Posted on 19 November 2017. Tags: career, david-moyes, premier, sport, then-the-manner, upthehammers, watford
If David Moyes had any illusions that keeping West Ham in the Premier League will not be among the biggest challenges of his career, then the manner of this defeat must surely act as a major wake-up call. Aside from a 10-minute spell either side of half-time in his 500th Premier League match as a manager Moyes saw his new side totally outplayed by a Watford team brimming with confidence …
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 19 November 2017. Tags: carroll, game, hughes, sport, watford, West Ham United, westham
David Moyes’s tenure at West Ham began with defeat by an impressive Watford side as Will Hughes scored his first top-flight goal and Richarlison added a second 6.23pm GMT Related: Watford’s win shows David Moyes scale of task he faces at West Ham 6.03pm GMT Watford were much the better side with the goalscorers Will Hughes and Richarlison both so impressive, the wing-backs Marvin Zeegelaar and Kiko Femenia excellent and …
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 18 November 2017. Tags: before-sunday, game, indiscipline, leave-the-club, stuart-pearce, West Ham United
• New manager looks to halt club’s slump at Watford • Stuart Pearce ‘will play a big role’, says Moyes David Moyes has denied that taking over from Slaven Bilic at West Ham represents his last chance in football management and the Scot is confident he can arrest a slump that has left his new side in the relegation zone. Before Sunday’s trip to face Watford at Vicarage Road Moyes pledged to tackle the indiscipline that has undermined West …
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 17 November 2017. Tags: david-moyes, guardian.co.uk, made-it-clear, premier league, slaven bilic, warned-the-club, West Ham United
• Austrian has been big disappointment since signing from Stoke City for £24m • ‘If you don’t run for the team, then you don’t play either,’ manager said Marko Arnautovic faces a fight to prove he has a future at West Ham after David Moyes warned the club’s record signing that he will not pick him until he becomes a team player. The Austrian has been a big disappointment since his £24…
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 16 November 2017. Tags: alberto-moreno, burnley, everton, football feeds, leicester-city, manchester-city, watford
The table doesn’t lie but teams such as Burnley and Brighton are exceeding all expectations while Swansea and Everton have disappointed badly. Here’s how the 20 sides rank based on early-season health and vigour They say the league table never lies, and this is of course true. What they don’t tell you is that during the dog days of an international break, when nothing falls or rises and hopes and fears are put on temporary hold, …
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 12 November 2017. Tags: backroom-staff, coming, footy news, sport, stuart-pearce, west ham united feeds, whtid
• Moyes boss brings back former assistant Irvine and ex-West Ham player Pearce • Sunderland coach Billy McKinlay set to follow “in the coming days” West Ham manager David Moyes has filled out his backroom staff by appointing Alan Irvine and Stuart Pearce as assistants, with Sunderland coach Billy McKinlay set to follow in the coming days. Moyes was confirmed as the Hammers manager last week after Slaven Bilic was sacked, despite significant adverse reaction from the…
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 11 November 2017. Tags: david-moyes, javier-hern, manchester, mexico, one-incomplete, striker-started
• Manager rarely picked the striker during his reign at Manchester United • Mexico international sustained suspected hamstring injury on Friday David Moyes has moved to allay Javier Hernández’s possible fear of being excluded at West Ham as he was at Manchester United – though the Mexican’s first appearance for the Hammers under Moyes could be delayed by injury. Hernández has played more first-team football this season than he did in the whole of Moyes’s one incomplete campaign as manager …
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 09 November 2017. Tags: being-the-word, champions, english, europe, everton, premier, premier league
Brighton, Huddersfield and Newcastle are surpassing expectations and are showing clubs such as Everton and West Ham how it should be done When Pep Guardiola suggested an English team could win the Champions League the other day he was asked if he did not consider the intensity of the Premier League a potential problem. Intensity being the word normally used to promote the idea that the English league is somehow tougher and more demanding than other leagues around …
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 08 November 2017. Tags: appointing-him, ellis-short, physicality, says-successor, sport, transfer gossip
• No more Mr Nice Guy, says successor to Slaven Bilic • At Preston players were probably crying at the work, Moyes adds David Moyes struck a positive and defiant tone as he insisted that West Ham United had taken a “good gamble” by appointing him and warned his new players not to cry about how much he will make them run in training. After claiming that the squad he has inherited …
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 08 November 2017. Tags: city, david-moyes, football feeds, london stadium, west ham united feeds
The idea of unveiling David Moyes on a gloomy November afternoon wasn’t in the London Stadium brochure but both West Ham and their new manager are in need of rebuilding From the Theatre of Dreams to the Temple of Dildo. For David Moyes the last three years have been a curious kind of journey. Through the fag-end of an empire at Manchester United, to Real Sociedad and the sack, to Sunderland and relegation, Moyes has strode past the …
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 08 November 2017. Tags: after-being, backs-himself, david-moyes, london stadium, westham fc
West Ham’s new manager, David Moyes, says he is a good appointment for the club, despite leading Sunderland to relegation last season. Moyes admits he does have a point to prove following Sunderland’s poor campaign in 2016-17 but backs himself to repair his reputation at the London Stadium David Moyes has ‘point to prove’ after being appointed West Ham manager Continue reading…
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 07 November 2017. Tags: david-moyes, opening, slaven bilic, westham
West Ham United have given David Moyes the chance to establish himself at the club after appointing him as their new manager on a six-month contract, in the hope that he can revive the team’s dismal form. The former Everton, Manchester United and Sunderland man described West Ham as a ‘big club’ and insisted they should be in a better league position than their current 18th. The former manager Slaven Bilic was sacked on Monday with…
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 07 November 2017. Tags: club-executives, david-moyes, due-diligence, football banter, latest football news, slaven bilic, west ham united feeds
The man appointed to replace Slaven Bilic was deemed dated by his players when on Wearside, where he became shrouded in a cloak of negativity Football club executives like to talk up the amount of “due diligence” they routinely undertake before hiring anyone but such boasts sometimes end up ringing hollow. Anyone who watched Sunderland regularly last season can be forgiven for wondering precisely how much homework West Ham United did before appointing David Moyes to …
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 07 November 2017. Tags: appointment, club, david-moyes, sport, westham news, wins-the-battle
• Former Manchester United and Sunderland manager replaces Slaven Bilic • ‘I’m hungry to make sure I get things right now,’ says new coach West Ham United will give David Moyes the chance to establish himself at the club after appointing him as their new manager on an initial six-month contract that could turn into a longer deal if the 54-year-old revives his new team’s wretched form. Moyes…
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 06 November 2017. Tags: consequence, david-sullivan, relegation, skysports, slaven
After spending £40m on new signings in the summer only to languish in the relegation zone, it is clear the east London club let a torrid situation drag on There are times when the cheap option ends up being the most costly one. Although it is easy to understand why West Ham decided not to sack Slaven Bilic at the end of last season and instead chose to let …
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 06 November 2017. Tags: become-the-new, football feeds, guardian.co.uk, reportedly-set, slaven bilic, transfer news, west ham united feeds
West Ham have sacked Slaven Bilic after results at the weekend left the club in the bottom three of the Premier League. Following the 4-1 loss to Liverpool on Saturday, Bilic admitted that no individual is bigger than the club. David Moyes is reportedly set to become the new manager at West Ham Slaven Bilic sacked as West Ham manager with David Moyes set to take over Continue reading…
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 06 November 2017. Tags: dismal-start, named-west, skysports, slaven bilic, West Ham United
• Moyes expected to take job this week on interim six-month deal • West Ham say change needed for ‘club to move forward positively’ West Ham United are set to appoint David Moyes on an initial six-month contract and hand him the responsibility of hauling them away from relegation danger after finally losing faith in Slaven Bilic’s ability to reverse the team’s decline. Bilic, whose contract was due to run out next summer, was …
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 05 November 2017. Tags: bilic-on-brink, croat, david, david-moyes, joint-chairman, manager-during, transfer news
• Joint chairman David Sullivan to meet Bilic on Monday • Moyes has been out of work since leaving Sunderland = Slaven Bilic is expected to be told he is no longer West Ham United’s manager during a meeting with the club’s joint chairman, David Sullivan, on Monday with David Moyes expected to replace the Croat on an initial six-month contract. Bilic’s position has been under threat for some time but the plan was for the former West Ham defender…
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 05 November 2017. Tags: football feeds, friday, liverpool, london stadium, thrashing
Feeble performance by team who should be doing so much better results in 4-1 home defeat by Liverpool that provides few signs of any improvement to come It was four, it should have been six, it could have been 10. West Ham United have hardly prospered since moving to the London Stadium but, like the thrashing by Arsenal last season or the Friday night thumping by Brighton last month, this was a defeat that…
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 04 November 2017. Tags: guardian.co.uk, loosened, mohamed-salah, online soccer news, situation, slaven bilic
• West Ham manager under intense pressure after 4-1 defeat by Liverpool • Bilic: ‘I believe in myself and my team. I don’t feel a broken man’ Slaven Bilic is prepared to face “the situation and the consequences” after West Ham United’s latest capitulation at the London Stadium further loosened his grip on the manager’s job. Wretched defending resulted in West Ham suffering a 4-1 home defeat by Liverpool which leaves them a point above the bottom three and with a…
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 04 November 2017. Tags: football news, london stadium, pile-pressure, pressure, relegation, West Ham United
Liverpool piled the pressure on West Ham manager Slaven Bilic with their 4-1 win at the London Stadium on Saturday evening which leaves the Hammers just one point above the relegation zone. Following the match Bilic admits no individual is bigger than the club, including himself Liverpool pile pressure on West Ham with Mohamed Salah double Continue reading…
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 04 November 2017. Tags: game, goals-at-home, initial-mutiny, shambles, underachieving, West Ham United, westham
After another drubbing in the new home that was supposed to take this underachieving club to unimaginable heights, and after another night when the initial mutiny in the stands had given way to resignation long before the final whistle, Slaven Bilic can have no complaints if it turns out West Ham’s patience has finally snapped. It was another shambles on live television, the 10th time that West Ham have conceded at least three goals…
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 04 November 2017. Tags: football feeds, game, green, guardian.co.uk, sport, West Ham United, westham fc
Mo Salah scored twice as Liverpool shredded an abysmal West Ham on the counter-attack at the London Stadium 7.21pm GMT Peep peep! That was a hideous 90 minutes for West Ham, who were routinely shredded on the counter-attack by an excellent Liverpool attack. It could have been worse than 4-1, and it wouldn’t be a surprise if Slaven Bilic lost his job during the international break. West Ham’s morale is at rock bottom. Thanks for your company, goodnight! 7.19pm GMT 90 min Lanzini…
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 03 November 2017. Tags: guardian.co.uk, latest football news, liverpool, slaven bilic, social-media, sport, westham news
• Liverpool fans also rally behind centre-half after traumatic fortnight • Bilic: ‘Lovren is a really good lad, an honest lad, he never makes any excuses’ Dejan Lovren has been given strong support by his manager, Jürgen Klopp, and West Ham’s Slaven Bilic after the defender received death threats on social media this week. Liverpool travel to the London Stadium on Saturday and Lovren will be assessed on his fitness after he sustained an injury during the warm-up…
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 02 November 2017. Tags: football feeds, liverpool, london stadium, sky tv, slaven bilic, sport
• Slaven Bilic plans to exploit Liverpool’s weaknesses at the London Stadium • West Ham missing five defenders but Winston Reid and Aaron Cresswell fit West Ham United will have five defenders missing against Liverpool on Saturday but Slaven Bilic still believes his team can pull off a result against opponents he describes as “vulnerable”. José Fonte, James Collins, Sam Byram and Michail Antonio are unavailable for the home game because of injury and Pablo Zabaleta is suspended after collecting five…
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk
Posted on 31 October 2017. Tags: beer, french, jeanne-warren, lewis hamilton, religion, super sunday, westham
Thought for the Day | Lewis Hamilton | England’s Under-17 World Cup victory | Boleyn Bitter and Iron Ale | French butter shortage | The Guardian Reader Three cheers for John Humphrys ( Thought for the Day is ‘boring’, 31 October ). The continued exclusion of secular humanists from the programme is inexcusable, now that half the UK population do not have a religious faith. The BBC should either allow people of no faith to speak, or…
Read the full story
Posted in Guardian.co.uk