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Team news is in, we will update at half time:
West Ham United staring line up: Randolph, Antonio, Nordvelt, Reid, Cresell, Feghouli, Noble, Kouyate, Tore, Valencia, Carroll. Subs: Spiegel, Rice, Page, Byram, Obiang, Cullen, Quina, Samuelsen, Makasi. Fletcher, Martinez.
It is highly likely that yet again wholesale changes will be made to the team, it is all part of the process! - Ed

West Ham United v Karlsruher SC Pre-season match, Saturday 23 July 2016, 5pm CEST (4pm BST) at the Franz-Fekete-Stadion, This is Hammers final warm up game ahead of this coming thursday's Europa League cup opener away to NK Domzale, Slaven Billic will be hoping to 'ease' players like Winston Reid and Andy Carroll in to a competitive environment gradually during this afternoon's match, he will of course be hoping his players avoid injury but they cannot be wrapped in cotton wool forever!

The appointment of Sam Allardyce as the new England manager is a little like fiction becoming life in a Mike Bassett sort of way, the FA have not countenanced messing with appointing a 'johnny foreigner; in the fall out of Roy Hodgson's disastrous competitive competition results, but have gone full belt and braces and might even play 4-4 effing 2!