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West Ham Vice Chairman, Karren Brady gave her own views on standing at football in 2012 while writing her Sun football Diary In January 2012 Brady wrote: “Aston Villa are opening discussions with supporters’ groups over reintroducing standing areas at their home. Personally, I can’t think of anything worse than standing at a football match for two hours. […]

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EXCLUSIVE By Hugh Southon David Gold has started talks with manufacturers of safe seating systems which he wants to see introduced at the London Stadium. In a major exclusive with ClaretandHugh this morning the co-chairman revealed: “I have been speaking with the people who put in the rail seating at Celtic Park. I have been […]

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Former Hammer Paolo DiCanio recreated the push which bought him fame in the nineties. A team of former Arsenal players reunited to take on AC Milan’s Glorie side for charity. Milan gave Paolo Di Canio a start, who provided one of the highlights of the afternoon when he and Nigel Winterburn recreated an infamous incident […]

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West Ham are interested in signing Millwall defender Mahlon Romeo in a £2m move, according to the Sun. The 20-year-old broke into the Lions’ first-team last season. The right-back has now notched up 24 league appearances for West Ham arch rivals and is starting to attract attention from other Premier League clubs. Despite the transfer window closes […]

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With the approach of the African Cup of Nations next January, West Ham could miss out on three key players for three crucial weeks next winter. Both Senegal and Ghana have qualified for the African cup finals meaning Cheikhou Kouyaté, Diafra Sakho and Andre Ayew could all play if fit. The tournament will be hosted in Gabon […]

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Slaven Bilic has spoken for the first time of his delight that the club has held on to Dimi Payet and hopes the top man can grow even stronger this season. Speaking to the official site the manager said: “It is key for us if he can produce his best form again. He has the […]

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Hammer Andre Ayew has thanked his teammates for dedicating their goal in the game against Rwanda to him. Ghana shared the spoils with Rwanda in their final Africa Cup of Nations qualifying group game on Saturday. Samuel Tetteh scored Ghana’s goal in the 1-1 draw against Rwanda. The Black Stars players in celebrating the goal displayed shirts […]

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Guest post by Hammers Balkan West Ham starlet Luka Belić has joined Scottish Motherwell FC on initial six- month loan deal. Before talking with Hammers Balkan journalist he could not hide his joy with this loan deal. “I am very satisfied with this deal, and I will try to prove my self“, he said at […]

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Jacqueline Gold CBE Jacqueline_Gold For goodness sakes, it’s not rocket science – sit on the seats, get the licence – do what you like #COYI Jackie Gold nailed it with this tweet and there’s really not much more to say – except by those who like a row for its own sake: Read the message she’s […]

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Hammers skipper Mark Noble has a sure fire way of overcoming any disappointment he may feel when failing to be selected for England – GO FISHING! The midfielder has been taking some time out for himself these last few days and although we have no info on which fish this is  the image we have […]

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A media report in France today claims Real Madrid made inquiries about Dimitri Payet this summer. The report from buzzsport.fr in France claims Real Madrid President Florentino Pérez was particularly charmed by Dimitri Payet after the Euro 2016 championships. But West Ham quoted a ridiculous price to scare off the Madrid boss. Pérez was told that […]

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We’re all moaning of course – the man didn’t get on and that is a huge disappointment for all Irons. Given some of the ineffective forward play before a late scrappy winner it would have been reasonable to expect Michail Antonio to have got the usual mid second half call but no, we were all […]

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Sam Allardyce has had senior West Ham insiders scratching their heads today after comments over his alleged interest in Leicester City and England striker Jamie Vardy whilst Irons boss. The morning papers revealed that the former Hammers boss claimed Allardyce was advised to sign Vardy when he was in charge at the club and the player […]

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Following on from tragic events during the 1980’s the football terraces were outlawed by law to be replaced by all seater stadiums. The Taylor Report recommended that all professional football divisions in England and Wales phase out the usual concrete terraces and to become all-seater. This was later amended to be enforced on the top […]

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David Gold’s daughter Jacqueline has entered the debate on standing on social media controversially suggesting supporters should sit down to obtain the license to increase the capacity to 60,000 then 66,000, then hinting they can do what they want afterwards. Speaking on her private twitter account, the CEO of Ann Summers wrote to her 56,000 […]

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Sam Allardyce scraped a win over the 10 men fro Slovakia with a depth of injury timegoal. But what did the Hammers fans make of the first game under the former Irons boss. Here’s some knee jerk reaction from members of the ClaretandHugh Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/363174467150521/ O Normally I wouldn’t go near an England qualifier. […]

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West Ham hero Alan Devonshipe really hopes Michail Antonio gets his England chance tonight but has his dounts. The former legendary midfielder said: “I am really pleased for Michail Antonio being called-up by England for the first time. With the way he has played for West Ham this year, I think he deserves it. It’s […]

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Sam Allardyce is keeping Hammers fans in suspense – as was always the way – over whether he will hand Michail Antonio his  chance in tonght’s international against Slovakia. As revealed earlier this week the starting line-up does not include the Hammer but he has been named among 11 subs for the game. Antonio has […]

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West Ham are set to see four players – all of whom have suffered major or minor injuries – become avaialble for the match against Watford…with of course Dimi Payet leading the way. According to the very well respected Physio Room website which lists Premier League return dates for injured players, Sofiane Feghouli could be set […]

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Adrian has given an interview to Spanish daily newspaper Marca about his call up to Spain. Adrian told Marca: “After completing training with West Ham I saw that my mobile had 300-odd Whatsapp messages and thousands of calls from people wanting to congratulate me. Going to the Premier League changed my life. England is where […]

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West Ham have twice missed out on signing Jamie Vardy. It is now well known the club had him as No 1 on their hit list for a long time this summer before missing out when Arsenal came in. The player eventually stayed at the Foxes although ClaretandHugh can reveal the Irons were also ready […]

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Sam Allardyce has told Jamie Vardy he tried to sign him while he was West Ham manager and Vardy was at non-League Fleetwood only to be beaten by Leicester City. The England manager told Vardy that Fleetwood’s then manager, Micky Mellon, had recommended him in 2012. Vardy admitted: “When I first arrived for the squad, the manager […]

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Manchester United are this morning reportedly keen to sign former Irons Academy product Idris Kanu to their own youth set up. The club is monitoring the striker’s progress after he impressed for the under-18 side against Middlesborough at Carrington according to the Manchester Evening News. Kanu scored twice in United’s 5-1 win and could be […]

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The referee’s organising body has denied claims by Mark Halsey they have put pressure on refs to claim they had not seen controversial match incidents. ClaretandHugh covered Halsey’s comments yesterday after they had appeared in the national press and followed closely on the Sergio Aguero/Wimston Reid elbowing affair. The organising body for elite referees in […]

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West Ham paid a transfer fee thought to be worth £5.5m to sign attacking midfielder Edimilson Fernandes from FC Sion. Fernandes is the cousin of former Manchester City and Leicester midfielder Gelson Fernandes. The 20-year-old came through the youth system at FC Sion and has since made 48 first-team appearances for the Swiss club, scoring […]

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David Gold has admitted being seriously hurt at a Twitter claim which questioned his motives on telling supporters to sit not stand at the London Stadium. The club has issued a recent statement via Karren Brady that the club would take serious action against those who continue to stand and obstruct the view of others. […]

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