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West Ham's financial performance has again overshadowed its on-field activities.

The club's latest annual accounts, published yesterday, detailed how the Hammers' debts - put at around £110million by co-chairman David Sullivan - accrued under its Icelandic former owners and it makes grim reading.

IT'S ALMOST the end of the road for West Ham as they play their last away game of the season against Manchester United this weekend.

Alan Curbishley takes his 100 per cent record against the Premier League Champions to Old Trafford on Saturday (May 3), knowing a point would be good enough to guarantee the Hammers 10th place.

The Irons will be without Freddie Ljungberg, whose cracked rib sustained in last Saturday's (April 26) 2-2 draw with Newcastle will rule him out for a month, and possible the European Championships.

WEST Ham squandered a two goal lead but produced their best performance for weeks against Kevin Keegan's resurgent Newcastle side.

In bright sunshine at Upton Park on Saturday goals from Mark Noble and Dean Ashton were just reward for the Hammers' early dominance and they should really have been out of sight well before half-time.

But two defensive lapses enabled Obafemi Martins and then Geremi to pull the Magpies level just before the break, and Irons' fans must have feared the worst.

WEST HAM’S injury jinx has struck again.

Saturday’s (April 12) 1-0 defeat at Bolton not only dealt another blow to West Ham’s hopes of securing a top-10 finish, but saw centre-back Anton Ferdinand limp off with a hamstring injury which is likely to rule him out for the rest of the season.

It’s just the latest of a seemingly endless run of injuries for the unfortunate Hammers this season, with many of the first-team squad currently missing.

THE SEASON can’t end soon enough for Alan Curbishley and his injury-ravaged West Ham squad.

Saturday’s (March 29) 2-1 defeat at Sunderland – courtesy of ex-Charlton star Andy Reid’s last-minute volley – was of less consequence than the loss of more players to the treatment table.

George McCartney and Freddie Ljungberg both picked up hamstring injuries, while Carlton Cole (sore foot) and John Pantsil (concussion) also suffered knocks.

It leaves Curbishley short of options with just six games of the season left to play. Matty Etherington and Julien Faubert were ruled out for the rest of the campaign last week and the Hammers travelled to Sunderland with just 17 fit players.