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This game will be the last of 2015 for us, with a very exciting year looming, but first, lets end this year on a positive note. We go into this game looking at a streak of eight winless games, which has subsequently dropped us down to 10th in the league table. Southampton, on the other

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It wasn’t one of the most entertaining matches this season, and this now makes it eight games without a win, drawing our last five and we are finding it a battle with the injuries we have. Our injury concerns have again increased with both Cresswell and Tomkins picking up minor injuries, which could see them

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I had the pleasure of speaking to Hammers Chat ahead of Monday’s clash with Southampton. It’s a bit of a weird stage in our season at the moment. We’re unbeaten in five but without a win in eight, so it’s hard to know whether to be happy or annoyed with where we’re currently at. One

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So it’s official, West Ham are the Premier League’s draw specialists. Our 1-1 stalemate at Villa Park on Boxing day made it five draws in a row, although one positive is that we finally managed to find the back of the net thanks to Aaron Cresswell. However, despite being unbeaten in five we’re still without

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So we travel to rock-bottom Aston Villa today in the hope recording our first win in eight Premier League outings. It’s been a strange period in our season. Despite not winning in seven, we’re unbeaten in our last four, which goes to show that although we’ve perhaps struggled to kill games off without our key

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So here we are, Christmas time, and facing seven games between now and the end of January. The prevalent mood seems somewhat gloomy, with three scoreless games in succession, and no wins in the last seven outings. In this article, I advocate the use of a series of aggressive formations, which if adhered to, with

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Three 0-0 draws in a row now, with our next trip away at Villa park, hoping to pick up all three points and avoid the ‘christmas hangover’ the players may have. Just to start off, I would like to say a huge congratulations to club captain and legend Mark Noble for being awarded with a

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Seven more sleeps to go! Seven more sleeps ’til…. TRANSFER WINDOW! Good tidings Hammers fans, it’s me again… the annoying ginger Twitter troll! January 2016 is fast approaching and there’s plenty of regurgitated transfer rumours knocking about… “Zaza to sign on loan.” “Zaza to sign permanently.” “Andy Carroll to sign for Newcastle.” Blah blah blah! SHUT

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The Hammers Chat crew have been previewing Boxing Day’s trip to Aston Villa this week. Having drawn four on the bounce – three of which have been goalless – we’re in desperate need of three points to give us some festive cheer on Sunday. Slaven Bilic said earlier this week that he’ll probably stick with

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We’ve all got that one former West Ham manager who we look back on and wonder – what was the club thinking!? The two names that generally come up in this topic are Glen Roeder and Avram Grant, but who really was the worst manager? West Ham World and @ExWhuEmployee have different opinions on the

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Back in the summer it was looking increasingly likely that James Collins would be leaving the club for a second time. But instead he opted to remain in east London to fight for his place in the team, clearly in the belief that he’s still good enough to compete at the highest level. And he

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So Matt Jarvis has left the club permanently and it seems most West Ham fans are delighted. Norwich completed a £2.5m deal to make his loan deal permanent earlier today, which means we’ve made around a £6m loss on the winger. Sam Allardyce told us he’d forked out a club record fee for him in

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It’s Christmas eve. We’re all getting in to the festive spirit, dreaming of love, happiness, family and friends, West Ham beating Aston Villa and Dimitri Payet’s face. Obviously. So we won’t be seeing Payet’s face at Villa, which is a shame, but yesterday we were given what everyone is calling an early Christmas present. That’s

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Managing West Ham on Football Manager can be a very difficult task to take on. Over the years our players on the game have been average, and it’s pretty difficult to strengthen the side from the off when the board give you limited funds to work with. This year it’s a little bit easier, with

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Like your trivia? Well here a load of interesting facts about the club you may or may not know… The new West Ham United manager writes his own lyrics and plays in a Croatian rock group called Rawbau. Slaven Bilic has a win percentage of 53.5 as a manager across more than 220 games at

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The news that Mark Noble has been awarded a testimonial by the club has got me grinning from ear to ear. In the modern game, players like Noble are a rarity. A dying breed. Victims of modern football, multi-billion pound TV deals and greed. They’re almost extinct. Put simply, there aren’t players left in the world

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Sunday’s goalless stalemate against a struggling Swansea City side was the fourth consecutive draw for West Ham. Despite being unbeaten in the last four league games, we have not gained maximum points since the 24th October, in that memorable 2-1 home win against Chelsea. However, against a Swansea side without a manager, as the Welsh

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Another game. Another draw. Another 0-0 scoreline. In what has to be the worst West Ham performance since Slaven Bilic arrived at the club in the summer, there were few positives to take from Sunday’s stalemate with Swansea. We do have a lot of injuries to key players, and we know that’s the main reason

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Not too long ago we were in dreamland. We were effortlessly disposing of the finest teams that the English Premier League has to offer. We were almost unstoppable at full flow when we counter-attacked, with Dimitri Payet and Manuel Lanzini exquisitely composing each move. Fast forward to today and we have been struck with an

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We head into Sunday’s fixture against manager-less Swansea after a frustrating few weeks for the Hammers. Not short of confidence and team character we should be heading into that game with every chance of getting that much needed win. A stirring and interesting game against an in-form Stoke City last weekend produced a spirited and

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Former West Ham fan favourite Danny Gabbidon has exclusively given us his view on West Ham’s season, Bilic’s decision to move to Rush Green ahead of Schedule and what the Olympic Stadium move could mean for the club’s future. The former Wales international represented West Ham with distinction from 2005-2011, playing under the likes of Alan

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Hammers cult hero John Moncur will never forgive Sam Allardyce for the way he treated West Ham’s youngsters during his four-years at Upton Park. In a wide-ranging interview in Blowing Bubbles Monthly, the 49-year-old said his handling over the Academy of Football’s rising stars was an “absolute joke”. But, despite his son’s “disappointing” departure, he

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It’s that time of year when we all wish for something we really want at Christmas. Aside from all the materialistic stuff we wish for over the holidays, it’s always the people we love the most who we want most at Christmas. We’ve been collectively deprived of one certain loved one over the past two

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When Carl Jenkinson joined West Ham on loan from Arsenal last year, he quickly endeared himself in the squad and performed very well as an attacking right back. His runs down the right wing were breathtaking, and he was objectively assessed as the fastest player in the Premier League. He seemed to be the perfect

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It’s hard to remember the last player to have had such an instant, meteoric impact at West Ham than Dimitri Payet.  Some will claim the likes of Carlos Tevez and Paolo Di Canio are up there, but both didn’t excite as instantly as our new French hero. Put simply, he’s the best player to have

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West Ham target Keisuke Honda is expected to stay put at AC Milan this January, as reported by London24. The Japan international has been repeatedly linked with a move to east London since the summer, with a loan deal until the end of the season being touted. However, London24 claim Milan News are reporting that Honda

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