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The 2016/17 season has been a difficult one to digest for West Ham fans. After what was a hugely successful and emotional 15/16 campaign, which marked the final season at the Boleyn Ground, expectations were high heading in to what was supposed to an exciting new era at London Stadium. However, a disappointing transfer window last […]

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West Ham have been hit by the worst possible injury crisis as it emerged this morning that we have suffered a TRIPLE injury blow. Pedro Obiang is ruled out for the rest of the season and Michail Antonio and Winston Reid are set to miss the next month. Obiang was stretchered off against Leicester City before […]

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Obiang, 24, appeared to roll his ankle during the 3-2 defeat and was carried off. West Ham saw Winston Reid depart with an adductor injury and lost Michail Antonio to a hamstring issue.

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Jose Fonte has come in for some regular moaning over recent weeks but the central defender is the first to admit that he’s not found life easy at the club. He arrived as a Euro 2016 winner but claims it’s time we forgot about that and that he simply gets on with getting it together […]

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Just when you though this season couldn’t get any worse, it does.  Poor results, difficulties with the new stadium, players playing out of position and several under-par performances from players, it’s fair to say 16/17 hasn’t been the best season West Ham have had. And now, just two days after the disappointing home defeat to […]

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Slaven Bilic has again given a details reaction to the defeat by Leicester City and is determined to tighten the defence against sloppy set piece defending. Addressing the Foxes goals he said: “We weren’t open in that first half. We’re not talking about counter-attacking, and four-against-three. “We’re talking about the first goal, we were behind [the […]

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Slaven Bilic will need to wait until January or summer of next year to discover whether he will get a new deal from the West Ham board. He needs a top ten finish to ENSURE he remains in charge at the end of this term but only a complete collapse of results will see him […]

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Michail Antonio has withdrawn from the England squad for the games against Germany and Lithuania after suffering a hamstring injury.

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Claret and Hugh Associate Editor, Sean Whetstone was asked by the BBC to speak about the future of Slaven Bilic as West Ham manager on the Sunday Sport show on BBC London radio on Sunday evening. Slaven has come under further pressure after a third defeat in a row and only one win in seven. […]

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Winston Reid’s injury problem leaves me feeling very anxious on several fronts. Those close to the situation believe he could easily be out for several weeks as we approach a really difficult run in against the likes of Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs and Everton along with others which will prove very difficult. Should the injury turn […]

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Winston Reid looks to be out for some time if early reports of the injury he suffered against Leicester  City prove accurate. The defender went off early in the first half aided by two of the backroom staff and the signs immediately looked awful and ensured he would be absent from the upcoming international against […]

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David Sullivan has apologised to West Ham’s fans following the 3-2 defeat at home to Leicester. He now admits West Ham’s next three games are ‘vital’ as they try to arrest their slide

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David Sullivan has declared that after yesterday’s defeat by Leicester City “all we can do is ‘sorry’ to the supporters.” And he admits that the next few games have become vital to the season with two away from home and a third against Swansea at the London Stadium. He said: “As I have learned in my […]

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Diafra Sakho could be back to boost the Hammers on April 5 for the game at Arsenal. The striker has played just one and a half games this season before finally receiving surgery on his back injury and is now declared 100 per cent okay physically. And in reporting on his position Head of of […]

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So today we put out the strongest team available to us in weeks with only Angelo Ogbonna and Diafra Sakho missing and, with an £8 million signing at central defence, plus the excellent Winston Reid we are two goals down in eight minutes! The first goal is down to the keeper in my book – […]

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West Ham’s defeat by Leicester City making it a hat-trick of defeats in the last three games is seeing the fans’ mood change towards manager Slaven Bilic. Here’s how followers of the ClaretandHugh Facebook forum @ https://www.facebook.com/groups/363174467150521/responded to today’s defeat and whereas previously the boss has been an untouchable, the complaints about his management style […]

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West Ham winger Michail Antonio was dealt a huge blow after suffering a hamstring injury against Leicester City that is likely to rule him out of England’s next two fixtures.

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SAM CUNNINGHAM AT THE LONDON STADIUM: Leicester scored three first-half goals to pick up their first away win of the league season and continue their resurgence under new boss Craig Shakespeare.

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Slaven Bilic had only bad news and frustration to report after the defeat at home against Leicester City. Talking immediately after the game he said: “It is very frustrating for us to lose the game. We didn’t start well and what is really disappointing is the way we conceded three goals. “The first goal was […]

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West Ham 2 Leicester City 3 Here’s the truth of it….if you don’t start playing until you are 3-1 down you don’t generally deserve anything although the Hammers might argue differently after this defeat. To say they battered the Foxes after the break does an injustice to the word but their first half performance had […]

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As the Foxes steered themselves further away from relegation danger, Sportsmail’s KIERAN GILL looks at five things we learned from Leicester’s latest sign of resurgence at the London Stadium.

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Not for the first time this week Kasper Schmeichel was the Leicester City hero. Robert Snodgrass’s free-kick had squirmed through the Leicester wall and fallen to Andy Carroll and a dramatic West Ham United equaliser looked inevitable. Carroll drew back his left foot and prepared to land the decisive blow. He made solid contact with the ball. The crowd was poised, ready to lift the roof off the London Stadium. But there he…

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Runaway Premier League leaders Chelsea will attempt to go 13 points clear at the top of the table when they travel to Stoke City in one of five 3pm kick-offs. Follow all the action here as it happens.

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By Pete Ellis The loss of a friend or family member is obviously a massively traumatic time, and trying to find a way to honour them, and give a public nod in recognition of the respect and love.you had for them is totally natural and acceptable. This year more than most it seems, we have […]

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Hammers boss Slaven Bilic is set for surgery in the summer as he required a new hip replacement. He has shown the effects of the wear and tear on his body in that area regularly on the touchline this season and the hospital visit is now right on his agenda. Media reports this morning claim […]

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Manager Slave Bilic has ordered his team to stop Jamie Vardy! He believes the player who at one time was a target for the Irons last summer is the man who could cause massive problems at the London Stadium today. He said: “We have to stop Vardy. It was Vardy from last year against Seville […]

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