Five Beatiful Payet Free Kicks
04 April 2016
All five Dimitri Payet Free kicks this season courtesy of @WestHam_social Dimitri Payet – Free-Kick Artist#WeveGotPayethttps://t.co/YOUfXK2jsY — West Ham Social (@WestHamSocial) April 4, 2016 Share This:
04 April 2016
All five Dimitri Payet Free kicks this season courtesy of @WestHam_social Dimitri Payet – Free-Kick Artist#WeveGotPayethttps://t.co/YOUfXK2jsY — West Ham Social (@WestHamSocial) April 4, 2016 Share This:
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04 April 2016
A bumper collection of great strikes and skills from around the world, featuring Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Hatem Ben Arfa, Javier Hernández, Suso and Dean Ashton Continue reading...
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04 April 2016
Teamtalk.com say West Ham have come off worst from referee decisions this season with just four decisions going our way which we didn’t deserve but a massive thirteen incorrect decisions against us which. The table leaves us nine decisions adrift while Manchester United and Leicester City top the table with seven more decisions in their […]
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04 April 2016
Winston Reid has pledged the squad will brush themselves down after the latest refereeing decision to go against the Irons and “get on with it.” The central defender admitted: “You always get frustrated with decisions, but at the end of the day the referee has made it and then that’s it, you can’t do anything about […]
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04 April 2016
West Ham will not make the loan signings of Alex Song, Victor Moses and Emmanuel Emenike permanent in the summer, according to Sky sources.
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04 April 2016
Sam Byram and James Collins are set to join the squad which takes on Arsenal at the weekend. And that looks likely to seethe signing from Leeds and fit again James Tomkins battling it out for the right sided defensive role with Michail Antonio being pushed into his attacking midfield role. Collins has been missing […]
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04 April 2016
West Ham defender Winston Reid says his side were unfortunate not to take all three points from last Saturday's home game against Crystal Palace.
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04 April 2016
Saturday afternoon saw Crystal Palace put seven men in their wall to protect them from a famous Payet free kick when a more usual amount for a mere mortal would be four or five. Teams have become extremely wary that a free kick awarded to West Ham within 35 yards is almost like having a […]
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04 April 2016
Should Southampton have had a penalty? Should Cheikhou Kouyate have been sent off? Should Norwich have had their winner disallowed? Should Gareth Bale's El Clasico goal have stood?
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04 April 2016
David Gold has called for future technology to be introduced to the Premier League as soon as possible to stop the big mistakes like the Kouyate sending off on Saturday. Gold told ClaretandHugh: “Nobody wants to see this and it is happening to us week after week. “I have called in the past for a […]
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04 April 2016
Emmanuel Emenike’s £8 million price tag demonstrates the extent to which inflation in the game will continue to grow this summer. The Irons will allow the striker to return to his parent club Fenerbahce at the end of the season as they bid to hold onto ever penny for the £20m-£25 million they are planning […]
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04 April 2016
This video says it all. Chris Kamara and Jeff Stelling can’t believe Cheik Kouyate sending off by Mark Clattenburg Share This:
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04 April 2016
Slaven Bilic again demonstrated perfectly the art of diplomacy in referee handling after another horrible sending off. Carefully watching his tongue the Irons boss declared: “It is never a red card, for me personally is not even a yellow card. In England maybe not even a foul it was a 50/50 challenge. “We have every right […]
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04 April 2016
Slaven Bilic has spoken of the fitness concerns over Dimi Payet during the game against Crystal Palace. The brilliant French international scored another sensational free kick to take hisset piece to goals conversion rate to 50 per cent. But afterwards the manager said: ““It was a brilliant goal. I expected him to try and bend […]
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04 April 2016
GRAHAM POLL: West Ham's run of bad luck with refereeing decisions continued with a harsh red card for Cheikhou Kouyate. It appeared to swing the balance against Crystal Palace.
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03 April 2016
• West Ham will appeal against Cheikhou Kouyaté’s red card in 2-2 draw • Alan Pardew plays numbers game with Crystal Palace squad over lack of win Slaven Bilic does not want his players to look up or down. He does not want them studying the fixture list. West Ham United’s manager will be happy as long as they relax, play with passion and quality and, as the old cliche goes, take each game as it comes. “You can’t approach it differently,...
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03 April 2016
Exclusive Regular readers will know us over here at ClaretandHugh aren’t big on stats – news is more our scene! But because we are about to reveal the truth on Dimitri Payet’s amazing free kicks we are happy to make an exception. They show a pretty extraordinary conversion rate from free kicks to goals since […]
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03 April 2016
Re-cyled reports in The Sun that the Hammers are interested in Watford’s Odion Ighalo is “on West Ham’s list for a big-name striker” are entirely wrong. The Hammers were interested earlier in the season and even made an inquiry which is presumably where this report has been resurrected from. But ClaretandHugh, when inquiring as to whether […]
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03 April 2016
West Ham intend to go ahead with the appeal against Cheik Kouyate’s red card despite Slave Bilic being fed up with FA appeals. ClaretandHugh was the first to beak the news that an appeal was on the way against Mark Clattenbourg’s game-changing decision against Palace. And this morning David gold -currently holding an open day […]
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03 April 2016
Aaron Cresswell has labelled West Ham team-mate Dimitri Payet as the best set-piece taker in the world.
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03 April 2016
The West Ham boss said Kouyate's challenge on Palace substitute Dwight Gayle was not even worthy of a yellow card. Bilic successfully appealed the same player's dismissal at Blackburn in February.
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03 April 2016
Exclusive David Gold believes Dimi Payet has already become a West Ham legend. He doesn’t share the view that you need to be at a club for a certain length of time to inherit such status declaring: “If you do something legendary it will always be remembered.” Speaking exlsuively to ClaretandHugh he said: “Dimi has […]
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03 April 2016
Aaron Cresswell makes no bones about – he reckons Dimi Payet i the best free taker in the world. Speaking to www.whufc.com of yesterday’s latest amazing shots he said: “I will put Dimi up there as the best free-kick taker in the world at the moment. I was standing right behind him and the ball looked […]
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03 April 2016
There’s an old saying that goes: “Once is an accident, twice maybe coincidence but after that you have more sinister thoughts!” The bundling of Darren Randolph into the Manchester United net which led to an FA Cup equaliser and a replay may therefore have been an accident, but the penalty that never was against Chelsea […]
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03 April 2016
Alan Pardew’s verdict after the game was “‘The free-kick was extraordinary. It looked unsaveable.’ Courtesy Mail on Line Share This:
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