20 March 2017
Reece Oxford’s experience will be vital as England’s under 19s go for qualification in the UEFA European Championship Finals over the next few days according to England U19 manager Keith Downing. The youngsters face Norway, Spain and Belarus in the UEFA Elite Round Qualifiers with the group winners advancing to the tournament in Georgia this summer. […]
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20 March 2017
Slaven Bilic has seen his odds nearly halved of being the next boss to lose his job. Back to back defeats and and quite probably the new injury crisis has influenced Sky Bet to slash his odds from 40/1 against getting the chop to 22/1 – fifth favourite. Bookies odds better than any other yardstick […]
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20 March 2017
We’re only a few months away until the season ends and the transfer rumours will soon be gathering pace. But should West Ham secure the services of this youngster before the window opens to prevent gazumping by another club? The striker I’m talking about is Bayern Leverkusen’s Joel Pohjanpalo. On Saturday 10th September 2016, I […]
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20 March 2017
Slaven Bilic appears to have three midfield options to partner the now clearly returning Mark Noble when we go into action against Hull City in a fortnight’s time. He will be looking at Edmilson Fernandes, Havard Nortveidt or Cheik Kouyate as his options and one can only hope that he returns ‘Ginge’ to the back […]
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20 March 2017
Under-fire West Ham boss Slaven Bilic has been defended by struggling Hammers star Jose Fonte following the defeat at home to Leicester City in the Premier League at the weekend. The 3-2 defeat to the Foxes means Bilic’s men are without a win in five top flight outings. And fans were critical of the manager and his team after seeing them go 2-0 down after just seven minutes at the London Stadium and failing to turn things around. But Fonte, who ...
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20 March 2017
The 2016/17 season has been a difficult one to digest for West Ham fans. After what was a hugely successful and emotional 15/16 campaign, which marked the final season at the Boleyn Ground, expectations were high heading in to what was supposed to an exciting new era at London Stadium. However, a disappointing transfer window last […]
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20 March 2017
West Ham drop into 12th place in the league table courtesy of a 3-2 loss to Leicester but are still only outside the top half on goal difference. It is now three defeats in a row for the Hammers and five games without a win. Leicester move to within three points of West Ham but stay in 15th place. That win was their third in a row in the league and they have now scored nine goals in three games since changing manager...
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20 March 2017
Sitting in my seat approximately 200 miles away from the pitch at the London Stadium for yesterday’s game against Leicester City, even I could see we cannot defend. The clause in the contract which states that West Ham must give the opposition at least a 1 goal lead in the first 5 minutes of a match also needs to be taken out. As we all know, football is a relatively easy game to ...
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20 March 2017
Should mid-season manager sackings be banned? Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville said he would support the idea that managers could not be sacked during a campaign.
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20 March 2017
"It's a little bit like me advising Lionel Messi on how he can improve his performance and where he went wrong."
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20 March 2017
West Ham have been hit by the worst possible injury crisis as it emerged this morning that we have suffered a TRIPLE injury blow. Pedro Obiang is ruled out for the rest of the season and Michail Antonio and Winston Reid are set to miss the next month. Obiang was stretchered off against Leicester City before […]
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20 March 2017
Obiang, 24, appeared to roll his ankle during the 3-2 defeat and was carried off. West Ham saw Winston Reid depart with an adductor injury and lost Michail Antonio to a hamstring issue.
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20 March 2017
Jose Fonte has come in for some regular moaning over recent weeks but the central defender is the first to admit that he’s not found life easy at the club. He arrived as a Euro 2016 winner but claims it’s time we forgot about that and that he simply gets on with getting it together […]
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20 March 2017
Just when you though this season couldn’t get any worse, it does. Poor results, difficulties with the new stadium, players playing out of position and several under-par performances from players, it’s fair to say 16/17 hasn’t been the best season West Ham have had. And now, just two days after the disappointing home defeat to […]
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20 March 2017
Everton striker Romelu Lukaku has topped the Sky Sports Power Rankings this week.
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20 March 2017
Was James Milner lucky not to give away a penalty? Should Tom Huddlestone have seen red for Hull at Everton?
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20 March 2017
Slaven Bilic has again given a details reaction to the defeat by Leicester City and is determined to tighten the defence against sloppy set piece defending. Addressing the Foxes goals he said: “We weren’t open in that first half. We’re not talking about counter-attacking, and four-against-three. “We’re talking about the first goal, we were behind [the […]
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20 March 2017
Slaven Bilic will need to wait until January or summer of next year to discover whether he will get a new deal from the West Ham board. He needs a top ten finish to ENSURE he remains in charge at the end of this term but only a complete collapse of results will see him […]
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20 March 2017
Sky Sports News HQ 's Geraint Hughes kicks off Support The Ref week with a look at attitudes towards Premier League officials. An exclusive study reveals some surprising results...
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20 March 2017
Michail Antonio has withdrawn from the England squad for the games against Germany and Lithuania after suffering a hamstring injury.
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19 March 2017
The FA have confirmed that Michail Antonio has withdrawn from the England squad for the upcoming matches against Germany and Lithuania.
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19 March 2017
Claret and Hugh Associate Editor, Sean Whetstone was asked by the BBC to speak about the future of Slaven Bilic as West Ham manager on the Sunday Sport show on BBC London radio on Sunday evening. Slaven has come under further pressure after a third defeat in a row and only one win in seven. […]
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19 March 2017
Winston Reid’s injury problem leaves me feeling very anxious on several fronts. Those close to the situation believe he could easily be out for several weeks as we approach a really difficult run in against the likes of Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs and Everton along with others which will prove very difficult. Should the injury turn […]
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19 March 2017
Winston Reid looks to be out for some time if early reports of the injury he suffered against Leicester City prove accurate. The defender went off early in the first half aided by two of the backroom staff and the signs immediately looked awful and ensured he would be absent from the upcoming international against […]
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19 March 2017
West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan has told manager Slaven Bilic he must find a way to shore up the leaky defence that is causing West Ham woe. Sullivan apologised to Hammers supporters following the 3-2 reverse against Premier League champions Leicester City at the London Stadium. And then he called on Bilic to get to the bottom of the defensive problems that saw the visitors 2-0 up after just seven minutes in...
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19 March 2017
David Sullivan has apologised to West Ham's fans following the 3-2 defeat at home to Leicester. He now admits West Ham's next three games are 'vital' as they try to arrest their slide
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