03 September 2018
Marko Arnautovic has had a big question mark thrown over him by top pundit Jamie Redknapp. Son of Harry – who incidentally has been very quiet for an extended period proving that the age of miracles is not over – made particular reference to the Hammer of last year in his weekly Daily Mail column when analysing […]
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03 September 2018
Former Hammer James Collins will not be re-joining West Ham today but could join Ipswich Town instead within the next twenty four hours. West Ham will register a list of twenty four players leaving one slot free for a possible later addition of an out of contract player which would need special permission from the […]
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03 September 2018
Crystal Palace lost their first seven games last season conceding 17 goals in the process. Losses against Huddersfield, Liverpool, Swansea, Burnley, Southampton, Man City and Manchester United left them pointless until mid October when they finally beat Chelsea at home 2-1. Palace was written off by many in the early stages of season, destined for […]
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03 September 2018
Last Thursday saw the World Premiere of the film ‘Final Score’ at Ham Yard Hotel in London. The plot is a a group of heavily armed criminals take control of the Boleyn Ground stadium packed with 35,000 West Ham football fans. Ex-soldier Michael Knox (Dave Bautista) is forced to use skills from his military background […]
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03 September 2018
The summer signing came on as a substitute and scored to hand his side their first league win of the season
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03 September 2018
The Premier League threw up plenty of the usual talking points and drama over the weekend. Here, Amitai Winehouse assesses 10 things we learned from the Premier League this weekend.
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03 September 2018
Summer signings have come in for particularly close scrutiny, with some making an immediate impression in new surroundings and others still waiting to make an impact.
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03 September 2018
Manuel Pellegrini has one seriously important change to make within the Hammers team if people aren’t to start questioning his judgement in a big way. Ok, one or two pertinent questions are starting to be asked, but the biggest by a distance for me is the decision to continue playing Jack Wilshere in the most […]
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03 September 2018
David Sullivan this morning handed Manuel Pellegrini a vote of confidence after four games but should the board ever decide to pull the trigger it won’t cost them as much in compensation as at first believed. When taking the job it was believed the new boss was appointed on an initial three year deal with […]
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03 September 2018
JAMIE REDKNAPP: Not for the first time, the West Ham team looked like 11 strangers as they slumped to a 1-0 home defeat by Wolves. That is partly due to the great deal of change in a short space of time.
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03 September 2018
Summer signings have come in for particularly close scrutiny, with some making an immediate impression in new surroundings and others still waiting to make an impact.
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03 September 2018
Watford's Jose Holebas has topped the Sky Sports Power Rankings this week.
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03 September 2018
West Ham Chairman David Sullivan has given Manuel Pellegrini a vote of confidence telling the Sun “The manager has our 100 per cent support.” Of course the dreaded vote of confidence means nothing much very much at this early stage of the season and we have heard it all before. David Sullivan told ESPN in […]
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03 September 2018
West Ham will submit their squad of 25 names to the Premier League today which will be published later. Each 25-man squad must include a minimum of eight ‘home-grown players’, meaning an additional 17 players can be registered. A ‘home-grown’ player is defined as a player who, irrespective of his nationality or age, has been […]
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03 September 2018
Aaron Cresswell refuses to give the “it’ll be alright” messages beloved by players in a troubled teams instead admitting: “It’s a big worry – there’s no hiding that.” After a fourth straight defeat the defender said of Saturday’s game against Wolves: ““In the first half, we let ourselves down. It wasn’t good enough, it’s as […]
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03 September 2018
Andriy Yarmolenko is up for the battle but has declared: “It’s really difficult to take and I don’t know what to say. “I want to say sorry to our fans and we must perform better after the international break.” He told www.whufc.com: “It’s a difficult moment, of course, but we must sit down and think about […]
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03 September 2018
The Premier League threw up plenty of the usual talking points and drama over the weekend. Here, Amitai Winehouse assesses 10 things we learned from the Premier League this weekend.
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03 September 2018
Watch Premier League goals and highlights from the weekend's games, including wins for Watford, Man Utd and Arsenal.
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02 September 2018
SAMI MOKBEL AT THE LONDON STADIUM: It is tough at the top, Manuel Pellegrini would testify. The fear for West Ham's new boss is that he is about to discover life is much tougher at the bottom.
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02 September 2018
Manuel Pellegrini vowed to play attacking football after joining West Ham. On joining West Ham he committed: “I will try to play attacking football and score a lot of goals because, throughout my career, I have always been a manager who plays offensive football and tries to attack. But to attack, you must defend very well […]
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02 September 2018
Bookmakers are taking no chances and have slashed the odds of Manuel Pellegrini being the next Premier League manager to lose his job. Bookies William Hill have made Pellegrini the joint 3/1 favourite for the sack alongside Jose Mourinho who appears to be on borrowed time at Manchester United. Pellegrini was previously quoted as a 14/1 […]
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02 September 2018
Hammers U23s 2 Liverpool under 23s 1 West Ham’s under 23s brought some much needed cheer to a dreadful weekend when beating Liverpool away today. Reece Oxford’s rose high for a second minute goal when reaching Joe Powell’s corner and looping his header into the top corner. The young Hammers made a dominant start but […]
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02 September 2018
Manuel Pellegrini has equalled Avram Grant’s record for the worst start to a West Ham Premier League season with four straight defeats in a row from the start of the season. Grant lost against Aston Villa, Bolton, Manchester United and Chelsea in 2010 only to manage a draw against Stoke to earn his first point […]
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02 September 2018
Gareth Southgate has revealed he has held conversations with Declan Rice over changing allegiances and playing for England but the England boss insists he has made no promises to the Republic of Ireland international. The England manager said: “I think it’s fair to say I have spoken with him but I have not promised anything, […]
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02 September 2018
Jack Wilshere has been told the England door is still open to him but that his international future is entirely down to him. And at a time when he has been entirely underwhelming for West Ham England boss Gareth Southgate is probably being very generous to him in putting it that way. The England boss […]
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02 September 2018
It never seems to get any better for West Ham at the moment and the latest gaffe was getting their record club signing name wrong was the team was announced. The £36m record signing was embarrassingly displayed as Filipe Anderson on the big screen at the London Stadium. The Hammers smashed the club record by […]
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