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Slaven Bilic arrived late for his press conference this morning after adverse weather delayed his arrival. Starting just after 11am Bilic spoke about Watford saying “It was not a good performance last week. More individual mistakes and mis-understanding from a couple of players. We have talked about it behind closed-doors. We had a really good meeting […]

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Slaven Bilic has warned that last season’s finishing position and the move to a new stadium has seen hopes rise but that expectancy levels need to be managed. The boss, talking in his London Evening Standard column, said: “If we think, though, that we can win any game just because we moved stadiums or because […]

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Thank God we’re away. Last week was a disaster but if there is an upside at least we are getting all the rubbish form out of the way early and I see no repeats of the Watforrd disaster at West Brom.. The Hammers are on their way to the west midlands for a very winnable […]

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Ravel Morrison’s career is down to weekly five a side kickabouts! The former Hammer – wearing a sports kit from current club Lazio – scored several goals during a 90-minute game at the Powerleague sportsdome in Trafford, Gtr Manchester, on Monday as just a handful looked on.- A source told The Sun: ““He was just having a […]

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West Ham have sold 278,805 tickets for the first five games at the London Stadium, breaking the home attendance record three times in the process. All official football attendances are based on tickets sold rather the number of supporters through the turnstiles so the absence of the ticket trader has meant a few hundred empty […]

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Hammers boss Slaven Bilic has some big team selection decisions to make this weekend and the fans on ClaretandHugh’s Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/363174467150521/ have sent him a surprising message about goalkeeper Adrian. Despite his elevation to the Spain squad some  fans believe he should be replaced this weekend. Read their thoughts here. O I’d drop […]

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The Hammers head for the west midlands this weekend with the “under new ownership” signs hanging outside the Hawthorns. The club was today taken over by new Chinese group of investors and that is bound to create an air of uncertainty around the club and Albion’s 58 year old boss Tony Pulis’ which could play […]

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Sam Byram looks certain to hold on to the right back position against West Brom despite a lack lustre match against Watford last weekend. The Irons top medic Stijn Vandenbroucke has revealed in his latest treatment room update that Alvaro Arbeloa is set to play a part in the EFL Cup against Accrington Stanley next week […]

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West Ham United have called a meeting with fans to discuss the crowd problems which have marred the opening weeks of their Premier League campaign since moving to the London Stadium. After Saturday’s 4-2 defeat to Watford, a club statement confirmed 10 supporters were ejected during the game in addition to 47 complaints made over […]

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The all powerful London Stadium Safety Advisory Group (LS-SAG) meets today to discuss safety and capacity limits for the London Stadium. This time last month the LS-SAG, chaired by Newham enforcement officer, Sheila Roberts recommended that capacity be restricted to 57,000 over concerns over persistent standing, away fan segregation and supporters drinking alcohol in view […]

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The lads from Hammers Chat are back with an in depth look at the weekend game. With goalkeeper Adrian revealing he expects a winning performance, the game against West Brom is hopefully one where the team will finally blossom and start erasing the bad vibes that have been floating around the club this week. Manager […]

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The London Stadium operators are moving fast as they tighten their hold on security at West Ham’s new home. And this morning they made a major move when announcing the appointment of former Met Police Assistant Commissioner Chris Allison to oversee security at the stadium. They made the announcement on Twitter where a sentence read: “Former […]

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Enner Valencia reckons training at Everton is tougher than at West Ham! Speaking for the first time since his year long loan deal was agreed the Ecuador striker decared: “I’m very happy to be here. It’s a great club with excellent fans. I’m looking forward to getting onto the pitch with my new teammates. “I was […]

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David Gold is continuing to fence off regular criticism of the club’s move to the London Stadium after events during the Watford gamecreated a media circus. Amid a tirade of obectionable tweets, allegations that Karen Brady was spat upon and calls for the board’s resignation, the 80 year old co chairman continues to keep his […]

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Adrian is confident that a winning performance! – is on the cards at West Brom this weekend. He admits it’s alays tough at the Hawthrns but says: “If we look at ourselves and if we give 120 per cent like we did many times last season, we have a great chance to win. “We have […]

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West Ham’s stars Dimitri Payet and Sam Byram gave young cancer patient and huge Irons fan Jack Howard reason to smile with a Facetime call. Brave Jack is fighting kidney cancer and has been given weeks to live but his family is refusing to give up the battle as they bid to raise £250,000 to […]

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By Dave Blackmore Blowing Bubbles Editor-in-chief David Gold has urged Slaven Bilic to be braver in the League and FA cups in a bid to give Hammers a day to remember at Wembley. In an exclusive interview with Blowing Bubbles magazine the co-chairman expressed his disappointment at exiting the Europa League before the group stages but […]

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West Ham legend Paolo Di Canio has been suspended from his role as a Sky Italia pundit after showing on air a tattoo referring to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. The ex-West Ham striker revealed his tattoo of the word “dux” during their Premier League coverage on Sunday, prompting a protest on social media. The Latin word […]

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West Ham believe the new radio wavelengths which will allow police to operate within the London Stadium to be in place for the next Class A game – against Arsenal on December 3. Much has been made of the inability to get things sorted out until December but a club source made it clear to […]

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Andy Carroll has an outside chance of  making Slaven Bilic’s squad for the match at West Brom on Saturday afternoon. The injury-ravaged striker is running again and may step up things before the weekend but our Hammers source said this morning: “There’s a chance of him making it but it is  an outside one. “He […]

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West Ham season ticket holder, Mark Gevaux better known as the Rib Man won the Best Street Food for his £7 pork rolls (“lovely piggy goodness”) he serves with his trademark Holy F##k sauce, which will soon be exported around the world. He shared the awards ceremony stage at the Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square on Monday night with a […]

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Chelsea Striker and one time West Ham summer transfer target, Michy Batshuayi took an online swipe at a twitter account called @WestHamTransfer Batshuayi tweeted to his 308,000 followers that he was downloading PES (Pro Evolution Soccer 2017) in what looked like an obvious planted plug for the football game. The West Ham twitter account cheekily […]

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West Ham Joint Chairman, David Gold has suggested one West Ham fan called Danny have a lie down after he suggested that the owners had sold our souls. Danny messaged the 80 year old chairman on twitter to say: “Been going to the Hammers since 1978. you have sold our soul, our club and a […]

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Dimi Payet has defended his audacious rabona which led to the Michail Antonio goal against Watford and aused a furious reaction from Watford’s Toy Deeney. The Hornets player declared that his side were spurred on the belief that West Ham were reying to mug the visitors off but Payet denied that. He told the Irons official […]

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An independent commission has ruled that the  elbowing of Winston Reid by Aguero was a “brutal” incident that “clearly endangered the safety” of the Hammers player. Aguero earned a retrospective three-game ban for the action based on video evidence after the August 28 meeting between the two clubs. In written reasons published by the Football Association […]

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 Carlos Bacca’s agent Sergio Barila claims there were a number of offers on the table in the closing days of the summer transfer window, but Milan turned them all down. He told calciomercato.it: “West Ham? In the last week of the market, many offers arrived, and not only West Ham ones. At the end Milan said no.”  Barila […]

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