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Until a Yaya Touré rocket settled home nerves on 81 minutes, this was a Manchester City display to illustrate why they have frustrated all season. As with the defeat at Tottenham Hotspur last time out, City were the dominant force but appeared unable to put the boot to West Ham United’s throat to finish them off. Even after Touré’s left-foot stinger …

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Minute-by-minute report: Let’s be honest, there’s not much riding on this one. But who knows, it could be entertaining. Join Simon Burnton Simon Burnton

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• Leyton Orient chairman unhappy at decision over tenancy • West Ham expected to be playing in Stratford by 2016-17 The Leyton Orient chairman, Barry Hearn, appears to have definitively lost his long-running crusade to reopen the bidding process for the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, after his case for a judicial review was rejected. West Ham…

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Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini admits that Manchester United were better than his team across the season

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The dog days of Manchester City’s failed championship defence are now about them closing the 16-point gap to Manchester United. James Milner, Sergio Agüero and David Silva are all in contention for this game having recovered from their respective injuries and, ahead of the FA Cup final against Wigan on 11 May, …

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Upton Park’s king of the cross travels by tube, has graced a gay magazine’s front cover and won’t wear gloves on the pitch In his plain T-shirt, jeans and trainers, Matt Jarvis looks like any other twentysomething strolling around central London on a sunny afternoon and, as he sits down and…

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A collection of work created by life-long West Ham fan and music mogul Kosmo Vinyl. Since 2011, he’s honoured every West Ham match in poster-format using appropriated imagery, bold typography and a simple punk aesthetic. Jonny Weeks

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• Latics lost again despite dominating possession • Manager confident three wins will keep Wigan up Three wins from their final five games, the manager Roberto Martínez believes, will be sufficient for Wigan Athletic to pull off their now customary feat of avoiding relegation by the skin of their teeth. Given the last of those games is against Aston Villa…

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The likelihood that this may be the season in which Wigan Athletic do not win their customary Premier League survival battle is growing. The Latics were their usual attractive selves, passing the ball with a precision that few sides can match and creating any number of promising positions, but failed to make the most of just one of them to equalise Matt…

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Reaching a first FA Cup final has made this a season to remember for Wigan but if they fail to escape from the bottom three then it will also become one to forget for the club. Roberto Martínez’s side hit encouraging form recently but they have drawn and lost their last two matches and are running out…

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• United name same squad for Aston Villa on Monday • ‘Rooney was not playing as well as Shinji Kagawa’ Sir Alex Ferguson is relieved at having left the “war zone” of Upton Park with no injuries to his Manchester United players following the 2-2 draw with West Ham United . The United…

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• We all know how West Ham play, says Ferguson • When Andy is travelling at 15mph, he can’t stop – Allardyce Sir Alex Ferguson accused Andy Carroll of making a red-card challenge on David de Gea and expressed disbelief that the West Ham United striker remained on the pitch, as arguments flared after Manchester United’s 2-2 draw at Upton Park . …

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The Hammers’ tactics gave the league leaders a scare but their focus was formidable and this was no replay of 1995 Every Manchester United fan aged roughly 25 or over remembers precisely where he or she was. They also remember precisely what they said. On 14 May 1995, a spring’s afternoon at Upton Park and Andy Cole, confronted by Ludek Miklosko, has the …

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For Manchester United, another game ticked off. Sir Alex Ferguson’s men twice had to come from behind but ultimately this is the kind of resilience that is taking them to their 20th league championship and, in that context, they will probably not care too much that there were only flashes when they were at their best. They had finished the match on top but it…

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Minute-by-minute report: A late equaliser by Robin van Persie kept the United title bandwagon on the move against West Ham Paul Doyle

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• ‘We’re going to have long balls to deal with’ • United have no new injury worries Nemanja Vidic expects a tough test at West Ham United on Wednesday evening as Manchester United try to claim three of the seven points they require to win a 20th championship. On Sunday United’s 2-0 win over Stoke City stretched their advantage to 15 points over …

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• West Ham manager wary of financial fair play restrictions • ‘In one fell swoop Carroll can’t sign for us from Liverpool’ The West Ham manager, Sam Allardyce, feels that new financial fair play rules in the Premier League next season could “blow the whole deal” in regards to the club’s desire to keep Andy Carroll. The striker, who is on loan from Liverpool…

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• On-loan striker does not rule out staying at West Ham • ‘It has been great here and every minute has been fantastic’ Andy Carroll is open to joining West Ham permanently but is unsure as to where his future lies. The football world was taken aback two years ago when …

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Andy Carroll earned West Ham a hard-fought point in miserable conditions at Southampton, bringing the hosts’ three-match winning streak to an end. The on-loan 24-year-old missed last weekend’s trip to parent club Liverpool but made an immediate impact on his return to Sam Allardyce’s starting lineup, …

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Short of a catastrophic collapse Southampton and West Ham are practically guaranteed a place in the Premier League next year but equally neither will want to rest on their laurels for the remainder of this campaign. The hosts come into this one having won their last three matches, against Liverpool, Chelsea and Reading, while West …

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The howls of frustration as Luis Suárez sent a corner straight out of play and Glen Johnson ran into another blind alley encapsulated another story of torment for Liverpool. For West Ham United, however, there was only immense, justifiable satisfaction as they edged closer to Premier League safety. A fine defensive display brought Sam Allardyce’s team a hard-earned point on Merseyside and …

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Only Reading have lost more Premier League away games this season than West Ham, and Sam Allardyce’s side – minus the ineligible Andy Carroll against his parent club – will require a major transformation to upset a Liverpool team enjoying its best run of the campaign with four wins in five matches. Brendan Rodgers’s men have scored…

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Nigel Adkins comes face to face with Mauricio Pochettino, Paolo Di Canio can finally let the football do the talking and Harry Redknapp on why QPR don’t need a miracle Is another Carlos Tevez sulk on the way? The Argentinian has already demonstrated occasional reluctance to gad about in a high-vis bib since joining Manchester City, famously declining to warm up…

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West Ham’s future home gets a makeover from you, the reader, in this week’s entries

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• England manager sees striker score twice against West Brom • Carroll trusts he will be involved in England set-up again Andy Carroll hopes his impressive two goals will persuade Roy Hodgson that he deserves an England recall this summer. Carroll has endured a difficult time since he joined on loan from Liverpool last August, but the 24-year-old looked back to his…

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