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The immediate area to the stadium is great. Got the shopping centre with lots of restaurants. The perimeter of the stadium has pop up vans and bars etc. similar to german grounds.

The concourses are great too, I remember having a Giant Bratwurst when I was there. Lovely...

Then you get to the seats o_O
The rake of the seats is awful, it just goes back and back instead of back and higher.
 
I like their fans. Most of them are very friendly under the surface. I was good friends with the bloke who ran the NY Hammers supporters club and mingled with quite a few of them back then. Of course you get some real twats supporting every club including ours.
 
The worst ground I've ever been to, even worse than watching us away at the Don Valley Stadium.

The ammeneties inside were fantastic, dedicated bars for Lager, IPA, even Champagne from memory...!

But the view, atmosphere and time it took to get to the ground was absolutley terrible.
 
Melbourne Blade said:
Went to Upton Park a couple of times to see the blades. Was a proper ground very close to the pitch. Was weird seeing all their fans queueing for jellied eels before the game though 🤮
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I only went once and it wasn't to see us play the spanners. Saw us play Charlton there in 91/2(?). Cup game I think. Remember thinking it was weird that the council benches and Manhole covers, outside the ground, had East Ham embossed all over them.

Incidentally, that was the first away game that I remember feeling worried that a pub we were going into would be all home fans. Duly zipped up my coat, tucked my scarf in and walked through the doors. Immediately greeted by a sea of Red and White stripes, pints of ale and clouds of smoke. Away Days core memory emblazoned.
 
Ron_Justice said:
I only went once and it wasn't to see us play the spanners. Saw us play Charlton there in 91/2(?). Cup game I think. Remember thinking it was weird that the council benches and Manhole covers, outside the ground, had East Ham embossed all over them.
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At least by moving to Stratford, they're more West Ham than East Ham.
Actually too far West, but 🤣
 
dexter101 said:
Its hard to think of any consistent PL sides that aren't like that to be fair.
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There's just something about their weaselling that grinds. Tevez/Macherano, always seem to have the ear of the FA/PL, being, effectively, gifted the keys to what should be a national stadium, not West Hams ground that does other stuff. Fk em.
 
Ron_Justice said:
There's just something about their weaselling that grinds. Tevez/Macherano, always seem to have the ear of the FA/PL, being, effectively, gifted the keys to what should be a national stadium, not West Hams ground that does other stuff. Fk em.
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for all the controversy with the tevez affair ive always been convinced that if the situation had been the other way round sheffield united would have been relegated 100% believe that so will be delighted when they get relegated
 



I'm in 2 minds regarding West Ham .

I hope they go down purely because Gold , Brady are the worst kind of directors, Brady in particular, wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw her.
As for the myth that nuno is a great coach , id like to see that shattered.

I do however feel for the supporters, after all its a traditional club with traditional support who've been absolutely fucked over by crap owners and directors, a move to an athletics stadium and having what was the heart and soul ripped out of the club.

They saying " home is where the heart is" rings very true and they really have neither anymore.
 
mattbianco1 said:
At least by moving to Stratford, they're more West Ham than East Ham.
Actually too far West, but 🤣
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Most West Ham fans are just Essex carrot crunches these days. They just pretend to be cockney sparrows because of their Estuary accent. Maybe their great grandfather / grandfather etc might have been true East Enders but many moved into the 'countryside' donkey's years ago with the building of huge London County Council housing estates in all the (back then) rural areas of Essex (eg Becontree, Dagenham, Romford etc etc). And more, whereas traditional West Ham strongholds used to be around Newham (as you'd expect), nowadays Newham has a very sizable population of Asians (not really into football) and other nationalities who have no real allegiance with the local team. So now most of the West Haaaaam 'cockney' boys (ie mockneys) are from places like Brentwood, Billericay, Basildon. Yeah sure, there's still some presence in the old East End (eg Mile End boys) but as Tower Hamlets has increasingly become more a mix of Bangladeshi/other immigrants/hipsters etc; your traditional football fan has moved out.

London might have changed its boundaries in 1965 but West Haaaaaam will always be Essex to me.
 
Ron_Justice said:
I only went once and it wasn't to see us play the spanners. Saw us play Charlton there in 91/2(?). Cup game I think. Remember thinking it was weird that the council benches and Manhole covers, outside the ground, had East Ham embossed all over them.
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Ah, that was because 3 sides of the ground was in E6 - East Ham. The other side was in E13 - Plaistow (pronounced Plarstoe fai).
Yes, at the time, Charlton couldn't play at The Valley, so they ground-shared with us for a season or two.
 
Snake said:
Most West Ham fans are just Essex carrot crunches these days. They just pretend to be cockney sparrows because of their Estuary accent. Maybe their great grandfather / grandfather etc might have been true East Enders but many moved into the 'countryside' donkey's years ago with the building of huge London County Council housing estates in all the (back then) rural areas of Essex (eg Becontree, Dagenham, Romford etc etc). And more, whereas traditional West Ham strongholds used to be around Newham (as you'd expect), nowadays Newham has a very sizable population of Asians (not really into football) and other nationalities who have no real allegiance with the local team. So now most of the West Haaaaam 'cockney' boys (ie mockneys) are from places like Brentwood, Billericay, Basildon. Yeah sure, there's still some presence in the old East End (eg Mile End boys) but as Tower Hamlets has increasingly become more a mix of Bangladeshi/other immigrants/hipsters etc; your traditional football fan has moved out.

London might have changed its boundaries in 1965 but West Haaaaaam will always be Essex to me.
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Just to add, my experience living in Essex is South Essex is predominantly West Ham supporters (which makes sense with East End folk moving further Eastwards. moving into the north of the county, you end up with closer links into North London so tend to be Tottenham or Arsenal fans.
 
I was at Newcastle last night enjoying their smash and grab on Leeds immensely. The only saddening thing was watching Dominic Calvert-Lewin play a blinder for the dirties.

I was thinking that if West Ham had signed him rather than Callum Wilson their respective league positions would probably be reversed. Indeed anyone who could get 25 games out of him would probably stop up.
 
The Fox said:
I do however feel for the supporters,
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Oh I don`t - those supporters got a lifetimes worth of sympathy and good fortune with the "wouldn`t be fair on the fans" rationale from the original disciplinary committee.

Quite how we ended up painted as the ones in the wrong through that whole affair is still beyond me to this day.

I hope they are relegated on the last day as a result of a completely incorrect VAR call on a goal scored by a player who shouldn`t be playing on the other team.

And then I hope they go the way of Wednesday...
 
I would feel sympathy for them being forced to watch games in an athletics stadium if they hadn't been gloating about getting this gift from the British tax payer at the time. Spurs proposal to demolish this white elephant and build a proper football stadium in its place would have been much better value for the tax payer.
 
Selly said:
Oh I don`t - those supporters got a lifetimes worth of sympathy and good fortune with the "wouldn`t be fair on the fans" rationale from the original disciplinary committee.

Quite how we ended up painted as the ones in the wrong through that whole affair is still beyond me to this day.

I hope they are relegated on the last day as a result of a completely incorrect VAR call on a goal scored by a player who shouldn`t be playing on the other team.

And then I hope they go the way of Wednesday...
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If the situations were reversed - we had an ineligible player and were only rapped on the knuckles for it - our entire fanbase wouldn't become twats overnight.
 
Selly said:
Oh I don`t - those supporters got a lifetimes worth of sympathy and good fortune with the "wouldn`t be fair on the fans" rationale from the original disciplinary committee.

Quite how we ended up painted as the ones in the wrong through that whole affair is still beyond me to this day.

I hope they are relegated on the last day as a result of a completely incorrect VAR call on a goal scored by a player who shouldn`t be playing on the other team.

And then I hope they go the way of Wednesday...
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I have my opinion you have yours

We did get fucked over by the powers that be and WHUFC .. thats true .. but not by thier supporters . They just go and watch football like the rest of us . Since then the club and what it was has been taken from them to a large degree.
Personally I'm happy not to let the tevez drag on and that to cloud every thought of the club and its supporters. The owners however can get what's coming .
But accept your own view , fair enough.
 
The Fox said:
We did get fucked over by the powers that be and WHUFC .. thats true .. but not by thier supporters .
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You are quite right.

Which makes the lack of graciousness at the end of that season from their fanbase as a collective even more annoying. I don`t hate them for what the club did - I hate them for their attitude following it.

"It should be settled on the pitch"
"We were punished"
"Stop your whining"
"you should have got a draw at home to Wigan"
"He's our player now - we ripped up the TPA"

Not a single one of them ever admitted they had done anything wrong, or that they got exceptionally lucky.

Fuck. Right . Off. You. Twats.
 
Selly said:
You are quite right.

Which makes the lack of graciousness at the end of that season from their fanbase as a collective even more annoying. I don`t hate them for what the club did - I hate them for their attitude following it.

"It should be settled on the pitch"
"We were punished"
"Stop your whining"
"you should have got a draw at home to Wigan"
"He's our player now - we ripped up the TPA"

Not a single one of them ever admitted they had done anything wrong, or that they got exceptionally lucky.

Fuck. Right . Off. You. Twats.
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Don't forget the tevez masks and fake banknotes
 
Selly said:
You are quite right.

Which makes the lack of graciousness at the end of that season from their fanbase as a collective even more annoying. I don`t hate them for what the club did - I hate them for their attitude following it.

"It should be settled on the pitch"
"We were punished"
"Stop your whining"
"you should have got a draw at home to Wigan"
"He's our player now - we ripped up the TPA"

Not a single one of them ever admitted they had done anything wrong, or that they got exceptionally lucky.
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I did but i can't speak for anyone else.
My one main memory/feeling of the end of that season, was that we had been hugely lucky & only stayed up BECAUSE of Tevez's goals.
Imo, the biggest ones to blame were the PL for not acting immediately to stop us playing him.
I took no joy at all in your downfall. I just knew how lucky we'd been.
 
Rob Styles > Man Utd & Liverpool fielding weakened teams in the last few games > Tevez/WHU in the hierarchy of 2006\07 twattery imo.
 



100% if the boot had been on the other foot, the PL would’ve have deducted enough points off us to guarantee relegation. There are many reasons to find them unpleasant, the Tevez affair & the corruption around the Olympic stadium not being the least of them. As I’ve said higher up. Fuck ‘em.
 
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