Dan Silver

Director of New Editorial Product Development @Telegraph. Ex-,@DailyMirror, @MirrorFootball, @NME Tech and videogames writer. Semi-professional West Ham fan.

[Dan Silver @dansilver_]

Thrilled to unveil @telegraph's first new flagship crossword for almost 15 years: the Cross Atlantic.

You can read about its genesis here: https://t.co/uRZ1JWRAyn

And you can play the first ever one for free here: https://t.co/DfULHWbAUu

More big puzzles news to come later🧩

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@mywhufc @HammersUnited2 I don’t know - the stadium only opened in 2013 but I wasn’t really paying attention to their seating arrangements.

What I do know is their half empty stadium had a better atmosphere than our full one 🤷‍♂️

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@HammersUnited2 @mywhufc Was at Nice vs Auxerre on Friday. Less than half-full - 18,600 in a 36,000 capacity ground - yet the atmosphere was 100x better than ours because this lot were all stood together. I know it’s not our traditional culture… but maybe we need to try something new?

[Hammers United @HammersUnited2]

For the record - the @WestHam FAB - every single member worked so hard to make this happen. Club and supporter representatives together. And we did it for every single West Ham fan. United We Stand.

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@pagrev @TheSullis And Hackney Wick. Loads of great places to drink (and eat) there?

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Fixed @guilhermelira06 in @EASPORTSFC 💪⚒️

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@KatieCurtis 💯

Can’t wait to see what he does with a proper team

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Enjoyed that despite the result. A threadbare squad competed throughout and on another day with another referee would have got something out of that. ‘Graham Potter’s claret and blue army’ the end too 😍⚒️

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@TimGatt Legends 😍😍😍

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@PercyBlakeney63 See you there!

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Great point for West Ham and a fantastic second half performance. Imagine what Potter might be able to do with actual attackers and centre backs 😂

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@steve_cowell You make a strong argument!

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@Hammers091 Not saying we don’t need new/better players - and we definitely need strikers. Just not sure we need the wholesale clearout we normally see when we change managers

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@steve_cowell Avram Grant might want a word, but he’s definitely in the bottom two

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@Hammers091 I’m not sure it needs to be that drastic. This is a good group of players - they were just made to look very bad by a very bad coach. Plus, we have young players coming through who will now get a chance

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@FatGoalieE15 100%. If Lopetegui (or Moyes tbh) was still in charge we’d likely never have seen him

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@DavidHoughton82 Now he knows where he’s meant to be playing he looks very good indeed

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@Hammers091 Yes, but think about next season! 😂

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@steve_cowell The way this squad were made so average by Lopetegui was genuinely criminal

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@gizzi_m I am. And that might be unfair - and wrong ofc. But who is the independent DofF in this set up? Sullivan?

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And so it's come to pass. A return to a structure where the role responsible for a long-term strategy (recruitment) effectively answers to a short term appointment (the manager), and the owner does whatever he wants regardless. West Ham are *so* back!

#becarefulwhatyouwishfor

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Whatever your views on Steidten, he checked and balanced Sullivan, and was a move away from the expensive boom-and-bust cycles centred around individual managers. No matter how good Mcaulay might be, him replacing Tim would be a return to that outmoded and inefficient structure

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@Leewoolward Jesus Christ - grow up ffs