Posted on 18 February 2016. Tags: china, farewell-boleyn, hammers chat, match reports, sky sports, transfer news, whispers
Former Hammers manager Harry Redknapp is sad that West Ham will no longer be playing at the Boleyn Ground next season but says the new stadium will take them to another level. He says it would be fitting to way to celebrate the last season at Upton Park by winning the FA Cup this year. […]
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Posted on 18 February 2016. Tags: australia, culture, dating, john terry, middle-east, politics
Today’s fluff is happy as a clam As the Mill knows more than most, it often tends to pay to take the easy option. We all have crazy dreams and outlandish thoughts at times – Why don’t you pack in the job, buy that campervan and head off around the world? Maybe you’d finish that Booker Prize-winning novel if only you left behind the rat race and moved to a sheep farm on …
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Posted on 17 February 2016. Tags: News, transfer news, videos, West Ham United, whispers
The Brentwood Gazette are back at making up headlines again and both the Metro along with the Daily Express seem happy to fall for their articles and repeat them without questioning their authenticity. The Metro and Daily Express claim “West Ham are lining up a shock move to sign Chelsea captain John Terry this summer, according […]
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Posted on 17 February 2016. Tags: china, News, videos, West Ham United, whispers
Former West Ham transfer, Burak Yilmaz linked with the Hammers in the January transfer window has become the latest footballer to move to China. The experienced Galatasaray striker officially completed his move to Beijing Guoan today, following a four-year stay with the Turkish team. Galatasaray previously claimed that West Ham offered €5m (£3.8m) for the […]
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Posted on 17 February 2016. Tags: archives, collison, online soccer news, videos, West Ham United
David Gold’s hopes that Andy Carroll will be involved in Sunday’s game at Backburn Rovers have been dashed with the striker ruled out with yet another injury. This time it’s an adductor injury whilst according to Head medic Stijn Vandenbroucke Enner Valencia won’t make it as he suffered an ankle injury against Norwich. However, Manuel Lanzini has […]
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Posted on 17 February 2016. Tags: farewell-boleyn, hammers chat, News, online soccer news, West Ham United, whispers
Exclusive West Ham are hoping the Martin Samuelsen will be ready to become a key member of the first team squad next season. Although the teenager has years in front of him his progress at Peterborough has excited the club ho believe he could well be ready to stake his claim next season. Although the […]
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Posted on 17 February 2016. Tags: opinion, super sunday, total, west ham, westham fc
In my opinion, I think it would be a bad move for the club to let Andy Carroll go this summer. We all know he has had his injury problems, but if he is managed well, as Sir Slaven seems to want to do, he can be a vital member of our starting XI in
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Posted on 17 February 2016. Tags: farewell-boleyn, football latest, september-2015, sports news, upton park, West Ham United
Former Hammer Jack Collison has said that Mark Noble’s call up for England should be a no brainer and says if he isn’t called up there is definitely something going on. Speaking to MooreThanJustaPodcast as part of the Claret And Hugh internet series, Jack told the West Ham podcast: “Nobes has been fantastic, he has probably […]
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Posted on 17 February 2016. Tags: archives, hammers chat, News, september-2015, west ham united fc, whispers
Tony Cottee is thrilled with the Dimitri Payet deal declaring “it’s a huge statement of intent by the board.” And the former striker said: ” There a lot of football supporters that complain about the huge wages that players get these days, but I can’t imagine any West Ham fan moaning about the salary of Dimitri […]
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Posted on 17 February 2016. Tags: action, business, irons, london, michy-batshuayi, transfer news
Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United will reportedly go head-to-head to sign Marseille striker Michy Batshuayi this summer.
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Posted on 17 February 2016. Tags: archives, football banter, hammers chat, premier league, West Ham United, whispers
Mark Noble is on target to break a new West Ham record for the largest ever attendance of a Hammers testimonial match. We understand that very few tickets remain for the match in honour of Nobes on the 28th March and the game looks set to sell out completely. Our source close to the ticket […]
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Posted on 17 February 2016. Tags: archives, coyi, farewell-boleyn, West Ham United, wreckers
Slaven Bilic has to decide whether to retain Darren Randolph in goal for the visit to Blackburn Rovers this weekend and whether the No 2 keeper keeps his place beyond that should we progress. ClaretandHugh is currently running a poll on the issue @http://www.claretandhugh.info/poll-should-randolph-retain-his-place-for-fa-cup-run/ Here’s the early feedback from readers: O Randolph should keep the […]
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Posted on 17 February 2016. Tags: hammers news, News, premier league, transfer news, West Ham United, whispers
David Sullivan has joined his co chairman David Gold in paying his personal tribute to the Irons fans. The fans have astonishingly snapped up the entire 7,200 tickets allocated by Blackburn for the fifth round FA Cup clash this weekend. And after DG had paid a massive tribute to them, Sullivan told the official site: […]
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Posted on 17 February 2016. Tags: News, online soccer news, sky sports, upthehammers, West Ham United, wreckers
Andy Carroll could be recalled to lead the line against Blackburn Rovers in Sunday’s FA Cup Tie as the boss weighs his options for the weekend. Co chairman David Gold tweeted earlier today that the player was available for the game declaring:” Andy is fit and I expect him to play against Blackburn.” The Irons […]
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Posted on 17 February 2016. Tags: coyi, london football awards, News, opinion, slaven bilic, west ham news
West Ham trio Dimitri Payet, Slaven Bilic and Adrian, alongside the Moore Family Foundation project, have been nominated for awards at the 2016 London Football Awards, which won’t come as a surprise to many. Following an incredible season for the Hammers so far, the awards evening could see West Ham collect three of the eight
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Posted on 17 February 2016. Tags: farewell-boleyn, News, should-randolph, West Ham United, whispers, wreckersmarkrp1
The FA Cup has become of the utmost importance to us Hammers this year but ClaretandHugh FB member CAROL COMBES fears that Football Association suggestions to turn it into a midweek competition with no replays will harm it irreparably. She declares: “It’s not about the football…it’s about the money.” Remember the F.A. Cup? That […]
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Posted on 17 February 2016. Tags: farewell-boleyn, hammers chat, match reports, News, transfer news, whispers
Darren Randolph is set for another FA Cup outing against Blackburn Rovers but the ‘Adrian pressure’ is growing on boss Slaven Bilic. Randolph has been quite sensational so far and looked the equal of the No 1 on his FA Cup excursions but ClaretandHugh understands that the boss is having to think about his involvement […]
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Posted on 17 February 2016. Tags: barcelona, madrid, microsoft, News, paris, sky tv
Before his career began in east London, Emmanuel Emenike had become entangled in several extraordinary events, not least being thrown in jail after being accused of match-fixing in Turkey.
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Posted on 17 February 2016. Tags: archives, farewell-boleyn, latest football news, News, videos, west ham news, West Ham United
You really do have to hand it to our fans. Once again they have shown themselves to be the most devoted in the land as FA Cup weekend approaches at Blackburn Rovers. This is a game being shown live on the box yet every one of the 7,200 tickets for the fifth round game has […]
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Posted on 16 February 2016. Tags: football news, News, sean-whetstone, sky sports, videos, whispers
Claret and Hugh understands the club are looking into the possibility of staging an England XI v Germany XI match at the Boleyn Ground before the season ends to commemorate the contribution Bobby Moore, Martin Peters and Geoff Hurst made in winning the World Cup in 1966 fifty years ago. A crowd of 93,000 spectators – […]
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Posted on 16 February 2016. Tags: farewell-boleyn, football latest, hammers chat, match reports, videos, West Ham United
West Ham midfielder Mark Noble is in the Sky Spors Fantasy Football Club studio this week – and you can be a part of the show and meet the skipper in person. Noble, who has made over 300 appearances for the Hammers, will join Paul Merson and Max Rushden to talk about his time at the […]
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Posted on 16 February 2016. Tags: football latest, latest football news, News, sean-whetstone, West Ham United, westham, whispers
West Ham has sold all 7,200 tickets for Ewood park this Sunday. Son of the chairman, David Sullivan Junior confirmed the news this evening on twitter by saying “We’ve sold out 7,200 ticket allocation for Blackburn, 5 days in advance. Bare in mind it’s a 4/5 hour trip and on TV. Best fans going ⚒” […]
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Posted on 16 February 2016. Tags: analysis, formations, hammers, slaven bilic, tactics, total-cache, whtid
The most astute of West Ham observers have noticed a problem seen over the past month or so, which is our inability to start the game with a real intent of gaining control of the game and scoring early goals. I agree that we have had a recent problem of slow starts in the first
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Posted on 16 February 2016. Tags: archives, china, hammers chat, News, westham, whispers
ClaretandHugh has again been assured this afternoon that reports of Nikicia Jelavic’s transfer to China nrtting the club a transfer fee of £4 million are false. Various media outlets have claimed the Hammers sold the Croatian for £4 million but that was rubbished by a highly placed source at Upton Park. Such a fee would […]
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