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West Ham’s Reece Oxford is being regularly scouted by Bundesliga clubs but currently there is no interest from the Premier League. Reports have emerged that the Under 23s captain has attracted scouts from Manchester City but that was denied by a top club insider to ClaretandHugh via text who revealed all the scouting interest was […]

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Don’t ever underestimate the power of the Hammers fans – that’s the message from inside the Hammers dressing room. With more buoyancy around the club than we’ve felt in many months the fans are letting off their feeling inside the stadium perhaps more than ever before. Those three wins may have been expected but we […]

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Declan Rice is commanding a comfortable leader in the Hammers Player of the season so far launched by ClaretandHugh. We want to know who is the top man so far this term and as a result has a big chance of ending the season as Hammer of the year. And so far Declan is clear […]

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AMITAI WINEHOUSE AT THE LONDON STADIUM: Felipe Anderson's performance and goal against Crystal Palace will have turned any doubters into believers. It was a gift of a display.

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AMITAI WINEHOUSE: It is always difficult to talk about the historical significance of a player at a club as storied as Liverpool but Salah is marking himself out as a potential icon.

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Former West Ham player and manager Harry Redknapp is a massive odds-on favourite to win I am a Celebrity Get me out of here in the Australian jungle tonight. Bookies have made Harry the 1/10 odds-on favourite to be crowned king of the jungle this evening with Emily Atack and John Barrowman both outsiders 12/1 TV […]

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West Ham Vice-Chairman Karren Brady has confirmed that there are plans to introduce a fan zone outside the London Stadium in conjunction with stadium pouring partner Heineken. At the recent West Ham United Supporters Board meeting, minutes confirm that: “Karren Brady confirmed that plans are in place to create a Fanzone, in conjunction with Heineken, which will hopefully encourage […]

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We will soon approach the halfway stage of the season this month when West Ham face Southampton at St Mary’s stadium for our nineteenth league game of the season. With sixteen games played so far, we ask our Claret and Hugh readers who your player of the season is so far. Obviously we expect Arnie […]

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Pellegrini told reporters “I think we deserved the win because, if you review the complete game Crystal Palace had three chances to score, they scored two goals from set pieces and one free-kick that hit the crossbars. After that, they did not have any clear opportunities by playing. “While I was worried about their strikers […]

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David Gold has declared that Manuel Pellegrini takes all the credit for turning around Robert Snodgrass’ career and waiting patiently for £35 million man Felipe Anderson to find his real form. After three wins on the bounce by with three goals scored in each, he is thrilled the lads are now starting to play in […]

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West Ham has confirmed they plan to sell 2,000 half season tickets starting from January next year and will sell a further 1,000 seats on general sale. The confirmation came from Karren Brady at the new West Ham United Supporters Board following a question from Claret and Hugh Associate Editor. Brady replied to the new supporters […]

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A club insider has repeated that the club is comfortable to wait until the summer to sit down with Declan Rice and his agent to discuss his contract insisting time is on their side. A senior club insider told Claret and Hugh via Email: “With options, Declan Rice has two and half years to go […]

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Javier Hernandez admitted he is enjoying his football again following West Ham's 3-2 win over Crystal Palace, making it three wins out of three matches.

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No Arnautovic…no problem – a nice little 3-2 win! And as our blogger Allen Cummings points out on the CandH Facebook page when you consider it was achieved without him, Lanzini, Yarmolenko, Reid, Wilshere, Sanchez and Fredericks all unavailable we have something to start feeling pretty happy about. It’s been mentioned many times in the […]

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Manuel Pellegrini is looking at the top six and possibly beyond this season. Most thought it would take him a minimum of the three years on his contract to take West Ham to the top level but after three wins in three games scoring three goals in each ambition is growing. With 21 points after […]

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Please vote with your personal ratings for West Ham players who played for ten minutes or more in the West Ham United v Crystal Palace win at the London Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Please only vote if you watched the game yourself and select a numerical score between one and ten where one is low […]

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Chicharito is enjoying his football again at West Ham telling WHUFC.com “It’s an incredible feeling, We scored three goals in the first 20 minutes of the second half and that shows the attacking power we have. We knew it was going to be tough as we were one down, but we scored very good goals […]

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West Ham recorded their third league back to back win on Saturday for the first time since 2016. On that occasion, the Hammers beat Sunderland, Spurs then Everton between February and March 2016 under Slaven Bilic. The last time West Ham won four league games on the trot it was under Sam Allardyce in 2014 […]

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Andy Carroll has made it clear he wants to win a new contract at West Ham. Instead of triggering the two year option on his deal it seems AC has realised it’s more likely a new deal will be drawn up if indeed the club decide that’s the way to go. The striker was warned […]

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Some footballers are just downright unlucky and Lucas Perez appears to be one of them. Having spent a lean time during his spell at Arsenal where he made just nine appearances in all competitions and disappeared on loan to Deportivo he had been overlooked most of the season on moving to the Hammers. But after […]

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Manuel Pellegrini has set his sights on sixth spot after West Ham climbed into the top half.

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Manuel Pellegrini obviously reckons that on the law of averages Andy Carroll was likely to grab a couple of goals this afternoon. After Lucas Perez and Chicharito had managed at Newcastle and against Cardiff he imagined Carroll was likely to get a brace . The manager said: “Of course, we are happy that three different players […]

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Arsenal faced Huddersfield in the Premier League on Saturday afternoon as they looked to maintain their unbeaten run. Relive the action with MATTHEW SMITH.

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AMITAI WINEHOUSE AT LONDON STADIUM: Manuel Pellegrini’s side achieving a run of results and goals that has not been achieved by West Ham since October 1982.

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Felipe Anderson scored a wonder goal as the Irons completed a hat-trick of wins scoring nine goals along the way. And just as against Cardiff all the goals and a vastly improved performance came at the start of the second half although this time they trailed by a first half strike. James McArthur had scored […]

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