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21 February 2016
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21 February 2016
West Ham United took advantage of a Blackburn Rovers implosion after Chris Taylor was needlessly sent off to secure passage into the FA Cup quarter-finals. As Paul Lambert, the Rovers manager, said: “I thought for 55 minutes we were very good. The sending-off kills us, it opens the game up. It’s hard enough against 11, let alone 10.” Continue reading...
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21 February 2016
Slaven Bilic accepts that Dimi Payet and Manu Lanzini will get the headlines but declared: “It’s all about the team.” The thrilled manager said: “After the first 2o minutes we made it look easy but it wasn’t. Blackburn are a big club and a good team but our performance was very special. “The team created […]
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21 February 2016
The two forwards helped to fire the Hammers into the sixth round in an entertaining game that saw both sides have men sent off
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21 February 2016
The two forwards helped to fire the Hammers into the sixth round of the FA Cup in an entertaining game that saw both sides have men sent off
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21 February 2016
West Ham came from a goal down to thrash Blackburn 5-1 at Ewood Park and reach their first FA Cup quarter-final for five years.
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21 February 2016
Dean Ashton thinks West Ham have their strongest squad for many years and has predicted they will finish fifth.
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21 February 2016
Slaven Bilic has made it clear he has warned his players not to take today’s game anything less than seriously. And he said that yesterday showed how things can go with Reading beating West Brom and Watford winning only by one goal over Leeds. Slav said: “We have had a lot of games this season […]
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21 February 2016
Latest updates from the 2pm kick-off at Ewood Park Email niall.mcveigh@theguardian.com | Tweet @niallmcveigh Blackburn’s Evans ready for hectic schedule with club and country 1.38pm GMT Paul Lambert speaks “We’ve got a massive game this week (Blackburn play Derby on Wednesday) and something like 11 games in 31 days. Our lads can do the job today, though. Over the course of the season, you’d struggle to match sides like [West Ham], but in ...
Posted in Guardian.co.ukComments Off on Blackburn Rovers v West Ham United: FA Cup – live!
21 February 2016
Follow Sportsmail's coverage of the FA Cup as Blackburn Rovers host West Ham United at Ewood Park, looking for an upset to begin Sunday's fifth round action.
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21 February 2016
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21 February 2016
West Ham Chairman, David Gold confirmed yesterday that the club has applied for permission to increase the Olympic Stadium capacity to 60,000 to meet demand. Last night he further confirmed a 60,000 capacity is not the end and there are further possibilities to increase further to meet demand. The rebuilt stadium currently has 66,510 seats […]
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21 February 2016
The last five encounters between West Ham and Blackburn Rovers have ended in a draw and should we repeat that feat for a sixth time this afternoon we will be forced to reschedule a Premier League match in a busy upcoming fixture schedule. West Ham and Blackburn have been allocated ball number five in the […]
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21 February 2016
Let’s just stop for a moment and consider the fact that this afternoon the Irons will be without seven key players. Now, despite the face we are playing a lowly Championship outfit, I wonder whether we would have been as upbeat had the same position existed last season. I know it’s become a cliche but […]
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21 February 2016
It was a September night in 1962 that I first visited the Boleyn. Having just started my first job in the ‘smoke’ working under an editor named Tony Cottee it was inevitable wasn’t it?. I’d grown up in Kent – a member of a Spuds supporting family – and having played the game every Saturday […]
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21 February 2016
David Gold has claimed there’s a “perfect Boleyn storm” blowing up – today it can become a Hammers hurricane. Our last season at the old lady could hardly be going any better and is already memorable for the arrival of the excellent Slaven Bilic, Dimitri Payet and Manu Lanzini. Seventh place and an FA Cup […]
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21 February 2016
Not many no more about West Ham FA Cup success that Frank Lampard snr – a winner in 1975 and 1980. Frank was an Irons star for 18 years between 1967 and 1985 making 551 appearances for 18 goals before becoming assistant boss to Harry Redknapp. And in a rare interview with Steve Stammers in […]
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20 February 2016
Paul Lambert hopes an FA Cup upset against West Ham can help trigger the next part of his re-building plan at Blackburn Rovers by persuading the club's owners to give him the spending power he needs.
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20 February 2016
OLIVER TODD FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY: West Ham keeper Darren Randolph can remember one good cup run in his career — and even that is one he would rather erase from his memory.
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20 February 2016
Find out the numbers for each team in the FA Cup fifth-round draw, which takes place at 18:00 GMT on Sunday on BBC Two.
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20 February 2016
It’s been pretty obvious that far too much has been expected of Dimi Payet in the creativity department over recent weeks and it seems that the main man accepts that himself. He has been the first to admit that he has missed Manu Lanzini and hopefully as of tomorrow at Ewood Park everything will change […]
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20 February 2016
West Ham chairman David Gold has confirmed that the club has asked to increase capacity from 54,000 to 60,000 to meet demand. The owner replying to a question on twitter told his 134,000 followers. “Yes, we have applied for permission to extend the capacity from 54000 to 60000 in an effort to meet demand. dg […]
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20 February 2016
David Gold has made his opinion clear on a former a Hammer who left the club under a big cloud. Told by a follower that bad boy Morgan Amalfitano was a “great player” Gold had no issues with making his feelings pretty clear. The French midfielder fell out with Slaven Bilic early on and the […]
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20 February 2016
Ben Marshall is hoping some of Leicester's magic dust can rub off on Blackburn when they face West Ham in the FA Cup fifth round on Sunday. Marshall left the Foxes to join Rovers in 2013.
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20 February 2016
Midfielder has 11 games for club and country and second child on the way as he makes up for lost time on Old Trafford margins Bright-eyed, fresh-faced and straight-backed, Corry Evans positively radiates health and fitness. Given his impending schedule, such vitality seems not so much a good thing as an absolute necessity. Evans, who is 25, is not the type to slump or mooch but even he leans, albeit ...
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