1 DAY AGO - ​West Ham are set to offer Manuel Lanzini a new long-term contract after he has shown impressive signs since returning from injury Collapse

2 DAYS AGO - Embed from Getty Images The Brighton fixture was one of those unusual games for me that do happen every once in a while. I tend to watch every West Ham offering religiously, my eyes fixed on the TV screen, from the first to the final whistle. And it started out reasonably normal on Saturday at 4pm local Hamburg time, with me following my usual “matchday-watching-on-the-telly-routine“ to a T: West Ham shirt of choice on, check! Favourite West Ham mug filled with steaming hot tea, check! Screwdriver at the ready, check! So I was about to settle down in my armchair to watch the mighty Hammers attacking Brighton on their own manor when suddenly the dog and bone was making a noise, it was my favourite/only brother calling in, delivering a most welcome bit of splendid news, he had been to yet another screening/CT scan which had yielded a negative result (for traces of cancer), hence making it very positive news actually, as you can all imagine. I had the game on in the background, with the Collapse

2 DAYS AGO - Guest Post by Rugby Irons So our tinker man has shuffled the pack and still picked a near losing hand. I sense more supporters are starting to question our Manager’s performances, and I think it’s right to do so . Every player is scrutinised so why not the manager? A team manager is basically judged in three areas – Preparation, tactics and squad selection. We had a long mileage pre-season which didn’t seem to achieve progress in the two prime aims. If it’s for fitness then it failed. Two games in and we already look tired, leggy and of course injured. If it was to prepare for new players coming into the squad, that didn’t happen either. We seem to have not learnt any lessons from last season. In terms of what is done on the training ground it looks short of intensity and does anyone really know what MP’s team plan is from one game to the next? Which brings us to tactics. It’s a fantasy to believe just because we have good, promising flair players, we can just outscore Collapse

3 DAYS AGO - Wins for Liverpool, Arsenal, Norwich, Everton and BournemouthTeemu Pukki scores his first hat-trick in English football Brighton and West Ham draw at the Amex Stadium 5.35pm BST Scott Murray has all the latest news from the Etihad Stadium as Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur duke it out. Related: Manchester City v Tottenham Hotspur: Premier League – live! 5.22pm BST Premier League: Bernard scored the only goal of the game to consign Watford to their second consecutive defeat. Related: Bernard’s early goal is difference as Everton keep Watford at bay 5.17pm BST Premier League: Leandro Trossard had a goal ruled out in the first half of his debut for Brighton, but came up with an equaliser in the second. Related: Brighton’s Leandro Trossard denied by VAR then pegs back West Ham 5.14pm BST Premier League: Liverpool squeaked over the line in a match Jurgen Klopp described as a “banana skin” after his side’s exertions in Istanbul. Related: Sadio Mané returns to haunt Saints and Collapse

4 DAYS AGO - Manuel Pellegrini was confined to his bed, so Jack Sullivan took over. He surprised everybody by selecting Ogbonna, Diop and Balbuena to play alongside each other at the back. It became obvious fairly quickly that Brighton were finding it hard to achieve any level of penetration. The West ham players were quick to close down any move by the opposition. The back three allowed Fredericks and Masuaku to display their talents, one with speed and the other with speed of foot. They were able to get to the byline and sure enough after fifteen minutes, a Fredericks cross found Haller’s head and West Ham were ahead. Their first goal of the Premiership season and the first for Haller in the Premier league. The game continued as it had started. Wilshere was especially effective, given that he knew the was solid backup behind him and he found Antoniou who hassled and bustled his way through the defence, but his shot was well wide of the goal and he should probably have gone to Collapse

4 DAYS AGO - Anthony Taylor has been appointed as the referee for West Ham’s GW2 clash at the Amex this weekend against Brighton and Hove Albion. Interestingly though, the Seagulls have never lost a Premier League game when Taylor’s been in charge. Brighton and Hove Albion- Premier League games refereed by Anthony Taylor Arsenal 1-1 Brighton (2018/19) Brighton […] Collapse

5 DAYS AGO - Blast from the past Today’s blast from the past features a 1-0 victory at the Goldstone Ground, West Ham United’s first ever win away to tomorrow’s opponents, Brighton. It arrived nearly 106 years ago, on the 13th December 1913 in front of 6,000 spectators. H. H. Asquith was Prime Minister and, the day before, the stolen Mona Lisa was recovered in Florence after Vincenzo Perugia was arrested while trying to sell it. Music hall singer Alec Hurley had died the previous week – Hurley was the second husband of music hall singer and comedienne Marie Lloyd, who was best known for her performances of ‘My Old Man (Said Follow The Van)’. 22-year-old Lincolnshire-born forward Dick Leafe (pictured), formerly of Boston Town, Grimsby and Sheffield United, scored the only goal of the game as the Hammers ran out 1-0 winners – it was Leafe’s tenth goal in 15 games since making his debut three months earlier. When Leafe retired from playing in 1922, having scored 44 goals in 106 Collapse

6 DAYS AGO - The new football season brings along a fresh sense of optimism and I am often buoyant about West Ham’s chances. I watched the first 55 minutes on Saturday but elected to turn the television off when Gabriel Jesus scored City’s third which was eventually ruled out by VAR. I feared the worst after Sterling’s 51st minute goal, and you could tell the team were deflated by it. I opted to go for a walk instead of watching the remainder of the second half, and I think I made a good decision. I could discuss the match but others have already written very good pieces on it. The immediate thoughts after receiving the full time result notification on my phone were definitely negative. However, the more I have read and thought about Saturday’s game, the more I think we must accept City’s brilliance as opposed to a totally abject performance from Pellegrini’s men. Guardiola’s team are outrageously clinical and you only needed to look at a bench that consisted of Aguero, Bernardo Silva, Cancelo Collapse