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An Irrational Hatred Of Luton by Robert Banks with a foreward by Jeremy Nicholas

An Irrational Hatred Of Luton is the classic account of one football fan’s obsession with West Ham United.
“Somewhere in a parallel universe there is another Robert Banks, who is a season ticket holder at Manchester United and is a highly successful novel [...]

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It will not come as a massive surprise to hear that West Ham have parted company with Gianfranco Zola, despite avoiding relegation by a ‘comfortable’ five point margin, following a dreadful season in the Premier league.
The likeable Italian accepted the managers position with the Hammers in September 2008, despite having no previous managerial experience at [...]

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In front of the lowest attendance at Anfield for a league game since 2004, Liverpool kept up their outside chance of fourth place and Champions League football next season by completely outplaying a very poor West Ham, this evening.
West Ham were absolutely rubbish.  They appeared to be zone marking instead of man marking and throughout [...]

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Chelsea need a coach more than a manager, right now.  They had a first class football coach, with bags of experience, success with Jose Mourinho & Avram Grant, and a former Chelsea player to boot.  But Steve Clarke is now building a successful partnership with a former Chelsea legend, Gianfranco Zola, at West Ham United.
After [...]

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Pascal Chimbonda returns to White Hart Lane, after signing for Roy Keane’s Sunderland only last summer. The 29 year old French defender who made a promising start for Sunderland, ended up making just 16 starts before falling out of favour with Keane.
Big spending Harry Redknapp continues to wheel and deal by bringing Chimbonda back to [...]

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