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Did Pellegrini expect too much from Wilshere?

October 23, 2018 By West Ham Blog Leave a Comment

It could be said that Manuel Pellegrini has a bit of a blind spot when it comes to Jack Wilshere and, despite being cautioned about the 26-year-old’s injury prone record, the Chilean still offered him a three-year deal. According to various media reports, the board weren’t as sold on the idea and were only in favour of giving the former Arsenal man a one year contract but that didn’t stop them backing Pellegrini and allowing the West Ham manager to seal the deal by offering 36 months instead of 12.

Sadly, you don’t need a fortune teller when it comes to Jack Wilshere as the midfielder’s injury problems are well documented and a quick look back over the past ten years will show you that Wilshere could be considered a high-risk asset- [Read more…]

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West Ham Attendances 2018-19 season | Olympic Stadium London Crowd Figures & Stats

October 19, 2018 By West Ham Blog Leave a Comment

Here is a look at West Ham’s attendance stats for home games at the London Stadium during the 2018/19 season. Includes both Premier League and Cup clashes. The Hammers had the fourth best average attendance in the league after Man Utd, Spurs and Arsenal in 2017-18. We did this feature in the 2017/18 season and are doing it again.

Stats to be updated after every home game (last updated after West Ham v Southampton 2019 attendance (59,961) Premier League game on 4 May, 2019.

What is West Ham’s average Premier League attendance for the 18/19 season?

As on date, it is 58,336 (Total attendance 11,08,375/19 games) [Read more…]

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West Ham v Tottenham predictions- What do the pundits say?

October 19, 2018 By West Ham Blog Leave a Comment

West Ham beat Everton in their first game after the September international break and will be hoping for a similar result when they host Spurs after the October break on Saturday afternoon at the London Stadium. The Hammers are winless in their last five home games under Martin Atkinson, the ref for this clash, but did edge the Lilywhites the last time the 47 year old reffed a WHUFC-Spurs game.

How do the pundits reckon this game will pan out? Spurs are fifth in the table with 18 points from 8 games while West Ham are in 15th with 7 points from the same number of fixtures. [Read more…]

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Lawro Tracker- Mark Lawrenson’s predictions for West Ham games v Actual Results- 2018/19 season

October 18, 2018 By West Ham Blog Leave a Comment

How has pundit Mark Lawrenson fared in regard to his weekly predictions for West Ham in the 2018/19 Premier League season? How many of his predictions have been right? We’ve created a special Lawro tracker to find out!

Lawro takes on a new celeb opponent every weekend. Here is the list of opponents he’s squared off against in this 18/19 season (last updated after GW17 Fulham v West Ham)

GW1: Joe Thomas
GW2: Tom Grennan
GW3: Idris Alba/Aml Ameen
GW4: Greg James
GW5: Mark Wahlberg
GW6: Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill
GW7: Karl Pilkington
GW8: DJ Chris Stark [Read more…]

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Throwback- What happened when Martin Atkinson last reffed a West Ham-Spurs game?

October 16, 2018 By West Ham Blog Leave a Comment

Martin Atkinson has been appointed as the referee for this weekend’s West Ham v Tottenham clash, and we did a feature on the club’s recent record under him.

Atkinson has reffed two West Ham v Spurs Premier League games since his appointment as a top flight official, and the last one was over eight years ago! It was at Upton Park, back in September 2010, and Avram Grant’s Hammers won the fixture 1-0, moving off the bottom of the table thanks to that victory over the Lilywhites, then managed by Harry Redknapp. French striker Frederic Piquionne scored the only goal of the GW6 clash in the 29th minute, assisted by Mark Noble.

Not surprisingly, given the cut throat nature of the Premier League, both teams have undergone wholesale changes since then, with Noble the only survivor from that fixture. [Read more…]

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