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West Ham fans have been handed a timely boost ahead of Sunday’s FA Cup clash against Leeds United. With so much focus on the Hammers’ Premier League survival bid — and the crucial game against Wolverhampton Wanderers in 10 days’ time — it’s easy to forget that Nuno Espírito Santo’s boys are just 90 minutes

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Fairly shortly the predictions, second guessing and hoping will be in the rear view mirror as the final phase of the Premier League campaign plays out in the next two months. Whether Igor Tudor’s departure and hastily-installed successor Roberto de Zerbi achieves the much needed Spurs ‘new manager bounce’ of course is occupying every Nottingham

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To be fair, it is difficult to get too excited about any West Ham transfer news at the moment, given the club’s precarious situation. Only last week, a top transfer source told Claret & Hugh: “West Ham are not signing anyone, they do not know what division they will be in”, which is fair enough.

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West Ham defender Ezra Mayers’ 2025/26 season just keeps getting better and better. Mayers made his Hammers debut in December and has since played eight more times in the Premier League and FA Cup. The 19-year-old’s breakthrough was then rewarded with a call-up to the England U19s squad for the March international break. Not only

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If Max Kilman never plays another Premier League game for West Ham United, well, it will only be too soon in the eyes of many supporters. Kilman is very much Nuno’s fourth-choice centre-back these days. He has only played once since Nuno Espirito Santo admitted his ‘mistake’ bringing the much-maligned defender off the bench at

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Former West Ham United manager Sam Allardyce has wasted little time giving his own view of events after ex-AC Milan and Italy midfielder Massimo Ambrosini detailed his aborted move to the Premier League outfit last week. The Hammers held talks with Ambrosini during the summer of 2013, when the then-36-year-old was leaving the Rossoneri on

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If new Tottenham Hotspur manager Roberto De Zerbi thought he was going to get an easy ride with Spurs fans, he will have learned very quickly that that is not the case. Because within the last hour, the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust have released a statement heavily criticising their new manager’s stance on controversial footballer

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Nuno Espírito Santo has hinted that he is prepared to go with a strong line-up as West Ham prepare to face Leeds United in the FA Cup on Sunday. The Hammers were taken into extra time by Brentford in the last round of the cup, and winger Crysencio Summerville suffered an injury which kept him

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Awards season is still a few weeks away and, yet, one thing is certain; Aaron Wan-Bissaka will not be retaining his West Ham United Player of the Season award. This is no slight on ‘AWB’. It’s just that, in what has been an up-and-down campaign for the 2024/25 Hammer of the Year, there are plenty

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How should West Ham United feel about the impending appointment of Roberto de Zerbi at Premier League relegation rivals Tottenham Hotspur? Well, on the downside, things surely can’t get any worse for Spurs. Then again, as Igor Tudor’s seven-game, post-Thomas Frank reign showed, sometimes the floor of ‘rock bottom’ can give way; Tottenham slipping into

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OK, Geoff Hurt’s England heroics in 1966 saw West Ham United ‘win the World Cup’, but can you guess the other six players to score at the festival of football while representing the Hammers? By our working, Hurst is one of five players to find the net on football’s biggest stage while contracted to West

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England face Japan at Wembley tonight in what is likely to be a crucial dress rehearsal for West Ham captain Jarrod Bowen. The Hammers winger and top scorer would ordinarily be guaranteed a place in Thomas Tuchel’s World Cup squad, given he has the most Premier League goal contributions of any Englishman. However, competition is

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