02 March 2016
Speaking to Sky Sports, Charlie Nicholas has predicted things could boil over on the pitch with a high chance of a player being sent off. Nicholas told Sky: “West Ham would love nothing more than to dent Tottenham’s title aspirations and they will be greeted by a really aggressive atmosphere in East London. “Their players thrive on […]
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02 March 2016
West Ham Chairman David Gold has confirmed 6,000 extra seats at Olympic Stadium could be ready for this coming In response to our story yesterday Gold confirmed on twitter: “Yes, it’s possible that the capacity of the new stadium will rise to 60,000 for the start of the new season. dg” He also confirmed […]
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02 March 2016
West Ham midfielder Dimitri Payet is happy with his debut Premier League campaign but has brushed off claims he is the signing of the season. The 28-year-old has been a revelation.
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02 March 2016
Dimitri Payet has downplayed suggestions he's the signing of the season by hailing N'Golo Kante's impact at Leicester.
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02 March 2016
The statue of West Ham's World Cup winning heroes has been boarded up for Wednesday night's derby with Spurs.
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02 March 2016
One of the biggest debates surrounding West Ham in recent years is whether Mark Noble deserves an England call up or not. If you’re like me then you’ll be banging the ‘Noble for England’ drum until the day you die, but there are just as many West Ham fans who don’t believe he’s good enough.
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02 March 2016
Dimi Payet has confirmed that Slaven Bilic and the prospect of playing at the Olympic Stadium were the motivating reasons for him joining the Irons and agreeing a new deal at the club. As he prepared to take on Spurs at the Bolyen tonight, Dimi has been discussing all things West Ham. Speaking to the […]
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02 March 2016
West Ham will finally tie up the deal for Manu Lanzini at the beginning of next month. The brilliant midfielder’s injury problem have put the signing date back but the club are ready to do the deal at the start of April The fee of £8 million has been agreed and a source told Claret […]
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02 March 2016
The West Ham star is pleased with his debut campaign in the Premier League but insists Leicester City's N'Golo Kante has made more of an impact
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02 March 2016
This is a tough one but it’s the sort of game from which we must take something if we are going to fulfil those top six ambitions we’ve heard about all season long. And let’s recall the words of that old song as far as the Irons are concerned tonight: “When the going gets tough, […]
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02 March 2016
Security has been ramped up around Upton Park ahead of Wednesday's seismic London derby between West Ham and Tottenham.
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02 March 2016
West Ham fans have hailed Dimirti Payet as better than his French compatriot Zinedine Zidane and will hope he can inspire them to victory over rivals Tottenham on Wednesday night.
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01 March 2016
On Monday we asked you “Who would get your Hammer of the year vote based on performances to date this season?” A massive 1,710 of you responded to the poll. Unsurprisingly 947 of you representing 55.38% says Dimitri Payet should be crowned Hammer of the year this season! However an encouraging 18.83% (322 people) disagreed […]
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01 March 2016
Spurs head to West Ham United on Wednesday for the first of two crunch derby matches this week One by one, the Tottenham Hotspur players came across to shake Daniel Levy by the hand. The club’s chairman was bemused, to the point where he turned to Mauricio Pochettino and asked him whether it was a new rule he had implemented. The manager smiled. It had started out as a rule but ...
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01 March 2016
Newham council have taken the unusual step of boarding up the World Cup Sculpture on the corner of Green street ahead of Wednesday evening’s London derby against Spurs. The bronze statue featuring Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters and Ray Wilson has been protected with wooden boards over concerns it could be vandalised by Spurs fans […]
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01 March 2016
Claret and Hugh are hearing as yet unconfirmed reports that Victor Moses picked up a knock in training today and is now a doubt for tomorrow’s London derby game against Spurs. Michail Antonio is likely to be asked to fulfil a right back role again tomorrow with Sam Byram suspended and Joey O’Brien and James Tomkins […]
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01 March 2016
Spurs are the Premier League title favourites, according to Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri. They are two points behind leaders Leicester with 11 games remaining. “Tottenham are strong in every situation,” said Ranieri today “Everyone is speaking about Leicester but nobody about Tottenham,” he said. “Tottenham, in my opinion, are favourites. When they defend and when […]
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01 March 2016
As part of BBC Sport Relief, West ham fan James Corden’s character ‘Smithy’ pokes fun at Spurs and asks why anyone would pay money to watch Tottenham as he runs for FIFA president. West Ham legend Geoff Hurst also features on the sketch. Smithy says:“I heard a story the other day where a ticket to […]
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01 March 2016
Jermaine Jenas has revealed that it was 'carnage' for Tottenham before and during their defeat at West Ham on the final day of the 2005-06 season due to food poisoning.
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01 March 2016
Campaign group Boleyn Development 100 want all the properties built on the site of the Boleyn Ground to be 100% social housing, in response to the lack of affordable homes available in Newham and to turn the former football pitch into a public park. “It’s a massive plot of land, and there’s a housing crisis […]
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01 March 2016
Former Hammer Modibo Maiga scored a great solo goal for Al Nassr im the Asian Champions League today. Maïga has scored just two goals in the Saudi championship since joining from West Ham last summer. During his debut in the Asian Champions League today he scored the only goal of the game to seal victory. […]
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01 March 2016
We have gone through the season with numerous amounts of injuries and the club are about to start a very compact week of football with difficult games coming up that will have a massive influence on where West Ham finish in the league. These games are the mid-week game against Spurs then rounding off with West Ham’s bogey team Everton. It is therefore vital that two of our injured players...
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01 March 2016
The Argentine coach says his team do not feel like they are in the best position to win the Premier League this term but is happy with the way they are improving
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01 March 2016
Premier League clubs are set to meet on Wednesday 23rd March for one of their regular shareholder meetings and away ticket prices will be on the agenda again. At the last Premier League shareholders meeting in February it was reported that 12 or 13 clubs were in favour of a £30 away cap on tickets. If […]
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01 March 2016
Oulala.com have compared one the world’s most expensive signings to the bargain buy of Dimitri Payet to see how the two stack up against each other. Payet cost West Ham £10.7 million to become the signing of the season. In just 19 league appearances this season, the French international has created an impressive 67 chances. The majority […]
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01 March 2016
Sam Ford, who scored against Wolverhampton Wanderers just 12 minutes into his development squad debut, has agreed a deal with West Ham until June 2017 with an option for an extra year.
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