• Striker took a pay cut to help fire West Ham back to top flight • Contract talks with Robert Green a priority for West Ham David Gold had a smile from ear to ear, Mark Noble was proudly wearing the play‑off winner’s medal that…
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Sam Allardyce praises Carlton Cole’s ‘show of love’ for West Ham
Posted on 20 May 2012.
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Football Weekly Supplement: Chelsea champions of Europe
Posted on 20 May 2012.
In a special end-of-season Sunday spectacular, AC Jimbo buys everyone a pastry and dissects Chelsea’s win of wins . No one on the panel predicted the final result – except John Ashdown – so expect some soul searching apologies from all. Joining him on the…
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How the papers reported Chelsea’s football victory
Posted on 20 May 2012.
Chelsea’s European Champions League victory kept Sunday paper editors later at the office than usual because it was delayed by extra time and a penalty shoot-out. But they did the unfavoured British team proud with pages of pictures, reportage and analysis. …
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Big relief for Big Sam Allardyce after fortune smiles on West Ham | David Hytner
Posted on 19 May 2012.
Allardyce achieves his aim of taking West Ham straight back to the Premier League, but it was a real nail-biter Sam Allardyce did not have to field the question. He knew that it would have been forthcoming in defeat. “Sam, do you fear …
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Ricardo Vaz Tê hailed as best ever signing by West Ham manager
Posted on 19 May 2012.
• Portuguese scored winner in Championship play-off final • Sam Allardyce paid relatively small fee for the forward Sam Allardyce hailed Ricardo Vaz Tê as one of his best ever signings after the player he bought from Barnsley in …
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‘This was plan B but we did it,’ says West Ham captain Kevin Nolan
Posted on 19 May 2012.
• West Ham are first club to go straight back up since Leicester • ‘This means everything to me’, says Sam Allardyce Ricardo Vaz Tê praised West Ham United’s spirit after his late strike at Wembley sealed an immediate return to the Premier League and an estimated…
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Blackpool 1-2 West Ham United | Championship play-off final report
Posted on 19 May 2012.
Ricardo Vaz Tê spent most of the afternoon infuriating the West Ham faithful with his indecisiveness in front of goal, before redeeming himself three minutes from time with the strike that sends Sam Allardyce and the Irons back into the Premier League after a year’s absence. It…
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Blackpool v West Ham – live! | Evan Fanning
Posted on 19 May 2012.
• Press F5 or auto-refresh for the lastest updates • Email evan.fanning.casual@guardian.co.uk • Tweet Evan, if that’s your thing Goal! Blackpool 0-1 West Ham United (Cole, 34) West Ham have the lead and it’s come out of nowhere. Tom Ince felt he was fouled…
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Sam Allardyce out to silence his West Ham critics by beating Blackpool
Posted on 18 May 2012.
The under-fire Hammers manager believes the play-off final is bigger than the Champions League because it has the power to change lives Sam Allardyce has an evolutionary theory for his particular species. “As a manager,” he says, “you accept that you need…
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Football transfer rumours: Robert Green to Malaga?
Posted on 09 May 2012.
Today’s fluff wants to go where the people go The Mill popped into its local second hand record shop last week and after a merry 20 minutes flicking through all manner of wonders we happened across 100 Hits: Rock, a five-CD compilation of REO Speedwagon…
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West Ham 3-0 Cardiff (5-0 agg) | Championship play-off match report
Posted on 07 May 2012.
West Ham are one step away from returning to the Premier League after easing their way into the Championship play-off final with an emphatic victory over Cardiff City. Goals from Kevin Nolan, Ricardo Vaz Tê and Nicky Maynard enabled …
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West Ham v Cardiff City – live! | Simon Burnton
Posted on 07 May 2012.
• Hit the auto-update button for the latest posts • Send your thoughts to simon.burnton@guardian.co.uk • And tweet Simon , if that’s your thing 50 mins: Mark Hudson brings down Vaz Te, and is rightly booked. 48 mins: There seems little reason to take risks, so Collison’s coming …
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Karren Brady: my greatest mistake
Posted on 04 May 2012.
How Lord Sugar’s right-hand woman once returned to work too soon after giving birth My greatest mistake? I once took a three-day maternity leave. I had my daughter on a Wednesday, and then went back to the office on the Monday to…
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Cardiff 0-2 West Ham United| Championship play-off semi-final first leg
Posted on 03 May 2012.
West Ham United’s erratic home form will ensure they approach the second leg on Monday with a degree of caution but Sam Allardyce and his players are within touching distance of a place in the play-off final after this convincing victory. Two first-half goals from Jack…
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Cardiff City v West Ham United – live! | Jacob Steinberg
Posted on 03 May 2012.
• Turn on our auto-refresh tool for the latest updates • Email jacob.steinberg.casual@guardian.co.uk for a chat • Follow Jacob on Twitter if that’s your thing 90 min+4: The match is ending with West Ham locked in …
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Play-off relegation curse haunts West Ham, Birmingham and Blackpool | John Ashdown
Posted on 02 May 2012.
Cardiff are the best bet to be promoted if the fate of teams trying to return to the Premier League since 1996 is a guide There is a statistic that should worry three of the four sides who begin battling it out in the Championship play-offs on…
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Championship 2011-12: the bloggers’ end-of-season report
Posted on 01 May 2012.
The people who really know their clubs give us the lowdown on their 2011-12 Championship campaigns • Check out what the bloggers had to say at the start of the season and at the halfway point Barnsley Dream or nightmare? It’s been a season …
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Roy Hodgson’s the boy – but papers are already putting the boot in
Posted on 30 April 2012.
“A good man is just about to take on the Impossible Job.” That was the conclusion of the Daily Telegraph’s Henry Winter in writing about the Football Association’s decision to offer the England football manager’s job to Roy Hodgson. The reason was…
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Mark Noble: ‘West Ham must get over disappointment and focus on Cardiff’
Posted on 29 April 2012.
• ‘We wanted to go up straight away,’ says Noble • Squad have spirit and experience to get to Wembley His 18th birthday was barely behind him when Mark Noble, still in his first season as a professional footballer, savoured one of his finest moments…
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West Ham United 2-1 Hull City | Championship match report
Posted on 28 April 2012.
West Ham United’s fate was all but certain before kick-off. At least now it is back in their own hands. Cardiff in the play-offs on Thursday awaits after victory over a Hull City side who were merely rubbernecking …
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Leicester City 1-2 West Ham United | Championship match report
Posted on 23 April 2012.
West Ham United’s supporters are accustomed to the agony that is the extension of faint hope, so perhaps they will find the time leading up to Saturday’s lunchtime kick-offs endurable. Needing to win to keep alive an outside chance of automatic promotion, Sam …
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Southampton move five points clear of West Ham in promotion race
Posted on 17 April 2012.
• Saints defeat Peterborough • Hammers held to draw by Bristol City Southampton have moved five points clear of West Ham United with two games to play after their 3-1 victory over Peterborough United and the Hammers’ draw with Bristol City put them within two more points of …
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Five things we learned from watching football this weekend
Posted on 16 April 2012.
Aston Villa need to be relegated, Blackburn will be, West Ham won’t be coming up, Fleetwood Town will be. And then what about Craig Beattie’s celebration? Villa might benefit from a spell out of the Premier League Aston Villa are a sad…
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West Ham United 6-0 Brighton and Hove Albion | Championship match report
Posted on 14 April 2012.
AC/DC’s Highway to Hell was played over the Tannoy pre-match and with West Ham seemingly heading towards the play-offs, that appeared rather apt — any supporter who has suffered the sting of failure in the post-season lottery finds the prospect of Beelzebub and an eternity…
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West Ham United 3-3 Birmingham City | Championship match report
Posted on 09 April 2012.
“I said to the players beforehand that if they come off the pitch having kept a clean sheet, then we’ll have won – but I must have been talking Swahili.” West Ham United mounted a rousing comeback to recover from two goals down and salvage a draw…
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Strong Woman: Ambition, Grit and a Great Pair of Heels by Karren Brady – review
Posted on 07 April 2012.
The businesswoman and Apprentice star shines when she drops the corporate line and gets personal Karren Brady is one of the UK’s best-known businesswomen. From the age of 18 she worked for Saatchi & Saatchi before moving on to David Sullivan’s Sport newspaper empire. By the time she was 23, Sullivan…
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