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Mauricio Pochettino’s team blew their chance of taking the lead in the Premiership as fatigue and a furiously motivated West Ham took their toll Right then. Does anyone actually want to win this thing? It has to date been a thrilling title race, pegged out around Tottenham’s drive, Leicester’s gnarled and canny fairytale and Arsenal’s ability, week in, week out, to look like the best really terrible football team in Europe. Related: Michail Antonio strikes early to give West Ham victory over …

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Tottenham Hotspur’s long wait to top the elite at a pivotal stage of the campaign goes on. This defeat may not derail their first persuasive title challenge in three decades for long, particularly given events elsewhere in this comically unpredictable race, but frailties previously hidden were exposed in the East End. A team who had shown few signs of pressure played here as if they realised how close they might be to a…

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Spurs head to West Ham United on Wednesday for the first of two crunch derby matches this week One by one, the Tottenham Hotspur players came across to shake Daniel Levy by the hand. The club’s chairman was bemused, to the point where he turned to Mauricio Pochettino and asked him whether it was a new rule he had implemented. The manager smiled. It had started out as a rule but …

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• Fellow midfielder Mousa Dembélé could return to face Arsenal on Saturday • Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino relishing this week’s two derbies Dele Alli faces a fitness test before Tottenham Hotspur’s visit to West Ham United on Wednesday night while Mousa Dembélé could return for Saturday’s north London derby at home to Arsenal. Related: Teenaged Tottenham Hotspur prospect Marcus Edwards in stand-off with club Continue reading…

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• Co-chairmen say they will not tolerate vile chanting at game • ‘Racist, antisemitic and homophobic behaviour will be punished’ West Ham have urged their fans to behave during the derby showdown with Tottenham on Wednesday night. The fixture has been marred in the past by incidents of antisemitic chanting as well as violence, with one man stabbed before the meeting at White Hart Lane in November. Related: Michail Antonio’s winner for West

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This week’s winner is Alastair Wake who wins a copy of Got, Not Got: Shirt Tales & Short Stories: The Lost World of Football Kits . Next week we’d like your takes on the new Fifa president, Gianni Infantino . Send your efforts to gallery@theguardian.com by noon on Monday 7 March as a jpeg, complete with a caption . Anyone who forgets will have to book Louis van Gaal for diving Continue reading…

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Louis van Gaal’s luck may finally be changing, Norwich may have found a blueprint to tackle Leicester, and Aston Villa are too bad to stay up Who knows what is next for Louis van Gaal’s hugely unpredictable Manchester United – but perhaps the Dutchman’s luck is changing. And changing big time: opportunity only knocked for Marcus Rashford when Anthony Martial went down injured in the warm-up against Midtjylland. Fast…

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Sunderland’s failure to take their chances left Sam Allardyce disappointed while West Ham’s Slaven Bilic refused to say European qualification is a target Slaven Bilic was talking in a cramped anteroom to the West Ham media centre when Sam Allardyce, perhaps touring the Upton Park corridors for one last time, emerged from a side door. “See you next season, hopefully,” the Sunderland manager said to his counterpart as they clasped hands. “You will, you will,” …

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Sam Allardyce returned to Upton Park looking to prove a point but, despite a series of second-half chances, Sunderland could not come away with one. This was a low-key affair, bereft of the fire and brimstone the former West Ham manager might have enjoyed, and it was a moment of slackness from his defence that helped win the game for an under-par home side. Patrick van Aanholt’s 30th-minute gift to Michail Antonio proved costly and, while the …

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Sunderland created plenty of chances, but couldn’t take any of them, and another defensive lapse cost them dearly. 2.35pm GMT M’Vila sends a high hail Mary into the box. Adrian rises to claim. And that’s it. How did that stay 1-0? Sunderland threw everything at West Ham in the second half, and carved out some decent chances, but couldn’t find the net. The hosts held firm, and they move up to fifth in the …

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The Sunderland manager is adamant he presided over progress at Upton Park – whatever the Hammers supporters tell him on Saturday – and wishes his struggling new club could aspire to the same model It is no surprise that much of the buildup to West Ham’s Premier League match against Sunderland on Saturday has focused on the kind of welcome likely to be afforded to Sam Allardyce on his first – and final – return to Upton Park since…

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Featuring a couple of crackers from the FA Cup, a swirling free-kick from Malaysia, a looping shot from Scotland and an overhead kick from the Bundesliga Continue reading…

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• Senegalese had been sent off against during West Ham’s win over Blackburn • 26-year-old now free to play this weekend against Sunderland for London club West Ham United have appealed successfully against Cheikhou Kouyaté’s one-match suspension for the Senegalese’s red card during the club’s 5-1 win at Blackburn Rovers on Sunday. Related: West Ham’s Emmanuel Emenike and Dimitri Payet run riot at Blackburn Continue reading…

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Rounding up all the action and emotion from the FA Cup Continue reading…

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Willy Caballero is too much of a risk for Manchester City to play in Capital One Cup final while Nabil Bentaleb’s Tottenham season may now be all but over With all the focus on Manuel Pellegrini’s team selection, the post-match reaction to the heaviest defeat in Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi era largely overlooked the fact that some of the least impressive performances came from their senior players. Martín Demichelis was once a centre-half of high reputation …

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• Arsenal will play Watford at home if they can beat Hull in fifth-round replay • West Ham face trip to either Manchester United or Shrewsbury Town Chelsea have been given a difficult away tie at Everton in the FA Cup quarter-final in the only confirmed all-Premier League clash in the sixth round draw, after the London sailed past Manchester City 5-1 on Sunday. Related: FA Cup sixth round draw – as it happened Continue reading

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West Ham United took advantage of a Blackburn Rovers implosion after Chris Taylor was needlessly sent off to secure passage into the FA Cup quarter-finals. As Paul Lambert, the Rovers manager, said: “I thought for 55 minutes we were very good. The sending-off kills us, it opens the game up. It’s hard enough against 11, let alone 10.” Continue reading…

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Latest updates from the 2pm kick-off at Ewood Park Email niall.mcveigh@theguardian.com | Tweet @niallmcveigh Blackburn’s Evans ready for hectic schedule with club and country 1.38pm GMT Paul Lambert speaks “We’ve got a massive game this week (Blackburn play Derby on Wednesday) and something like 11 games in 31 days. Our lads can do the job today, though. Over the course of the season, you’d struggle to match sides like [West Ham], but in …

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Midfielder has 11 games for club and country and second child on the way as he makes up for lost time on Old Trafford margins Bright-eyed, fresh-faced and straight-backed, Corry Evans positively radiates health and fitness. Given his impending schedule, such vitality seems not so much a good thing as an absolute necessity. Evans, who is 25, is not the type to slump or mooch but even he leans, albeit …

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• West Ham depleted by injuries for trip to Ewood Park • Bilic remembers cup defeats as a player 19 years ago Seventh in the Premier League and still buzzing from the exhilarating high inspired by the Angelo Ogbonna header that looped beyond Simon Mignolet in the last minute of their replay against Liverpool, West Ham United are heavy favourites to reach the last eight of the FA Cup at the expense of Blackburn Rovers, who are 18th in the Championship and …

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With Dimitri Payet starting for West Ham it is very difficult seeing Blackburn be able to have any riposte to the French international’s technical ability. However, Paul Lambert ended Blackburn’s nine-game wait for a Championship win with an impressive victory over Fulham on Tuesday night and will be confident his side can come achieve a shock victory to advance into the quarter-finals. Graham Searles Kick-off Sunday 2pm Continue reading…

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• West Ham striker will miss two weeks with groin problem • Emmanuel Emenike likely to make first start at Blackburn Slaven Bilic said that he was “gutted” after confirming that Andy Carroll’s latest injury setback is likely to keep him out for two weeks. Carroll felt a problem in his groin while he was warming up against Norwich City last Saturday and although he came off the bench to help West Ham United fight back from…

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• Carroll suffered adductor injury in Premier League draw at Norwich • Injury-plagued striker had only just returned from treatment table Andy Carroll is back on the treatment table and will miss Sunday’s FA Cup fifth-round tie at Blackburn. The 27-year-old had just returned from a month out with a hamstring problem when he suffered an adductor injury after coming on as a substitute during last weekend’s 2-2 draw at…

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Today’s fluff is happy as a clam As the Mill knows more than most, it often tends to pay to take the easy option. We all have crazy dreams and outlandish thoughts at times – Why don’t you pack in the job, buy that campervan and head off around the world? Maybe you’d finish that Booker Prize-winning novel if only you left behind the rat race and moved to a sheep farm on …

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• 30-year-old striker become latest high-profile player moving to China • Tim Cahill, meanwhile, terminates deal with Shanghai Shenhua Nikica Jelavic has completed his switch from West Ham to the Chinese second division side Beijing Renhe. Related: Football transfer rumours: Manchester United to sign Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang? Related: The great windfall of China: a football revolution that may lead to World Cup | Owen Gibson Continue reading…

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• We have the quality to avoid last season’s slump, says manager • Russell Martin highlights Norwich City ‘positives’ for relegation fight This time 12 months ago West Ham United, then of course managed by Sam Allardyce, were eighth in the Premier League with a game in hand on most of the teams above them. They were also in the fifth round of the FA Cup, preparing to take on West Bromwich Albion. It …

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