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Player Focus: Antonio Grabbing Chance to Establish Himself as Hammers Regular

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Player Focus: Antonio Grabbing Chance to Establish Himself as Hammers Regular Cast your thoughts back to the 2015 summer transfer window, and specifically deadline day. Deals were being pushed through as the hours turned to minutes towards the halting of the transfer merry-go-round. A swift glance at the Premier League saw West Ham provide the much-needed entertainment back i...

Player Focus: Fit Again Carroll Could Yet Have West Ham & England Impact

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Player Focus: Fit Again Carroll Could Yet Have West Ham & England Impact On Saturday afternoon, after issuing a mild public rebuke to Andy Carroll about his fitness history, Slaven Bilic also issued what seemed to be a rebuke to English football. The West Ham United manager, who had just watched his side beat Liverpool 2-0 partially thanks to a Carroll goal, had just bee...

Player Focus: Payet Absence the Root of West Ham's Offensive Woes

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Player Focus: Payet Absence the Root of West Ham's Offensive Woes For any team, losing their best player is a blow, regardless of their seasonal goals. For West Ham United that's just what has happened with Dimitri Payet, whose injury looks to have derailed their season. At the beginning of the campaign, the Hammers were in flying form. Talk of a European finish w...

Match Report: Comprehensive Spurs Win Reinforces Top-4 Credentials

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Match Report: Comprehensive Spurs Win Reinforces Top-4 Credentials Mousa Dembele, prior to Sunday's London Derby, spoke highly of this current Tottenham team. This is the best team I've played in since I've been at Tottenham, the Belgian told SkySports. Given he was part of the Spurs side that came perilously close to securing a top-4 berth in the 2012/13 season, i...

Match Focus: Spurs Must Defend Unbeaten Run Against Happy Travellers West Ham

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Match Focus: Spurs Must Defend Unbeaten Run Against Happy Travellers West Ham In the only game on Sunday as the Premier League gets back in full swing this weekend Tottenham host West Ham, with no love lost between the two London rivals. Having fallen to three defeats to the Hammers in the 2013/14 season, the bragging rights returned to Spurs last time around, though the spoi...

Player Focus: Impressive Lanzini Quickly Becoming West Ham’s Jewel

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Player Focus: Impressive Lanzini Quickly Becoming West Ham’s Jewel The decision to replace Sam Allardyce a year before moving into the Olympic Stadium suddenly didn’t feel like the right play when West Ham were dumped out of the Europa League by Romanian side Astra Giurgiu before the Premier League had even started. Since then, however, victories away to Arse...

Match Report: West Ham Iron Out Home Form Against 10 Man Chelsea

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Match Report: West Ham Iron Out Home Form Against 10 Man Chelsea Saturday saw the final clash between West Ham and Chelsea at Upton Park and it was one to be remembered — by the home support at least. West Ham had already seen wins against Arsenal, Liverpool, and Manchester City this season. The Hammers win over Chelsea this weekend ensured that they are of...

Player Focus: West Ham's Payet Capture Proving Plaudits Right

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Player Focus: West Ham's Payet Capture Proving Plaudits Right Having seen their team become only the fourth ever to beat Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City away from home in the same season in the Premier League era, doing so in their opening three outings on the road, West Ham supporters are in dreamland right now.Despite successive home defeats to Leices...

Team Focus: Bilic Finds Solutions Where Allardyce Failed Against Arsenal

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Team Focus: Bilic Finds Solutions Where Allardyce Failed Against Arsenal After opening his West Ham United regime by claiming a spectacular three points at Arsenal, Slaven Bilic sought to close a special day by making a point of his own.“Sam Allardyce left me a good team and left me some quality in the side,” the Croatian said to media about his predecessor. ...

Player Focus: Premier League Transfer Rumour Round-Up

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Player Focus: Premier League Transfer Rumour Round-Up Alex TellesFilipe Luis’ forgettable year in England was brought to an end on Tuesday when the left-back was sold back to Atletico Madrid. The Brazilian arrived at Chelsea as one of the finest in his position in world football, yet was forced to contend with a peripheral role, with the unassumi...