isolated hammer
11:42 Sun Sep 10
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Fair play I suppose. Never really thought of your comments in that way
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Eerie Descent
11:25 Sun Sep 10
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You can't enjoy the gentle irony of someone calling them isolated hammer starting a thread on finding himself surrounded by West Ham fans wherever he goes?
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isolated hammer
11:18 Sun Sep 10
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Eerie Descent
Why do you say that? This is supposed to be a thread about the beauty of being a West Ham supporter
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simon.s
11:11 Sun Sep 10
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Down at the coast in Kent today and spotted two Hammers shirts, which is always nice too see, given it’s technically more Millwall’s manor.
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Eerie Descent
11:05 Sun Sep 10
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You couldn't really have a better username to go with the thread.
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isolated hammer
9:53 Sun Sep 10
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BeauLarkyBuff, which pub are you on about? The Friday or Saturday pubs?
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isolated hammer
9:50 Sun Sep 10
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Mashed in maryland
You are absolutely right. Villa fans wouldn't go anywhere near the Blues ground on match days. I know as I live in Birmingham.
Having said that, as long as I don't go looking for trouble, I have never had a problem cheering on the Boys in a Birmingham pub.
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BeauLarkyBuff
8:55 Sun Sep 10
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Isolated.
Bro tells me it was The George but he was a bit pissed.
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mashed in maryland
8:50 Sun Sep 10
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Ex, when I lived over your way, whenever I got the train in for home games, every single stop West Ham fans would be getting on. Sometimes 1 sometimes over a dozen. Its the same now I live up north.
No way of knowing but would it be the same with Villa fans going into Birmingham from either direction? Bet it isn't.
For a club with our lack of success, we are, absolutely massive.
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WHU(Exeter)
7:30 Sun Sep 10
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Mashed, you’re right.
When I grew up in Exeter, the local park was covered in West Ham graffiti. I started supporting the club in 1974 and even down that way, hundreds of miles from Upton Park, you’d be surprised at the level of support the club have.
I know this may sound silly, but the indoor market in Exeter had a football scarf, pennants, mugs shop in it, some 40 years back, and there was more West Ham type stuff in there than any of the other London clubs.
Went down to Exmouth a few months ago, to watch my local non-league team play, went into their market for the first time in decades just for old times sake, and again in there, there was loads of our stuff on sell compared to other ‘big’ clubs, walked further into the market and their cafe had West Ham flags up.
Didn’t surprise me at all, the club have big support, especially considering it’s success in the league etc.
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isolated hammer
6:57 Sun Sep 10
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The exile, I lived in Dusseldorf in the early 2000's, we were playing Sunderland in the FA Cup. I watched the game in an Irish Bar. Some German chap was really irate at the team line up. When we scored, we both went mental, looked at each other, hugged each other. Turned out he worked in London for a few years and was West Ham season ticket holder.
Every game thereafter that we were on TV, we sat and drank together watching the match. Some messy Sundays were had believe me.
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mashed in maryland
6:54 Sun Sep 10
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Work a lot in rural areas of northern England and N Wales.
Its surprising every time how many West Ham shirts, stickers in cars etc you see in places you'd never expect.
Dunno if its cos we're hard-wired to spot it but never ssem to see as many as similarly successful clubs, or even "bigger" London clubs (obviously see Man Utd and Liverpool shirts everywhere)
Can't say if this is other east Londoners who've moved up north or what. But there's always plenty of northern accents at away games and we must have one of if not the most "dispersed" catchment areas of any team in the country (proper fans who actually go to games I mean)
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isolated hammer
6:45 Sun Sep 10
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One all she is thick, purely by putting up with me. I am a fucking nightmare.
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RM10
6:32 Sun Sep 10
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I don’t think I have been anywhere on hols that there wasn’t a hammer!
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the exile
6:14 Sun Sep 10
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Mrs Exile is born and bred over here but is of German extraction. A few years ago we were over in Deutschland and visited a female cousin of hers. Only turns out she's a West Ham fan, having never lived over here or anything. My flabber was truly ghasted. We are everywhere.
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DiCaniosLefty
5:35 Sun Sep 10
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The OP mentions his fiancé 4 times, yet no link.
Site, dogs etc
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,
5:09 Sun Sep 10
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I recall, as a schoolboy, Billy Dare joining us from Brentford. He was fairly regular for us before we had Dick and Keeble paired, in our promotion season, and after that he became more a back up forward choice.
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Pub Bigot
5:00 Sun Sep 10
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Know a few in Liverpool and not limited to West Ham fans who’ve moved here like me. A couple of natives I know follow us (their dad who goes home and away with them is from East London) and I’ve met a couple of other Scouse Hammers.
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joe royal
4:29 Sun Sep 10
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Bill
Do the Dublin hammers still drink in Brannigans?
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BillC79
4:23 Sun Sep 10
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I moved over to Dublin in 2008, and it always amazes me the number of West Ham fans that fly over on a match day. The Irish lads could have chosen any team, but chose us.
I’ve bumped into quite a few in my time over here, one of them genuinely believed that we were the best team in the 60s
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Percy Dalton
4:13 Sun Sep 10
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Can remember the old man talking about Billy Dare played for us in the late 50s
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