
This time last year…
08 February 2016
What a difference a year makes.
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07 February 2016
• Bilic says of challenge on Payet: ‘There is no place in football for those tackles’ • Southampton’s Maya Yoshida hopes to win first-team place Victor Wanyama became the seventh player to have been sent off three times in a Premier League season, against a team managed by one of the other six players to share the opprobrium of possessing such an unwanted record. Slaven Bilic prided his game on tough tackling but the West Ham manager has...
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07 February 2016
Enner Valencia tends to split opinion among Irons fans. After suffering his share of injuries he has managed four goals and goals and two assists in six games so are we convinced this is a 12 million player. ClaretandHugh’s Facebook forum members have been discussing the Ecuadorian international @https://www.facebook.com/groups/363174467150521/ Here’s what they are saying: O […]
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07 February 2016
West Ham have already started a preliminary round of talks with Slaven Bilic over a deal aimed at keeping him at the club for the next five years. However, as reported by ClaretandHugh towards the end of last week there will be improvements and escape clauses inserted against the possibility of things going pear-shaped! Although […]
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07 February 2016
West Ham United boss Slaven Bilic admitted his team were gutted after falling to a 1-0 defeat at ten man Southampton in the Premier League.
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07 February 2016
Some things have to be done …and this is one of them. There is little point in ClaretandHugh – or any other independent website claiming it is here for the supporters – if it doesn’t raise their perfectly justified complaints. Last week we drew attention to the wicked problems people were encountering in trying to […]
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07 February 2016
I have no problem with patient football….to a point. Certainly it’s an awful lot better than hoofball which in the context of yesterday’s match against Southampton would have served us no better than the pass and “probe” (I use the word carefully) approach we adopted against a well drilled defence. Yes I understand the team […]
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07 February 2016
West Ham new boy Sam Byram will need to be on his very best first team behaviour until the start of the Aptil. The £3.8 million right back found himself back in the referee’s black book yesterday which leves him staring at a two game suspension should he stray the wrong side of the law […]
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07 February 2016
Slaven Bilic has agreed that the Irons missed out on a “great opportunty” at Southampton yesterday declaring: “Of course we are gutted.” And he added: “It’s a game we didn’t deserve to lose – we made a sloppy start but were the better team for three-quarters of the game.” However, once again he was forced to […]
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07 February 2016
Jamie Redknapp described Victor Wanyama’s challenge on Dimitri Payet as reckless, justifying a red card.
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07 February 2016
Southampton's win over West Ham included a fifth straight clean sheet for Fraser Forster, but England's back-up stopper claims it's not all down to his heroics between the sticks
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06 February 2016
Croatian manager Slaven Bilic was frustrated with the way West Ham started the game and then failed to take advantage of 10-man Southampton
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06 February 2016
Former Swansea boss Garry Monk joined Jamie Redknapp to analyse Southampton's win over West Ham on Saturday Night Football .
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06 February 2016
The Saints' win over West Ham impressed Ronald Koeman, but the Dutch boss was less than happy with Victor Wanyama after the midfield destroyer was sent off again
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06 February 2016
SAM CUNNINGHAM AT ST MARY'S STADIUM: Southampton were reduced to 10-men after Victor Wanyama's red card but managed to hold out for a 1-0 victory over West Ham.
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06 February 2016
The other West Ham turned up at Southampton this afternoon and failed to trouble a ten man home team. Here’s how members of the ClaretandHugh FB forum reacted @https://www.facebook.com/groups/363174467150521/ O Another team to whom we showed too much respect O Why are we are happy to sit back and defend rather than come out attacking. […]
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06 February 2016
Adrian: Little to do and no chance with the goal. Did his best to distribute well and set things up 6 Tomkins: Off injured in the second half. Defended well but still not the answer going forward 6 Reid: Decent afternoon and saw our best chance – a header – well saved 7 Collins: Steady […]
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06 February 2016
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic believes his side lost their clash with Southampton in the first 15 minutes of the game.
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06 February 2016
I really wouldn’t have wanted to be a West Ham player this evening given the clear mood of Slaven Bilic when he appeared before the cameras. After missing a very big opportunity on the south coast this was one very unhappy Croat who whilst refusing to point fingers looked like a man who’s lost a […]
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06 February 2016
There’s little point in beating around the bush…that was a poor performance with the team finally paying the price for a shoddy start which is becoming as much a feature of the season as the big away victories. The first half – as it has been on many occasions this season – was a total […]
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06 February 2016
Another clean sheet and, most important, another win for Southampton. Victor Wanyama’s avoidable sending-off in the 54th minute meant they had to withstand a barrage of West Ham United pressure but the resurgence of Ronald Koeman’s team since the turn of the year shows no sign of abating thanks to Maya Yoshida’s early goal. This victory made it 13 points from the last 15 and suddenly a top-six place is in Southampton’s sights. They have still not conceded since Fraser Forster made...
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06 February 2016
The Saints were forced to play almost the whole of the second period with 10 men but still managed to claim all three points against Slaven Bilic's in-form Hammers
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06 February 2016
Southampton overcame the second-half dismissal of Victor Wanyama to beat West Ham 1-0 at St Mary's and maintain their excellent recent Premier League form.
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