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• Forest fight back to win 3-2 over Ipswich • West Ham subs on target to sink Coventry Nottingham Forest 3-2 Ipswich Town Forest’s new manager, Steve Cotterill, praised his side’s grit after two goals in the last seven minutes earned them a dramatic 3-2 win – sending Ipswich to their fourth successive defeat. The …

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• 39-year-old picked up in Surrey and later bailed • Suspicion of fraud, says Scotland Yard A second man has been arrested by police in connection with an investigation into claims by West Ham United and the Olympic Park Legacy Company executives, that confidential documents were illegally obtained during the bitter battle over the future of the …

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• Accountants deny involvement in any ‘unlawful activity’ • Brady’s lawyers claim records were passed to newspaper “Unlawfully obtained” phone records belonging to West Ham United’s vice-chairman, Karren Brady, found their way into the hands of investigators retained by Tottenham Hotspur at the height of their bitter Olympic stadium battle, a high court…

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• Metropolitan police make arrest on suspicion of fraud • Tottenham deny claims of OPLC board surveillance The battle over the fate of the Olympic Stadium has intensified with the arrest of a 29-year-old man on suspicion of fraud, following complaints made against Tottenham Hotspur by legacy company officials and West Ham United executives. The arrest…

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• Allegations against Spurs brought by Olympic Park board • Investigation into ‘unlawful obtaining of personal information’ The Metropolitan police is looking into allegations that Tottenham Hotspur put the board of the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) under surveillance. Baroness Ford, chairman of the OPLC, which is in charge of securing a …

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• Athletics to be give 99-year lease at Olympic Stadium • Tender subject to ‘primacy’ of athletics in summer West Ham will have to agree to make way for any major athletics event if they want to become tenants at the Olympic Stadium, through the new tender process, it emerged on Tuesday. Under the new procedure, athletics …

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Sam Baldock and Jack Collison struck early in the second half as West Ham kept pace with the Championship leaders Southampton with their fifth away win of the season. The in-form striker Baldock volleyed in his fifth goal for the Hammers since arriving from MK Dons in August four minutes after half-time…

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What Sam Allardyce asked for he failed to receive: a third successive win for the first time as West Ham United manager. A tale of too many missed opportunities was to blame, Mark Noble’s late spurned header indicative of a failure to maintain pressure on Southampton, the leaders, who won to stretch their advantage to …

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Championship’s most prolific teams meet at St Mary’s tonight while El Hadji Diouf prepares to make his debut for Doncaster If you’re looking to get your buck banged this evening then forget the group stage tedium of the Champions League and look to the south coast, where the Championship leaders, Southampton, welcome free-scoring, defence-light …

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He may have dropped down a division, but there is no shortage of ambition for Sam Allardyce at Upton Park Little Sams make Sam Allardyce feel bigger than Big. At Bolton Wanderers the manager had some of his best years with Sammy Lee as assistant. At West Ham United since…

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The word “entertainment” may not have been the first West Ham fans thought of when Sam Allardyce became their manager but it was the one he uttered after his side kept the pressure on leaders Southampton with a thrilling win. Leicester had their academy chief Jon Rudkin and the coach Mike Stowell …

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West Ham United have reasserted their credentials on the south coast. A little under a week since they surrendered an unbeaten away record at the Championship leaders, Southampton, Sam Allardyce’s team hauled themselves back into the automatic promotion places with a narrow victory at Brighton’s expense. Defeat at St Mary’s now feels like little more than…

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• Striker available for free after being released by Blackburn • Allardyce has managed Diouf at Blackburn and Bolton Sam Allardyce is considering signing El Hadji Diouf for West Ham United on a free transfer. Allardyce is assessing the forward’s fitness after he trained at the club’s Chadwell Heath complex. …

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Norman Giller, the veteran sports journalist whose blog postings (The Giller Memorandum) are always a delight to read, is worried that the Leveson inquiry is not hearing about sports journalism. “Somebody, somewhere in authority must stand up and put the case for the back page brigade,” he writes . “It needs a sports editor – or at least…

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Southampton’s momentum remains relentless at the top of the Championship. The vast majority of the biggest crowd ever hosted at this arena, albeit an attendance beaten by a solitary person, revelled in a victory that, even in the chill of mid-autumn, feels significant. A five-point advantage has been chiselled from the pack at the top…

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• Leyton Orient apply for permission to move to 2012 stadium • West Ham move against League rules, says Orient chairman Leyton Orient have applied for permission to move to the Olympic Stadium in east London after the 2012 Games, with the club’s chairman Barry Hearn calling for West Ham to be ruled out of the running under …

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The sense of two teams still seeking their level makes for a fascinating prospect as first meets second in the Championship On the face of it tonight’s match between Southampton and West Ham at St Mary’s represents a collision of the mutually buoyant: it is the biggest game in the Championship so…

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• Orient chairman writes to government over Mayor’s remark • Bias towards West Ham United should disqualify him Leyton Orient’s chairman, Barry Hearn, has written to the government calling for Boris Johnson to be excluded from deciding the future of the Olympic Stadium, after the Mayor of London said West Ham United would be a “near certainty” to …

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• Manchester City unwilling to pay large part of Tevez salary • Sam Allardyce keen to sign Argentinian on loan deal West Ham’s hopes of signing Carlos Tevez on loan appear likely to be dashed with Manchester City unwilling to pay the large proportion of his £250,000 a-week salary required for the deal to happen. The east London…

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• Jay Tabb knocked cold but Jem Karacan goal beats Burnley • Portsmouth see off Barnsley despite Steve Cotterill’s exit Burnley 0 Reading 1 Reading’s Jay Tabb was knocked unconscious with 20 minutes to go – resulting in the lengthy stoppage time during which team-mate Jem Karacan hit their winner. Manager Brian McDermott said the…

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Three goals in eight second-half minutes ensured a comfortable victory for West Ham as Blackpool’s defence endured a torrid afternoon at Upton Park. John Carew set the home side on their way with a 12th-minute header and Blackpool collapsed after the break as a Sam Baldock double and Jack Collison’s goal completed …

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• We wish him a speedy recovery, says Sam Allardyce • Robert Green progressing well following knee surgery David Bentley’s hopes of resurrecting his career while on loan at West Ham United have suffered a setback after the club confirmed a knee injury may sideline him for six months. Bentley joined West …

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Cost of converting stadium into football ground after Games will be met entirely from the public purse after ‘fiasco’ The £95m cost of converting the Olympic stadium into a football ground after the Games will be met entirely from the public purse after the government called off protracted negotiations with West Ham United that had become…

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• West Ham slight favourites to win re-tender, says club source • Boris Johnson says he expects West Ham to rent stadium West Ham United are looking at a plan B should they fail to become tenants of the Olympic Stadium with their chances of winning the expected re-tender only “60%”, according to…

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Even before this week’s latest twist the Olympic Stadium has been fraught with political infighting and legal challenges July 2009 The former prime minister Tony Blair and his Olympics minister Tessa Jowell are forced to defend claims that the stadium , in Stratford would not have a strong legacy after a London Assembly Committee claims the construction is in danger…

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Ministers to confirm stadium will instead be leased out following challenges by Tottenham Hotspur and Leyton Orient The government is to announce that the Olympic Stadium deal with West Ham and Newham Council has collapsed, sources say. Legal challenges by Tottenham and Leyton Orient, plus an anonymous complaint to the European Commission, have led …

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