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Under 23s coaches Liam Manning and Steve Potts were unhappy with a 3-0 defeat at Leicester City in the Premier League 2 Division 1 defeat. The Foxes fielded Wales midfielder Andy King and Tunisia defender Yohan Benalouane in their team and were in front inside three minutes through Tyrese Shade was given time. The defence […]

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Isla Caton’s family have received the best possible news in the last 24 hours. Isla’s mother Nicola posted an update saying “We have just had the best news ever! Isla’s treatment is working, her bone marrow is clear and out of twelve spots she had the disease, she only has two left! And her central […]

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West Ham Vice Chairman Karen Brady has been dragged into Sir Philip Green’s scandal as she is the chairman of Taveta, the holding company of Sir Philip’s Arcadia retail group. The Daily Mail today claims there are calls for Brady to appear before Parliament in the coming weeks to answer questions about what she knew about the […]

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Manuel Pellegrini has compared Grady Diangana to former Arsenal Spanish international Santi Cazrola and declared: “I trust in him.” The two play in different positions e but for the Hammers youngster to be of in such terms is an amazing compliment to the young man. Speaking to www.whufc.com Pellegrini said: “For me, one of the most important […]

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Paris St Germain are reportedly tracking Issa Diop and may be ready to table a bid in advance of £50 million. The story has emerged in the Daily Mail where the paper claims that the France giants have been tracking the central defender for some time. However, it seems bizarre that if the interest is […]

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Millwall fan Tony Munday is again raising more money for West Ham Isla Caton. The rival fan said this week: “We go again for Isla’s fight. this time it’s the Brighton Marathon in April. If I reach the £30,000 mark I will once again wear the West Ham kit, if I reach £35,000 I will run in […]

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Manchester City's trip to Tottenham on Monday night caps a packed round of fixtures. You can find out who's in and who's out for all the matches with our graphic guides below…

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Paris Saint-Germain are targeting West Ham's Issa Diop – and could be prepared to offer up to £50million for the French centre back. Diop has made an impressive start to life in England.

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Leicester City boss Claude Puel is tonight being reported as being ready to drop Jamie Vardy from the game against us tomorrow. According to Telegraph Sport the Foxes boss, having suffered four defeats in the last six Premier League games, looks ready to try changing his fortunes by leaving Vardy out of his starting XI […]

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London Stadium owners E20 have appointed Shanika Amarasekara to their board of directors. Amarasekara is the General Counsel for the British Business Bank. At the government owned bank she is responsible for ensuring that the legal interests of the bank and its stakeholders are protected and ensuring that the governance aspects of the institution function smoothly. […]

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West Ham knew exactly what they had on their hands in young Grady Diangana this summer and weren’t slow to sign the youngster to a new deal back in August. Strangely it didn’t find its way onto the club’s official site www.whufc.com until mid October when it became clear the Irons were very much involved […]

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Mark Noble doesn’t like tea time football as is the case at Leicester City tomorrow (Sat). The captain reckons it is an unsettling time of the day to kick off because he says: “There’s there’s a lot of hanging around. It can be even trickier for the fans, who have to arrange transport to and from […]

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Former Hammrs boss Sam Allardyce has declared that Andy Carroll must look after himself better and come close to accusing him of a lack of dedication. At April this year, Carroll had cost the club £48 million so far based on his salary, initial loan fee from Liverpool and his eventual £18 million permanent fee […]

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West Ham have submitted an application for planning permission to Havering council to build a temporary wooden gym at Rush Green training ground to provide extra facilities to the first team. The planning application asks for a 30m long, 10m wide and 6m high structure build out of 40mm composite panels pained off white with […]

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Grady Diangana has unsurprisingly been commanding plenty of headlines and positive comment since his performance against Spurs last weekend. Okay, a few on the forums feel he is being over hyped and that he didn’t affect the game as powerfully as some like to believe. Personally, however, I feel he offered more in his near […]

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Last season we travelled to Leicester City anxious and needing a big win to help banish those too regular relegation fears we have suffered. We had not won since April when we arrived for the first of our three final games in May. We had collected just two points from a possible 12 and had […]

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The Irons head to the King Power Stadium on the back of successive 1-0 Premier League defeats either side of the international break.

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BETTING GUIDE: Table-topping Manchester City are at Wembley to take on Tottenham in the big one – but you'll have to wait until Monday night. Here's our game-by-game guide to the 10th round of fixtures.

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Grady Diangana takes no pleasure from the fact that his chance of hitting the Hammers heights has come as a result of injury to a key player. Andriy Yarmolenko is now sidelined for six months as a result of the blow he received during the Spurs game but that could mean the 20 year old […]

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Robert Snodgrass has promised Hammers fans the team is heading for Leicester looking to win “by playing the right way.” Speaking to www.whufc.com he said: . “After the Spurs game I said we could have sat back in a 4-5-1 against a top-four side, but I don’t think that’s the way the players want to […]

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Mark Lawrenson is at it again – predicting Hammers defeats – this time against Leicester City in tomorrow’s evening kick. Discussing the match at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45941891 he says: “Leicester had their chances in the first half against Arsenal on Monday but finished up well beaten in the end. West Ham also lost last time out but were a […]

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The Daily Express claims today that Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri has been told to go all out for West Ham star Marko Arnautovic in the January transfer window. “It would make absolute sense for Chelsea” ESPN pundit and former Liverpool player Steve Nichol told TV viewers. “It would make absolutely no sense for West Ham. “If they’re […]

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Jamie Vardy remains a major doubt for Leicester’s clash with West Ham on Saturday. The striker has been battling a stomach problem since dashing off the pitch in the 87th minute to find a toilet in his team 3-1 defeat to Arsenal on Monday evening. Leicester Manager Claude Puel told reporters at his pre-match press conference yesterday: ‘For […]

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Manuel Pellegrini told reporters at yesterday’s pre-match at Rush Green that he told Robert Snodgrass to lose some weight and fat over the summer if we wanted a chance of making the first team. Pellegrini explained “When I spoke with him in pre-season I was sure that Robert wants to play here, he told me […]

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London Stadium owners E20 and LLDC have published details of the true costs of seat moves over the summer after a freedom of information request. The owners explain that moving the seating system is complex. The main drivers of cost are related to the plant and labour needed to crane or air skate the stands in […]

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Manuel Pellegrini hosted his regular pre-match press conference on Thursday at Rush Green giving reporters an update before West Ham plays Leicester at Kings Power Stadium on Saturday evening. Pellegrini started but talking about injuries by saying “Unfortunately, we have a lot of long injuries. Andriy Yarmolenko he has had surgery so he will be […]

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