West Ham United travels to Hull City this Saturday and will be looking to put the miserable Everton match behind them. We have to start winning and stay in control of our Premiership destiny. We need to set off on a winning run. At the moment, West Ham cannot put together a win streak that our play at times deserves. Click to continue reading...

Tough decision, not really!

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Well, it's getting to that time of year again when agents and journalists alike are trying to earn their money.

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(Davy expects African sides to edge traditional Latin and Continental powers, but fancies England for the Cup. Below he discusses the likely England squad, highlighting what he expects to be the historic contribution of England's black players.)
To be King in Africa, a useful prerequisite is to be a Black Prince.

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West Ham have told Liverpool they want £20m for scuttling goal-machine Carlton Cole. (Guardian)

Now I know that the transfer market is a little inflated at present but surely this is a joke, no?

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Carlton's West Ham teammates will do anything to stop him leaving.

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At the eleventh hour today the Mill will pause to remember those heroic men and women who died to preserve our freedom to rumour for a living.

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At the beginning of season 08-09, I think you could have had very good odds on Carlton Cole scoring 5 Premiership goals or more, becoming the fulcrum of the West Ham team and then breaking in to the England squad. 15 months is a long time ago and in that time Carlton Cole has morphed from a clumsy, well-built support striker who weighed in with the odd goal to a feared centre forward, capable of giving the very best defenders a real working over.

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Image by wonker via Flickr A valiant effort from West Ham saw them coming from two goals down to draw their Premier League encounter 2-2 with Arsenal last night. While Arsenal would have loved to win the match as they would've had a comfortable third position ahead of Tottenham in the table, West Ham still [. Click to continue reading...

Joe Cole is back. In his first Premier League start since January following cruciate knee ligament injury, the pint-sized midfielder produced a mesmerizing attacking display brimming with pace and invention. At the heart of Chelsea's attacking play from the get go, Cole seamlessly linked midfield and attack from the ‘hole' behind Anelka and Drogba inspiring the Blues to a resounding five-nil drubbing of Blackburn.

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Hello Gooners. West Ham 2 Arsenal 2 it finished. Excuse the rage I'm feeling right now but I'll try not to be downright acidic in my assessment in London Derby Number 2 against the Hammers.

Complacency, CarltonCole and Choking. 3 C's I said we needed to be wary of against the Hammers.

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The third C-word to consider is choking. Can you have both 'choking' and 'complacency' in one game. I believe you can. Hello, Gooners wherever in the world you are reading this. As promised this is my second preview-ish post to the game against West Ham. Why two posts BEFORE a game? Special games need special focus.

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.Stoke City ended Everton's winning spree as they held them 1-1 at Goodison Park Stadium in their Premier League match. The in form hosts had won their last five games but had to be happy with a tame draw here. The determined Stoke side was the first to score through Robert Huth when he beat Tim [... Click to continue reading...

Carlton Cole's emphatic finishing is winning fans, but not the game. Cole's solitary goal is unable to prevent the Hammers from losing 3-1 away to Manchester City.The Eastland side was unplayable. Argentinian Tevez scored twice with Martin Petrov bagging the other. Click to continue reading...

I've deliberately avoided all the post World Cup qualification hooplah. Mostly because the usual questions: "Can we win it this time?" etc, make me want to stab myself in the leg with a pencil. And anyone who uses the phrase "Can England win it? Yes. Will they win it? No." should be reminded that
a) It's not clever or original if a thousand other people have already said it first, and
b) You deserve to be stabbed in the leg with a pencil.

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. Fans at Upton Park were treated to a five-goal thriller, when West Ham United hosted Liverpool in the Premier League. Fernando Torres caught the goalkeeper off guard and sent one home in the 19th minute, but Alessandro Diamanti levelled the terms ten minutes later. However, the Merseyside club took the lead again, when Yossi Benayoun sent in [. Click to continue reading...

Over the international weekend, several West Ham players were in action for their respective national teams. Here are the players performances which I have compiled from matches I have seen and other football news reports.
Robert Green and Matthew Upson saw first team action as England routed Croatia 5-1 in a one-sided match. Click to continue reading...

They Think It's All Over... ponders who should partner Rooney for England, and what has happened to the old-fashioned Great British centre-forward. Click to continue reading...

Who should you trust?

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There are alleged sightings of West Ham striker Carlton Cole at Liverpool's training ground (BBC Sport)

This is what makes the transfer deadline so damn amusing.

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After the fourth gameweek there are still 3 teams that continue with a nice looking table, only wins. Chelsea, Tottenham and Man City are yet to experience the bitter taste of defeat as Bolton and Portsmouth still wait for their first taste of victory. Chelsea took the most convincing win of the week, as it beat Burnley 3-0. Click to continue reading...

While the FA launches an investigation into the violence and hooliganism coming out of the West Ham - Millwall Carling Cup match on Tuesday - West Ham striker Carlton Cole has also confirmed that he received racist abuse - he was called a "monkey" by a minority of Millwall supporters in the same match this week. Click to continue reading...

Are you a fan of Frank Lampard? Don't worry, if you choose not to answer in the affirmative, you surely have some company. While I have written several articles here at Premiership Talk to demonstrate my support for Frank Lampard, this article is not about my support.

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.Back in January the odds on Burnley beating both Manchester United and Everton by one goal to nil would have been significantly high. The town of Burnley only is only home to around 73,000 residents (the smallest in the division), they have the smallest wage bill in the Premier League and their transfer funds are [. Click to continue reading...

We're heading towards the 4th gameweek of the Fantasy Premier League soccer manager game. Again, there are soccer matches that look easier to some teams than others. So, time to see who you want on your team this gameweek.
Here are the fixtures:
Chelsea v Burnley
Blackburn v West Ham
Bolton v Liverpool
Stoke City v Sunderland
Tottenham v Birmingham
Wolves v Hull City
Man Utd v Arsenal
Portsmouth v Man City
Everton v Wigan
Aston Villa v Fulham
West Ham goes to visit Blackburn and I think they won't be too modest guests. Click to continue reading...

. Image by Getty Images via Daylife Tottenham have continued their good form with a 2-1 victory over West Ham at Upton Park. The first half was goalless, but the game came alive in the second half. spurs had to come back from a goal down after England striker Carlton Cole struck [...] Click to continue reading...

You really couldn't accuse Carlton Cole of not playing fair against Spurs today. Just five minutes after scoring the match's first goal for West Ham, he must have felt bad for the losing visitors, so he laced a perfect pass between three of his own teammates, right to the only Spurs player (Jermain Defoe) near his side's goal.

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Good grief, what's come over them? The stylish win at home to Liverpool was in keeping with the glory-glory Tottenham tradition, the demolition of Hull an all-action romp - but getting bogged down in a scrap and emerging victorious? I plan to catch this, pop it in a jar and charge a tenner for people to come marvel at it.

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A win against a top-four team; a win away in a potential banana-skin of a game against relegation fodder; now a London derby - one way or another we are certainly having our credentials rigorously tested in these early days.

I desperately hope we win tomorrow. This has nothing to do with the whole issue of enmity with West Ham - as I have previously confessed, I am neither here nor there on that issue.

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The Wolves got a show of things to come as they played their first match of the Premier League against West Ham. Cheered enthusiastically by a home crowd at Molineux, The Wolves boy, Nenad Milijas tried some long shots but failed to trouble West Ham keeper Robert Green.

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England's substitutes gave head coach Fabio Capello a selection headache last night after inspiring a rousing fightback in Amsterdam. The Dutch found themselves 2 goals to the good at half time and seemingly cruising after dominating long periods of possession whilst England were often wasteful, giving the ball away cheaply on two many occasions. Click to continue reading...

West Ham United Biggest Ins: Luis Jimenez comes in on loan from Inter Milan to give depth in the center of the park. That's all for signings. Biggest Outs: Gianfranco Zola cleaned house this summer. Lee Bowyer left, but Jimenez is a like...
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He's been out over two months and faces a tough Everton this week and a battling Boro next week, so why do I still have a funny feeling about West Ham's leading scorer, Carlton Cole?
Who knows. But what is clear is this - the 25 year old stud striker is back in the squad and looking to start this weekend after a two-month layoff with a groin problem. Click to continue reading...

As we near the end of what has been and still is an exciting season in the EPL, the various gongs and awards are being given out. As usual, they create plenty of controversy, particularly in the case of Ryan Giggs, who was named Footballer of the Year despite only starting 12 league games this season.

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With half of England's front line crocked, who can step into the breach? Click to continue reading...

It's been a funny old week, Big Tony got the donkey boot from Pompey and Big Phil got the Big E* from Roman. The papers have been full of it and in doing so, have given less press to the world leader in column inches:
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Off The Post's pre-match pondering 1. Does David Beckham ever walk round the house wearing one if his 107 England caps? 2. Is Carlton Cole really up to international standard? 3. And regardless of whether he is or isn't, would the Spanish public mind not racially abusing him while we try to find out? Click to continue reading...

At just over 6 feet 4, it is hard to imagine West Ham's target man Carlton Cole easily fitting under anything.  But in recent weeks Cole and his West Ham team mates, under the guidance of first year manager, Gianfranco Zola have been quietly putting in some solid performances and getting results that has seen [. Click to continue reading...