13 November 2016
ClaretandHugh is pleased to bring a new blogger to its readers today – long term Iron RICHARD IAN ORAM who has a near lifetime’ love of the club. Richard lives in Texas and says: “From the first time I went to Upton Park, they were my club. West Ham has a culture that I’ve never witnessed anywhere […]
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13 November 2016
Ashley Fletcher is demonstrating much patience and is hoping for more rewards as the Irons go in their relentless hunt for points. The young striker has looked good whenever we have had the chance to see him and was composed and mobile in his outing late against Stoke City. Now he wants more saying: “I didn’t […]
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13 November 2016
Reece Oxford is close to signing a new long-term contract at West Ham, according to Sky sources.
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13 November 2016
Just for the record the national media is repeating the story we brought you last week that Dimi Payet is going nowhere this winter. Despite speculation that our bad start to 2016/17 season might bring interest there has been none and the Mail declares: “Insiders have told Sportsmail that they will not allow themselves to […]
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13 November 2016
Our four international representatives enjoyed mixed fortunes in 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying yesterday. Republic of Ireland goalkeeper Darren Randolph and Italy striker Simone Zaza – were both victorious. However, Senegal’s Cheikhou Kouyate and Algeria winger Sofiane Feghouli were on the losing side in their respective qualifiers. Randolph was again impressive keeping a clean sheet […]
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13 November 2016
West Ham are reported this morning as having the 15th highest wages in world football. A report in the Mail claims that a global survey shows the Hammers bill at around £2.26 million or £43k a week. Manchester United are the highest paid at £110k a week and the Hammers are behind the likes of […]
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13 November 2016
Valencia have emerged as the latest club apparently ready to give Simone Zaza a route out of his West Ham hell. And sources close to the player are claiming his chances of success at the London Stadium were always going to prove immensely difficult given that he has never been played the lone striker role […]
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13 November 2016
West Ham will take a tough stance over Payet in after his apparent come-and-get-me plea to Paris Saint-Germain. Insiders have told Sportsmail they will not allow themselves to be pushovers.
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12 November 2016
West Ham target Tammy Abraham has dropped a heavy hint he may have to leave Chelsea to get top flight football. ClaretandHugh revelaed earlier last week that the Hammers were keenly scouting the 19 year old who has hit the net 12 times in 20 games at Bristol City on loan. He is one of […]
Posted in ClaretandHughComments Off on Hammers get message from Chelsea striker
12 November 2016
Julian Dicks – having regularly been overlooked as an international – reckons its par for the course that England bosses ignore West Ham players. He’s delighted to see Aaron Cresswell with the international squad but reckons the call up has been too long coming. He said: “It surprised me that he didn’t get a call-up […]
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12 November 2016
Pedro Obiang has insisted the squad “must keep the right mentaity over the international break” and he s entirely aware of that a visit to Spurs means to the fans. Speaking to the official site he said: “We were disappointed that we could not get the victory against Stoke but we have to keep the right […]
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12 November 2016
Dimi Payet has spoken out on the club’s poor form putting the entire problem down to confidence levels. Payet, who was a standout performer for West Ham last season, admits his team-mates are struggling to get going and the confidence levels are really low right now. After scoring the winner against Sweden for France last […]
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12 November 2016
Interesting news out of Spurs this morning is that midfielder Dele Ali is likely to miss next weekend’s game against the Irons after twisting his knee in training last week. The 20 year old was preparing to face Arsenal when he sustained the injury, with boss Mauricio Pochettino saying he’d be out for a few weeks. […]
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12 November 2016
Karren Brady has a theory …yes I know, I know! Writing in her Sun diary ths week she starts from the premise that us fans are wondering why the team’s results are not as good as the team itself. She also claims that Slaven bought a lot of players in the summer and claims the settling-in time […]
Posted in ClaretandHughComments Off on Karren expects form “surge!”
12 November 2016
Another week and another spectacular result. Yes, the mighty Hammers have a lot to celebrate with the spectacular win over Stoke. A result that is up there with our three FA Cups and the European Cup Winners Cup success. What win I hear you ask? Well, clearly you are out of touch with our own […]
Posted in ClaretandHughComments Off on The joy has gone…it feels a chore – but we’ll keep on going because it’s what us fans are all about
12 November 2016
It’s been a far less interesting international break than the previous one in which the Hammers dominated the headlines following fall-out from the notorious Players Night Out!. You will remember of course that this was down to the restaurant meeting which folowed the Middlesborough game when Andy Carroll and Darren Randoplh were accused of being […]
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12 November 2016
The imminent release of Gokhan Tore and Simone Zaza is set to release a big wage bonus with which the Irons can play in the January window. Tore’s farwell now looks nailed on with the Hammers surrendering the £2.5 million loan fee in favour of a £40k a week salary saving and Zaza all but […]
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11 November 2016
Dimitri Payet and Paul Pogba scored as France came from behind to earn a valuable win against Sweden in World Cup qualifying on Friday evening.
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11 November 2016
Dimitri Payet was again performing heroics tonight (Fri) as France came from behind to win their World Cup qualifying match against Sweden. Payet found the net from close range with 25 minutes remaining to ensure the Swedes were seen off and Frace stayed top of European Group A. Les Bleus had fallen behind in the […]
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11 November 2016
Simone Zaza’s father/agent Antonio has finally admitted what we all knew – that his declaration we would have to sign the striker after ten games was wrong! He was quoted in the Italian Press on October 5 as saying that the deal included the provision that after 14 games we had to sign the front […]
Posted in ClaretandHughComments Off on Zaza snr changes his script and gets it wrong again!
11 November 2016
Huge guffaws of laughter rang around the CandH offices yesterday when we read that the LS operators are allegedly considering asking the Irons for a contribution towards the increased costs of policing at the London Stadium. Apparently, because of the entirely unforseen possibility that the security they had put in place – and for which they are […]
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11 November 2016
Darren Randolph has repeated his pledge to make life as difficult as possible for Adrian as he pursues a first team spot. Earlier this week he was in the media expressing his frustration but promising not to be knocking on the manager’s door …just yet anyway. But in a new interview he has explained his […]
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11 November 2016
A new era, they said. Champions League football, they said. So it wasn’t going to happen overnight and, regardless of the woeful start to this season, this is certainly a new era at the club and there the future still could involve Champions League involvement. But before we continue to dream big, we must go […]
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11 November 2016
Sputhend United boss Phil Brown has revealed that former West Ham United attacker Zavon Hines is training with the League One outfit. Hines, 27, came through the West Ham youth system and went on to make 22 league appearances for the club before joining Burnley in the summer of 2011. The former England Under-21 international has […]
Posted in ClaretandHughComments Off on Former Hammer may get a new chance
11 November 2016
Fiorentina are back on the trail of Pedro Obiang. The Serie A outfit have been casting envious eyes in the midfielder’s direction almost from the day he joined the Irons but have little or no chance of wooing the player away. After media reports had surfaced in Corriere dello Sport that he was very much the […]
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11 November 2016
Watch as West Ham's Michail Antonio looks back at his career so far with the help of some iconic photographs.
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