West Ham have always been the same. Blame an outsider like Alladyce, Ardilles, Macari etc. Get relegated by Billy fucking Bonds one of their own and it was sack the board. Fucking boring cliched club this lot.
Intimadating ground, yeah on the outside. Fuck them.
1 Like
Hereās hoping something like this happens to spurs when they move into their new stadium, itāll be another corporate bowl.
1 Like
Course it will be.
Atmosphere will decline, same as ours, same as West Ham.
Maybe the āArsenal fans are quieter than everyone elseā thing will finally die away, probably not though.
1 Like
9 Likes
Atmosphere at the emirates can be shocking at times. At every home match without fail I can always here some woman called maria persistently shouting āARSENAL ARSENAL ARSENALā during the quiet moments.
1 Like
Itās pretty shocking most of the time. A few give it their best shot but most people just arenāt willing to join in. Theyāll do it in a big game in particular circumstances (even then they canāt manage it consistently), so itās not like these people are completely averse to singing.
I really donāt get it, when I first started regularly going to Highbury as a little kid one of the main things I fell in love with was thousands of people in unison singing songs. I loved how loud it was, that people had free reign to behave in a way that was completely unacceptable in any other context. As a seven year old I found the fruity language to be exceptionally thrilling haha.
I honestly canāt understand why you wouldnāt want to join in chants at a football match. It makes the whole experience better for everyone involved, including the team.
3 Likes
Yeah I donāt know who paying top dollar for a season ticket and not making noise. Itās pretty much always quiet whenever Iāve sat in the upper parts. Best times iāve had is in the lower corners.
Iād like to think safe standing end would go a long way in improving the atmosphere, Donāt why there hasnāt been alot of movement with it. Either way itās pretty embarrassing for our support
2 Likes
An ugly atmosphere seemed to have been brewing throughout the match and as the game neared the end, riot police were deployed to maintain order as home and away fans came together in a section of the stadium concourse.
West Hamās new stadium is an absolute disaster
2 Likes
Whatās that got to do with the stadium? Apart from that being where it happened, it could equally have happened at Stamford Bridge or Upton Park.
It has been time since Chavski and West Ham fans clashed. An old rivalry is coming back.
I think the fact it wasnāt built specifically as a football stadium segregating the away and home fans is an issue they are obviously struggling to deal with
1 Like
No I think its more to do with the fact that West Ham have always had scum fans and that moving to a new stadium just lets more of them in .
Add to that stewards not trained specifically trained properly in Football Crowd control and you have a recipe for violence .
West Ham have a long long history of Violence and they killed my friend John Dickinson in '82 ,they havent changed much they are still scumbags !
Their stewards from Upton Park havenāt completely followed over to the new stadium so that isnāt going to help. You have āunknown stewardsā from this stadium company that donāt have the ārapportā with some of the fans. Thatās the first point.
Secondly I was reading about some law that has prohibited the presence of police in the stadium up until now. I mean, no police whatsoever in and around the concourse for a London derby, especially this one? Not advisable.
But equally I donāt remember this happening in 2006 at āEmirates Stadiumā. The fact this was kicking off at West Ham vs Middlesbrough and West Ham vs Watford tells you that you have some particularly unhappy West Ham fans relocating from a great ground to a (probable) crappy soulless bowl ground and they arenāt happy. Then you have a few relics from the 1970s/1980s that look for trouble at games and are using this as a cover to start violence.
1 Like
We are a club with better behaved supporters ,we also moved only a matter of yards which means we took our stewards from one place to the next and we have always been good at training them , our policing was always much better than that of other grounds too .
West Ham are of course doing everything on the cheap , it isnt their ground and the stewards are provided by the owners of the stadium .
They wont spend a nickle more than they have to ,they will try and push the cost onto the Stadium Owners who ae reluctant to further aid west hams coffers !
Those of you who have been to a game at the old Boleyn will tell you it wasnt for the feint hearted .
They should be banned from holding games there until they can resolve the problem as somone is going to get badly hurt or worse real soon !
I think I read a few weeks ago that this was down to the Police not being satisfied with the radio coverage within the stadium.
All good points and I agree, i think theyāll get on top of it sooner rather than later though.
West 'Am canāt be doing with this sort of negative PR in 2016, a bit of HD CCTV and a few banning orders will keep the trouble out of the stadium and onto the streets at least. Not that itās any better out on the streets, but at that point I donāt think you can do a lot about it.
iāve been in police cordons (mainly at the Lane ofc) in the 90s, 00s and this decade as well at various ages, itās never going to be eliminated. What has improved over time is the efficiency of the policing, but itās taken quite a few incidents of trouble for that improvement to happen. Last seasonās League Cup tie at Tottenham away was probably the 3rd or 4th worst iāve experienced and even then I couldnāt fault the policing.
Common sense should prevail, donāt take your kid to certain games. The Chelsea dad with his 8yo daughter and the coins; itās terrible but iād question his common sense quite frankly.
1 Like
Ive not been to the Olympic stadium so I cant comment too much but as you might understand Iām not a fan of these āMockneyā boys .
They killed a mate of mine who was 23 years old and Ive never forgotten it ,1st May 1982 . No-one was arrested for it , then to see them brandishing knives at Boro fans ,well it brought it all back to me and It sickens me to the stomach !
WTF 
Brady finally snapped.
3 Likes