peroni
11:57 Sun Aug 21
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Pop
No mate, I have to be honest, getting a beer was a pleasure. No queues whatsoever. £4.90 for a bottle of lager though
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Tomshardware
12:01 Mon Aug 22
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Got a beer straight away at Half time, I noticed a fair few people drinking from the concourse watching the game well into the second half.
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Hammer28
12:04 Mon Aug 22
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56,977 out of 57,000 not too bad. Just need the idiots who keep standing to sort their lives out and they will be full.
Can get if you choose a seat behind the goal then standing is the norm. Massive block on the side level with the box not on. Did not do that at UP and people who bought comparable seats now stuck.
Think they should try and move people about and have to be strict. Sorry if you think standing is the way forward but unfortunately it is against the rules and only really tolerated beni d the goals.
BBC match report also says about loads of empty blocks - do they not read the website or other press and say it was so quiet the away fans sang it's like the Emirates. From my seats could hardly hear the away end.
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Capitol Man
12:06 Mon Aug 22
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some of you seem to get embarrassed at the weirdest things.
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chim chim cha boo
12:06 Mon Aug 22
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I read that BBC report and one in the Mirror and they seem proper hatchet jobs and kind of suggesting that we can't fill the stadium with an atmosphere OR fans- both of which are wrong.
I thought it was a decent enough atmosphere considering we were playing pretty poorly, half of our really creative, 'up off the seats' players were out, Valencia was up front and it took until three-quarters of the game for some of the new players to get up to speed. And we were playing fucking Bournemouth which is not much of a curtain raiser either.
The blocks of seats in the upper bit by the away end were intentional and were tarped off to stop people sitting in them and the block of empty seats in the East Stand (which the BBC kindly put on their site) was almost full half way through the second half. If you ever saw the lines of people queuing to get their tickets at five to three at Upton Park you'll understand that it seems to continue to be a problem at the London Stadium.
It was good and loud at times, my seat is great and I've got loads of people I was on nodding terms with (and some good pals) sitting near me. It's a lovely stadium (maybe a bit TOO posh for us hairy-arsed West Ham supporters) but we'll get used to it in time as we make some new history.
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RM10
12:07 Mon Aug 22
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peroni- go support your team, its the game that matters not the material around you, any way far too early to act like a big girl.
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bruuuno
12:13 Mon Aug 22
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I was in the BML today and thought it was great, actually prefer it to UP. View is equally as good and atmosphere the same if not better. Mates in the upper tier hate it though and I can't blame them.
I liked everything about the new gaff except the nondescript walk from station to the ground. Also it seems quite echoey whereas UP held the atmosphere in. But UP was pony so it's not hard to improve on.
Bring on the future
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One McAvennieeeeee
12:14 Mon Aug 22
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"Just need the idiots who keep standing to sort their lives out and they will be full. "
Erm, go and fuck yourself?
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peroni
12:14 Mon Aug 22
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Give it a fucking rest Chim, with your sanctimonious bollocks.. We were to the left of Bournemouth, Upper tier and it was fucking empty for a few hundred seats to my right. It sounded shit and was a disgrace compared to the Boleyn. It;s fantastic that some love the club so much that they're blind to this, especially whne it's posters like you who appear to believe your long-winded bollocks posts matter. It was shit and Bournemouth were taking the piss. I fully expect to come on here after Man Utd have taken the piss to read more righteous bollocks from you. Good luck - this is your time.
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bruuuno
12:17 Mon Aug 22
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It didnt sound shit where I was peroni
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:^)
12:18 Mon Aug 22
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RIP WEST HAM UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB
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Pop Robson
12:18 Mon Aug 22
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Gonna be crazy when we play a "big team"
Was there any old bill there today can't remember seeing any other than afterwards
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penners28
12:22 Mon Aug 22
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Hate it when people are trying to give their honest views and then dicksie-esq comments come out. Are fans not allowed an opinion anymore unless you are blowing smoke up the owners backsides?
As for the standing v sitting thing, im adopting the os attitude. If you are unhappy with people standing then dont go?
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peroni
12:22 Mon Aug 22
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bruuuno - I'm sure it didn't mate. I suppose that's a plus - when you're in there amongst it, it sounds great. The place is too badly designed for that to make an impact though. But good luck to you bruuno - I hope you make it work
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Capitol Man
12:26 Mon Aug 22
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Did we not just get the biggest league attendance in our history, against Bournmouth, in the middle of August?
It was always going to be different. I'm not sure the nostalgic view of the club has been there for a couple of decades or more anyway.
Sure it won't feel right for a good number.
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:^)
12:26 Mon Aug 22
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"Hate it when people are trying to give their honest views and then dicksie-esq comments come out. Are fans not allowed an opinion anymore unless you are blowing smoke up the owners backsides?"
hahahhaha. FMOB!
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peroni
12:29 Mon Aug 22
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:^) 12:26 Mon Aug 22
Explain what's funny
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:^)
12:31 Mon Aug 22
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Because either Penners is on a wind up, or he has got all precious whilst forgetting a lot of his own contributions to the OS thread.
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peroni
12:32 Mon Aug 22
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Ok, cheers
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Hermit Road
12:40 Mon Aug 22
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The two massive blocks can't both have been to do with Bournemouth or big queues at the ticket office. They were two random blocks completely empty. I'm not talking about a few rows here, about 20 rows might cover it.
There's something odd about it. And it looked shit.
I'm not slagging the ground or the atmosphere. There's plenty of that on the other thread.
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Alfie
12:46 Mon Aug 22
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This seeming disappearance of so many from so large a portion of seating is indeed troubling and requires scientifical investigation of the most rigourous kind.
I have already begun some enquiries and by 7 o clock had deployed a variety of empirical invesigative methods in pursuance of this mysterious episode.
Some have claimed that still warm part - drunk cupettes of bovril were left in the empty locations, whilst others reported observing open and part thumbed programmes fluttering ownerless as these suspiciously dormant seats were lapped by the gentle east london breeze.
Is it possible that the empty block may actually have been occupied, but that at some unknown juncture prior to kick off - all of the patrons in occupation of those seats were dematerialised to nothing by some kind of giant top secret invisibility ray gun fired at them from a sort of rudimentary lazer trumpet lashed upon the poop deck of a passing US destroyer , engaged in some kind of war time cloaking experiment?
And that the next time they will be seen will be when they emerge blinking and befuddled from the cavernous confines of a recently landed alien craft at the foot of a mountain in Utah, to be greeted by white boiler suited scientists who have coaxed them out by playing a giant bulb lit moog organ at them in a boogallo jazzy alien freestyle?
Weird encounters of the stratford kind.
If on this inclement evening you care to cock an inquisitive ear out into the dark outside of dwindling summer, you may well just detect the distant strains of the song of these abducted unfortunates - eeking down from the heavens, their astral cries of 'Irons Irons Irons' echoing through the gloom from inside their extra terrestrial craft spinning high above their former home.
The curious case of the disappearing cockneys of West Ham, London.
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