dicksie3
8:44 Mon Aug 22
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Stadium looks great on the telly and even better in the flesh.
Will still take a while though to "feel" like home.
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Fivetide
7:15 Mon Aug 22
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Wow. I never realised the true horror of the new match day experience until now!
"No SKY Sports on in the lounge, only pies available for my son and only allowed to stay for an hour afterwards."
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claret50
6:46 Mon Aug 22
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Cheers Cough.
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gph
6:40 Mon Aug 22
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*looks forward 99 years, when our new new stadium is referred to as soulless compared to our now new stadium*
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Far Cough
6:35 Mon Aug 22
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You can get to Stratford station without the stop go things if you follow the walk that goes past the Carpenters pub
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claret50
6:35 Mon Aug 22
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Station*
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claret50
6:34 Mon Aug 22
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No mate, Stratford to get the train back to Moor Park, but the stop/go sign people on the walk to the stadium delayed everything.
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busheyhammer85
6:31 Mon Aug 22
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50 minutes?
Where did you walk to? Euston?
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claret50
6:30 Mon Aug 22
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It was my visit to the stadium ever and I thought the atmosphere was great, we were sat in the lower East 15 rows from the pitch/track and the view was brilliant, would've been better had the cunts in front had sat down instead of standing and giviing the stewards a load of grief. The 50 minute trek back to the station was a pain though.
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busheyhammer85
6:25 Mon Aug 22
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'Seeing fans video others in the hope of grassing them up for standing was sickening yesterday'
What the fuck????
Who are these cunts???
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Gavros
6:23 Mon Aug 22
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they arent going to get everyone to sit, so the only viable action is to allow for a season ticket seat exchange.
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Gavros
6:23 Mon Aug 22
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they arent going to get everyone to sit, so the only viable action is to allow for a season ticket seat exchange.
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:^)
6:19 Mon Aug 22
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Tony seems to have changed his tune from a few months ago....
Arsenal made their switch to the Emirates a decade ago. There are still plenty of wistful recollections of Highbury, but for new generations of Arsenal fans the talk of Marble Halls has as much resonance as tales of Herbert Chapman.
In Fever Pitch, one of the seminal books in football literature, Nick Hornby talked of that life-changing moment when he walked on to the terraces at Highbury for the first time and saw the green pitch in front of him.
No matter where the stadium is, that moment still occurs across the country on a weekly basis.
Youngsters at the Emirates still step wide-eyed into the arena for the first time. Young Hammers will feel the same thrill at the Olympic Stadium.
The surroundings may change but football’s capacity to captivate endures.
There is a popular belief that new stadiums have killed the atmosphere in English football. It is not true.
http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/tony-evans-tears-will-flow-at-boleyn-ground-but-west-ham-are-moving-in-right-direction-with-olympic-a3243326.html
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One McAvennieeeeee
6:18 Mon Aug 22
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I must say, my 'view' is fine and I wouldn't want to sit anywhere else in the stadium. I just fucking hate the stadium though. The only thing that looks half decent is the roof/flood lights. It looks unfinished, cheap and nowhere near capable or ready to host top flight football. Seeing fans video others in the hope of grassing them up for standing was sickening yesterday. They are the 'supporters' Brady etc want though and good luck to them. I would always back WHU in any argument with another fan, even if I knew I was wrong but I can't even be bothered to stick up for it with fans of most other clubs I know mugging it off
I'm absolutely gutted to be honest.
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busheyhammer85
6:09 Mon Aug 22
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Not sure how anyone could argue with that, Any Old Iron SON.
Like I said earlier in the thread, I like my seat... But I'm genuinely gutted for those fans. like yourself whose favourite pastime has been ruined by the move.
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Any Old Iron
6:04 Mon Aug 22
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We're there now, so all we can do is make the most of it. Personally, having spent most of my West Ham years just a few yards from the pitch, I think being about 50 yards from the touchline is far from an ideal way to watch football every week. I could live with it for an occasional game, but every couple of weeks is a pain in the arse.
How anyone can sit in the upper tiers behind the goals is beyond me.
Yes, the atmosphere at the Boleyn changed when we lost the terraces, and since then there have probably only been a handful of games each season when the place gets noisey. So I don't expect such a vast barn of a place to be rocking for too many games. Fortunately having the place guaranteed to be pretty much full every league game for the next two years is a massive help.
But I've always been very vocal at games, not so much singing and chanting, but general shouting. Being so far from the action I now feel disconnected from the action and can't be arsed to make the effort. I'm afraid that during some games it's going to be very flat.
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:^)
6:02 Mon Aug 22
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I think people are forgetting the point of going football. It ain't about the match, or about wearing the colours and supporting the team. It's about dressing up in expensive togs, doing coke, throwing beer about and fighting anyone who wants it.
Achitects don't design football stadiums for this anymore and it's killing football.
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Far Cough
5:54 Mon Aug 22
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I agree, any atmosphere at Highbury would have been created by the oppo fans
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FruityBoots.
5:53 Mon Aug 22
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Well done Tony Evens, a soulless journalist, a soulless article, earning his soulless wages for a soulless life from the soulless existence of a university life.
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Northern Sold
5:52 Mon Aug 22
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You obviously never went to the games I did then Cough... fantastic fucking stadium was Highbury... might have been shit against other teams but not us...
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BulphanIron
5:52 Mon Aug 22
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So just to get this right the media were spot on with the HIGHBURY LIBRARY tag but WRONG on calling our gaff SOULLESS?
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