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• Nick Barmby fails with appeal against Hull City dismissal

  
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  • Hulls chairman backs decision of son to dispose of Barmby • Steve Bruce the favourite to take the reins at KC Stadium Nick Barmby has lost his appeal against the decision to sack him as Hull City manager. The Hull chairman, Assem Allam, has backed the verdict of the vice-chairman and his son Ehab Allam to ...
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• What now for Bolton Wanderers?

  
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  Championship side Bolton Wanderers face losing up to ten players this summer, with almost half the squad out of contract....
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• Sam Allardyce praises Carlton Coles show of love for West Ham

  
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  • Striker took a pay cut to help fire West Ham back to top flight • Contract talks with Robert Green a priority for West Ham David Gold had a smile from ear to ear, Mark Noble was proudly wearing the play‑off winners medal that was going with him on his stag-do in Dubai later that evening while the man who ...
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• Ian Holloway lines up crucial money talks with Blackpool chairman

  
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  • Blackpools players deserve an awful lot more than they get • I dont think the chairman realises how football is Ian Holloway will go on holiday to Italy this week before returning to hold talks with Karl Oyston, the Blackpool chairman, about the need for realism over how football operates financially. He will ...
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• Big relief for Big Sam Allardyce after fortune smiles on West Ham | David Hytner

  
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  Allardyce achieves his aim of taking West Ham straight back to the Premier League, but it was a real nail-biter Sam Allardyce did not have to field the question. He knew that it would have been forthcoming in defeat. "Sam, do you fear the sack?" The West Ham manager has lived on the edge of a knife since last August, ...
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• Ricardo Vaz Tê hailed as best ever signing by West Ham manager

  
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  • Portuguese scored winner in Championship play-off final • Sam Allardyce paid relatively small fee for the forward Sam Allardyce hailed Ricardo Vaz Tê as one of his best ever signings after the player he bought from Barnsley in January scored the goal that earned West Ham promotion at the first attempt. ...
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• This was plan B but we did it, says West Ham captain Kevin Nolan

  
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  • West Ham are first club to go straight back up since Leicester • This means everything to me, says Sam Allardyce Ricardo Vaz Tê praised West Ham Uniteds spirit after his late strike at Wembley sealed an immediate return to the Premier League and an estimated £90m windfall, as they beat Blackpool 2-1 in a ...
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• Blackpool 1 West Ham 2: Lessons from a dramatic Wembley play-off

  
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  Wing worries for Hammers A potential area that Blackpool manager Ian Holloway would have looked to exploit before the game was the wide positions. With pacey wingers such as Matt Phillips and Thomas Ince in their ranks and forward thinking full-backs lining up against them, it was clear from the off that this was ...
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• Blackpool 1 West Ham 2: This means everything – Sam Allardyce

  
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  Sam Allardyce admitted leading West Ham United back into the Premier League means “everything” after Ricardo Vaz Te scored a dramatic winner to beat Blackpool 2-1 in the Championship play-off final at Wembley. The Upton Park outfit took the lead just before half-time after Carlton Cole controlled Matthew ...
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• Blackpool 1-2 West Ham

  
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  Ricardo Vaz Tê spent most of the afternoon infuriating the West Ham faithful with his indecisiveness in front of goal, only to come good three minutes from time with the goal that sends Sam Allardyce and the Irons back into the Premier league after a years absence. It was not quite as breathless a finish as the ...
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• Blackpools Kevin Phillips seeks last top-flight tour against West Ham

  
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  The striker will be 39 by next season but he still feels he has plenty to offer Ian Holloways side in the play-off final Kevin Phillips, with 275 career goals and counting, is intent on one last tour of the Premier League. Blackpools penalty-area master turns 39 on 25 July when he hopes pre-season will be a countdown ...
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• Sam Allardyce out to silence his West Ham critics by beating Blackpool

  
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  The under-fire Hammers manager believes the play-off final is bigger than the Champions League because it has the power to change lives Sam Allardyce has an evolutionary theory for his particular species. "As a manager," he says, "you accept that you need a double skin: a rhinos skin and an elephants skin to survive ...
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• Stale Solbakken appointment not brave, says Wolves owner Steve Morgan

  
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  • He is legendary in Scandinavia states Morgan • Solbakken plays down talk of quick Premier League return The Wolves owner Steve Morgan believes the clubs new manager Stale Solbakken has the pedigree to bring success to the midlands club and insists the Norwegians appointment is astute rather than brave. ...
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• Blackburn Rovers look doomed to stay in the Championship

  
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  For a few moments he managed to escape his marker and find the back of Wigan’s net – but sadly for the Blackburn faithful this was not Yakubu or Junior Hoilett – it was a chicken. The players had a joke when a fan released a chicken onto the pitch on Monday night but their was no laughter at the final whistle ...
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• Cardiff City 0-2 West Ham

  
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  West Ham Uniteds erratic home form will ensure they approach the second leg on Monday night with a degree of caution but Sam Allardyce and his players are within touching distance of a place in the play-off final after this convincing victory. Two first-half goals from Jack Collison, the second of which took a huge ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cardiff City v West Ham United – live! | Jacob Steinberg

  
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  • Turn on our auto-refresh tool for the latest updates • Email jacob.steinberg.casual@guardian.co.uk for a chat • Follow Jacob on Twitter if thats your thing Team news: There are no surprises from either side. Kevin McNaughton is injured for Cardiff, so Darcy Blake starts at right-back. West Ham start ...
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• Play-off relegation curse haunts West Ham, Birmingham and Blackpool | John Ashdown

  
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  Cardiff are the best bet to be promoted if the fate of teams trying to return to the Premier League since 1996 is a guide There is a statistic that should worry three of the four sides who begin battling it out in the Championship play-offs on Thursday night – no team since Leicester City in 1995-96 have been ...
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• Hull City owners silent over future of manager Nick Barmby

  
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  • Manager stressed team strengthening was vital • Club fell short this season of making play-offs Hull Citys owners, Assem and Ehab Allam, have refused to comment on rumours that the club have suspended the manager, Nick Barmby, over alleged comments about the Tigers finances. Barmby, 38 , who took over from ...
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• Mark Noble: West Ham must get over disappointment and focus on Cardiff

  
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  • We wanted to go up straight away, says Noble • Squad have spirit and experience to get to Wembley His 18th birthday was barely behind him when Mark Noble, still in his first season as a professional footballer, savoured one of his finest moments in the game. As a late substitute for Shaun Newton, Noble entered ...
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• Nigel Adkins has the vision and grounding for life in the top flight | Sachin Nakrani

  
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  Southampton manager is looking forward to playing high-tempo, possession-based football in the Premier League Nigel Adkins punched the air as Southampton rattled in their goals on a gloomy yet glorious afternoon for the club but, that aside, he showed little sign of getting carried away with their promotion to the ...
  4 weeks ago

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