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Although we have been deprived of the services of 'Doris The Tea Lady' since her retirement, we have, ironically touched base with a 'West Ham United Insider', known to us via an old media connection, and not in the Vicki Butler Henderson sense! Anyway, word has reached us that West Ham United are about to bid for Michu from Swansea.

West Ham United will play the first leg of their Europa League campaign at home to Andorran team FC Lusitans on July the 2nd, not July the 9th. This is after the initial schedule was reversed to avoid a fixture clash with Andorra's other representatives, Sant Julia, who were also drawn at home to Denmark's Randers in the first leg. The clear benefit for West Ham is that the tube strike threatened for the original home date will now have no effect!

A further 15 clubs were this afternoon entered in to the draw for the second qualifying round, joined by 51 winners from the first qualifying round.
West Ham will play Maltese team Birkirkara or Armenian club Ulisses over two legs if they proceed to the second qualifying round by beating Andorran team FC Lusitans over two legs in the first qualifying round scheduled to be played on 2nd and 9th July.
The second qualifying round will take place 16th and 23rd July.