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Tyre brand MRF Ltd have become the first sleeve sponsor of West Ham ahead of the Club’s first home game of the 2017/18 Premier League season.  MRF’s logo will feature on the left sleeve of the iconic claret and blue shirt, with this season being the first where top flight clubs can create brand partnerships to advertise […]

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Former Hammer turned pundit Tony Gale says Bilic is the right man for the job and that the board are to blame for our current problems. “It’s the players that have got to do it for Bilic on Monday night, it’s a pressure game against Huddersfield, a real pressure game and they’ve got to rise to the […]

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Slaven Bilic will face the press for the first time since the transfer window closed on 31st August. The pre-match press conference is scheduled for 1.30pm at Rush Green training ground this afternoon. He is likely to He is likely to grilled over his relationship with the owners after David Sullivan appeared to throw him […]

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Paul Ince has waded into David Sullivan after his official website comments which appeared to throw Slaven bilic under a bus! The  Hammers joint chairman claims  Bilic turned down the chance to sign highly-rated potential midfield alternatives Renato Sanches and Grzegorz Krychowiak who joined Swansea and West Brom instead. Former Hammer Ince said: “I really […]

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Operators London Stadium 185 have announced a new security search process this season which will be implemented for the first time on Monday evening for football crowds. The Statement says “As part of our shared commitment to enhancing the matchday experience for supporters at London Stadium, LS185, working in partnership with West Ham United, have […]

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Planned protests at the London Stadium on Monday night Huddersfield  game appear to be suffering from a shortage of on line funding. A social media twitter account called @WestHamAction-  with 186 followers-  has set a £1,000 fund raising target but at this moment £60 has been raised @ https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/westhamaction The fund raising page says “Weʼre raising £1,000 […]

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To say the Hammers and Sporting Lisbon are at war is putting it mildly! David Sullivan has produced an e mail published in which an offer appears to have been made. Sporting’s president Bruno Carvalho has hit back since and appears ready to report us to Fifa for an illegal approach. Here’s what the fans […]

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Premier League clubs have voted to close next summer’s transfer window before the season starts. Managers have complained that the ability for players to move when the season is under way causes disruption to their squads and preparations. From next season, the window will close at 5pm BST on the Thursday before the Premier League season […]

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Cheikhou Kouyate and striker Diafra Sakho could play in a World Cup qualifier replay in November after FIFA ordered Senegal’s result with South Africa should be scrapped. The qualifier will be played again after the referee, Joseph Lamptey was found guilty of match-fixing in a game which saw South Africa win 2-1 last November. Lamptey has now […]

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Amid all the e mails drama this morning one critically important question has remained unanswered – who’s gonna play on the left side of midfield against Huddersfield Town? With Andre Ayew and Manu Lanzini injured and Marko Arnautovic serving out the last game of his suspension there is no naturally left sided player available. So […]

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The Daily Mail claim today that West Ham could face another season of disruption at the London Stadium in 2022 due to a bid for the European Athletics Championships. UK Athletics chief executive Niels de Vos told the Sport Industry Breakfast event he intends to take advantage of a clause in West Ham’s concessionaire agreement allowing […]

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The team behind Birmingham’s bid for the 2022 Commonwealth Games want to expand Alexander Stadium saying it would provide a positive sporting legacy for the city. The Perry Barr venue is home to Birchfield Harriers, one of the country’s best-known athletics teams, and hosts several national and international events, including the UK Championships, team trials and […]

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Sporting Lisbon have stepped up the row with West Ham to the ultimate level and are reported set to register an “illegal approaches” charge against us to FIFA in the William Carvalho affair. Sky sources in reporting Sporting Lisbon’s latest move add that West Ham are currently pursuing legal action against Sporting’s communications director, Nuno […]

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BY Sean Whetstone and Hugh Southon David Sullivan’s emails have been published by Sky Sports in a continuing war of words between the co-owner and Sporting Lisbon. But the emails still pose big questions and we come to the conclusion that David Sullivan would have been far better off remaining silent. There’s no mileage in […]

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There appears to be a growing movement suggesting the board should quit. The ‘board out’ slogans are being prepared but want does that actually mean and what do they hope to gain? David Sullivan and David Gold are directors of the holding company W H Holding Limited but they are also 85% shareholders. While it […]

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Sky Sports have published emails from West Ham co chairman David Sullivan as proof of bids with Sporting Lisbon for Wiliam Carvalho. The first emailed dated 10th August from Sullivan’s private email address confirms an offer of 25 million euros over 24 months with 8.333m up front.  On 11th August this is followed up by […]

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Manu Lanzini’s contract talks could start as soon as January or go on the end of season agenda. Newspaper reports have been inaccurately claiming the little midfielder is either in negotiations with the club or is about to be. The Hammers are ready to offer a new deal but there’s no hurry from club or […]

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By Nuno Moreira de Almeida reporting from Lisbon for CandH Sporting Clube de Portugal’s president Bruno Carvahlo last night gave a two hour interview to the club’s TV channel, – a decision which may not have been the wisest of his career. He waded into some controversial issues which included the William Carvalho affair in a […]

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In times like these it is perhaps as well to remember some West Ham history and ask: “Should I be this wound up given what’s gone before at this club?” The last few days have been intense and social media makes things feel so much worse – we live with it or choose to turn […]

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Iain Dale from West Ham Till I Die joins the Moore Than Just A Podcast crew of Sean Whetstone, John Bucci and Nigel Kahn for a one off emergency one-hour podcast to discuss the problems and melt down that have set our beloved club in recent weeks. The lads give their personal opinions on who is […]

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Manu Lanzini’s knee problem will today be examined by Gary Lewin’s medical staff after the midfielder’s return from the Argentine yesterday. The player was eventually forced to travel to South America at the insistence of his international bosses who wanted to check out that the injury was “real.” It recalls the days when Diafra Sakho […]

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The club made a point to release a video on Facebook yesterday of players not on International duty training hard at Rush Green.  Ogbonna, Sakho, Noble, Carroll, Collins, Adrian, Byram, Antonio,  Reid and Zabaleta were all featured in the video. Marko Arnautovic (Austria), Andre Ayew (Ghana), Chicharito (Mexico),  Conor Coventry (Republic of Ireland U19), Aaron Cresswell […]

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Speaking to the French magazine So Foot Dimitri Payet says that Bilic managed him like a father but the real reason why he left was West Ham’s objective differed from the previous season and he feared for his career. Payet said: “He managed me like a father. We spoke every day. He quickly understood how I worked. […]

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West Ham have registered twenty-two places from a maximum of twenty-five in their first-team squad. Players under the age of twenty one do not require registration. Despite the transfer window closing last Thursday there are still a number of free agents which could be signed by the Hammers to fill those three remaining spaces should there […]

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Portuguese website O Jogo claims that Sporting Lisbon never received a bid equalling or in excess of William Carvalho which seems in direct contradiction to comments made by Bruno de Carvalho and his communication director last week. The report says the president of Sporting, Bruno de Carvalho, called William Carvalho following the collapse of the […]

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Former West Ham and England striker Dean Ashton has revealed that he tried to forget about being a footballer altogether after his career was ended by injury. In an interview marking nine years since his last appearance for the club, West Ham’s former record signing told Blowing Bubbles magazine that total shutdown was the only […]

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