13 October 2017
Slaven Bilic has waded into Joe Hart’s critics making a blistering attack on them in one of his most outspoken attacks for a long time. Hart has barely put a foot wrong in an England shirt but continues to be at the centre of complaints from fans who don’t believe him to be worth the […]
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13 October 2017
Burnley will be without Jonathan Walters, Nahki Wells and Dean Marney for our visit to Turf Moor tomorrow. Marney, out since January with knee ligament damage, and recent arrival Wells (foot) are being phased into the Under-23 set-up to continue rehabilitation but are still some way from fitness. Walters could be out for a couple […]
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13 October 2017
A Premier League study claims that the average ticket prices in the Premier League this season works out at £32 and over 50 per cent of all fans are paying less than £30 per match. The conclusion comes as a result of the league’s second annual pricing survey which is based on data collected from […]
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13 October 2017
Burnley boss Sean Dyche has nailed the difference between the Clarets and West Ham as he prepares for the game at Turf Moor tomorrow. But he admits he has been surprised by his team’s start to the season declaring: “”I think it’d be unrealistic for me to say that I knew that [start to the […]
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13 October 2017
West Ham are this morning reported to be tracking PSV Eindhoven wideman Steven Bergwijn. The youngster – 20 today – is also being watched carefully by Spurs and Bournemouth after becoming a regular in the PSV first team since last season. He has represented his country at every level, apart from the full national team, after […]
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13 October 2017
Premier League research has revealed the average ticket price across the league this season to be £32.
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13 October 2017
The goalkeeper is an easy target and is unappreciated, according to the West Ham manager
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12 October 2017
The 30-year-old started his West Ham career by shipping 10 goals in three games, but the 30-year-old has now kept four clean sheets in his last five outings for club and country.
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12 October 2017
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic believes English football is taking Joe Hart for granted.
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12 October 2017
Slaven Bilic generally leaves little doubt in anybody’s mind about plans for a weekend match – until today perhaps! His press conference ahead of the game against Burnley provided more questions than answers and try as I may I find myself no wiser about the likely team for the weekend now than before he opened […]
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12 October 2017
West Ham are tonight being reported as trying to sign Andy Carrol Mark 11 – Hartlepool teenager Connor Simpson. The 17-year-old striker scored on his first senior start last month and is being likened to the Irons striker given his 6ft 5 inches and the fact that he is left-footed. The story is published in The […]
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12 October 2017
Controversial pundit Mark Lawrenson is playing it safe with the Irons this weekend. Perceived by many as being anti Hammers Lawro reckons the team should be higher up the table but says: ” I think that will happen now the likes of Manuel Lanzini are returning to fitness.” And he adds: “The constant speculation over Slaven […]
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12 October 2017
West Ham have three very winnable games in front of them and ClaretandHugh wanted to know from its followers how they believed the team will fare. We asked how many points readers thought they would pick up from excursions against Burnley this weekend, Brighton next Friday and away at Crystal Palace following that in our […]
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12 October 2017
Slaven Bilic is convinced that Reece Oxford will live up to expectations in Germany this season. The teenager has failed to appear for Borussia Monchengladbach since joining on loan but Bilic insisted the youngster is good enough to impress during his time away and then establish himself as a first-team player at the London Stadium. […]
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12 October 2017
Slaven Bilic has applauded Sean Dyche for the trasformation he has brought about at Burnley this season. The Hammers boss – discussing the Clarets at his pre-match presser – reckons everything that has happened at Turf Moor is down to the Clarets boss. He said: ” If you ask which team has beat Chelsea, Everton and […]
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12 October 2017
Slaven Bilic claims Andy Carroll has been impacting on games this season be it from the start or off the bench. Whilst many still question the continuing use of the big man as a first option the manager believes he will get better and fitter. He said: “He has been good, he will get fitter […]
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12 October 2017
More here: Slaven Bilic Pre-Match Full Conference
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12 October 2017
Slaven Bilic has told West Ham youngster Reece Oxford not to think he is Kylian Mbappe after being nominated for the Golden Boy award but to use it to improve.
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12 October 2017
Slaven Bilic has admitted that he is finally in a position to play the strongest West Ham team this weekend and “claims the number of players available to him is “not a headache.” Speaking at his pre-match presser against Burnley he said the situation had improved since the last game explaining: “There is only at the […]
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12 October 2017
West Ham forward Andy Carroll says he is getting fitter all the time after missing the start of the season with injury.
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12 October 2017
In my last ‘idle thoughts’ musings, I wrote of the fascination of old football memorabilia; programmes, handbooks, newspaper articles which could waft you back through the generations and provide you with a glimpse of life as it was in the days of our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers. A typical Hammers’ programme of the early 1920s was of four pages, the front page given over to the editorial and lists of current goal-scorers, the back ...
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12 October 2017
Manchester United will beat Liverpool on Saturday, according to the Sky Sports Premier Predictor.
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12 October 2017
Burnley boss Sean Dyche is good enough to manage England in the future, according to his West Ham counterpart Slaven Bilic.
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12 October 2017
In this week’s edition of our weekly Throwback segment, we hear from James, 56 and a lifelong Hammers fan and Season Ticket holder about a magical afternoon at Upton Park. “I took my young kids to their first Hammers game in the 2010/2011 campaign but from what I can remember of it, it was a torrid and ill-fated season. What should have been a special campaign for both me and my children was ruined, ...
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12 October 2017
West Ham today sold out their full allocation of 4,800 tickets for the Carabao Cup tie against Spurs at Wembley Stadium. A senior club source told ClaretandHugh of their huge disappointment at such a low allocation for the Hammers and that thousands of supporters missed out on a ticket. The source told us: “We were really hoping […]
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12 October 2017
That is it from Slaven Bilic and us here at Rush Green, thank you for tuning in and we will have Previews and reaction across the Site and our Social Media Channels over the next few days”. ” Hart is the long-term England No1″. ” He has not made mistakes for England, he was MOTM home and away against Slovenia”. ” I have a feeling that the pressure does...
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