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Craig Dawson has come a long way since he started his career with Lancashire Amateur League club Rochdale St Clements and Northern Premier League side Radcliffe Borough.

He's making his 50th appearance for the Hammers tonight.

The 31-year-old defender's career includes 221 Premier League appearances for West Brom, Watford and West Ham - as well as 17 goals.

London Stadium plunges into darkness. That means we're close to kick-off. Light show coming up!

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Lawro is regularly accused of being anti-West Ham, external when he does his weekly predictions - and tonight, he is going for a 6-0 Norwich win.

Only joking, he's actually backing the Hammers to beat the Premier League's bottom club 2-1.

Brothers Femi and TJ Koleoso from jazz band Ezra Collective (who were his guests when this game was meant to be played on Saturday, 18 December) are also backing David Moyes' side. Femi has gone for a 3-0 scoreline, while TJ thinks it will end 2-0.

A round of applause for former West Ham and Norwich striker Alan Taylor who is on the pitch talking about helping the Hammers win the FA Cup in 1975. He's predicting a 3-0 home win. That's not gone down well with the away end.

Norwich City

There have been a few changes at Norwich since they last faced West Ham.

Daniel Farke was in charge when the Hammers ran riot at Carrow Road winning 4-0 in July 2020 - a result which relegated the Canaries with three games of the 2019-20 campaign left.

Since then Norwich have won the Championship but they are on course to make a quick return to the second tier unless they can get some wins.

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The winter transfer window is well and truly open for business with Philippe Coutinho and Kieran Trippier among those arriving back in the Premier League.

Will West Ham being doing any business before the window 'slams shut' at 23:00 GMT on 31 January as they chase a European finish in the Premier League, compete in the Europa League knockout stages and look to go deep in the FA Cup.

"We'd like to add to our squad if we can and if we can find players who we think are suitable, we could do with some backup if we can get it," says boss David Moyes.

"There's never any guarantee in January the right players are gettable, but we're certainly looking around."

Bournemouth's Lloyd Kelly, external is among the many players West Ham have been linked with.

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Norwich City

Norwich have won just one of their past 28 Premier League away games against London sides - drawn six, lost 21.

That win came against Brentford earlier this season.

The last time the Canaries won away at two different London sides in the same top-flight campaign was in 2011-12 (v Spurs and QPR).

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Around 25 minutes to kick-off. Standing room only on the pitch as both teams warm up. Even David Moyes is out there getting involved.

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Michail Antonio must fancy adding to his tally of eight Premier League goals this season.

After all he did score FOUR the last time West Ham met Norwich.

Read about how he did it here.

West Ham United

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David Moyes has told his West Ham players to keep on "annoying" the Premier League's top four.

The Hammers are enjoying an impressive season.

In addition to chasing a top-four finish, they're in the fourth-round of the FA Cup and into the knockout stage of the Europa League.

Do they have the quality to stay in the hunt for a Champions League between now and the end of the season?

"Norwich will see every game as an opportunity, but I see it at West Ham as a chance to challenge the teams at the top and keep annoying them," says Moyes.

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Things have got so bad for Norwich fans that they have been celebrating imaginary goals.

It happened during their last Premier League game, a 3-0 defeat at Crystal Palace on 28 December.

And they were at it again during the FA Cup tie with Charlton at the weekend - even though their side won.

But the 'celebrations' have not gone down well with Canaries boss Dean Smith.

"I can be honest and say I don’t like the sarcasm from our own fans. We need to be together in this fight to stay in the league," he said.

"I know at times it is only a minority but I would ask them to refrain from that (celebrating an imaginary goal) and get behind us."

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Norwich City

Norwich have scored three times in 810 minutes of Premier League action away from home this season.

Teemu Pukki has two of those - including one penalty. Good job he's back in the starting XI.

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Newcastle United, who are spending BIG in the winter transfer window, will end the night propping up the table should Norwich secure a first win on West Ham soil since 1989.

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Our attention turns to games against Norwich City and then Leeds United in the Premier League, where we remain on course for European football qualification - and let's not forget we have the last 16 Europa League draw at the end of February to look forward to.

BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

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Former West Ham defender James Collins is alongside Alistair Bruce-Ball as BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra provides full commentary of the match from 19:40 GMT.

Dubbed West Ham's 'Ginger Pele',, external Collins made 214 appearances for the Hammers across two different spells. He announced his retirement from professional football in October 2020.

Norwich City

Norwich boss Dean Smith on making six changes from the last Premier League game: "We've got some big players back and it's really important we've got those players back.

"We were decimated by injuries and illnesses over Christmas.

"We know our points tally is nowhere near where it needs to be. Hopefully we can press the reset button."

Aaron Creswell is back after a long injury.

That's a welcome sight for Hammers fans.

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West Ham manager David Moyes Potter makes three changes to his starting XI from the 3-2 win against Crystal Palace on 1 January in their last Premier League outing.

Aaron Cresswell, Nikola Vlasic and Pablo Fornals all start with Said Benrahma at the Africa Cup of Nations, Ben Johnson dropping to the bench and Tomas Soucek missing out.

West Ham XI: Fabianski, Coufal, Dawson, Diop, Cresswell, Lanzini, Fornals, Rice, Antonio, Bowen, Vlasic.

Substitutes: Areola, Yarmolenko, Masuaku, Johnson, Kral, Oko-Flex, Alese, Ekwah, Ashby.

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Norwich boss Dean Smith makes six changes from the side that started the 3-0 defeat at Crystal Palace in their last Premier League fixture on 28 December.

Tim Krul, Grant Hanley, Milot Rashica and Teemu Pukki all retain their places from Sunday's FA Cup win over Charlton and Brandon Williams and Max Aarons also come in.

Billy Gilmour is out with a sprained ankle, while Angus Gunn, Sam Byram, Jacob Sorensen, Christos Tzolis and Dimitris Giannoulis are all on the bench.

Norwich XI: Krul, Aarons, Gibson, Hanley, Williams, Placheta, Rashica, Lees-Melou, McLean, Pukku, Idah.

Substitutes: Gunn, Byram, Dowell, Kabak, Tzolis, Sorensen, Giannoulis, Gibbs, Rowe.

This is Norwich's first Premier League game of 2022.

How will they line-up?

Team news coming right up.

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There's going to be a lot of re-arranged games between now and the end of the season because of postponements due to Covid-19.

This is one of them.

West Ham and Norwich were due to meet on 18 December but was called off because of positive tests, injuries and illnesses in the Norwich squad., external

Since then Norwich have played two and lost two in the Premier League, conceding eight times without scoring.