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All the news and match previews for this weekend’s FA Cup fourth-round matches If Manchester City are to complete the quadruple they will have to get past a team whose form has been somewhat mixed in recent weeks. Cardiff are undefeated in four games having lost their previous four games, but with the canny Neil Warnock in charge and a raucous crowd behind them, they are sure to provide …

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• Brazilian winger is not cup-tied for the Champions League • Portuguese midfielder Mário joins from Internazionale Tottenham Hotspur believe a January deal for the Paris Saint-Germain winger Lucas Moura is theirs for the taking. The £25m-rated Brazilian visited the club’s training ground in Enfield on Thursday for talks with the chairman, Daniel Levy, and the manager, Mauricio Pochettino, and he knows that PSG want to offload him. Related: Érik Lamela: ‘My brother…

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• Norwich are likely to demand a bigger fee for their prized asset • Maddison has scored seven goals in the Championship this term West Ham United have made a £12m bid for Norwich City’s talented midfielder James Maddison. David Moyes watched the 21-year-old at Stamford Bridge last week as Norwich drew 1-1 with Chelsea before losing on penalties. Related: Transfer window January 2018 – every deal in Europe’s top five leagues Continue reading…

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• West Ham pursuing midfielder after losing Manuel Lanzini to injury • Club willing to pay wages in full but want compromise over loan fee West Ham are in talks with Internazionale over signing the midfielder João Mário on loan after losing Manuel Lanzini for six weeks to injury. Lanzini has ruptured a hamstring, prompting West Ham to step up their pursuit of João Mário, who is not a regular starter at …

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• Manuel Lanzini also could be out for weeks with hamstring injury • David Moyes to reassess transfer targets, including Jonjo Shelvey West Ham United will be without Andy Carroll for three months after the striker underwent surgery on a foot injury. The club also fear Manuel Lanzini could be absent until the end of February after damaging a hamstring. The loss of the attacking pair could influence the club’s transfer policy. Carroll had hoped …

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This game came and went in almost 60 seconds. Ryan Fraser’s sweet strike gave the visitors an unlikely lead only for it to be cancelled out in little over a minute by a typical finish from Javier Hernández. That aside, it was a match of missed opportunities. For David Moyes there was not only two home points dropped against a bottom half rival but two more injuries to a threadbare West Ham squad. Aaron Cresswell limped off with cramp in…

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Seeing Andy Carroll or Peter Crouch at Chelsea is too good to hope for as it could confirm suspicions about the basic numbers of effectiveness and opportunity in elite teams It is nearly 40 years since a famous photo emerged that left the nascent Indian space programme an object of widespread mockery. The photo, published in 1979, showed India’s brand new state-of-the-art communications satellite being wheeled out for its launch – on a …

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• West Ham forward faces extended absence • Striker was due for talks over £20m switch Andy Carroll’s £20m move to Chelsea is off, with an ankle injury forcing the striker out of action for an extended period. Carroll has been linked with a move to the Premier League champions but any January switch is doomed after a scan revealed a hairline fracture of the ankle. He could now be absent for six weeks with surgery still a possibility. If …

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• Chelsea told they will not be able to get Carroll on six-month loan • West Ham want around £20m for striker they bought for £15m Chelsea have indicated they would be willing to sign Andy Carroll on a permanent basis and have opened discussions with West Ham as they seek to bolster Antonio Conte’s ranks up front. The Premier League champions are scrutinising a number of forwards in an attempt to ease the workload on Álvaro Morata but…

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West Ham finally saw off Shrewsbury in added time of their FA Cup third round replay but it took a thumping volley from a rookie centre-half to do so. Reece Burke scored his first goal for the club with seven minutes remaining of the added half-hour at a chilly London Stadium. He smashed home Marko Arnautovic’s cutback off the underside of the bar, just when the match looked like heading to penalties without a single goal in…

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Live updates from all the FA Cup third-round replays Follow all Tuesday’s latest scores here Feel free to email Simon | Tweet @Simon_Burnton 7.11pm GMT So PA are getting their game together, and these are the names I’ve been given – I’ll add the rest as they arrive: Leicester v Fleetwood Town Leicester: Jakupovic, Amartey, Dragovic, Benalouane, Fuchs, Mahrez, Iborra, Adrien Silva, Gray, Iheanacho, Slimani. Subs: Vardy, Albrighton, Hamer, Maguire, Okazaki, Ndidi, Barnes. Fleetwood Town: Neal, Jones, Bolger, …

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• Striker, 29, would give Chelsea a different option up front • Loan deal possible for injury-plagued former England striker Chelsea’s eagerness to freshen up their forward ranks could prompt a renewed attempt to secure Andy Carroll from West Ham United before the end of the transfer window. The Premier League champions endured a third successive goalless draw, for the first time in their history, against Leicester City on Saturday with fatigue blunting the players’ form. Álvaro …

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David Moyes became only the fourth manager to record 200 Premier League wins with this resounding victory – Ferguson, Wenger and Redknapp, since you ask, and the first of that trio was here to see it – though of greater significance to both clubs might be the fact that West Ham leapfrogged Huddersfield in the table. Town are considered to have been enjoying a good season up till now, punching above their weight since that joyful win at Crystal…

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Huddersfield have not won in the league since their impressive 4-1 victory at Watford on 16 December but their manager, David Wagner, has acted quickly to address any danger of a slump in form by freshening up his squad with the signings of Terence Kongolo and Alex Pritchard. Both are expected to make their debuts against a West Ham side who have fitness doubts over several key players. Rich Flower Kick-off Saturday 3pm Continue reading…

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• West Brom player went into crowd after hearing comment by supporter • ‘Inciting or abusive behaviour will not be tolerated,’ say West Ham West Ham have issued an indefinite ban to the supporter who abused the West Brom midfielder Jake Livermore at the London Stadium. Livermore climbed into the stands to confront a fan who was sitting alongside the away team’s dugout, after being substituted in the second half of West Brom’s 2-1 defeat on 2 January. Related…

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After half a century covering the game in all its guises, with escalating wages and silly celebrations, it is League Two that provides the perfect swan song Leicester City 5, West Ham United 4: it was quite a match to kick off half a century on the highways and byways of football, writing more as a neutral fan than hard-nosed reporter. The ground was Filbert Street, the date 27 August 1966, four weeks after England won …

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• West Brom player waded into crowd after remark about his son who died • FA tells Livermore not to repeat his actions, with safety in mind Jake Livermore will not face action from the Football Association after a remark directed towards him in relation to his baby son who died in 2014 prompted him to wade into the crowd at the London Stadium and become involved in an altercation with a West Ham United fan. Related: …

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Your weekend roundup of the best photography from Saturday and Sunday’s FA Cup third round matches Continue reading…

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West Ham United will not relish a replay against Shrewsbury Town, and not only because of the imposition on their schedule. The League One team proved pesky opponents for their Premier League visitors, who never looked superior to Paul Hurst’s team. Joe Hart had hoped to make a triumphant return to the town of his birth but a clean sheet was the extent of his success. It was an uncomfortable outing all-round for David Moyes’ men…

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Updates from the 2pm GMT kick-off at Greenhous Meadow Happy-go-lucky Shrews will test Moyes’s grim realism Email Nick or tweet @NickAmes82 with your thoughts 9.34am GMT Hello. Think of Shrewsbury and you think of lower-league strugglers, coracles, peat bog pitches at Gay Meadow, dim floodlights and dramatic late Nigel Jemson winners against Everton. Things have moved on a tad now. They play at a shinier new ground for one thing; for another thing…

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Paul Hurst’s high-flyers have been defying expectations all season and will offer a stern FA Cup test for a side with both eyes on Premier League safety A funny thing happened when Shrewsbury Town played at Wigan on Boxing Day. The visitors earned a goalless draw to end a run of five straight wins by the League One leaders, though that was not entirely unexpected. What was odd was that…

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• West Ham United goalkeeper looking to revive career before World Cup • ‘I’ve no doubt Joe will play Premier League games this season,’ manager says David Moyes has sought to reassure Joe Hart that he will give him opportunities to revive his career at West Ham United before the World Cup. Hart has not played in the Premier League since 29 November, leaving the goalkeeper vulnerable to losing his place as England’s No1 to…

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• Son was racially abused by a West Ham supporter in November • Player put finger to lips after spectacular equaliser at Wembley Son Heung-min says that West Ham United fans will know why he gave them the shushing gesture after scoring against their team for Tottenham Hotspur at Wembley on Thursday night. The South Korean was racially abused by a West Ham supporter in November, after he wound down his car window…

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Today’s fluff is sapped The days gradually begin to lengthen, the Christmas decorations come down and Antonio Conte is still fidgety about the size of his squad. Will he resort to recalling one of Chelsea’s 33 loanees? No, there’s a much better plan: succeed where they failed in August and nail Ross Barkley’s colours to the mast. Related: Cenk Tosun may join Everton in time to face Liverpool, says Sam Allardyce Continue reading…

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West Ham have found great discipline under their new manager and it paid off again with another positive result against a side in the top six If he paid any attention to the scoffing that greeted his appointment as Slaven Bilic’s replacement two months ago, David Moyes would be entitled to hold up this game of attack-versus-defence and wonder goals at either end as evidence that reports of his demise were …

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There was little on for Pedro Obiang. Just as there had been little on for West Ham United, which had been no great surprise given David Moyes’s emphasis on being difficult to beat. And so the West Ham midfielder edged forward a little and decided to have a pop. What happened next sent the travelling supporters into raptures and represented another step in the right direction for the club’s relegation …

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