The Guardian took to their favourite sport of West Ham bashing again on Sunday. Senior researcher at the Directory of Social Change, Rachel Cain wrote an article which appeared to blame West Ham for a short fall in charity funding. She wrote “As West Ham United kick off a new season in the Olympic Stadium where […]
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Guardian bashes West Ham again
Posted on 11 September 2017.
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Collymore gives board and manager benefit of the doubt
Posted on 11 September 2017.
Stan Collymore writes in the Daily Mirror today that he is prepared to give both the board and the manager the benefit of the doubt for West Ham’s poor start. He points out that history tells us the owners are not sackers but says it can see it going one way with the end of […]
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Bilic claims Sakho’s failed move “not black and white”
Posted on 11 September 2017.
Slaven Bilic has spoken out on Diafra Sakho’s ill fated attempts to join Rennes and admitted he doesn’t know the full story behind things. The manager has not been shy of making it clear that the player wanted to go to the French club and isn’t sure whether he had permission to do so or […]
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Bilic says quality will come through character
Posted on 11 September 2017.
Slaven Bilic is looking for home comforts when the team run on to the London Stadium for the first time this season this evening. Commenting ahead of the game he said: “It’s good to play at home again – the home form is the key “The players know we have to begin physically, to go […]
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David Sullivan’s salvo bursts Slaven Bilic’s fragile bubble at West Ham
Posted on 11 September 2017.
The bizarre recriminations following the failure to sign William Carvalho ramp up the pressure on the manager after West Ham’s poor start to the season David Sullivan, to quote an increasingly demob happy Slaven Bilic, likes to talk. West Ham’s co-owner wants to have his say, regardless of what his manager thinks. He makes headlines by not holding back in interviews. Just this past week, with the dust still settling on the non-signing of William Carvalho, Sullivan released a …
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Slaven Bilic prepares for Huddersfield’s visit with a long weekend at home
Posted on 10 September 2017.
• Diafra Sakho needs to show his worth, adds West Ham manager • Andy Carroll available for Hammers’ first home game of the season Slaven Bilic has warned Diafra Sakho that he will be harming his own prospects if the unsettled West Ham United forward does not put his failed transfer to Rennes behind him. Sakho was forced to return to the east London club on the final day of the transfer window …
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A case for the defence
Posted on 10 September 2017.
Regular contributor a former OLAS writer Matt gives us his views on the madness of the last fortnight and suggest that we may well have dodged a bullet by missing out on Carvalho. He also runs through our recent spending and explains why former favourite Tony Gale got it very wrong when calculating our net-spend.
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A shot in time: ‘The West Ham way’ was born in a car park
Posted on 10 September 2017.
The Hammers won the FA Youth Cup in 1963, the FA Cup in 1964, the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1965 and then in 1966 lost the League Cup final to West Bromwich Albion.
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West Ham vs Huddersfield: Bilic admits home form is key
Posted on 10 September 2017.
West Ham host Huddersfield on Monday night looking to pick up their first points of the Premier League season. Here, Slaven Bilic and David Wagner preview the action to come.
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Last-chance saloon for broken West Ham boss Slaven Bilic
Posted on 10 September 2017.
CHRIS SUTTON: This game against Huddersfield is pivotal for Slaven Bilic. The West Ham boss looked a broken man after Newcastle wiped the floor with his team.
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More Mischief Canning Town Style
Posted on 10 September 2017.
Well it’s David Golds birthday and there is no better way to celebrate than amongst friends and in this animation ‘Goldie’ eagerly awaits his gift from co-chairman David Sullivan. For those who don’t know this is the new West Ham parody account known only as Canning Town Len who puts a quirky twist on all […]
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Surprise recall for defender?
Posted on 10 September 2017.
Sam Byram is tonight being featured on the official website giving his view of tomorrow night’ game against Huddersfield. And that may be a clue that the right back is set to be included possibly at the expense of Pablo Zabaleta. There are no guarantees on such things of course but it seems to be […]
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Tactics: What West Ham must do to ensure three points v Huddersfield
Posted on 10 September 2017.
After four away games and an untimely international game week during the closure of the transfer window, our beloved Hammers finally play their first league game at home on Monday, under the lights and live on Sky Sports, against an in form Huddersfield Town. With all the drama in recent weeks; the club, the team, […]
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Bilic/Sullivan tensions hardly a big surprise
Posted on 10 September 2017.
The only surprising aspect of the apparent current tension between David Sullivan and Slaven Bilic is that anybody is in the least bit surprised. For if you re-visit the build-up to the manager’s appointment you find that he was behind the likes of David Moyes, Rafa Benitez, Jurgen Klopp and Carlo Ancelotti. Even Steve McClaren […]
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Mock the West Ham week gives it large
Posted on 10 September 2017.
It’s been a week of sound and fury at West Ham this week with the club going through another divisive period in a history of making crises from dramas. And as usual Nigel Kahn has keeping a cynical eye on everything as one problem appears to have led to another with seemingly nobody knowing what […]
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Brave young Hammer fights to live
Posted on 10 September 2017.
Two-year-old Hammers fan Isla Caton has been diagnosed with a rare form of child cancer called Neuroblastoma, only one hundred children in the UK are diagnosed with this cancer each year. It is the same disease which was bravely fought and lost by young Sunderland fan Bradley Lowery. Isla currently having treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital […]
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Charities still waiting for millions raided to build West Ham stadium | Rachel Cain
Posted on 10 September 2017.
The government has reneged on a pledge to refund £425m to charities after the Olympics, instead leasing the stadium to West Ham for a mere £2.5m a year Rachel Cain is senior researcher at the Directory of Social Change As West Ham United kick off a new season in the Olympic Stadium where the nation cheered Mo Farah and Usain Bolt in the World Athletics Championships this summer, few will be aware that this fabulous venue, now the London …
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Newcastle fans fear Rafael Benítez is ready to answer West Ham’s £6m call | Louise Taylor
Posted on 10 September 2017.
Hammers are thought likely to trigger the disillusioned Newcastle manager’s release clause if the mounting pressure on Slaven Bilic ends with the sack In football parlance, Rafael Benítez faces a late fitness test before Sunday’s trip to Swansea, City but is rated doubtful. Newcastle United’s manager has spent the last week recovering from surgery to clear infection from an old hernia repair, yet, despite being in considerable discomfort, he did not forget about a …
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No boardroom appetite to fire Slav
Posted on 10 September 2017.
Reports and speculation that the Hammers are globetrotting in search of a new boss are nonsense and can be totally forgotten by the fans. The West ham board have no intentions of firing the manager despite the unwise public announcement from David Sullivan that it is now down to the boss to do the job. […]
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London Stadium decide against bag ban
Posted on 10 September 2017.
Operators London Stadium 185 have decided against a Manchester United type bag ban this season at the former Olympic Stadium. Supporters at Old Trafford are not permitted to bring a bag larger than a small handbag (20cm x 15cm x 5cm) with them or they will have to leave it in a new bag drop […]
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Players are completely behind the manager says Ginge
Posted on 10 September 2017.
Monday night’s home game against Huddersfield at the London Stadium is also Slaven Bilic’s 49th birthday. “Birthday or not everyone at the club would like to get the boss three points,” says James Collins. “He’s been under tremendous pressure. It’s crazy in football that the managers get put under so much pressure when sometimes really […]
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Napoli coach report is wide of mark
Posted on 09 September 2017.
A report that the West Ham board have earmarked Napoli coach Maurizio Sarri as the man they want to replace Slaven Bilic appears to be very wide of the mark. The Sunday Express claims the 58-year-old who replaced Benitez at the Italian club is being lined up as a possible replacement for the West Ham Croatian […]
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FIFA think Dele Alli is a problem and they miss point
Posted on 09 September 2017.
OLIVER HOLT: The organisation that have usurped even the IOC as the most venal body in sport have opened disciplinary proceedings against Dele Alli for joking around with a team-mate.
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West Ham players owe Slaven Bilic a win, says Collins
Posted on 09 September 2017.
West Ham’s players say they owe birthday boy Slaven Bilic a win on Monday night because they are the ones who have thrown him under the bus with a series of below-par performances.
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Andy Carroll is ready to rescue West Ham’s Slaven Bilic
Posted on 09 September 2017.
West Ham striker Andy Carroll is ready to ride to Slaven Bilic’s rescue after missing five months with a groin injury. The talismanic Carroll has trained well during the recent international break.
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Ravel was the biggest waste of talent I ever worked with
Posted on 09 September 2017.
Former West Ham manager Sam Allardyce has told Sky Sports that former Hammer Ravel Morrison was the biggest waste of talent he ever worked with in his management career. Big Sam explained: “He was that good but because of the mental side of his game and his life he couldn’t produce that talent on a […]
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