15 September 2016
West Ham’s stars Dimitri Payet and Sam Byram gave young cancer patient and huge Irons fan Jack Howard reason to smile with a Facetime call. Brave Jack is fighting kidney cancer and has been given weeks to live but his family is refusing to give up the battle as they bid to raise £250,000 to […]
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14 September 2016
By Dave Blackmore Blowing Bubbles Editor-in-chief David Gold has urged Slaven Bilic to be braver in the League and FA cups in a bid to give Hammers a day to remember at Wembley. In an exclusive interview with Blowing Bubbles magazine the co-chairman expressed his disappointment at exiting the Europa League before the group stages but […]
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14 September 2016
West Ham legend Paolo Di Canio has been suspended from his role as a Sky Italia pundit after showing on air a tattoo referring to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. The ex-West Ham striker revealed his tattoo of the word “dux” during their Premier League coverage on Sunday, prompting a protest on social media. The Latin word […]
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14 September 2016
West Ham believe the new radio wavelengths which will allow police to operate within the London Stadium to be in place for the next Class A game – against Arsenal on December 3. Much has been made of the inability to get things sorted out until December but a club source made it clear to […]
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14 September 2016
Andy Carroll has an outside chance of making Slaven Bilic’s squad for the match at West Brom on Saturday afternoon. The injury-ravaged striker is running again and may step up things before the weekend but our Hammers source said this morning: “There’s a chance of him making it but it is an outside one. “He […]
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14 September 2016
When I was a kid, I fell in love with West Ham. Before I even started to think about kissing girls, they were already and forever relegated to second in my infatuation, behind my beloved club. It wasn’t the performances on the pitch (not in the era of Morley and then Chapman as our strikers),
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14 September 2016
• Television station forced to apologise after offending viewers • Di Canio wore short-sleeved shirt which revealed tattoo Sky Sport Italia has suspended its relationship with the former West Ham and Lazio striker Paolo Di Canio after he presented a show revealing his “dux” tattoo. The 48-year-old has been working as a pundit on the television station in Italy and appeared in a short-sleeved shirt showing his tattoo which represents the former Fascist leader Benito Mussolini. After...
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14 September 2016
West Ham season ticket holder, Mark Gevaux better known as the Rib Man won the Best Street Food for his £7 pork rolls (“lovely piggy goodness”) he serves with his trademark Holy F##k sauce, which will soon be exported around the world. He shared the awards ceremony stage at the Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square on Monday night with a […]
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14 September 2016
Chelsea Striker and one time West Ham summer transfer target, Michy Batshuayi took an online swipe at a twitter account called @WestHamTransfer Batshuayi tweeted to his 308,000 followers that he was downloading PES (Pro Evolution Soccer 2017) in what looked like an obvious planted plug for the football game. The West Ham twitter account cheekily […]
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14 September 2016
West Ham Joint Chairman, David Gold has suggested one West Ham fan called Danny have a lie down after he suggested that the owners had sold our souls. Danny messaged the 80 year old chairman on twitter to say: “Been going to the Hammers since 1978. you have sold our soul, our club and a […]
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14 September 2016
Dimi Payet has defended his audacious rabona which led to the Michail Antonio goal against Watford and aused a furious reaction from Watford’s Toy Deeney. The Hornets player declared that his side were spurred on the belief that West Ham were reying to mug the visitors off but Payet denied that. He told the Irons official […]
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14 September 2016
An independent commission has ruled that the elbowing of Winston Reid by Aguero was a “brutal” incident that “clearly endangered the safety” of the Hammers player. Aguero earned a retrospective three-game ban for the action based on video evidence after the August 28 meeting between the two clubs. In written reasons published by the Football Association […]
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14 September 2016
Carlos Bacca’s agent Sergio Barila claims there were a number of offers on the table in the closing days of the summer transfer window, but Milan turned them all down. He told calciomercato.it: “West Ham? In the last week of the market, many offers arrived, and not only West Ham ones. At the end Milan said no.” Barila […]
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14 September 2016
• Panel say Manchester City player endangered safety of West Ham opponent • Striker remains banned for next two Premier League matches over incident An independent commission has ruled that the controversial elbowing of West Ham’s Winston Reid by the Manchester City striker Sergio Agüero in a Premier League match at the Etihad Stadium last month was a “brutal” incident that “clearly endangered the safety” of the Hammers player. Related: Sergio Agüero to miss Manchester ...
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14 September 2016
ClaretandHugh has learned that the little boy – seen so anxious and apparently worried at events unfolding during the Watford game – had only one problem…he couldn’t see the game! And the club has told us through our usual highly informed sources that he and his father have now been relocated in the Bobby Moore […]
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14 September 2016
West Ham believe the segregation issue which caused so many problems during the Watford game has been solved with an greement that six rows of seating instead of the present three will be introduced for forthcoming games. This is the first positive outcome between the club and operators as intensve talks go on to bring […]
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14 September 2016
Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero was banned for three games after a "brutal" incident that "clearly endangered the safety" of West Ham's Winston Reid, an independent commission ruled.
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14 September 2016
West Ham midfielder Dimitri Payet has defended his audacious rabona assist against Watford.
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14 September 2016
Our partners Hammers Chat have rapidly become the leading video makers on the West Ham scene and we are thrilled that they have been on board with us almost from Day One. In top man Gonzo they have a gifted producer who is passionate for this club and everybody within it – proud to have […]
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14 September 2016
Let’s get back to the football. Like you – no doubt – I have become seriously depressed following the events of the weekend to the point where I wanted to walk away for a week, come back and be told: “All the problems have gone away.” I have changed my view on where the faults […]
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14 September 2016
Tottenham are set to break their attendance record for a home game. But which Premier League club has hosted the biggest crowd?
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13 September 2016
The Irons have been criticised for signing too many attacking players over the summer and not enough defenders, and now Jamie Redknapp has had his say. Speaking to the Daily Mail, pundit Redknapp revealed what comic James Corden told him about the game, stating that he didn’t want rabonas, but wanted points instead. Redknapp attacked […]
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13 September 2016
A new statement by stadium operators London Stadium 185 appears to blame infighting amongst West Ham fans. The statement by London Stadium 185 read: “The safety of the Stadium is paramount and all safety plans are agreed in advance by the police and if there were any significant concerns the Stadium would not be licensed. “Saturday’s […]
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13 September 2016
Ex policeman and member of the ClaretandHugh Facebook Group Brian Neil Gay cannot believe what he is seeing inside the London Stadium and pulls no punches in this brilliant blog. I have supported the Irons since the late 60s but as someone involved in frontline policing back in the 80s and 90s including policing numerous […]
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13 September 2016
The Metropolitan Police maintain a lack of a 'satisfactory radio system' at West Ham's London Stadium is preventing additional special policing services being put in place on match days.
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13 September 2016
• Warnings over Airwave radio system at London Stadium go back two years • Trouble broke out at home match against Watford The Metropolitan police have responded to West Ham United’s demand for a police presence at the London Stadium by claiming the lack of a “satisfactory radio system” at the venue prevents them from implementing a special service on match days and that they highlighted this problem two years ago. West Ham called on E20, the London Stadium operators, to guarantee...
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