Did anybody watch Match of the Day? Some of the scenes were pretty ugly, but it does also show how strongly some fans feel about the running of the club. Running on to the pitch and squaring up with players isn't the answer either though. That guy that ran to the centre circle with the corner flag didn't seem to be challenged at all by any stewards or police, but from the looks of it they had their hands full controlling other parts of the crowd.
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Thread: West Ham
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11-03-2018 01:40 AM #1
West Ham
Last edited by ekhibee; 11-03-2018 at 01:43 AM.
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11-03-2018 02:48 AM #2
The club has lost it’s soul. The fans are about 3 years too late in doing something about it. There’s also a lot of infighting between the fans from what I’ve read.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/west-ham-united-board-protest-march-meetings-hooligans-icf-action-group-a8244951.html?amp
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11-03-2018 06:28 AM #3This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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11-03-2018 08:31 AM #4
Not a great time to be a Hammers fan. Likely to get lynched by other fans..
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11-03-2018 08:41 AM #5
I like West Ham fans a lot more now. They've been sold a pup. I can really see some sort of community club springing up in their place along the same lines as that Real Man Utd that came along after the Glazers arrived, or AFC Wimbledon. The problem is the number of grounds where a new club could potentially play are diminishing.
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11-03-2018 08:44 AM #6
Completely understand it. The fans have been totally ****ed over with that stadium move.
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11-03-2018 09:04 AM #7
I can sympathise with them as they’ve had the soul ripped out of the Club by the pornographer, his mate and the lady from The Apprentice but, reading that Independent article earlier in the thread they clearly have a very unsavoury element to their support as well.
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11-03-2018 09:07 AM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
You think?
They’ve been pretty lazy and complacent so far. Not sure the Hammers have the chops to actually do something constructive.
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11-03-2018 09:25 AM #9
West Ham have always had a bunch of drunken thugs in their support.Like Millwall. So this sort of thing is no surprise.
If the club had appointed a more astute coach than Moyes the team would be doing better. They have good players in there. Then the fans would be happy.
It's not rocket science.
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11-03-2018 09:34 AM #10
Easter Road.
Our spiritual home and a wonderful stadium, ideal for the needs of our club in our current situation.
Whilst we've had a few ups and downs along the way, we should always be hugely grateful for all that the present incumbents of our club have done to keep us at our home and turn that home into what it is today.
And we should never forget that our spiritual home is also a prime chunk of real estate, ripe for redevelopment by anyone minded to do so.
I feel so sorry for the Hammers fans and totally understand their unhappiness. This move was a catastrophe. I've been to the Boleyn Ground, and it was one of my favourite grounds.
The board there heaped pressure on themselves with this move. Only a very strong on-field performance was ever going to mitigate the unhappiness, and that wasn't going to happen with David Moyes, Joe Hart and Patrice Evra.
Sadly, I really don't know where they have to go. The likes of Juventus managed to move from an unpopular stadium back to a more suitable one but with London property as it is, I don't know what West Ham can do.
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11-03-2018 09:36 AM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
You could say the same about Hibs.
All three clubs have proper working class roots, and its likely to get a bit lively when things aren’t going well.
Problem is that West Ham have now left their traditional community and the fans have left it too late to stand up and be counted.
Moyes (and Allardyce) go against the footballing traditions of West Ham, but are more the symptoms of the problem rather than the cause.
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11-03-2018 09:38 AM #12
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West Ham pride themselves on playing proper football so staying up playing "park the bus, hoofball" made Allardyce unpopular and they believe Moyes is of the same style.
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11-03-2018 10:07 AM #13This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Slavers.
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11-03-2018 10:33 AM #15This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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11-03-2018 12:23 PM #16
Watching luton in the 80s, it was always west ham and chelsea who were the worst fans (and a one off against millwall). Luton fans had a reputation as well. West ham lost their community a while ago around Upton park due to different ethnic groups moving in and 'white working class' moving out. Didn't realise there was such bad feeling around the new stadium. Is it because they are far away from their traditional home or because they are not doing well?
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11-03-2018 12:41 PM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I think it's more to do with the vision they were sold on leaving their traditional home. By cashing in on the property and by being able to house extra fans, they were expecting to be able to challenge higher up the table.
West Ham have always had a healthy support and have under-performed for decades. They seem to be spending a lot more money on continued under-performance.
I think that what the board want and what the fans want seem to be different things. The fans would have been happy to stay in their old ground, attempt to play football the right way and not necessarily achieve a great deal.
By promising big then under-delivering, the board have put themselves in a very difficult position.
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11-03-2018 03:07 PM #18
In order for this to work West Ham had to make the move to the London Stadium work and work quickly. They haven't and the focus not surprisingly has moved from a club hoping for bigger and better things to a club where the fans feel the move from Upton Park has ripped the heart out of it. It may be three miles from the original ground, but I get the impression it might as well be on the Moon as far as the majority of West Ham fans are concerned.
Imagine us at Millerhill in a stadium where the pitch is 15 yards from the stands and with our traditional heartland and pubs three miles away .... the very thought would keep me awake at night
What's almost certainly exacerbating the situation is that of all the London clubs West Ham are one of the few rooted in a working class community, or at least that's how they see themselves, and watching Karen Brady hobnobbing with that throwback to the 'loadsamoney' devil take the hindmost generation Alan Sugar on the telly isn't exactly going to help cement a connection between the folk running the club and its fans.
The fans of that club see themselves as Green Street and the clubs owners as Oxford street ..... When they see what in their eyes is a load of posh boys running the club into the ground and giving the distinct impression that the money matters more than the football its only going to go one way.
I feel for them.
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11-03-2018 03:09 PM #19This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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11-03-2018 03:20 PM #20This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Gullivan sold Upton Park for private profit and West Ham are now renting a soulless bowl in Stratford.
The fans got scammed. It’s taken them a while to work it out though.
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11-03-2018 03:45 PM #22This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Upton Park was that communities last tie to "their" East London so moving had greater connotations than purely a change of stadium. The fact that the clubs a shambles on and off the pitch has brought it all to the surface.
Ones Ive met of a certain age always quite okay with Hibs, possibly because of a certain London friendly over thirty years ago
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11-03-2018 04:30 PM #23This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Having two shifty owners and Karen Brady in charge was hardly going to lead to a positive outcome for the club or the fans.
And we no longer live in the 1950's ;-)
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11-03-2018 05:02 PM #24This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Upton Park was the WHU fans last link to a largely disappeared cockney "east end" and while that's maybe a very "1950's" concept, id suggest that football support is as much about the past and tradition as it is about the here and now.
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