11 September 2017
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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11 September 2017
West Ham skipper Mark Noble is happy to abandon super-slick football played by the likes of Barcelona or Real Madrid and win ugly tonight against Huddersfield. Noble is desperate to help under-fire Slaven Bilic’s side snatch their first win of the season when they host the Terriers at the London Stadium. Bilic’s beleaguered outfit sit bottom of the Premier League table after three defeats on the road and go into their first home game of the campaign...
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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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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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11 September 2017
The Croatian's job is hanging by a thread ahead of a fixture against Huddersfield but it is the club's owners who should be facing the chop
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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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11 September 2017
West Ham midfielder Michael Antonio is refusing to panic, despite the club's poor start to the season.
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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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11 September 2017
Huddersfield Town striker Steve Mounie wants to create his own legacy amid comparisons with former Chelsea man Didier Drogba.
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11 September 2017
Slaven Bilic is under growing pressure at West Ham ahead of their Monday Night Football clash with Huddersfield Town at the London Stadium, but what's gone wrong for him?
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11 September 2017
What will happen when West Ham host Huddersfield in Monday Night Football? Paul Merson completes his round of predictions...
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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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10 September 2017
Diafra Sakho will be handed the chance to resurrect his West Ham career - and maybe ride to Slaven Bilic's rescue.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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10 September 2017
Terry Westley’s U23 side make the trip to face Leicester City in The PL2 tomorrow evening, as the starlets look to continue the fantastic start to our first ever season in The Premier League Two Division One. Whereas, the home side will be hoping to catch our youngsters on seven points and register a second victory of the season after overcoming Everton in their second outing of the campaign. When? The tie will take place on Monday...
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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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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 ...
Posted in Guardian.co.ukComments Off on Charities still waiting for millions raided to build West Ham stadium | Rachel Cain
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 ...
Posted in Guardian.co.ukComments Off on Newcastle fans fear Rafael Benítez is ready to answer West Ham’s £6m call | Louise Taylor
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