If you thought we were up for the match against Manchester United just look at the interest it created on the Manchester City forums. The Sky Blues were fans were of course entirely desperate for the Irons to do them a turn in European terms and we didn’t disappoint them of course. Have to admit […]
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Man City fans were all Hammers for the night
Posted on 12 May 2016.
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Gold foresaw Green Street problems
Posted on 12 May 2016.
West Ham chairman David Gold foresaw the problems and taffic chaos ahead on Tuesday, tweeting from his official twitter account to his 140,000 followers the 79 year old chairman tweeted at 9.48am on the morning of the match “Kickoff tonight is 7.45pm traffic will be horrendous allow extra time. See you there. #FarewellBoleyn dg” Obviously the bronze […]
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Irons striker still bound for Chinese takeaway!
Posted on 12 May 2016.
West Ham will be hoping to get the majority of their £12 million fee back once negotiations start in earnest for Enner Valencia – who is looking more and more likely to head for China this summer. With the Irons now almost entirely focused on bring in Lyon’s Aleandre Lacazette they will be ready to […]
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Mail man Lee raised Green Street alarm
Posted on 12 May 2016.
The Daily Mail’s head of sport and Hammers season ticket holder Lee Clayton has today produced a piece on his Tuesday night Upton Park experience. He reveals how as the crush in and around the area began to intensify and with the gates still closed he made a telephone to the club and the ground […]
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Carrick: We can’t use coach attack as excuse
Posted on 12 May 2016.
Former Iron Michael Carrick refuses to blame the attack on Manchester United’s teamcoach for the defeat at Upton Park. The midfielder said: “Whatever has gone on beforehand, you’ve just got to get on with i t. We were here, we were ready and we had over an hour to prepare for the game. It’s no […]
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Chelsea had talks with OS owners on groundshare
Posted on 12 May 2016.
Chelsea could ground share with West Ham at the Olympic Stadium while their new stadium is built claims the BBC’s Dan Roan. The Blues want to relocate to Wembley for three years and but it is claimed the FA want £20m-a-year in rent. But Roan claims they have also held talks with the London Legacy Development […]
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Hammers US Tour confirmed
Posted on 11 May 2016.
West Ham has officially confirmed that the first-team will travel to the United States of America for their 2016 summer tour. The Hammers will head across the Atlantic Ocean for an eleven-day tour highlighted by a prestige pre-season fixture with the Seattle Sounders, the best-supported and most-valuable franchise in Major League Soccer (MLS), on Tuesday […]
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West Ham chosen for Sky
Posted on 11 May 2016.
West Ham, Manchester United and Manchester City will all be live on Sky Sports this Sunday as the race for European qualification reaches its climax it was announced Sky evening as the relegation places for Norwich and Newcastle was settled. The fourth and final Champions League spot will be decided on the final day of […]
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All to play for last game
Posted on 11 May 2016.
Chelsea drew with Liverpool tonight away at Anfield. It means Liverpool are now three points behind West Ham but the Hammers have a slight superior goal difference of two. West Ham moved back up to sixth place yesterday above Southampton yafter our historic win over Manchester United who remain one point above us. It means […]
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Police refuse Irons player entry to Upton Park!
Posted on 11 May 2016.
Exclusive Reece Burke was allegedly refused entry to the Boleyn Ground players car park yesterday by the Metropolitan Police according to several eye witnesses. One West Ham fan told ClaretandHugh, Burke was caught up in the Green Street crush and attempted to gain entry via the players car park which was guarded by police prior […]
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Irresponsible Police Nearly Create Another Hillsborough
Posted on 11 May 2016.
Guest post by David Griffith, also known as Blind Hammer. Blind Hammer asks if the Police have really learnt any lessons from Hillsborough. I, along with dozens of other West Ham supporters nearly sustained serious injury last night. As it happens my guide and I were lucky to escape with only minor leg injuries. At one stage […]
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Video: Super Slav ‘smashes’ it LOL – unmissable stuff from our brilliant partners@WestHamSocial
Posted on 11 May 2016.
Super Slav in his first ever Premier League season – smashed it! ⚒ pic.twitter.com/x8SpXO2xzv — West Ham Social (@WestHamSocial) May 11, 2016 Share This:
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ITN’s ‘no comment’ from Met on Green St problems
Posted on 11 May 2016.
West Ham were top of the ITN News tonight as the inquest into last night’s events outside the ground continued. And the questions this website put forward earlier about Manchester United’s late arrival at the ground at last are being asked. According to ITN the United squad did not leave their docklands hotel until 5.30pm […]
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Video: Oh yes he understands
Posted on 11 May 2016.
2 assists for the boy against Manchester United last night✌🏽 ⚒ pic.twitter.com/4iy6tjyaW2 — West Ham Social (@WestHamSocial) May 11, 2016 Share This:
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Video: Slav…The End …celebrations
Posted on 11 May 2016.
The noise from the Upton Park faithful last night was unbelievable, ears are still ringing!https://t.co/rC11J1I2MU — West Ham Social (@WestHamSocial) May 11, 2016 Share This:
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Great video: The lights go out for last time
Posted on 11 May 2016.
The lights have gone down for the last time. #FarewellBoleyn you’ll never be forgotten pic.twitter.com/6EiwEqc5qm — West Ham Social (@WestHamSocial) May 10, 2016 Share This:
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The Green Street crush
Posted on 11 May 2016.
While the Manchester United team coach incident grabs all the headlines today, little has been said about the dangerous crush along Green Street before kick-off with many supporters fearing for their safety on the last day outside the Boleyn Ground. By Tuesday lunchtime, several hundred fans had already made their way to Green Street, by […]
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Big questions for Man United and Met Police
Posted on 11 May 2016.
ClaretandHugh cannot and will not make excuses for the people who decided to throw objects and bottles at the United coach. IT WAS HORRENDOUS and they have shamed our great club! However, there remain some key questions that need asking and answering about last night’s debacle which led to a delayed 8.30 pm kick off. […]
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Farewell finale fails to excite!
Posted on 11 May 2016.
What a great and fitting game of football to finish 112 years at the Boleyn Ground but the closing ceremony was a major disappointment to myself and many of the 35,000 crowd there on the damp night. The highlights of the closing ceremony were the light and pyrotechnic show to the tune of twist and shout […]
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The build up to the sorry coach incident
Posted on 11 May 2016.
A series of events led to a small minority of so called Hammers fans throwing objects which broke the blackout covering in front of windows on the Manchester United team coach. There can be no excuse for the small minority of Hammers fans that threw the bottles and cans at the bus at the corner of […]
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The Boleyn Ground lock in
Posted on 11 May 2016.
West Ham players, staff, fans and celebrities were locked into the Boleyn Ground last night around midnight as the police enforced a complete lock-down of the stadium ahead of the departure of the Manchester United team coach. Supporters, players and staff were told they were unable to leave the ground until a replacement coach from Reptons […]
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Furious fans slam Holmes WHUFC comments
Posted on 11 May 2016.
Manchester United Sky TV presenter Eamonn Holmes has been heavily criticised after comparing West Ham fans’ attack on the Manchester United team bus to Hillsborough. Speaking about the behaviour of some West Ham fans, Holmes said: “Now this is going back to the 70s and to the 80s to everything you were seeing that was […]
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Exclusive: Gold apology to Man United
Posted on 11 May 2016.
David Gold watched horrified as events unfolded in Green Street ahead of the Manchester Unitd coach being attacked last night And he told ClaretandHugh exclusively: We were watching from the balcony and we apologise to the Manchester United players, manager and all officials of the club. It is unacceptable.” Whilst the club isn’t responsible for […]
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Law forced early Boleyn fireworks finale
Posted on 11 May 2016.
The 45-minute late kickoff due to the Manchester United late arrival forced major changes to the closing ceremony at the Boleyn Ground last night, the biggest of which was to stage the finale first instead last. UK law prohibits the setting off of fireworks past 11pm except on bonfire night, New Year’s Eve, Diwali and […]
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How we rated the mighty Boleyn display
Posted on 11 May 2016.
ClaretandHugh’s Niall McDonald casts his eyes back at a stunning night! This was an incredible performance given the importance of the game, the emotions and fanfare surrounding it, the quality of the opposition, the delays on the night – and all coming off the back of the debacle against Swansea a few days before. […]
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The only tears were tears of joy!
Posted on 11 May 2016.
So in the end the only tears being shed were tears of delight – well perhaps not all but 90 per cent of them. We’re football people you see and at some stage the game takes over. It did last night and as we staged the comebacks of comebacks – and there have been a […]
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