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• Arsenal confirm game postponed due to industrial action • Match will be played on 23 or 26 January instead Arsenal have confirmed that their Premier League match against West Ham on Boxing Day has been postponed due to the planned industrial action on the London Underground. Arsenal, who postponed their Boxing Day game last year for the same reason, …

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• Arsenal discuss possible postponement of festive fixture • QPR and Fulham say Boxing Day games to go ahead Arsenal have say their Boxing Day fixture with West Ham United is in doubt due to the threat of a tube strike. London Underground drivers are set to stage three strikes over Bank Holiday pay, with the first scheduled for December 26 . The move by members of the union Aslef threatens travel chaos …

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AC Jimbo welcomes Owen Gibson , Barry Glendenning and a festive Sean Ingle to the pod to discuss Aston Villa’s destruction of Liverpool and QPR’s first win this season . Elsewhere in the programme … Chelsea come home beaten from Japan – will they be disorientated come Wednesday against Leeds? Has Marouane Fellaini played his last game for Everton? And was West Brom v …

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West Ham’s visit to West Brom on Sunday afternoon threatened to put the Hawthorns crowd to sleep, but have you seen worse? A few hours before the great and the good of British sport gathered in east London to celebrate the heroes of 2012, West Brom and West Ham played out a turgid nil-nil draw at…

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West Bromwich brought their three-game losing streak to an end at The Hawthorns but could not get back to winning ways thanks to a determined and occasionally dogged display from West Ham. The Hammers were so stretched by injuries that Sam Allardyce named only six substitutes, three of them youngsters who have never made a Premier League appearance. So at least they had an excuse in a first…

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MBM report: Can West Brom get back to winning ways or will West Ham locate their best form? Join Ian McCourt to find out Ian McCourt

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Three successive defeats have put the brakes on West Brom’s storming season. “With all the games in December you can quickly get into a good run or quickly into a bad run,” said the Baggies manager Steve Clarke. “We’ve got into a bad run and the first objective is to stop that.” West Ham have lost three of their last four but these have been hard games, not helped by a growing injury list, to which George McCartney’s…

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Queens Park Rangers are desperate to avoid doing a Swindon; Manchester City look far more comfortable chasing the leaders 1 QPR desperately need some festive cheer This Queens Park Rangers vintage is now officially corked, the season turning sourer than the cheap plonk served up by the hapless Swindon sommelier John Gorman …

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The former Chelsea and England player scored for the Reds at West Ham on Sunday, but his time at Anfield has seemingly been frustrated at every turn Joe Cole had waited 20 months for a Premier League goal and could not celebrate when it arrived. It reflected well on Cole’s character to respect the club that shaped him but illustrated his fortunes at Liverpool that a rare moment of release had to be restrained at West Ham. Cole has …

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Jonjo Shelvey was the only Liverpool player to celebrate a goal here at Upton Park and as well he might. Cast in the role of the false nine, as his club arrived in London without a recognised striker, due to the suspension of Luis Suárez and Fabio Borini’s injury, Shelvey compensated …

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Minute-by-minute report: How will Liverpool fare without Luis Suárez against in form West Ham at Upton Park? Find out with Daniel Harris Daniel Harris

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Manager’s ability to see the bigger picture has helped him find the right pieces for his jigsaw West Ham do not look like newcomers in the Premier League. While Reading and Southampton strive to find their feet, the team promoted via the play-offs are already into a stride that suggests their aim for this season should be more than merely surviving in the top …

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Last week West Ham faced a team containing a striker badly out of form, this week they face a team with no striker at all as Liverpool arrive in east London shorn of the suspended Luis Suárez. It will be up to Jonjo Shelvey, a boyhood Hammer, to lead the visitors’ attack, a role he impressively carried out during…

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Rafa Benítez suits up, QPR look for a first win at last, a crunch south coast clash. Oh, and a derby in Manchester Rafa fretting about his suit Rafael Benítez has a new Chelsea suit on order from the club’s official outfitters, Dolce & Gabbana after failing to find one in the Stamford Bridge wardrobes that actually, er, fitted. Will it have arrived in time for Chelsea’s visit to Sunderland? It is to be…

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The football club can ensure that talk of regeneration and ‘convergence’ does not price out the traditional community West Ham United is, once again, lined up to occupy the post-Games Olympic Stadium , golden heart of London 2012. For the club this could mean ascent to football’s super elite. For London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, it could avert the threat…

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West Ham United and the mayor of London want the same outcome and are testing each other to see who will fold first “Jarndyce v Jarndyce drones on,” wrote Charles Dickens in Bleak House of the infamous, seemingly endless court case. “This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least, but it has been observed that no two Chancery…

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• Club is first choice to be main tenant at £429m stadium • Further negotiations needed to secure a binding deal West Ham have taken a key step towards relocating to the Olympic Stadium after they were named the highest ranked bidder for the £429m venue. Following a board meeting, the London Legacy Development Corporation announced that the club was its first choice to be the stadium’s …

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• London Legacy Development Corporation board to meet • West Ham likely to be named preferred bidders West Ham United are likely to be named preferred bidders for the Olympic Stadium in Stratford on Wednesday following a board meeting of the London Legacy Development Corporation, but final agreement on a deal for the East End club to move into the £429m venue is expected to remain some way off. As revealed last month by the Guardian…

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• Photographer claims he was assaulted in Republic • West Ham striker was with team-mates for party West Ham United’s Andy Carroll has been interviewed by police in the Republic of Ireland after a photographer was allegedly assaulted. The on-loan striker was with team-mates in Dublin for a weekend Christmas party after Saturday’s win over Chelsea. The 23-year-old denies any wrongdoing. A spokesman for the Garda press office in Dublin said officers received a…

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Our pick of the images from the latest games in the top flight

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• Fans voice their opinion to club owner • Chelsea’s worst league run in 17 years The chant went up from those in the lower tier of the Sir Trevor Brooking Stand while the rest of the arena was bouncing in frenzied celebration at Mohamed Diamé’s belted finish. “Roman Abramovich, is this what you want?” asked…

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• Striker suffered problem in midweek loss at Manchester United • ‘We didn’t expect it to be quite as severe,’ says Sam Allardyce Andy Carroll will be sidelined for up to two months with a left knee injury. The West Ham manager, Sam Allardyce, said the problem is more …

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Chelsea’s retreat into the chasing pack continues apace. Rafael Benítez’s side contrived to surrender a grip on this derby and end up overwhelmed and overrun at this venue for the first time in nine years, ensuring the disillusion that festers within the European champions gnaws away at them into another week. The winless league run has been extended to seven matches, their worst sequence since February 1995, yet this felt properly traumatic than any statistic. It said much about the…

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Minute-by-minute report: Rafael Benítez’s painful start to his time at Chelsea continued as West Ham roared to victory Tom Lutz

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• Champions Manchester City biggest spenders at £10.54m • Liverpool second with £8.6m, QPR spent £6.82m Bottom-of-the-table Queens Park Rangers paid the third-highest amount to agents over the past year, their figure of £6,818,688 topped by only the champions Manchester City and Liverpool, the Premier League revealed on Friday. City were the…

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Trips to the Boleyn Ground have represented easy pickings for Chelsea in recent times, with only two points shed in their last six visits. Perhaps that was why Sam Allardyce sounded a note of caution ahead of this derby despite the fact the visitors arrive without a win in six league games and with fans still deeply unsettled by the arrival of Rafael Benítez. “Rafa has already sorted out what was …

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