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West Ham to Visit in Pre-Season Thursday, 8th May 2014 09:51 Town will play Premier League West Ham United in a pre-season friendly at Portman Road on Wednesday 16th July (KO 7.45pm). The Hammers were last at Town ahead of the 2012/13 season with goals from Michael Chopra (pen), Luke Chambers and Jason Scotland seeing the Blues to a 3-1 victory. The game could be one of two home friendlies this summer with manager Mick McCarthy keen to play a match at Portman Road the weekend prior to the start of the Championship campaign on Saturday 9th August. The Blues play their opening friendly in Ireland against Shelbourne at Tolka Park, Dublin on Saturday 12th July with games at Colchester (Wednesday 23rd July) and Gillingham (Saturday 26th July, although not yet confirmed) also on the schedule.

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