Posted on 15 December 2012. Tags: football news, westham, westham united
It was full daylight at 7.40 this very morning in 1908 when an enormous pale blue fireball trailed by a 500-mile tail of bright light, shimmering, multicoloured bands hurtled across the Siberian sky and consumed itself in the greatest cosmic explosion in the history of civilisation. This …
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Posted on 17 August 2011. Tags: football news, westham united
Sam Allardyce was blowing bubbles of joy as he celebrated his first victory as West Ham boss, but there was a sense of relief at the final whistle after the Hammers survived …
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Posted on 17 August 2011. Tags: westham
We’re winning away, We’re winning away, How shit must you be? We’re winning away! It may be to damn them with faint praise , but West Ham finally look as though they have…
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Posted on 07 August 2011. Tags: hammers news, westham united
Of all the places in England, Canary Wharf is perhaps the last one you might expect Sam Allardyce, “Big Sam” himself, to have made his home, three months shy of his 57th birthday. He loves…
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Posted on 04 August 2011. Tags: westham, westham united
A good speech is a wonderful thing. It has the capacity to inspire, to lift your spirits, to make your soul soar above the mundane minutae that obfuscates everyday existence. Unfortunately, noted Churchill, there…
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Posted on 31 July 2011. Tags: westham, westham united
Big Sam strolled to the dug-out for West Ham’s pre-season friendly at Dagenham & Redbridge last week like Dean Martin walking on to a stage in Las Vegas – only with a …
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Posted on 14 July 2011. Tags: football news
There is something almost Riefenstahlian about the official site’s daily descriptions of the squad’s pre-season fitness regime; the luxuriating in the mundane minutiae of each training drill and the fetishistic depictions of lythe young bodies in the throws of physical exertion. So it …
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Posted on 07 July 2011. Tags: football news, west ham, westham united
We’ve had Fletcher and Mackay and now West Ham are looking to add Baraclough to their growing list of Slade Prison namesakes. The club are reportedly close to appointing former Scunthorpe boss Ian Baraclough to their coaching staff, according to several sources . Sam Allardyce…
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Posted on 07 July 2011. Tags: west ham, westham united
You see the truth is like lightning, it always follows the line of least resistance. So, for what we do, the trick is simple. All we have to do is find the line and then follow it back up. And, whatever it is, it’s all going to be …
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Posted on 05 July 2011. Tags: hammers news, westham, westham united
Ministers are said to be closely monitoring allegations of inappropriate payments made by West Ham to a director of the Olympic Park Legacy Company, after the bitter public row over the future of the Olympic Stadium escalated yesterday. The Government is alarmed by revelations, first exposed …
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Posted on 03 July 2011. Tags: football news, west ham, westham, westham united
West Ham United plan to sue the Sunday Times and Tottenham over allegations of corruption during their successful bid to take over the Olympic stadium. The club were awarded the right to move to the new stadium after the 2012 games…
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Posted on 03 July 2011. Tags: football news, west ham, westham united
For years there’s been peace – everyone to his own patch. We’ve all had it sweet. I’ve done every single one of you favours in the past – I’ve put money in all your pockets. I’ve treated you well, even when you was out of…
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