Up The Hammers – Latest West Ham United FC News

Ahead of this weekend’s Premier League action, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats.

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Simone Zaza is a nothing centre forward who really should have shown some sort of strong point in his game by now. ClaretandHugh’s chief analyst Leroy Rosenior – as a former whoehearted front man for the Irons – has delivered a damning verdict on the Italian. And he declared: “I am just incredibly pleased that […]

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Former Iron Don Hutchison doesn’t buy into suggestions that themove from Upton Park is to blame for their poor start to the season. Speaking to bwin he said, “I don’t buy into the theory that the new stadium has had a negative effect on the players – they need to roll up their sleeves and […]

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Michail Antonio wants another former Irons boss to take over as England boss – Alan Pardew. Having been called up by departed Sam Allardyce the Hammers wideman said: “The manager I really like and who’s done well over the years, I’d say Alan Pardew, I was with him at Southampton and I think he’s a quality […]

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West Ham have decided to widen the probe into the events surrounding thesquad’s night out earlier this week. Whist it was known that the club would look into the allegations against Andy Carroll and Darren Randolph after they were alleged to be out until dawn, the club is now set to make this a wider investigation. […]

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Slaven Bilic has confirmed to reporters that the night out on Monday night was all his idea but the club will wait until next week to investigate players who allegedly pulled an all nighter which ended in Shoreditch on Tuesday lunchtime. “It was completely my idea, after the Southampton game we had a big meeting […]

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Archaeologists have started a dig in the car park of the Boleyn Ground hoping to find the foundations of the old Boleyn Castle. The land on which the Boleyn Ground Stadium is built belonged to the Stratford Longthorne Abbey from 1135, the Abbey existed until the dissolution of the monasteries by King Henry VIII in 1538. The land […]

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Head of Medical and Sports Science, Stijn Vandenbroucke has provided his latest injury update on WHUFC.com He says :” Aaron trained very well with the Under-23s on Wednesday. The Academy kindly put on a very hard session, which Aaron took part in under the supervision of Eamon Swift, our rehab-fitness coach. He will take part in another […]

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The first images of Boleyn Ground demolition has emerged on social media this afternoon. Photo credit: Chris Smith via twitter @ChrisJSmithWH12 Share This:

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West Ham fan, Flynn Johnson has admitted he landed himself in hot bother with the law after he bunked into the Bolyen Ground on Tuesday to watch a football tournament and liberate some unused stadium seats. Flynn posted on twitter on Tuesday “Jumped into the Boleyn, nicked some chairs. Now in a police van. Irons. Farewell […]

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With the Champions League ties over, Sportsmail columnist MARTIN KEOWN is answering your questions ahead of this weekend’s Premier League matches. 

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Michail Antonio has spoken of his sadness at Sam Allardyce’s departure as England manager — and believes the job should go to Alan Pardew.

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• Slaven Bilic reiterates it was his idea to promote team bonding • Social media reports have suggested two players were drunk Slaven Bilic has said that it was his idea for his players to have a night out together and revealed that he will wait until after West Ham United’s game against Middlesbrough on Saturday before deciding whether to take action against Andy Carroll and Darren Randolph following claims that the pair were drunk on Tuesday afternoon…

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Slaven Bilic has given his usual pre-match conference ahead of Saturday’s home game against Boro. “The team bonding was completely my idea. I told Mark Noble to take the guys out and go for a meal. Spend some time together. I am totally concentrated on the game on Saturday. It is good for us all to […]

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Slaven Bilic has revealed that the team’s night out was his suggestion but insists he will be looking to get to the bottom of Andy Carroll and Darren Randolph’s supposedly boozy antics afterwards.

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The West Ham board may be feeling a little anxious right now as the fall-out from the ‘Sam Allardyce Affair’ continues to raise transfer issues in which he was apparently involved whilst manager of our great club. A resignation from England is one thing but when questions start to be asked about Enner Valencia, Jon […]

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Time and again fans on the ClaretandHugh forums ask the same question: Who is responsible for the club recruitment of players at the club. It’s a perfectly justifiable question although in many cases some have decided the answer before it can be answered depending on how the team is performing and who they like or […]

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Alan Curbishley believes David Sullivan is a ‘dying breed’ and that Hammers fans are very lucky to have him and David Gold as chairmen. And in an exclusive interview with Blowing Bubbles Monthly, Curbishley believes he could have worked with the pair and had they been at the helm when he was manager, he would […]

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Local non league club Grays Athletic sent out a cheeky message to West Ham fans encouraging them to support and attend non league football on their terraces without popcorn. The flyer entitled ‘Football without popcorn’ was to promote the game between Grays Athletic v Lowestoft  held tonight. The official post on twitter said “Come on […]

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Andy Carroll and Darren Randolph are to be investigated by West Ham in the aftermath of their night-out. The pair were pictured in McDonald’s at 7am but Slaven Bilic is defending his players.

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By Sean Whetstone – Associate Editor Claret and Hugh As a lifelong supporter of West Ham and a season ticket holder of many years I want what is best for my club. When I joined ClaretandHugh three years ago I wanted to help Hugh bring the very best and latest West Ham news to the […]

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Since the story of a so called ‘West Ham player bender’ was carried in the Sun newspaper on Wednesday we have been doing some fact checking of our own to see how much of it stands up. We have had it confirmed by a West Ham insider that Slaven Bilic did have a meeting with […]

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West Ham have no way of sending Simone Zaza back to Juventus before the turn of the year. It’s not only West Ham fans who have become totally dejected with the Italian’s start at the club and want him sent back  to his club. The Hammers staff are unhappy with the player too after striking […]

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In 2014 both the Observer and the Guardian  claimed Ravel Morrison was invited to a meeting with agent Mark Curtis and that pressure had been placed on him by then manager Sam Allardyce and then captain Kevin Nolan to sign up with their shared agent. Allardyce dismissed the reports at the time saying  “It’s completely unfounded […]

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Every story that comes out of West Ham is bound to have an entirely negative twist put on it right now as we saw in The Sun this morning when the lads were on a night out which would clearly have been sanctioned by the manager. I’ve seen the pictures, read the words and there […]

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Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge is again being linked with a move to West Ham. He is looking likely to leave Anfield with  Sunderland and Stoke also interested, according to a report. The prolific England international is no longer first choice under manager Jurgen Klopp, following a spate of injuries that allowed Roberto Firmino to become […]

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