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Five years on and grateful to you all

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Over the next few days ClaretandHugh will be celebrating its fifth anniversary and our biggest possible thanks go to all who have supported us since we started life as a small blog back in ’14 to now, when we have over 250k followers.

It’s been a great journey as we have travelled through the good and bad times with one unwavering mission – to bring you news and views of all that’s happening at any given time in our great club.

We are really grateful for all the support and comment we have received here and on the Facebook Group -even from those who can’t stand us.

It’s a huge pleasure to bring between 10 and 20 stories a days even to those who criticise and carp on the old “board lovers” platform.

Yep, we support them and every other area of the club as we have done all our lives..

We admit that at times we get it wrong – when that happens accept our apologies in advance.

We have always tried hard to make this a family friendly site, thus abuse and swearing is eliminated wherever we find it but our mission will always remain the same – to gather news for fans..

Thanks to the many thousands of you who have sent heart-warming messages.

Sometimes in this game encouragement is thin on the ground but we will never change – news is what we are about. For those who have worse than reservations about us, you are welcome here too.

COYI

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Hugh Southon is a lifelong Iron and the founding editor of ClaretandHugh. He is a national newspaper journalist of many years experience and was Bobby Moore's 'ghost' writer during the great man's lifetime. He describes ClaretandHugh as "the Hammers daily newspaper!"

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  • Hammer_Rite says:

    I don’t agree with everything you say but you are still the first west ham forum i go to.
    Well done sean and hugh, 👍

  • Hammer_Rite says:

    Just one little negative hugh.Can you publish the comments quicker.Seems an age between when i post and it actually going live.

    • I may take moderation off mate. Trouble is Sean has a day job and I’m doing stories, FB Group, trying to answer people here and have just been told last year we published 5,000 stories but I will do my best mate

  • Saul says:

    Stellar job, guys. Congratulations. Only found you a year or so ago but now hit you up at least 2 or 3 times a day. I’m really enjoying the site, keep up the good work

  • zahama says:

    Thanks Hugh and Sean – with Claret and Hugh I find that I can skip most other sites for West HAm news and reviews – I really appreciate your efforts

    Let us hope the boys give you a 5th anniversary victory tomorrow at the Bridge

    Chelsea 0 – 2 West Ham (Antonio, Haller)

    Coyi

    • Whuduck says:

      Keeps us informed down under in Perth plus’s a few laughs we have very varied supporters base all with west ham in our blood Well done CH team ⚒⚒⚒⚒

  • Thor Simonsen says:

    Well done. C&H is my go-to site for WHU news, and I must say I think you are more often right than not in mist of the things you write. For transfer rumors you have the best hit rate of all. As said, very well done.

  • Hollywood Hammer says:

    Your forum is the only one I go to .This keeps me up to date all the way in California.I also watch Geo and Gonzo on their video stream.That is enough to be informed.Well done and keep up the good work guys.⚒⚒⚒

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