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To the people at the back of that stadium, the players must look like ants.
To the people at the back of that stadium, the players must look like ants.
At least they have plenty of room to fight now.......Bournemouth fans, really !!
Bingo.I wouldn't be at all surprised if they have a similar experience to Darlington, albeit on a higher level. They had a crooked owner in George Reynolds who built them a bonkers 20k seater stadium (for a club with a 2500 average attendance), then sold the club a year or two later. After a few seasons of playing in a near empty stadium they unsurprisingly couldn't sustain it, dropped out of the league, and ended up selling the stadium to the Rugby club.
Darlington are now somewhere in the wilds of the football league pyramid, and play their games on a local sports field.
West Ham want to be careful. Its so obvious their owners are bent as nine bob notes and just want to attract some kind of foreign billionaire to invest (hence all the "London" stuff), make their killing and then fuck off. They've done so much of this on the cheap, probably thinking that whoever buys the club can worry about retractable seating and all that palaver. It's a massive con job, and they've clearly got some peers and OC people in on it to ensure they get the stadium on the cheap, for a share of however many millions they're hoping to get out of some mug from China.
Fans are being utterly shafted if you ask me, and all that Olympic legacy from 2012 gets shat all over.
Yes. It's perfect.Bubble machines
It's like they're a bunch of five year-olds.
In africa, that amount of spare land would have mielies growing all over it.
Think you're being kind. I'd rather have B'mouth's little stadium than that monstrosity. Totally unsuitable for football. Fans will abandon it unless Spam have an amazing season...which they won't.An average stadium for an average club.
It's not like they are gonna host any champions league matches there. So it fine for them.
Near the beginning of the clip you can see a young kid in a Bournemouth shirt right in front of the camera, his dad has his arm around him, plus there's quite a bit of 'west ham' being shouted so my money's on West Ham v Bournemouth.Are we sure that was a bournmouth fan? West ham were kicking off between themselves and with the stewards inside the ground.
There's a very quick shot of what I'm guessing is a security guard who has taken off his hi-vis and has it scrunched up in his hand...wtf is that about?
It's not made up
Lazio fans actually do love west ham
I have cousins from Rome and one of them is a lazio season ticket holder with about 6 of his friends
I've been to several games over the years whenever I'm in Rome and I can confirm that you will see a lot of lazio fans wearing west ham shirts and singing west ham songs (as well as a hybrid between chelsea and Liverpool song)
The only reason for this is Di Canio is a Lazio icon and he had such a high profile successfull period at West Ham that the lazio fans merged their support with west ham
They also love chelsea it seems so all in all lazio fans are just.... a lovely bunch (hence my preference for my other cousin and uncle who are Roma fans)
M8 just sent me this pic from his concrete seat. I think there is a pitch in it somewhere.
Think if anything it highlights the clubs strong position of "we'll take it only if we can rip it down and build a stadium suitable for football".So we're all agreed then? Say no to Stratford?
At least they have plenty of room to fight now.......Bournemouth fans, really !!
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They piss me off for robbing the public and a community of what was supposed to be a world class athletics venue, and sporting legacy. Why on earth should they get to do that? And whats worse they've made a fucking pigs ear of it.
West Ham were originally going to buy it at a much reduced rate. Our involvement ensured that West Ham couldn't buy it and do what ever they wanted with it. As such we ensured that they were stuck with what they have now.Think if anything it highlights the clubs strong position of "we'll take it only if we can rip it down and build a stadium suitable for football".
From my perspective the OS was always a non-starter as we were going to rip it down. The only reasons we got involved were
- Put pressure on David Lammy & Boris to cut us a good deal to stay in Tottenham
- Make sure West Ham have some competition so they don't steamroll negotiations (that turned out well )
At least they have plenty of room to fight now.......Bournemouth fans, really !!