12 October 2016
Injuries and loss of form have seen Slaven Biic play 20 different players in his first team since the start of the season – only two less than Sunderland. The decision to shuffle the options so regularly are the sign of a struggling team and only four players – Adrian, Mark Noble, Cheik Kouyate and Michail […]
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12 October 2016
The Stratford Express vanished in 2011 but, in its heyday, it sold 80,000 copies a week and produced some of Fleet Street’s finest... (possibly) John Fryer was the first journalist to drive through the Dartford Tunnel. Roddy Gilchrist watched a sub-editor wipe his nose with his copy. Trevor Bond wrote one of the all-time great headlines. Jill Palmer was sent home by her news editor for wearing thigh-high white boots. Ken Chandler got on ...
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12 October 2016
The Hammers left their Upton Park home at the end of last season to take up residence in the former Olympic Stadium, but the move has been blighted by poor form and supporter unrest.
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12 October 2016
Simone Zaza could be at the centre of a tug of war between Valencia and Naples should West Ham choose to close hs loan deal in January. The Italy international from Juventus has been in a shocking form and ClaretandHugh reported a few days ago that the Irons could end his stay in the next […]
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12 October 2016
Martin Samuelsen scored his first full international goal for Norway last night and drew praise for his performance from far and wide. The teenager was hailed as the next great West Ham thing when he arrived at the club from Manchester City’s youth academy but has had little chance to make his presence felt on […]
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12 October 2016
Slaven Bilic will wait until the lst minute before deciding his striker option for the match at Selhurst Park this weekend. The club are clearly monitoring the number of appearances Simone Zaza makes as he heads towards the widely reported number of 14 which it has been reported is when the £20 million permanent deal […]
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12 October 2016
An investigation into a players night put is being kept under wraps by the club. West Ham board’s has left the internal probe into claims that three or more players pulled an all-nighter following a club sanctioned night out in the hands of Slaven Bilic to investigate and deal with as he sees fit. A […]
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12 October 2016
This eclectic bunch come in all shapes and sizes: An heiress, an oil baron, a printing mogul, a one-time blue movie producer, an Egyptian runaway, an online gambling pioneer and many, many more.
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12 October 2016
ADAM SHERGOLD: From Nos 60-41 in our countdown, there are a number of players who impressed at Euro 2016, and a certain Raheem Sterling takes his place in the list.
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12 October 2016
Dimi Payet has been named the world’s 43rd best player in a current survey. The Daily Mail is running the feature on the top 100 stars and today Dimi is ranked – ahead of such as Philipe Coutinho (44th), Harry Keane (45th) and Riyad Mahrez (51st). In the write-up on the midfielder the Mail says: […]
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12 October 2016
David Gold has hailed the talent of youngster Martin Samuelsen, who scored his first goal for Norway on Tuesday night. The 19-year-old, who is currently loan at Championship club Blackburn Rovers, helped his country avoid a potential upset against minnows San Marino, who had pegged Norway to 1-1 with only their third competitive goal since
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12 October 2016
On-loan striker Jonathan Calleri has explained why he is yet to make a positive contribution to West Ham’s stuttering start to the 16/17 season. The Argentine joined on loan from Deportivo Maldonado in the summer but has made only four Premier League appearances so far this season, and it yet to find the back of
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12 October 2016
Michail Antonio was again ignored by Engand manager manager Gareth Southgate as the national team played out an embarrassing goal-less draw against Slovenia last night. The West Ham winger and top English goal scorer this season has now joined England on three occasions and been ignored each time leaving Irons fans deeply unimpressed. Ironically it […]
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11 October 2016
Here is a brief summary of the meeting last Saturday held at the Hammers Supporters Club. The update has been sent to ClaretandHugh by the organisers of the meeting. There was broad agreement to work to two aims – 1. Secure the future of the Hammers Supporters Club (HSC), recruiting new members and seeking new […]
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11 October 2016
• Former ladies’ chairman Stephen Hunt accused club of refusing funding • Karren Brady: ‘Today marks the next step in future of West Ham women’s football’ West Ham United have taken full control of their women’s team after claims of discrimination. The team’s former chairman, Stephen Hunt, accused West Ham of refusing to provide funding for the women players, who play in the Premier League Southern Division , and even forcing them to pay...
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11 October 2016
Thank God there have been no knee jerk reactions inside West Ham. A media frenzy got underway today with names such as Mancini being thrown around …Guus Hiddink is another I’ve heard. Neither are going to replace Slav anytime soon or at all. Sacking managers has become a national pastime. It rarely works and can […]
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11 October 2016
People are always moaning about our players, so which, (if any!), of England’s ‘best’ would you want? Share This:
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11 October 2016
Supporters of West Ham are quite rightly growing frustrated with the club’s apparent lack of awareness, as disappointment following the decision to move the club from it’s historic Boleyn Ground to the Olympic Stadium this summer continues to grow among the fanbase. A below-par start to the season leaves the Hammers looking like potential relegation
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11 October 2016
Sofiane Feghoui has made it clear the players are giving the reasons for their poor start to the season a lot of thought and discussion. And the Algerian winger has explained: “We have suffered due to a series of injuries to some key players. So that alone has caused us some issues at the start […]
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11 October 2016
David Sullivan has made it clear the team has to get something from the Crystal Palace match at the weekend. He told the official site: “Palace have started the season well but we have to get something, and I expect us to get something, from the game. We had a great result at Selhurst Park […]
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11 October 2016
Last week we launched an online petition to call for the end of the Premium Rate ticket office telephone number which costs supporters up to 68p per minute to call from mobiles. The petition (linked below) has already been signed by 400 supporters and many of them have left comments on the problems have have […]
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11 October 2016
A shock claim has been made that that “half the free tickets for West Ham United home matches distributed by Newham Council have gone to their own employees.” The claim comes on kumb.com where a story alleges that “from a total of 5,970 tickets handed out thus far by the Council as part of their […]
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11 October 2016
Dmitri Payet has sent a message to his West Ham team-mates following France’s victory over the Netherlands in their World Cup qualifier on Monday night. After a brilliant performance he was keen to send a word concerning unity declaring on Instagram: “Tous ensemble on est plus fort 💪🏽 Together we are better 💪🏽 @equipedefrance@westham #teamboumbam #fiersdetrebleus #8 […]
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11 October 2016
Slaven Bilic’s position is managing to create something of a media frenzy at a quiet time for club news. Soon after we reported that the Hammers boss will be given time to sort out the team’s current slump fortunes reports arose in Italy that Roberto Mancini may be a runner in any replacement race. But as […]
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11 October 2016
Gareth Southgate faces his second game in charge this evening, surpassing Sam Allardyce’s tenure as England manager. Michail Antonio was called up by Sam Allardyce for his one and only game in charge, the World Cup qualifying win over Slovakia but was disappointed after becoming an unused sub. Antonio was again in Southgate’s England squad […]
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11 October 2016
Stephen Hunt accused the club of refusing to provide funding for the team, who play in the Women's Premier League Southern Division, and even forcing players to pick up their own medical bills.
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