• Original deal for West Ham to move in collapsed in October • New bidding process to use stadium opened on 20 December West Ham United are one of 16 parties interested in moving to the Olympic Stadium after this summer’s London Games. The original deal for West Ham to take over the Stratford venue collapsed in …
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West Ham one of 16 parties vying to take over London Olympic Stadium
Posted on 01 February 2012.
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Ipswich Town 5-1 West Ham United | Championship match report
Posted on 31 January 2012.
Ipswich Town made a mockery of their lowly position in the Championship as they put the leaders, West Ham United, to the sword at Portman Road. The league’s tightest defence met its weakest but it was Ipswich who celebrated their first win in eight matches in all competitions to boost…
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Ravel Morrison seals £650,000 move to West Ham from Manchester United
Posted on 31 January 2012.
• Fee for 18-year-old could rise to £2m with add-ons • ‘I’m an attacking player and I hope to get fans on their feet’ Ravel Morrison signed for West Ham United from Manchester United for an initial £650,000 fee that could rise to £2m including add-ons, with the 18-year…
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Ravel Morrison’s West Ham move from Manchester United down to agents
Posted on 31 January 2012.
• Agents said to be demanding £1m in fees for deal • Transfer deadline day move would cost an initial £650,000 West Ham United are still hoping to sign Ravel Morrison but the move from Manchester United hinges on the agents involved in the transfer demanding a fee of around £1m…
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West Ham agree fee and discuss terms for Barnsley’s Ricardo Vaz Tê
Posted on 31 January 2012.
• Vaz Tê rejected new deal with Barnsley earlier this month • Sam Allardyce keen to bring new forward to West Ham The Barnsley forward Ricardo Vaz Tê is poised for a move to his club’s Championship rivals West Ham United. The Portuguese, who was signed on a free transfer from Hibernian in the summer…
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West Ham move to sign Ravel Morrison from Manchester United
Posted on 30 January 2012.
• Sir Alex Ferguson decides not to offer new contract • West Ham take a gamble on talented teenager Ravel Morrison, rated as one of the most naturally talented young players to come through Manchester United’s ranks since Paul Scholes, is joining West Ham United after being told he is not getting another contract at Old Trafford. Sir…
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West Ham United frustrated by revised Olympic Stadium tender process
Posted on 25 January 2012.
• Relations between East End club and OPLC more tense • West Ham considering their options over Olympic Stadium The future of the Olympic Stadium has been thrown into fresh doubt, with West Ham United considering their options amid bitter frustration with the process surrounding the tender for the £468m publicly owned asset. It is …
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Ernie Gregory obituary
Posted on 23 January 2012.
West Ham goalkeeper who made 481 appearances for the club The goalkeeper Ernie Gregory, who has died aged 90, had a career with West Ham United that spanned an astonishing half-century. “They don’t bump Ernie Gregory,” said one knowing journalist of the 6ft 2in player. Indeed they did not: Gregory was ideally built for …
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West Ham United 2-1 Nottingham Forest | Championship match report
Posted on 21 January 2012.
West Ham United maintained their 100% record for 2012 and elevated themselves to the top of the Championship, at least until Monday, and condemned their rudderless visitors to an 18th league defeat of the season. Two Mark Noble penalties, both awarded for handball, were enough to dispatch Forest, who have now scored in only one of their past 10 league matches. Once…
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Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 West Ham United | FA Cup match report
Posted on 08 January 2012.
A penalty save by Sheffield Wednesday’s excellent Nicky Weaver, some mislaid West Ham shooting boots and Chris O’Grady’s finely struck late winner combined to create a rare, if relatively minor, third-round upset. “It was a wonderful afternoon and a tremendous performance from Nicky,” said Gary Megson, the Wednesday’s manager whose side, undefeated at Hillsborough this season, benefitted from…
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Hillsborough campaigner’s anger over FA Cup crowd barrier plans
Posted on 07 January 2012.
• Barriers to be tested at Sheffield Wednesday v West Ham • Margaret Aspinall calls plans ‘insensitive’ A campaigner for justice following the Hillsborough disaster has claimed it is “insensitive” to use crowd control barriers for an FA Cup game at the stadium this weekend. Margaret Aspinall, whose 18-year-old son James died in the tragedy in 1989 when Liverpool …
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Guardian Sport Network | Southampton, West Ham, Cardiff City and Boro battle at top
Posted on 03 January 2012.
With two points separating four teams, is this the closest second-tier promotion battle since 1992? Southampton and West Ham United are level at the top of the Championship on 47 points, while Cardiff City and Middlesbrough both lie just two points further back on 45 apiece. In a division which is more accustomed to runaway winners, this is the …
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West Ham United 1-0 Coventry City | Premier League match report
Posted on 02 January 2012.
The pursuit of promotion was never going to be pretty under Sam Allardyce but that has never been the point. The arch‑pragmatist was hired to achieve a return to the Premier League by any means necessary and this blustery victory, combined with the defeats of Southampton and Middlesbrough, restored them to the automatic promotion …
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Derby County 2-1 West Ham United | Championship match report
Posted on 31 December 2011.
Teenage striker Callum Ball and Paul Green scored early in the first half as Derby closed in on the Championship’s top six with a second successive win over the Christmas period. Ball, 19, claimed his second senior goal from the edge of the penalty area in the second minute and midfielder Green, who returned from a …
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MBMs we wish we’d done in 2011 – No5: Olympic Park stadium decision
Posted on 29 December 2011.
Anyone whose paragraph includes the word ‘legacy’ has to drink a shot of vodka; for ‘community’ run twice round the table Preamble We’re live from London as the Olympic Park Legacy Company sits down to decide finally whether West Ham United should get control of the Olympic Stadium when people …
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Championship 2011-12: the bloggers’ half-term report
Posted on 21 December 2011.
The people who really know their clubs give us the lowdown on the Championship season so far Barnsley How’s it going? I predicted that the negative soothsayers would have called it wrong and so far have been proven correct. Barnsley are not and will not be relegation fodder this season. Being careful to temper my opinions, for a half-season…
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Tottenham and Olympic organisers to go head-to-head over naming rights
Posted on 20 December 2011.
• OPLC keen to sell naming rights for the Olympic stadium • ‘We welcome football but we’re not dependent on football’ West Ham have been warned they are not guaranteed winners of the retendering process for the Olympic Stadium that will be launched on Tuesday, alongside a drive to find a buyer for the naming rights. It has emerged that…
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Championship round-up: Simon Church makes Reading history at Leeds
Posted on 17 December 2011.
• Early goal gives Reading first league win at Elland Road • Nick Barmby hails young Hull side after win over Millwall Leeds 0-1 Reading Reading’s first league win at Elland Road – thanks to a Simon Church winner after two minutes – put them just two points behind Leeds and put more …
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Alvin Martin: ‘Scousers and cockneys get on. It’s the mickey-taking’ | Small Talk
Posted on 16 December 2011.
The great West Ham defender on the Hammers who nearly won the title, Rob Lee’s costliest miss and making Paul Ince cry Hello Alvin, how are you? Not bad, Small Talk, how are you? Good thanks. So you were playing football this morning? How did that go? Yeah, it was against a team that …
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Championship round-up: Nine-men West Ham collapse at Reading
Posted on 10 December 2011.
• Joey O’Brien and Jack Collison sent off at Reading • Ipswich stage second-half rally in thriller at Barnsley Reading 3-0 West Ham Sam Allardyce reacted angrily after Joey O’Brien and Jack Collison were both sent off as West Ham crumbled, leaving them three points behind the leaders Southampton. “It’s a loss of control – particularly from Joey O’Brien…
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Reading 3-0 West Ham United | Championship match report
Posted on 10 December 2011.
West Ham lost their discipline and the match in the second half at the Madejski Stadium as Simon Church’s double and an Alex Pearce goal gave Reading victory. All the goals came in the final half-hour as the home side capitalised on a West Ham implosion, with Joey O’Brien and Jack Collison being sent off. The centre-back Pearce…
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Championship round-up: Doncaster shock Southampton to move off bottom
Posted on 03 December 2011.
• Billy Sharp goal lifts Dean Saunders and stuns Saints • Sam Allardyce ‘sickened’ after West Ham lose to Burnley Doncaster 1-0 Southampton The result of the day in the Championship lifted Dean Saunders’s side off the foot of the table, and raised questions over Southampton’s ability to stay on top of it. Saunders, whose side won it via…
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Middlesbrough 0-2 West Ham United | Championship match report
Posted on 29 November 2011.
All good things must come to an end but Tony Mowbray could have wished Middlesbrough’s long unbeaten home run could have been broken by different opponents. Before kick-off the manager had warned of the importance of keeping pace with West Ham and Southampton at the top and “not letting them get away from us”. Sam …
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It’s worth staying up, if only to avoid a night in with Manish | Martin Kelner
Posted on 27 November 2011.
As Saturday night turns into Sunday morning, the Football League Show will ask serious questions about your durability The Nativity play season is upon us, and many of you, I suspect, will be taking an afternoon off to sit in uncomfortable chairs in a school hall craning your neck for a fleeting glimpse of progeny in the…
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Spurs lawyers received Karren Brady phone records in March, court told
Posted on 24 November 2011.
• Claim that records were sent anonymously • Accountants ordered to hand over bills The illegally acquired phone records of West Ham United’s vice-chair, Karren Brady, were passed to Tottenham Hotspur’s lawyers in early March, it has emerged, although the club continues to argue that it did not receive copies itself and had no…
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Tottenham accountants give Karren Brady phone records to West Ham
Posted on 23 November 2011.
• PKF employed by Spurs in bitter Olympic Stadium battle • Phone records arrived ‘in brown envelope’ says firm PKF, the firm of accountants engaged by Tottenham Hotspur to delve into the issues surrounding the bitter battle for control of the Olympic Stadium, has agreed to hand disputed documents including “blagged” telephone records to West …
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Howard Webb explains why he thinks VAR Michael Oliver was WRONG to make penalty call which led to Erik ten Hag’s Man United sacking
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Howard Webb admits VAR was WRONG to send David Coote to pitchside monitor over West Ham’s winning penalty against Man United in game that got Erik ten Hag sacked – as referee chief urges officials to ‘make own judgement’
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West Ham star Michail Antonio misses Jamaica’s clash with the USA after losing his PASSPORT, reveals boss Steve McClaren
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Jarrod Bowen scores within SECONDS after coming off the bench during England’s clash with Ireland – as West Ham star bags with his first touch in Nations League game
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Chelsea LGBTQ+ supporters group lash out at ‘hateful comments’ directed at Sam Kerr and her fiancee Kristie Mewis after announcing they are expecting their first child
