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As the last historic season at the Boleyn Ground it has certainly developed into one of the most exciting we have seen for a long time. The usual post-Christmas blues that have so often afflicted most West Ham sides over many years seem a distant memory. Instead of dreary performances and inconsistent football, we have

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Last Saturday saw Carl Jenkinson forced off in the thrilling 2-2 draw at home against title contenders Manchester City with a serious knee injury. Ultimately the England U21 international is certain to miss the rest of the season and return to his parent club Arsenal to start his rehabilitation. When this news spread, a mixture

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West Ham have recently developed a shrewd business plan by investing in players that have consistently performed in the Championship. These players tend to carry a lesser price tag and they usually produce results too. Aaron Cresswell was the first instance of this working as he won Hammer of the Year in his first season

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Former West Ham hero Trevor Sinclair believes Dimitri Payet is as good as Arsenal’s Mesut Ozil. Payet arrived in east London in the summer for a fee of around £10.7m from Marseille and has since become one of the Premier League’s best players. The Frenchman’s form, which has resulted in him becoming an instant fan favourite

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As the dust settles on one of the best games at the Boleyn Ground in recent memory, there are still many West Ham supporters who feel a little disappointed that we did not get all three points against Man City. All the more disappointing was when we saw Cheikhou Kouyate’s header rattle the cross-bar with the

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It’s the January transfer window and rumours of all kinds of potential signings are flying around at the moment. With our efforts to bring a striker in before Monday’s 11pm deadline, this latest picture might have some fans dreaming of the biggest transfer in the history of the beautiful game. Manuel Lanzini posted a picture

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Clubs are investing more and more money into their teams today, and surely we should be asking we protect these players in their work place and the club’s millions they invest in them. Now that West Ham superstar Dimitri Payet is back to his magical best, l thought it would be a great time to

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Carl Jenkinson has been ruled out for the rest of the season through injury. Jenko injured himself while giving away a penalty in Saturday evening’s 2-2 home draw with Manchester City, and Jack Sullivan confirmed this afternoon that his injury was far worse than first feared, and will be out for the rest of the

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Saturday evening’s draw with Manchester City epitomised everything we love and cherish about the Boleyn Ground. Under the lights, the ground rocking, the atmosphere electric, the players going toe to toe with the Premier League’s strongest squad and being unlucky to have only drawn the game. It had everything, and made me realise just how

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It’s an exciting time to be a West Ham fan. Yesterday’s 2-2 draw with Man City was one of the best games of football we’ve witness at the Boleyn Ground for some time. We didn’t win, but we probably should have and the fact we were disappointed not to have done so at the full

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Who would’ve thought we’d be in a position to complete a Premier League double over Man City back in August?  Not only that but we can close the gap between ourselves and fourth placed Spurs if they slip up at Palace. What a time to be alive. Our capture of Sam Byram in mid-week was

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I’ll start this article by welcoming our latest signing Sam Byram. Born a Hammer and brought up a White, the Thurrock lad is finally a West Ham player after controversially deciding to sign for us over Everton. The Leeds youth player was the brightest star at Ellnd Road and I’m over the moon we have one

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West Ham confirmed the capture of Leeds United youngster Sam Byram today after gazzumping Everton at the last minute to secure his signature. West Ham had been looking to signing Byram in the summer on a free transfer, but Everton’s interest in the 22-year-old forced the club’s hand and we went and got our man for

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Sometime in late 2015, Slaven Bilic, expressed his attitude concerning signings in the January transfer period. He made it clear that signings would only be considered in exceptional circumstances. A number of unexpected issues concerning the present/future state of our strikers may well present a case that West Ham may well be in a state

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West Ham are interested in signing Reading centre-back Jake Cooper, as reporting by The Times. The Hammers are already expected to complete a deal for Leeds United right-back Sam Byram this week, and they’re now believed to be eyeing Cooper as another young defender from England’s second tier. Cooper broke in to the Royals’ first

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West Ham are closing in on a loan move for Fenerbahce striker Emmanuel Emenike, as reported by MailOnline. The news was exclusively revealed by the ever-reliable @ExWHUemployee on Tuesday evening and it is now being widely reported that a deal could be completed as early as Friday. Emenike, 28, is currently on loan at Al Ain in Abu Dhabi

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West Ham appear to have pipped Everton to the signing of highly-rated Leeds United star Sam Byram, as reported by Sky Sports. It looked as if the Toffees were going to wrap up a deal for the 22-year-old right-back earlier this week, before West Ham entered the running for his services. The very well connected

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“We’ve got Payet, Dimitri Payet…” We all know the song. It’s unbelievably catchy and I often mind myself singing it to myself several times each day. It’s so good, that it’s become one of the most popular terrace chants in the country with fans of other clubs acknowledging it’s perfection. But today it emerged that

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Never in our wildest dreams could any of us have thought that we would be entering the game against Newcastle on an eight game unbeaten run. Bournemouth were a potential banana skin, as were Wolves in the FA Cup. We didn’t exactly blow Wolves away, but we did enough, which is all you need to

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When Slaven Bilic arrived in London last summer we quickly became accustomed to his willingness to share his philosophical views. Before laying down his principles he made it quite clear that he was very keen on bringing a fast, quick-passing, attacking style of football to West Ham,, which we hadn’t witnessed for some time. Expanding on this

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Unbeaten in nine and currently second in the form table based on the last six games – what a time to be alive! Going by last season’s heroics up to Christmas, we were unplayable and played a new way where even the likes of Morgan Amalfitano looked class. Unfortunately that same season we saw a

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For any West Ham fan, having a player of the calibre of Alex Song, who has previously been at Arsenal and won the Champions League with Spanish giants Barcelona, is a huge honour. After the former Cameroon international arrived on a season long loan at the start of last season, Song was nothing short of

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So we’re currently on the longest unbeaten run in the Premier League than anyone else – seven games. And then if you include the win over Wolves in the FA Cup at the weekend, that’s eight games without loss ahead of our trip to Bournemouth on Tuesday. We owe the Cherries one after they beat

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West Ham have drawn Exeter or Liverpool in the fourth round of the FA Cup – and Liverpool fans are genuinely worried about the prospect of facing us at Anfield. Of course Jurgen Klopp’s side still need to beat Exeter in their replay, but if they do then they face the very real prospect of

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The word ‘Legend’ gets used all too much in Football nowadays. The dictionary meaning of legend is; a superstar, icon, genius or a phenomenon. Ex-West Ham players worthy of such a status, in my humble opinion, would be the likes of Sir Bobby Moore, Sir Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters, Sir Trevor Brooking and Billy Bonds.

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It’s FA Cup third round day and the big debate at the moment is whether we should give winning the competition our full attention, or concentrate on finishing as high up in the league as possible. That was question put to Slaven Bilic during his pre-match press conference earlier this week and his answer was

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