Last season, I wrote a piece that attributed a song to each Premier League team that reflected their current status or something that was going on at the club at the time. At the risk of going over old ground, I thought I would update the songs for the teams in this years Premiership with my current musings.

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West Ham insist in-form striker Carlton Cole is not for sale at any price despite reports that Premier League's big guns are preparing January bids.
Manchester United are the latest club linked with a £20million bid for Hammers hot-shot Cole when the transfer window reopens, with misfiring Liverpool also reportedly interested in a player who has flourished under the tutelage of Gianfranco Zola. Click to continue reading...

It is starting to look as if West Ham striker Dean Ashton could be forced to retire from the game at just 25-years-old.

The former Norwich forward broke his left ankle while training with the England squad in 2006 and has been unable to recover from the injury.

Hammer boss Gianfranco Zola had this to say on his situation: "When something like this happens, it is very much personal.

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Rafa Benitez will try to solve his Liverpool striker crisis with a £12m move for Carlton Cole.
West Ham may be forced to sell their leading target man in the January transfer window due to a cash crisis at Upton Park.
So Benitez is looking to take advantage with a move for the 26-year-old. Click to continue reading...

Mark Hughes looks to spend even more money.

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Manchester City will then pitch up at Upton Park and make off with Matthew Upson and Herita Ilunga, and as Gianfranco Zola is left to fight relegation with a crack unit of training cones, Mark Hughes will continue on his merry way over to Barcelona, where he'll drop off Robinho and attempt to persuade Yaya Touré to come protect his brother out at Eastlands.

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West Ham 1-2 Everton (08:11:09)
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Gianfranco Zola's West Ham were no match for Everton at Upton Park. West Ham were beaten 1-2 by Everton. Click to continue reading...

David Moyes's side were well worth all three points as they edged past West Ham at Upton Park.

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A couple of weeks ago, it was hard to know whether to be optimistic or pessimistic. Many commented that the general criticism of Arsenal post-West Ham was over-the-top.
But the problem was, that on the 29th of October 2008, at about 9.30, the season so far had provided enough to be pretty optimistic. Click to continue reading...

West Ham boss Gianfranco Zola was over the moon after Zavon Hines' last-gasp strike earned his Hammers their first win since the opening day of the season. England Under-21 striker Hines was the toast of Upton Park after he netted the winner in the fourth minute of injury time.

Zola said:

"This could be the turning point for us.

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Thanks to a singular Premier League fixture and some midweek matches in Mexico, a handful of Americans Abroad saw the pitch on Wednesday.

Two Americans went head-to-head against each other in London, as Brad Friedel's Aston Villa traveled to Upton Park out to pile misery on West Ham and Jonathan Spector.

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Thanks to a singular Premier League fixture and some midweek matches in Mexico, a handful of Americans Abroad saw the pitch on Wednesday.

Two Americans went head-to-head against each other in London, as Brad Friedel's Aston Villa traveled to Upton Park out to pile misery on West Ham and Jonathan Spector.

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Jonathan Spector started the game on the bench for West Ham United, but was on the field within eight minutes as they beat Aston Villa 2-1 at Upton Park. Spector subbed on for injured defender Herita Ilunga, with West Ham saving the offense for late in both halves. Mark Noble put them up from the penalty spot in first-half stoppage time, beating Brad Friedel. Click to continue reading...

Ashley Young scored a blinder but was unable to prevent the Hammers from stealing a draw.. There was no fairy tale ending and Aston Villa drew West Ham 2-2 at Upton Park. Click to continue reading...

A last minute goal from Zavon Hines gave West Ham a crucial win over Aston Villa at Upton Park.

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1-0 Noble

1-1 Young

2-1 Hines

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Surplus to requirements at White Hart Lane, Roman may have a future just down the road at Upton Park?

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Tottenham striker Roman Pavlyuchenko wanted by West Ham
As West Ham prepare for the visit tomorrow of Aston Villa, Tottenham striker Roman Pavlyuchenko has emerged as a surprise target.

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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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West Ham may well be going down this season with a string of useless displays and a home record that even Derby County would be proud of. However, if the Hammers had kept hold of their top players where would they be now? Top 10, top 6, top 4 or even challenging for the title? Here's our Ultimate 11 of Ex West Ham players still plying their trade in the Premier League today, unfortunately for them, for other teams.

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So yet another installment of the fiery North London derby has passed. Tottenham, missing Jermaine Defoe through a suspension and Aaron Lennon through injury, looked a shadow of the side which threatened to take over one of the top 4 spots earlier in the season. Arsenal, on the other hand, were magnificent.

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Rio Ferdinand's agent Pini Zahavi has revealed to Soccernet that his client is not struggling for form but instead struggling for health. The English international has been suffering from a calf injury that has yet to heal 100%, and Rio's club and international form has gone with it.

"All the speculation about Rio's ability is totally incorrect.

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Steve Bruce has already shown what he is capable of after immediately transforming Sunderland from the eternal strugglers to the league's surprise package. The Black Cats have ensured that the Stadium of Light remains a fortress this season as they have not lost at home since their opening home fixture against league leaders Chelsea.

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I may young but you boys can still learn from me

Good Friday to you. Sorry for the late post as I was doing a bit of traveling today.

Most would've expected Fabianski to keep the keeper's jersey for this tomorrow's North London Derby but unfortunately for the Polish custodian, he is again crocked by injury.

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I don't know about you but I'm still smarting from the two points dropped at Upton Park last Sunday. Having watched a recording of the game (I was at Wembley watching the NFL game) I'm even more depressed. We were so in control in the first half but we simply don't seem to have the killer instinct.

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What is it with this Carling Cup lark and its ability to bring out the worst out in people? First, in round three, the two biggest pikey brigades go ‘full retard' at Upton Park like it's the last days of Rome, then, last night, the Oakwell pie man is trapped aboard his wagon while the Northern rabble outside throw their soiled underwear at each other, before finally hopping aboard and plundering the lot.

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Score-lines from the weekend's football included a 2-2 draw between West Ham and Arsenal at Upton Park, ahead of Arsenal's rather more bitter London derby this weekend against Tottenham Hotspur. Chelsea trounced Blackburn Rovers 5-0 after a defeat against Aston Villa the week before which keeps them out in front, though in a rather less spectacular points lead. Click to continue reading...

See, I told you I'm a bit good

Let's face it. We all remember Julio Baptista once played for Arsenal on a season long loan from Real Madrid. Jose Antonio Reyes went the other way in the same deal. I don't know about you but for the life of me, I can't remember much of his performance during that season bar for one.

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Some fantastic images of the new stadium put out in the last few days. Also announced was the inclusion of a single tier stand to rival the Kop at Anfield as Tottenham attempt to create one of 'the best atmospheric stadiums in Europe'.
The proposed moving dates have also been released to the public with Daniel Levy stating that Spurs will be playing in the their new, as yet unnamed, stadium by 2012. Click to continue reading...

It was another incredible weekend of English Premier League football. One single match was all it took to lift the doom and gloom at Anfield. A stunning 2-0 win over arch-rivals Manchester United was just the tonic that Rafa's men needed. An excellent all-round Liverpool performance got even better when David Ngog glossed the scoreline with a goal that put the issue beyond doubt. Click to continue reading...

by CARL EDLRIDGEÂ Baffling coverage in this morning's papers devoting vaulable space to the fact that a toilet in a run-down pit of a place in north London is being knocked down. See the story here in the Telegraph.

Meanwhile, Andrey Arshavin gives his take on the disappointing draw at West Ham on Sunday in this morning's papers and, unlike his leaden-footed performance seemed to demonstrate at Upton Park, it seems he does care.

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Sunday marked 361 days since the 29th October 2008. Or in other words Arsenal 4 Sp*rs 4. So a year on from letting a two-goal lead slip in a London derby, we did it again.
Every year Wenger tells us how this team is improving. Yet, year-on-year we can see no change.
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Okay, okay, they got away lightly on Sunday with Arsenal once again showing less bottle than an English penalty taker, but something at Upton Park concerned me.

Now I may be wrong (And correct me if I am) but I'm pretty sure, as Arsenal were 2-0 up, that odds on the match were scrolling along the billboards on the pitch.

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by CARL ELDRIDGEÂ Arsene Wenger was clearly riled after we threw away a 2-0 lead in the draw against West Ham at Upton Park yesterday.

As were the Arsenal hordes as we filed out of the ground with a miserable shuffle in search of a tincture to ease the pain.

"2-0, and you f***** it up," sung some spanner on the way out of the ground and I questioned why he felt the need to celebrate a draw.

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Arsenal threw away the chance of a fifth straight Premier League win as West Ham battled back to earn a 2-2 draw at Upton Park on Sunday.
The Gunners had looked in complete control following first-half goals from Robin van Persie and William Gallas.
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There is reason to be concerned.

If AZ Alkmaar was a foreshadowing, the Gunners did their best to not heed the warning. Â Anyone who has watched this team over the past five years knew what was coming, both in the Netherlands and at Upton Park. Â It's just too predictable.

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The English Premier League had four matches on Sunday, October 25, 2009 including West Ham United v Arsenal. The match important for West Ham who are struggling at the bottom of the table. Arsenal, on the other end, will be looking to remain near Chelsea at the top of the table. Here's a recap along with video highlights of the match.

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