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Talks have started on giving Slaven Bilic a new five year deal. Is that as it should be or should the board wait to see what he achieves at the end of the season. ClaretandHugh Facebook forum members and site followers give their views   O Slaven should be rewarded, he has us heading in […]

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If we consider the squad and money invested have we improved? I thought we had until I saw this…

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• Bilic says of challenge on Payet: ‘There is no place in football for those tackles’ • Southampton’s Maya Yoshida hopes to win first-team place Victor Wanyama became the seventh player to have been sent off three times in a Premier League season, against a team managed by one of the other six players to share the opprobrium of possessing such an unwanted record. Slaven Bilic prided his game on tough tackling but the West Ham manager has…

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Enner Valencia tends to split opinion among Irons  fans. After suffering his share of injuries he has managed four goals and  goals and two assists in six games so are we convinced this is a 12 million player. ClaretandHugh’s Facebook forum members have been discussing the Ecuadorian international @https://www.facebook.com/groups/363174467150521/ Here’s what they are saying: O […]

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West Ham have already started a preliminary round of talks with Slaven Bilic over a deal aimed at keeping him at the club for the next five years. However, as reported by ClaretandHugh towards the end of last week there will be improvements and escape clauses inserted against the possibility of things going pear-shaped! Although […]

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West Ham United boss Slaven Bilic admitted his team were gutted after falling to a 1-0 defeat at ten man Southampton in the Premier League.

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Some things have to be done …and this is one of them. There is little point in ClaretandHugh – or any other independent website claiming it is here for the supporters – if it doesn’t raise their perfectly justified complaints. Last week we drew attention to the wicked problems people were encountering in trying to […]

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I have no problem with patient football….to a point. Certainly it’s an awful lot better than hoofball which in the context of yesterday’s match against Southampton would have served us no better than the pass and “probe” (I use the word carefully) approach we adopted against a well drilled defence. Yes I understand the team […]

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West Ham new boy Sam Byram will need to be on his very best first team behaviour until the start of the Aptil. The £3.8 million right back found himself back in the referee’s black book yesterday which leves him staring at a two game suspension should he stray the wrong side of the law […]

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Slaven Bilic has agreed that the Irons missed out on a “great opportunty” at Southampton yesterday declaring: “Of course we are gutted.” And he added: “It’s a game we didn’t deserve to lose – we made a sloppy start but were the better team for three-quarters of the game.” However, once again he was forced to […]

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SAM CUNNINGHAM AT ST MARY’S STADIUM: Southampton were reduced to 10-men after Victor Wanyama’s red card but managed to hold out for a 1-0 victory over West Ham.

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The other West Ham turned up at Southampton this afternoon and failed to trouble a ten man home team. Here’s how members of the ClaretandHugh FB forum reacted @https://www.facebook.com/groups/363174467150521/ O Another team to whom we showed too much respect O Why are we are happy to sit back and defend rather than come out attacking. […]

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See the original post: He missed a sitter 😂

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Adrian: Little to do and no chance with the goal. Did his best to distribute well and set things up 6 Tomkins: Off injured in the second half. Defended well but still not the answer going forward 6 Reid: Decent afternoon and saw our best chance – a header – well saved 7 Collins: Steady […]

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I really wouldn’t have wanted to be a West Ham player this evening given the clear mood of Slaven Bilic when he appeared before the cameras. After missing a very big opportunity on the south coast this was one very unhappy Croat who whilst refusing to point fingers looked like a man who’s lost a […]

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There’s little point in beating around the bush…that was a poor performance with the team finally paying the price for a shoddy start which is becoming as much a feature of the season as the big away victories. The first half – as it has been on many occasions this season – was a total […]

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Another clean sheet and, most important, another win for Southampton. Victor Wanyama’s avoidable sending-off in the 54th minute meant they had to withstand a barrage of West Ham United pressure but the resurgence of Ronald Koeman’s team since the turn of the year shows no sign of abating thanks to Maya Yoshida’s early goal. This victory made it 13 points from the last 15 and suddenly a top-six place is in Southampton’s sights. They have still not conceded since Fraser Forster made…

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Updates as in-form duo Southampton and West Ham duel at St Mary’s All of today’s results and live scores across Europe Email scott.murray@theguardian.com 4.46pm GMT Three changes to the Southampton team which started the goalless draw at Arsenal in the week. Jordy Clasie, Maya Yoshida and Graziano Pelle come in at the expense of James Ward-Prowse, Dusan Tadic and Oriol Romeu. West Ham make just the one change…

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West Ham travel to Southampton as the teams that started sixth and seventh in the Barclays Premier League meet at St Mary’s on Saturday evening.

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It would be pitching it too high to claim that Slaven Bilic is on a revenge mission at Southampton. But missing out to Ronald Koeman as January’s manager of the month earlier this month gives a nice little ‘grudge match’ plot to the game at St Mary’s. Co chairman David Gold mind you looks at […]

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Well with the Man City crash now in force the premier league title is between Leicester City, Tottenham, Arsenal, Man U and WEST HAM UNITED YES WEST HAM UNITED!!!

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By his own remarkable standard Dimi Payet may have been off the pace over the last couple of games. He had little impact at Liverpool and was again struggling to make his usual enormous presence felt against Aston Villa on Tuesday evening. However, I expect him to shine tonight and a return to his best […]

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Dennis Arthur Leatherbarrow will turn 82 in May, on the same day West Ham play their last ever game at the Boleyn Ground. Born in East Ham, he has been a Hammer all his life and experienced things as a fan I’ll probably never experience. His love for the club has been passed on to

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It’s going to be very interesting to see whether Ronald Koeman goes with Charlie Austin this evening. I understand the former QPR striker is fit and given the long reported on/off transfer history with West Ham it could be a fascinating sub plot. It’s a game we really will enjoy. I know that for a fact […]

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Upton Park stadium is to become the main ‘set’ for a new Hollywood action movie. According to The Sun it will become the ‘main focus’ of  movie based on armed criminals holding 35,000 people hostage at a sporting venue for ransom. Hmmmm! Filming is reportedly due to take place at the end of the season before […]

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