Stadium where […]

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Stan Collymore writes in the Daily Mirror today that he is prepared to give both the board and the manager the benefit of the doubt for West Ham’s poor start. He points out that history tells us the owners are not sackers but says it can see it going one way with the end of […]

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Slaven Bilic has spoken out on Diafra Sakho’s ill fated attempts to join Rennes and admitted he doesn’t know the full story behind things. The manager has not been shy of making it clear that the player wanted to go to the French club and isn’t sure whether he had permission to do so or […]

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Slaven Bilic is looking for home comforts when the team run on to the London Stadium for the first time this season this evening. Commenting ahead of the game he said: “It’s good to play at home again – the home form is the key “The players know we have to begin physically, to go […]

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Regular contributor a former OLAS writer Matt gives us his views on the madness of the last fortnight and suggest that we may well have dodged a bullet by missing out on Carvalho. He also runs through our recent spending and explains why former favourite Tony Gale got it very wrong when calculating our net-spend.

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Well it’s David Golds birthday and there is no better way to celebrate than amongst friends and in this animation ‘Goldie’ eagerly awaits his gift from co-chairman David Sullivan. For those who don’t know this is the new West Ham parody account known only as Canning Town Len who puts a quirky twist on all […]

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Sam Byram is tonight being featured on the official website giving his view of tomorrow night’ game against Huddersfield. And that may be a clue that the right back is set to be included possibly at the expense of Pablo Zabaleta. There are no guarantees on such things of course but it seems to be […]

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The only surprising aspect of the apparent current tension between David Sullivan and Slaven Bilic is that anybody is in the least bit surprised. For if you re-visit the build-up to the manager’s appointment you find that he was behind the likes of David Moyes, Rafa Benitez, Jurgen Klopp and Carlo Ancelotti. Even Steve McClaren […]

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It’s been a week of sound and fury at West Ham this week with the club going through another divisive period in a history of making crises from dramas. And as usual Nigel Kahn has keeping a cynical eye on everything as one problem appears to have led to another with seemingly nobody knowing what […]

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Two-year-old Hammers fan Isla Caton has been diagnosed with a rare form of child cancer called Neuroblastoma, only one hundred children in the UK are diagnosed with this cancer each year. It is the same disease which was bravely fought and lost by young Sunderland fan Bradley Lowery. Isla currently having treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital […]

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Reports and speculation that the Hammers are globetrotting in search of a new boss are nonsense and can be totally forgotten by the fans. The West ham board have no intentions of firing the manager despite the unwise public announcement from David Sullivan that it is now down to the boss to do the job. […]

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Operators London Stadium 185 have decided against a Manchester United type bag ban this season at the former Olympic Stadium. Supporters at Old Trafford are not permitted to bring a bag larger than a small handbag (20cm x 15cm x 5cm) with them or they will have to leave it in a new bag drop […]

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Monday night’s home game against Huddersfield at the London Stadium is also Slaven Bilic’s 49th birthday. “Birthday or not everyone at the club would like to get the boss three points,” says James Collins. “He’s been under tremendous pressure. It’s crazy in football that the managers get put under so much pressure when sometimes really […]

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A report that the West Ham board have earmarked Napoli coach Maurizio Sarri as the man they want to replace Slaven Bilic appears to be very wide of the mark. The Sunday Express claims the 58-year-old who replaced Benitez at the Italian club is being lined up as a possible replacement for the West Ham Croatian […]

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Former West Ham manager Sam Allardyce has told Sky Sports that former Hammer Ravel Morrison was the biggest waste of talent he ever worked with in his management career. Big Sam explained: “He was that good but because of the mental side of his game and his life he couldn’t produce that talent on a […]

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Ashley Fletcher – who made a £6 million switch to Middlesbrough from the Irons –  again failed to make the starting line up as Boro sauntered to a 3-0 away win over Bolton in today’s Championship match. He didn’t appear until the 82nd minute and had no impact on proceedings whatsoever. That  was his first […]

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