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A football hooligan has been jailed for 18 weeks for taking part in large scale violence after a match between West Ham and Tottenham last year.
Richard Coffman, 20, of Mawney Road in Romford, was sentenced by Stratford Magistrates after pleading guilty to affray.
It will be all guns blazing for West Ham as they look to put some distance between themselves and relegation rivals Hull.
Carlton Cole, Mido and Ilan will all be vying to take on the Tigers' porous defence, although one of the strikers will have to settle for a place on the bench.
If West Ham can get to the end of 2009 without another vicious drubbing, they'll probably be feeling fairly festive.
The club has endured a rotten December, with losses to Man United, Birmingham and Bolton, the retirement of Dean Ashton and the absence of Carlton Cole until January.
West Ham slunk back into the relegation zone following a dispiriting loss to Birmingham City.
Almost inevitably, it was one of their former players that shoved them down the lift shaft.
Whisper it quietly, but there's a vague possibility that Kieron Dyer might appear for West Ham this weekend.
The midfielder's injury record has restricted him to a handful of matches since joining from Newcastle in 2007, but he may be spotted at Upton Park after completing 75 minutes for the reserve team.
Carlton Cole is expected to return to the side as West Ham prepare for a battle-of-the-strugglers with skint Hull City.
The striker - who has been the subject of paper matchmaking with Liverpool and Manchester United - should recover from hamstring problems in time to face the club one point ahead of the Hammers.
Former undisputed world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis is backing David Haye to win his title fight against Nikolai Valuev tomorrow.
Bermondsey-born Haye face the 7ft 2ins Russian in Germany hoping to become Britain's first world champion in the top division since Lewis hung up his gloves in 2003 writes Steven Davies.
An earlier gun scare on the Jubilee Line is causing minor delays to the service this afternoon.
British Transport Police were called at 2.47pm after two passengers claimed they were threatened by a man with a firearm between West Ham and Canning Town stations.
Hundreds of arrests could be made over last month's clashes between West Ham and Millwall fans as the Crown Prosecution Service prepares for a mammoth operation.
Only 14 people have so far been charged in relation to the violence, which took place in last Tuesday's cup match, as police continue to trawl through CCTV footage.
Did you hear that West Ham won on Tuesday? No? Well they did.
This weekend they take a break from heated London derbies for an away day in the picturesque town of Blackburn.
Newham officers are on the hunt for a mob who stabbed a father outside Upton Park as trouble flared at this week's West Ham vs Millwall match.
The 43-year-old Millwall fan is in a stable condition in hospital following the attack, which also saw the group aim punches and kicks at his two teenage sons.
Eastern Jubilee line services were shut down last night as police tried to talk down a woman threatening to hurl herself from a bridge.
British Transport Police stopped trains between North Greenwich and Stratford at around 10pm last night, as officers attempted to persuade the teenager not to throw herself onto the track.
British Transport Police suspended Jubilee line services from 10pm tonight after a man threatened to hurl himself of a bridge at West Ham station. Tube staff reported the trains were terminated at North Greenwich in a bid to control the incident.
More to follow.
There were tears at the Boleyn on Saturday - but they certainly were not from the Hammers who ended the season on a high.
Although they had already lost out to Fulham in the race for a Europe League place, Gianfranco Zola's team beat Middlesbrough and sent the north-east team into the Championship.
A Jubilee line train travelling to Stratford was searched by police this morning after a report of a man concealing a gun.
Metropolitan Police officers scoured the eastbound train at West Ham following a tip off, but services returned to normal just before noon after no weapon was found.
A wonder-strike from Radoslav Kovac put West Ham in the driving seat, before an Everton fight-back left the Irons out of the race for seventh place.
Two goals from Louis Saha and one from Joseph Yobo, as well as a sending off for James Tomkins made it a disappointing away day for the Londoners.
West Ham's Europa League dream could be over if they lose away to FA Cup finalists Everton at the weekend.
The Irons are two points behind Fulham, who are sitting in the golden seventh spot, with Tottenham between them in an all London sandwich.
Climbing over a spiked fence to escape a gang of chasing hooligans was Ed Hall's first taste of the unsavoury side of football.
Somewhat fittingly, these days Ed's job as a lead prosecutor for London's football clubs is to make sure such troublemakers are made to pay for their crimes.
West Ham will be without Carlton Cole for the visit of Sunderland after the striker was ruled out for six weeks.
The injury was sustained on England duty, during Saturday's friendly clash with Slovakia.
West Ham will have to bounce back quickly from their midweek FA Cup defeat, as they 'welcome' back Craig Bellamy to Upton Park.
Bellamy scored twice for Manchester City on Thursday and will be looking to shoot down the Hammers in Sunday's match.
