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Chelsea 4-1 West Ham United Premier League Highlights (Video)

Mad Dog and Glory — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:32:58 +0000

Chelsea returned to the top of the Premier League with this hard fought win over east London rivals West Ham at Stamford Bridge. Blues defender Alex had put the home side ahead after a quarter of an hour but former player Scott Parker put away a half volley to level things for the Hammers.

The second half saw Carlo Ancelotti’s side put immense pressure on their visitors and in form striker Didier Drogba put Chelsea ahead just before the hour mark and Florent Malouda steadied the fans nerves by making it 3-1 with 15 minutes left to play. Didier Drogba added a fourth in the dying minutes to secure the victory and continue his own hot streak.

The win puts Chelsea back above Manchester United ahead of their crucial Champions League encounter with Inter Milan on Tuesday night.

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Chelsea 1-0 West Ham United (Alex)

Chelsea 1-1 West Ham United (Parker)

Chelsea 2-1 West Ham United (Drogba)

Chelsea 3-1 West Ham United (Malouda)

Chelsea 4-1 West Ham United (Drogba)

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West Ham United 1-2 Bolton Premier League Highlights (Video)

Mad Dog and Glory — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:23:07 +0000

Two goals in the first quarter of an hour put Bolton in the driving seat at Upton Park in this crucial relegation six pointer. The win helps drag the Trotters above the Hammers into 13th place and five points from the relegation zone.

Kevin Davies put the away side with a typically powerful header and Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere scored his first goal in Premier League football for Bolton to put Owen Coyle’s side in a commanding lead in a bad tempered encounter in east London.

Bolton midfielder Tamir Cohen was sent off with 20 minutes to go and Alessandro Diamante gave the Hammers hope with what turned out to be a consolation goal with two minutes left on the clock.

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Tottenham Considering Shockingly Stupid £20m Swap Deal?

Christian Bailey — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:52:17 +0000

Harry Redknapp appears truly confused by this potential White Hart Lane exchange.

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Tottenham Hotspur boss Harry Redknapp will have to part with Jermain Defoe if he wants to add Craig Bellamy to the ranks at White Hart Lane.

Redknapp has repeatedly been linked with a move for the feisty Welshman, and whispers of a move from Spurs re-surfaced heavily last week after an alleged bust-up between Bellamy and club manager Roberto Mancini.

The Manchester City striker only added to his value with a wonderful brace at Stamford Bridge as the Citizens produced a shock 4-2 victory against title-chasing Chelsea.

A cult hero with the blue half of Manchester, Mancini had reportedly told Bellamy to stay away from the club for the rest of the season after an internal row at the club’s training ground. Although the story was blown out of proportion, both parties have since admitted that there was a disagreement within the camp.

The People reports that the Eastlands side would only let Bellamy leave the club if England striker Defoe could make the switch the other way.

Spurs star Defoe has scored 16 goals for the White Hart Lane club, including five in one game against Wigan earlier in the season. Bellamy only has 8 league goals to his name so far this season, but when fit he has spent most of his time on the wing.

It’s predicted that City would have to make a player-plus-cash offer, something that wouldn’t be a problem for the super rich club. On paper an unlikely move, this could become the biggest transfer of the summer if City want to chase the highly-rated striker. (Give Me Football – Official PFA Website)

Oh sweet Jesus. If Roberto Mancini wanted Harry Redknapp to agree to this truly awful swap deal he would have to slip something into his drink first. Jermain Defoe is a White Hart Lane goal machine, in the form of his life and surely one player that Tottenham will not consider parting company with, so why the hell would we be tempted by Craig Bellamy?

The Welsh irritant may well be doing quite well at Eastlands and managing to keep his nose clean off the pitch but If we did this deal to bring in the former West Ham man I would swallow my own elbow. There isn’t a club that Bellamy has represented that he hasn’t had some sort of problem with. He has small man syndrome and his latest comments about John Terry, although pretty much spot on, were unwise coming from the crazy mouth of the striker.

With 22 goals in 31 starts this term it is safe to say that Defoe should be in Fabio Capello’s England World Cup squad and the 27 is approaching his peak and we would be mugs to consider selling and even if a swap deal actually involved a decent player in return its a deal that still wouldn’t happen.

With Robbie Keane away at Celtic we now have a more manageable selection of three frontmen battling for starting spots and hopefully they can lead us to a top four finish, at the expense of Man City and Craig Bellamy.

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Manchester United 3-0 West Ham United Premier League Highlights (Video)

Mad Dog and Glory — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:58:51 +0000

Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United side secured a must win encounter thanks to yet another goal from Wayne Rooney. Its a result that puts some pressure on Chelsea ahead of this weekends round of Premier League games.

Rooney’s tenth and eleventh goal in eight games calmed nerves at Old Trafford and consigned in form West Ham to a defeat that wasn’t as bad as the scoreline suggests. It puts United in a good frame of mind ahead of their Carling Cup Final encounter with Aston Villa this weekend.

Anderson was hauled off early with an injury before the England international headed the home side in front before adding a second early in the second half. Michael Owen scored a late third to help his England chances. The win puts Manchester United within a point of leaders Chelsea having played one game more.

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Manchester United 1-0 West Ham (Rooney)

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West Ham United 3-0 Hull City Premier League Highlights (Video)

Mad Dog and Glory — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:56:34 +0000

West Ham secured a priceless win at Upton Park over fellow relegation candidates Hull City. Valeron Behrami scored an early opener for the Hammers and Carlton Cole continued his return from injury with a second and Julien Faubert scored a third in the dying minutes.

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West Ham 1-0 Hull City (Behrami)

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Dean Ashton Retirement Could Cost West Ham a Small Fortune: Shouldn’t England Pay Up?

Mr Neutral — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:06:07 +0000

Injured whilst on international duty, surely it shouldn’t be the Upton Park side who foots retirement insurance lay out?

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Dean Ashton has confirmed financially-troubled West Ham are liable for the remainder of his lucrative contract as his insurance was void.

Ashton retired from the game aged just 26 after failing to fully recover from the ankle injury he sustained during his first England call up in August 2006.

The former Norwich and Crewe man, who cost West Ham £7.25million in 2006, last played against West Brom in August of the 2008/09 season.

Ashton was a regular for the Hammers the season before and the club’s then owners handed him a lucrative five-year deal that summer.

Just 18 months later Ashton was forced to call time on his career and he has now confirmed the insurance on his troublesome ankle is void.

As Ashton was injured when West Ham renewed the insurance the company excluded that particular injury from the cover.

The striker, who was capped once by England, believes new owners David Sullivan and David Gold will be furious at having to pay out.

“In hindsight I’m sure they’re ripping their hair out,” explained Ashton.

“At the time I felt I was not going to have any more problems and that I’d got back to somewhere near my best and obviously (the previous owners) felt that as well.

“At the time West Ham didn’t want to lose a striker. At the time five years seemed a lot.

“I had got back and played really well and was in the team every week, and I felt like I deserved a new contract.

“My insurance is void,” he continued.

“There are a lot of things in your insurance where they don’t have to pay you out. If you are injured when you renew it, they can obviously exclude your ankle (from cover).

“But I’m not going to harp on about insurance companies trying to fleece people.

“If they were insuring a house and the roof was knackered then obviously they wouldn’t insure your roof.” (Sky Sports)

You have to feel for Dean Ashton, a player who managed to battle his way up through the leagues and went from League One to the England set up in a very short space of time. A proven goalscorer of the old fashioned variety, a player who could always be counted on to give 100% and able to give the best of defenders a hard time.

Now it appears that West Ham will have to foot a very large insurance bill, but shouldn’t it be the English FA who comes up with the cash? This could be the case that finally throws open the door to a very delicate issue of a national team who is culpable for injuries resulting in long term lay offs, or in this case retirement. It seems only fair that when a player is away on international call up then he is the responsibility of the country concerned.

The amount of times you see players sidelined when playing meaningless friendlies seems to have increased to alarming proportions and surely if West Ham pursued the case to have the England National Team pay the insurance they would have a decent chance of success.

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