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Hull City have an improved attacking line up after signing Hatem Ben Arfa, who starts, on loan and Abel Hernandez for a club record fee of £10 million. Steve Bruce will be looking to repeat his side’s 1-0 home victory last season over West Ham who also start a new loan signing in Alex Song. Sam Allardyce will want Song to recreate the performances that lead Barcelona to sign him from Arsenal in 2012. Graham Searles Kick-off Monday 8pm

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From the culling acumen of Louis van Gaal at Manchester United to the loan coup and strong hints of promise at West Ham, the fans have their say on the transfer window With the Glazer debt squeezing the club for nine years they have acted only when they thought their lavish sponsorship deals and a return to the top-four were in jeopardy. Our squad had become bloated with mediocre players. Louis van Gaal is a…

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West Ham Ladies appeal for help with kit and pitch hire costs Club says core support of womens team has been met West Ham United have defended themselves against accusations that the clubs womens team are not being provided adequate financial support after a fundraising web page was set up to help pay for expenditure including kit and pitch hire. The page, set up by captain Stacey Little, describes the club as …

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Largely through spending insane amounts of money, the Premier League has bought back some of its old prestige The most expensive transfer window so far Manchester United to carry on big spending in January window Premier League clubs spent around £850m in the summer transfer window just closed, a new record and an increase of £220m on the previous year. The total was ramped up by Manchester Uniteds …

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Is Manchester Uniteds loan of Radamel Falcao going to make all the difference as they seek a Champions League return, or will it just be another in a long list of failed last-minute signings? Transfer window club-by-club ins and outs Interactive: how much have clubs spent? Jim White has packed away his yellow tie and Premier League chairman are putting down their pens with quivering hands as the biannual jamboree that is…

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Premier League clubs spent a record £835m in the summer transfer window. How would you grade their business? Premier League transfer window interactive Continue reading…

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All your summer signings from Radamel Falcao to Joe Cole, who signed for whom in the Premier League transfer window Arsenal solved their striking problem with a last-gasp deal for Danny Welbeck, but otherwise wasted little time in getting their major business done, with Alexis Sánchez, Mathieu Debuchy and David Ospina all coming in shortly after impressive World Cup showings. They were joined by the young defender Calum Chambers, who joined the Southampton…

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Player has joined from Marseille for undisclosed fee He was on loan at West Bromwich Albion last season Morgan Amalfitano has become the ninth summer signing for West Ham United, joining the club from Marseille for an undisclosed fee. The 29-year-old midfielder, who has won one France cap, joins the recent loan acquisition Alex Song as well as other summer signings Carl Jenkinson, Enner Valencia, Diafra Sakho, Cheikhou Kouyaté, Diego Poyet, Aaron Cresswell and

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West Ham fan Jordan Dunn, 22, from Dover, Kent ran on to the pitch and took a free kick in game against Tottenham Hotspur A football fan has admitted to running on to the pitch and taking a free kick during a Premier League match. Jordan Dunn, 22, from Dover in Kent, became an internet sensation after he kicked the ball towards the goal West Ham United were defending at Upton Park against Tottenham Hotspur last month. Continue reading…

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Morgan Schneiderlin stops short of committing future to Saints Sam Allardyce hopes loss will serve as wake-up to players The Southampton manager, Ronald Koeman, has promised to keep trying to win games with style after recording his first Premier League victory. It would have been easy for Koemans side to abandon their pass-and-move approach when falling behind to Mark Nobles deflected 25-yard effort and become more direct in search of a way back into the match…

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Saturday Clockwatch as it happened Morgan Schneiderlin scored twice as Southampton secured a first Premier League win for Ronald Koeman by beating West Ham United 3-1 at Upton Park. The France midfielder who had been linked with a move to join the former Saints manager Mauricio Pochettino at Tottenham Hotspur produced a couple of fine close-range efforts either side of half-time as the visitors came from behind following Mark Nobles deflected effort. Continue reading…

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Former Arsenal midfielder heads back to the Premier League West Ham is looking to be a very, very big club in the future Transfer interactive: how much has your club spent? West Ham have announced the signing of the Barcelona midfielder Alex Song on a season-long loan. The 26-year-old Cameroon international struggled to hold down a regular place at Camp Nou following a move from Arsenal in 2012 and returns to the Premier League with the …

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West Ham midfielder also accused of threat to throw acid Morrison pleaded not guilty to attacks on Reah Mansoor The West Ham midfielder Ravel Morrison will go on trial next year over allegations that he threatened to throw acid in the face of his ex-girlfriend and have her killed. The 21-year-old former Manchester United player is also accused of threatening to blow up Reah Mansoors house in a course of harassment against …

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Former Arsenal keepers move to Cagliari called off Almunia has heart condition that can cause sudden death Manuel Almunia is expected to announce his retirement after a heart condition that can cause sudden death was detected at a routine medical. The former Arsenal goalkeeper was close to joining Cagliari earlier this month as a free agent having played the past two years at Watford. However, The Serie A club abandoned the signing of the 37-year-old…

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West Hams latest big-money signing Enner Valencia missed the decisive penalty after an even Capital One Cup tie at Upton Park. There are now two divisions separating the clubs but it is Sheffield United who progressed into the third round after Valencia, a £14m signing from Pachuca , was the only player to miss his spot-kick as the tie could not be decided after extra time. Continue reading…

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Mutual loathing as Bramall Lane club return in League Cup Relegation after Argentinian signed for West Ham still festers The second round of the League Cup is not usually associated with vitriol, venom and downright loathing but there will be an abundance of all three at Upton Park on Tuesday evening when West Ham welcome Sheffield United for the first time since the clubs had an ever so minor disagreement over a certain Argentinian. The memory of Carlos Tevez and…

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For 15 minutes, Crystal Palace were pretty good. They pushed West Ham back, created some good chances and the atmosphere was just as buoyant and defiant as it was during that gleeful ride to survival last season. Tony Pulis, who needs Tony Pulis? Not Palace. It was his loss, not theirs, and he did not deserve them anyway. You could sense supporters getting giddy. Palace were too good for Pulis. They were going to beat the odds again. Stick together…

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Crystal Palaces supporters arrived determined to roar their side on and give a bad week a happy ending. The Palace ultras, that vociferous little group of fans behind one of the goals at Selhurst Park, banged their drums and led the chants and briefly it seemed that everything was going to be all right; it did not matter that Palace have been unwittingly caught up in the Malky Mackay scandal, that their …

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Answer a simple question and you could be off to Selhurst Park to watch some live Barclays Premier League football Continue reading…

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Plus analysis of how Manchester United, Arsenal, West Ham, Burnley and Aston Villa can improve in the transfer window Continue reading…

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Fans of banter were disappointed when Tim Sherwood was sacked by Tottenham Hotspur at the end of last season Sherwood famously said that he was up for the banter on being given the job and spent six glorious months proving it but perhaps his replacement, Mauricio Pochettino, is going to fill the void. Pochettino was in a bubbly mood after Eric Diers stoppage-time winner had secured him an unlikely victory in his first match as Tottenhams manager and when …

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Our picks of the best images from the seasons opening day Sam Allardyce spoke about the number of opportunities created by West Ham. He pointed to the penalty that Mark Noble missed in the first half, said that the way his team outplayed Tottenham Hotspur gives him great encouragement for what lies ahead and laughed off suggestions that his job could be under threat after this galling defeat. If theyre going to do it after one game, …

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The best images from around the grounds at the start of the season Continue reading…

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Alan Pardew and Sam Allardyce need patience and luck to avoid the early-season sack at Newcastle and West Ham respectively The computer game Football Manager categorises the “job status” of its fictional coaches in four bands: secure, stable, insecure and very insecure. Few actual Premier League managers would admit to belonging to the first two brackets. In a profession in which even the perceived best are only three consecutive defeats removed from …

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Senegalese midfielder arrived at Upton Park for £7m in the summer after seven seasons, and four titles, with Anderlecht Cheikhou Kouyaté has never been afraid to suffer for his art. West Ham Uniteds new midfielder is used to it and he has been making sacrifices for a long time, ever since he left his family home in Senegal as a teenager and moved to Europe on his own. He has learned to be tough and hard work feels…

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West Ham beat Tottenham Hotspur three times last season and Mauricio Pochettino, the ninth manager Daniel Levy has appointed, will be desperate to stop them extending that run. Tottenham are likely to play on the unrest at Upton Park, where support for Sam Allardyce is at an all-time low. West Ham will be without the injured Andy Carroll, out with torn ankle ligaments until November, but have been boosted by the …

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