A bumper collection of great strikes and skills from around the world, featuring Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Hatem Ben Arfa, Javier Hernández, Suso and Dean Ashton Continue reading…
Posted on 04 April 2016.
A bumper collection of great strikes and skills from around the world, featuring Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Hatem Ben Arfa, Javier Hernández, Suso and Dean Ashton Continue reading…
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Posted on 04 April 2016.
Teamtalk.com say West Ham have come off worst from referee decisions this season with just four decisions going our way which we didn’t deserve but a massive thirteen incorrect decisions against us which. The table leaves us nine decisions adrift while Manchester United and Leicester City top the table with seven more decisions in their […]
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Posted on 04 April 2016.
Winston Reid has pledged the squad will brush themselves down after the latest refereeing decision to go against the Irons and “get on with it.” The central defender admitted: “You always get frustrated with decisions, but at the end of the day the referee has made it and then that’s it, you can’t do anything about […]
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Posted on 04 April 2016.
Sam Byram and James Collins are set to join the squad which takes on Arsenal at the weekend. And that looks likely to seethe signing from Leeds and fit again James Tomkins battling it out for the right sided defensive role with Michail Antonio being pushed into his attacking midfield role. Collins has been missing […]
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Posted on 04 April 2016.
Saturday afternoon saw Crystal Palace put seven men in their wall to protect them from a famous Payet free kick when a more usual amount for a mere mortal would be four or five. Teams have become extremely wary that a free kick awarded to West Ham within 35 yards is almost like having a […]
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Posted on 04 April 2016.
David Gold has called for future technology to be introduced to the Premier League as soon as possible to stop the big mistakes like the Kouyate sending off on Saturday. Gold told ClaretandHugh: “Nobody wants to see this and it is happening to us week after week. “I have called in the past for a […]
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Posted on 04 April 2016.
Emmanuel Emenike’s £8 million price tag demonstrates the extent to which inflation in the game will continue to grow this summer. The Irons will allow the striker to return to his parent club Fenerbahce at the end of the season as they bid to hold onto ever penny for the £20m-£25 million they are planning […]
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Posted on 04 April 2016.
This video says it all. Chris Kamara and Jeff Stelling can’t believe Cheik Kouyate sending off by Mark Clattenburg Share This:
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Posted on 04 April 2016.
Slaven Bilic again demonstrated perfectly the art of diplomacy in referee handling after another horrible sending off. Carefully watching his tongue the Irons boss declared: “It is never a red card, for me personally is not even a yellow card. In England maybe not even a foul it was a 50/50 challenge. “We have every right […]
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Posted on 04 April 2016.
Slaven Bilic has spoken of the fitness concerns over Dimi Payet during the game against Crystal Palace. The brilliant French international scored another sensational free kick to take hisset piece to goals conversion rate to 50 per cent. But afterwards the manager said: ““It was a brilliant goal. I expected him to try and bend […]
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Posted on 04 April 2016.
GRAHAM POLL: West Ham’s run of bad luck with refereeing decisions continued with a harsh red card for Cheikhou Kouyate. It appeared to swing the balance against Crystal Palace.
Posted in Dailymail.co.ukComments Off on Mark Clattenburg shouldn’t have sent off Cheikhou Kouyate… the pressure of going to Euro 2016 is getting to the Geordie ref
Posted on 03 April 2016.
• West Ham will appeal against Cheikhou Kouyaté’s red card in 2-2 draw • Alan Pardew plays numbers game with Crystal Palace squad over lack of win Slaven Bilic does not want his players to look up or down. He does not want them studying the fixture list. West Ham United’s manager will be happy as long as they relax, play with passion and quality and, as the old cliche goes, take each game as it comes. “You can’t approach it differently,…
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Posted on 03 April 2016.
Exclusive Regular readers will know us over here at ClaretandHugh aren’t big on stats – news is more our scene! But because we are about to reveal the truth on Dimitri Payet’s amazing free kicks we are happy to make an exception. They show a pretty extraordinary conversion rate from free kicks to goals since […]
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Posted on 03 April 2016.
Re-cyled reports in The Sun that the Hammers are interested in Watford’s Odion Ighalo is “on West Ham’s list for a big-name striker” are entirely wrong. The Hammers were interested earlier in the season and even made an inquiry which is presumably where this report has been resurrected from. But ClaretandHugh, when inquiring as to whether […]
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Posted on 03 April 2016.
West Ham intend to go ahead with the appeal against Cheik Kouyate’s red card despite Slave Bilic being fed up with FA appeals. ClaretandHugh was the first to beak the news that an appeal was on the way against Mark Clattenbourg’s game-changing decision against Palace. And this morning David gold -currently holding an open day […]
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Posted on 03 April 2016.
The West Ham boss said Kouyate’s challenge on Palace substitute Dwight Gayle was not even worthy of a yellow card. Bilic successfully appealed the same player’s dismissal at Blackburn in February.
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Posted on 03 April 2016.
Exclusive David Gold believes Dimi Payet has already become a West Ham legend. He doesn’t share the view that you need to be at a club for a certain length of time to inherit such status declaring: “If you do something legendary it will always be remembered.” Speaking exlsuively to ClaretandHugh he said: “Dimi has […]
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Posted on 03 April 2016.
Aaron Cresswell makes no bones about – he reckons Dimi Payet i the best free taker in the world. Speaking to www.whufc.com of yesterday’s latest amazing shots he said: “I will put Dimi up there as the best free-kick taker in the world at the moment. I was standing right behind him and the ball looked […]
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Posted on 03 April 2016.
There’s an old saying that goes: “Once is an accident, twice maybe coincidence but after that you have more sinister thoughts!” The bundling of Darren Randolph into the Manchester United net which led to an FA Cup equaliser and a replay may therefore have been an accident, but the penalty that never was against Chelsea […]
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Posted on 03 April 2016.
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Posted on 03 April 2016.
Alan Pardew’s verdict after the game was “‘The free-kick was extraordinary. It looked unsaveable.’ Courtesy Mail on Line Share This:
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Posted on 03 April 2016.
Weve got Alli #THFC pic.twitter.com/NoNXNBDy1c — Spurs Related (@_SpursRelated) April 3, 2016 Share This:
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Posted on 03 April 2016.
Fed-up David Gold has had enough of incorrect refereeing decisions and has called for technology to be introduced NOW. Taking again about the Mark Clattenburg decision to send off Cheik Kouyate he told ClaretandHugh: “Nobody wants to see this and it is happening to us week after week. “I have called in the past for […]
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Posted on 02 April 2016.
I probably have been but I really can’t remember when I felt so angry about a refereeing decision as Mark Clattenburg’s when sending off Cheik Kouyate this afternoon. It truly was utterly ridiculous – one of the worst I can recall seeing anywhere at any time – and I’m delighted the Irons immediately announced through […]
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Posted on 02 April 2016.
MARTHA KELNER: West Ham are three points adrift of the Champion’s League places but they have not given up on the dream of mixing with Europe’s elite next season just yet, with Payet leading the charge.
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Posted on 02 April 2016.
West Ham were again on the end of a desperately controversial refereeing decision when Mark Clattenburg red-carded Chiek Kouyate against Crystal Palace this afternoon. ClaretandHugh has since revealed the club’s decision on whether or not they will appeal at http://www.claretandhugh.info/irons-make-kouyate-red-card-decision/ CandH followers at the FB forum have been giving their view on the red card […]
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