22 February 2016
ClaretandHugh invited readers to send their memories of the Boleyn as the old lady clears her throat for the final farewell. Follower David Edwards will bring a lump to the throats of many as he recalls his days as a Hammer. Please send your memories to claretandhugh@gmail.com. Dave writes: . Standing in the old […]
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22 February 2016
West Ham has rejected offers for Hammers academy youngster Marcus Browne to go out on loan, according to reports this afternoon. The 18-year-old is yet to make his first-team debut for West Ham but has been has played regularly for under-21’s and under 18’s. In recent weeks he has been training with the first team […]
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22 February 2016
Winston Reid has rejoined the first team squad and is expected to be available for the spikey little affair against Sunderland at the weekend. And word from the training camp is that Sam Allardyce could be confronted with Andy Carroll on whom he splashed an incredible £17 million when he was Irons boss to make […]
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22 February 2016
Former Referee Graham Poll believes West Ham have a very good chance of appealing Cheikhou Kouyate’s red card he received at Ewood park on Sunday. Kouyate was shown a straight red card for a last-man professional foul on Adam Henley on the edge of the box during the Hammers 5-1 over Blackburn. “West Ham must have […]
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22 February 2016
West Ham goalkeeper Raphael Spiegel has signed a contract extension which will keep him at the club until 2018.
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22 February 2016
West Ham have announced that third choice keeper Raphael Spiegel has signed a two-year extension to his contract with an option for a further two years. The Switzerland international has put pen to paper on a new deal which will see him stay at the Boleyn Ground until 2018 with an option until 2020. The 23-year-old […]
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22 February 2016
Defender James Collins believes West Ham have the attacking options to fire them to FA Cup glory after their 5-1 victory against Championship side Blackburn in the fifth round on Sunday.
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22 February 2016
After Slaven Bilic said he needs poetry lessons to describe Dimitri Payet's brilliance, we asked you for your footballing prose.
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22 February 2016
Did your team live up to expectations with their FA Cup performance at the weekend?
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22 February 2016
Dimi Payet has convinced everybody in English football that he’s a superstar. However, getting the message through to his national team coach Didir Deschamps appears to be something of a problem. Dimi has now scored nine goals and set up eight others for the Irons this season but Deschamps has yet to be convinced. The […]
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22 February 2016
West Ham chairman David Gold believes the club have a better than 50/50 chance of appealing Kouyate’s red card and subsequent one match ban for a professional foul. Gold insisted that the Blackburn player wasn’t going to get the ball so it wasn’t a goal scoring opportunity. Gold tweeted “I think we have a very […]
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22 February 2016
Tony Cottee is delighted that his managerial choice – Slaven Bilic – is taking West Ham by storm. The former Hammers striker is far too humble to start claiming he told us so but his prediction on this site that Slav would bring on the good times. And he told ClaretandHugh exclusively: “Make no mistake […]
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22 February 2016
A number of West Ham supporters became stranded in the Midlands over night as their official club No.7 coach broke down twice on the way home from the 5-1 FA cup win over Blackburn Rovers. Hammers fan and actor Ellis McFarland left the Boleyn ground at 6.15am Sunday morning to make the trip to Ewood […]
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22 February 2016
David Sullivan has cleared up any lingering confusion over the identity of the Boleyn Ground’s last ever visiting team. He has told ClaretandHugh: “The league match against Manchester United could now become the last game to ever be held at Upton Park.” United meet Shrewsbury this evening and should they win either the Hammers or […]
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22 February 2016
West Ham are theoretically entitled to an away allocation of 11,345 tickets, being 15% of Old Trafford’s 75,635 seating capacity should they overcome Shrewsbury Town in the FA Cup fifth round this evening. However, Claret and Hugh now understands that Manchester United has a special dispensation this season with the FA which limits the maximum percentage to […]
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22 February 2016
You have to love the cup, above are Shrewsbury Town fans queuing for tixs against Man U. When the draw was made I found myself cheering for Man U simply because old habits die hard. In the good old days we’d consider Shrewsbury a tough draw, but this isn’t the West Ham of old. When I think about it now you’d want them I suppose over Man U in a quarter final even...
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22 February 2016
West Ham will appeal against the red card shown to Cheikhou Kouyate's during Sunday's FA Cup win at Blackburn.
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22 February 2016
The 5-1 win over Blackburn Rovers yesterday earned West Ham £180,000 in prize money from the FA as winners of the fifth round proper, together with £247,500 to have the game screened live on BT Sport. We also received a 42% cut of the Ewood Park gate money with and attendance of 18,793 earning a further £158,000, […]
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22 February 2016
West Ham will appeal the red card picked up by Cheikhou Kouyate during Sunday's 5-1 win over Blackburn in the FA Cup.
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22 February 2016
Thrilled and loving it. Hammers fans have been responding to the amazing win at Blackburn yesterday on the the ClaretandHugh Facebook group @https://www.facebook.com/groups/363174467150521/. Here’s what they have to say about one of our greatest Cup victories ever. O Says a lot about us, when you can name plenty of players who did a great job […]
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22 February 2016
Willy Caballero is too much of a risk for Manchester City to play in Capital One Cup final while Nabil Bentaleb’s Tottenham season may now be all but over With all the focus on Manuel Pellegrini’s team selection, the post-match reaction to the heaviest defeat in Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi era largely overlooked the fact that some of the least impressive performances came from their senior players. Martín Demichelis was once a centre-half of high reputation ...
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22 February 2016
David Gold believes the club has an outstanding chance of getting Chiek Kouyate’s red card overturned. The co chairman is a cautious man in making big judgement calls of this kind but is clearly pretty well assured in his mind that the possibility of an FA fine is well worth the risk on this occasion. […]
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21 February 2016
David Gold has tonight confirmed the club plan to appeal Chiek Kouyate’s red card. The all action Irons midfielder was sent off after the referee adjudged that he was guilty of a trip which denied Blackburn the opportunity of goal scoring opportunity. But to put it mildly it was a decision which was highly dubious […]
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21 February 2016
We have a guest ratings expert on board tonight – ClaretandHugh FB Group member Sean Oakley – welcome aboard mate …you can take the flak for a change Randolph: Couldn’t do anything about first goal couldn’t do anything about their goal and didn’t have much to do after that 7 Antonio: Stepped in at right back […]
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21 February 2016
Exclusive Chairman David Sullivan has made no attempt to disguise his bitter disappointment at seeing the Irons again clobbered with another away draw. After a great win over Blackburn Rovers everybody was hoping for a Boleyn quarter final bonanza. Instead we are on our our way to either Manchester United or Shrewsbury. […]
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