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The all powerful London Stadium Safety Advisory Group (LS-SAG) meets today to discuss safety and capacity limits for the London Stadium. This time last month the LS-SAG, chaired by Newham enforcement officer, Sheila Roberts recommended that capacity be restricted to 57,000 over concerns over persistent standing, away fan segregation and supporters drinking alcohol in view […]

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The lads from Hammers Chat are back with an in depth look at the weekend game. With goalkeeper Adrian revealing he expects a winning performance, the game against West Brom is hopefully one where the team will finally blossom and start erasing the bad vibes that have been floating around the club this week. Manager […]

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The London Stadium operators are moving fast as they tighten their hold on security at West Ham’s new home. And this morning they made a major move when announcing the appointment of former Met Police Assistant Commissioner Chris Allison to oversee security at the stadium. They made the announcement on Twitter where a sentence read: “Former […]

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Enner Valencia reckons training at Everton is tougher than at West Ham! Speaking for the first time since his year long loan deal was agreed the Ecuador striker decared: “I’m very happy to be here. It’s a great club with excellent fans. I’m looking forward to getting onto the pitch with my new teammates. “I was […]

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David Gold is continuing to fence off regular criticism of the club’s move to the London Stadium after events during the Watford gamecreated a media circus. Amid a tirade of obectionable tweets, allegations that Karen Brady was spat upon and calls for the board’s resignation, the 80 year old co chairman continues to keep his […]

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Adrian is confident that a winning performance! – is on the cards at West Brom this weekend. He admits it’s alays tough at the Hawthrns but says: “If we look at ourselves and if we give 120 per cent like we did many times last season, we have a great chance to win. “We have […]

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West Ham’s stars Dimitri Payet and Sam Byram gave young cancer patient and huge Irons fan Jack Howard reason to smile with a Facetime call. Brave Jack is fighting kidney cancer and has been given weeks to live but his family is refusing to give up the battle as they bid to raise £250,000 to […]

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By Dave Blackmore Blowing Bubbles Editor-in-chief David Gold has urged Slaven Bilic to be braver in the League and FA cups in a bid to give Hammers a day to remember at Wembley. In an exclusive interview with Blowing Bubbles magazine the co-chairman expressed his disappointment at exiting the Europa League before the group stages but […]

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West Ham legend Paolo Di Canio has been suspended from his role as a Sky Italia pundit after showing on air a tattoo referring to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. The ex-West Ham striker revealed his tattoo of the word “dux” during their Premier League coverage on Sunday, prompting a protest on social media. The Latin word […]

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West Ham believe the new radio wavelengths which will allow police to operate within the London Stadium to be in place for the next Class A game – against Arsenal on December 3. Much has been made of the inability to get things sorted out until December but a club source made it clear to […]

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Andy Carroll has an outside chance of  making Slaven Bilic’s squad for the match at West Brom on Saturday afternoon. The injury-ravaged striker is running again and may step up things before the weekend but our Hammers source said this morning: “There’s a chance of him making it but it is  an outside one. “He […]

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When I was a kid, I fell in love with West Ham. Before I even started to think about kissing girls, they were already and forever relegated to second in my infatuation, behind my beloved club. It wasn’t the performances on the pitch (not in the era of Morley and then Chapman as our strikers),

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• Television station forced to apologise after offending viewers • Di Canio wore short-sleeved shirt which revealed tattoo Sky Sport Italia has suspended its relationship with the former West Ham and Lazio striker Paolo Di Canio after he presented a show revealing his “dux” tattoo. The 48-year-old has been working as a pundit on the television station in Italy and appeared in a short-sleeved shirt showing his tattoo which represents the former Fascist leader Benito Mussolini. After…

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West Ham season ticket holder, Mark Gevaux better known as the Rib Man won the Best Street Food for his £7 pork rolls (“lovely piggy goodness”) he serves with his trademark Holy F##k sauce, which will soon be exported around the world. He shared the awards ceremony stage at the Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square on Monday night with a […]

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Chelsea Striker and one time West Ham summer transfer target, Michy Batshuayi took an online swipe at a twitter account called @WestHamTransfer Batshuayi tweeted to his 308,000 followers that he was downloading PES (Pro Evolution Soccer 2017) in what looked like an obvious planted plug for the football game. The West Ham twitter account cheekily […]

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West Ham Joint Chairman, David Gold has suggested one West Ham fan called Danny have a lie down after he suggested that the owners had sold our souls. Danny messaged the 80 year old chairman on twitter to say: “Been going to the Hammers since 1978. you have sold our soul, our club and a […]

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Dimi Payet has defended his audacious rabona which led to the Michail Antonio goal against Watford and aused a furious reaction from Watford’s Toy Deeney. The Hornets player declared that his side were spurred on the belief that West Ham were reying to mug the visitors off but Payet denied that. He told the Irons official […]

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An independent commission has ruled that the  elbowing of Winston Reid by Aguero was a “brutal” incident that “clearly endangered the safety” of the Hammers player. Aguero earned a retrospective three-game ban for the action based on video evidence after the August 28 meeting between the two clubs. In written reasons published by the Football Association […]

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 Carlos Bacca’s agent Sergio Barila claims there were a number of offers on the table in the closing days of the summer transfer window, but Milan turned them all down. He told calciomercato.it: “West Ham? In the last week of the market, many offers arrived, and not only West Ham ones. At the end Milan said no.”  Barila […]

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• Panel say Manchester City player endangered safety of West Ham opponent • Striker remains banned for next two Premier League matches over incident An independent commission has ruled that the controversial elbowing of West Ham’s Winston Reid by the Manchester City striker Sergio Agüero in a Premier League match at the Etihad Stadium last month was a “brutal” incident that “clearly endangered the safety” of the Hammers player. Related: Sergio Agüero to miss Manchester …

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ClaretandHugh has learned that the little boy – seen so anxious and apparently worried at events unfolding during the Watford game – had only one problem…he couldn’t see the game! And the club has told us through our usual highly informed sources that he and his father have now been relocated in the Bobby Moore […]

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West Ham believe the segregation issue which caused so many problems during the Watford game has been solved with an greement that six rows of seating instead of the present three will be introduced for forthcoming games. This is the first positive outcome between the club and operators as intensve talks go on to bring […]

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Our partners Hammers Chat have rapidly become the leading video makers on the West Ham scene and we are thrilled that they have been on board with us almost from Day One. In top man Gonzo they have a gifted producer who is passionate for this club and everybody within it – proud to have […]

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Let’s get back to the football. Like you – no doubt –  I have become seriously depressed  following the events of the weekend to the point where I wanted to walk away for a week, come back and be told: “All the problems have gone away.” I have changed my view on where the faults […]

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The Irons have been criticised for signing too many attacking players over the summer and not enough defenders, and now Jamie Redknapp has had his say. Speaking to the Daily Mail, pundit Redknapp revealed what comic James Corden told him about the game, stating that he didn’t want rabonas, but wanted points instead. Redknapp attacked […]

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A new statement by stadium operators London Stadium 185 appears to blame infighting amongst West Ham fans. The statement by London Stadium 185 read: “The safety of the Stadium is paramount and all safety plans are agreed in advance by the police and if there were any significant concerns the Stadium would not be licensed. “Saturday’s […]

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