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Original post: Snodgrass interview after Saints win

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Slaven Bilic’s decision to take Andy Carroll out of the action was purely for “precautionary reasons.” The manager explained that the big man is still feeling a groin problem but explained that he would be fine and that there is “no problem”. And David Gold told us: “There is no major issue and  with the […]

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Thrilled David Gold made Pedro Obiang his man of today’s match with Robert Snodgrass a short head behind him. He told ClaretandHugh: Wherever you looked there was a player giving his all – it couldn’t have been a better response after Wednesday night. The manager took all the stick and all the speculation over his […]

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Slaven Bilic was thrilled with Robert Snodgrass’ full debut following the midfileder’s impressing outing s a sub on Wednesday night. The former Hull man was in outstanding form and it would have been difficult for Slav to find higher words of praise for the 29 year old. The manager said: “He was brilliant. Great vision, […]

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Slaven Bilic couldn’t speak highly enough of the Irons performance declaring: “The guys were fantastic, we had a game plan and they executed it in the best way. We were solid behind the ball, we kept the ball, attacked well and it was a great team performance. “We have a team that is working hard for […]

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The Irons came from behind to answer all the questions left behind from the Manchester City debarcle to crush Southampton. It was their first win at St Mary in seven attempts,with Andy Carroll scoring his sixth of the season and Pedro Obian grabbing his first  for the Hammers and Mark Noble’s deflected free-kick clinched the points. […]

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Slaven Bilic has turned to  Jose Fonte for advice on how to beat Southampton this afternoon. He revealed: “Jose didn’t have a great game a couple of days ago but he is a great asset for us and a great player, and we are going to benefit from him. ‘We have spoken about Southampton and […]

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Slaven Bilic has identified new Saints striker  Manola Gabbiadini as a threat to the Irons should he appear in the team after his move to Saints this week. Speaking ahead of the game Slav said: “I know he’s an Italian international and he was at big club Napoli. He had his ups and downs. I watch […]

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West Ham are confident  that Slaven Bilic will lead the team into a successful end of season and are  more than hopeful that he will serve out the three years on his contract. The defeat against Manchester City has been firmly put behind the club as the team heads for Southampton with three points beckoning. […]

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Cheikhou Kouyate is back in the West Ham squad having returned from the African Nations Cup while right-back Sam Byram felt his hamstring after the midweek 4-0 defeat by Manchester City and will be assessed. Saints’ new striker Manolo Gabbiadini will also be involved, although manager Claude Puel has yet to decide whether to hand […]

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Karren Brady has labelled Dimitri Payet a “dead loss” – another blow after his Marseilles lost 1-0 to Metz. Writing in her SunSport column, the baroness said: “Dimitri Payet would have become a legend to every Hammers supporter. But he’s a dead loss instead.” A ‘dead loss’ is actually a business term, referring to a […]

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From Monday 6th February, West Ham supporters will be able to review their Club Cash balance (previously called E-Purse credits) online and transact  their balance against home match tickets and upgrades. In addition,  Season ticket holders will  be able to use their balance on Season Ticket Renewals. The functionality has been missing since the beginning of […]

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Irons fans have sent an overwhelming “We want Slav” message to the board for the third time this season. The Mirror this morning reported that Roberto Mancini was inside the London Stadium, sparking-suggestions that he could be on the Hammers shortlist to replace the Hammers ever popular Irons boss. The national newspaper ran its own […]

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Slaven Bilic has handed out massive praise to Frank Lampard on the former hammer’s retirement and called him ”  a top gentleman, a top player, a top….basically everything,” The club was reported as being the only one of those Frank has represented not to have tweeted their good wishes to our former academy product but […]

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I saw the bad old days return at the London Stadium on Wednesday night and I’m not buying into all the “Manchester City were brilliant so we have to accept the result” stuff. There has been far too much inconsistency from the team this season and although five wins from seven ahead of the game […]

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David Sullivan has this morning sent £800 to former academy product Amos Nasha’s Just Giving page after the youngster faced eviction from his home. And the co chairman told ClaretandHugh exclusively:  “I have made the donation personally. Mad as it is the club can’t give away any money without board meetings/board approval. “I was very impressed […]

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West Ham chose not to wish Frank Lampard an “all the best” tweet despite his ascent from academy product to a first teamer for six years. However, the club The Hammers did though manage to wish Ravel Morrison a happy birthday on Twitter – even though the 24-year-old only made 24 appearances in three years […]

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Heavy speculation has again arisen in the media this morning that Slaven Bilic is coming under pressure following the arrival of Roberto Mancini at the London Stadium on Wednesday night. Mancini watched his former club Manchester City beat the Irons 4-0 which has been enough to produce The Mirror headline ” Ex-Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini […]

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Michail Antonio is hurting and ready to make Southampton pay for the pain. The brilliant wideman come striker – come everything said: “Right now, that result (Man City)  is painful and it’s really hurting us but we have another gameand we just need to make sure we get things right  against Southampton on Saturday. “It’s definitely […]

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West Ham, Arsenal and Spurs  have been singled out by living-wage campaigners after being accused of failing to ensure everyone who works for them was paid “a fair wage” says the Telegraph. The chairmen of the three London clubs were sent open letters by Citizens UK – which has long lobbied for the living wage – […]

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Former West Ham Academy player Amos Nasha faces being homeless after being orphaned just before Christmas. Amos tragically lost his mother a few years ago, early last year his father suffered a heart attack which resulted in him having to sell his shoe shop in East London. In the summer Amos was released by West […]

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Hammers Andre Ayew has been knocked out of the African Cup of Nations in tonight’s semi-final.  Ghana were two nil losers to Cameroon who now progress to Sunday’s final against Egypt. Ayew played all ninety minutes but was not able to cancel out the two goals scored by Cameroon in the second half. Former West […]

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The Sun said earlier today that the FA would study video evidence of an apparent punch on a Manchester City player which could hit Aaron Cresswell with violent conduct charge They claimed that Cresswell could be facing a four match ban after he was caught in an off-the-ball clash with Raheem Sterling. The West Ham left-back, who gave […]

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Guest Post by Paul Christmas (Joint Chairman of WHUISA) I attended the West Ham Supporter Advisory Board meeting on 24/01/2017 at London Stadium and the attendees were as listed on the minutes (https://www.whufc.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/SAB%20meeting%20minutes%20270117.pdf) .  Over 200 people from our 600 strong membership took the time to send their points of view. The documents filled 2 […]

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David Gold has claimed there was no shame in the defeat by Manchester City last night. The co chairman was as bitterly disappointed as anyone else but takes the view that we met a world class team at the peak of their powers as we collapsed to a 0-4 defeat. There has been much criticism […]

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Jose Fonte has told Hammers supporters the club’s latest humiliation is entirely down to the players who failed to follow the manager’s instructions. The  £8m signing says the blame must be laid firmly at the players explaining: “We worked on a game plan during the week and when the game started we did not apply it. […]

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