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1964
7:26 Thu Oct 27
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Mrkxxx 6:58 Thu Oct 27
Never mind the media, the 100 wankers that threw coins/bottles from BOTH sides are embarrasing and has dragged West Ham through the mud again.
The majority of West Ham fans don't deserve that so can the idiots please fuck off and fuck up somewhere else..
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Stepney.Ammer
7:07 Thu Oct 27
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My first visit there last night and fucking loved the whole experience!
Getting the train down from Essex and going for pie n mash in Chrisp St market where I grew up as a kid, then meeting my old man in Bow Bells for a few...again somewhere I know very well all made it feel like a home game / the old West Ham match experience I know and love. Bow bells...old decor...smelly...proper boozer though.
Loved the walk from pudding mill to ground...proper edgy feel to it and certainly not like the walk you getting at other new stadiums i.e. Reebok, Wigan, Reading etc.
Seeing the stadium lit up...looked impressive and made me feel proud it was ours. Get there and it was manic trying to get in gate F....people bunging over....ain't seen that since the days of the north bank....felt like proper West Ham.
Got in and done the usual have a beer first which resulted in missing the first goal....que running in and seeing the place for the first time....I'll never forget my old lifting me up at the back of the North to the see the pitch first time when I went to my first game at UP....I don't think I'll forget see the pitch for the first time at OS and seeing 40 odd thousand West Ham fans going nuts either!
Thought where we were, block 130, was brilliant...both view and atmosphere...the fact you could pretty stand wherever you wanted and smashing you shins to bits on the seats in front was also a bonus. Stewards seemed decent enough to me as well and a couple I spoke to well up for the crack.
Thought the atmosphere throughout the whole place was goods and it already felt like our ground.
Walk back to Bow Road was lively!!
Was dreading going in some ways as I thought it would be the day I couldn't handle the fact we were no longer going to be playing at UP. However, ending leaving thinking I can't wait to go back. Of course there's loads not perfect but nor was at the Boleyn...which is why I loved that place so much.
I know it was Chelsea under the lights and it won't be anything like that against Burnley on Sunday afternoon but I have no doubt the place has real potential and looking forward to going again.
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Mrkxxx
6:58 Thu Oct 27
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The knicker wetting on bein, sky, radio and the rest of the media is embarrassing, no mention of the game at all. You would think 100 people died in the stadium last night with of the focus on the handbags..
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Poplar Iron
6:50 Thu Oct 27
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Was massive last night in terms of settling...if we'd have got stuffed would have put the whole situ back a step...fact we beat those plastic mugs will hopefully see us create our own fortress...never be the same but lets make the best of it...also little message that these c**ts cant just stroll over Stratford and take the piss ;-)
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yngwies Cat
6:49 Thu Oct 27
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Reminded me of the old South Bank.
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Poplar Iron
6:46 Thu Oct 27
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The standing last night in that area (was just behind it) was just accepted and everyone seemed happy...but was that just cause the cup game?Hope they can carry that into the league games...save a load of unnecessary
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Befnal
4:54 Thu Oct 27
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Said exactly the same myself, they finally got the level of stewarding right in the BML, people were allowed to stand, no interventions, no complaints, just how it should have been from day 1.
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eastham75
3:23 Thu Oct 27
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Spot on it felt almost like home.
its getting there.
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bish bash bosh
3:03 Thu Oct 27
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Spot on Uncle, I know there was coin throwing and a couple of seats ripped out, no one is condoning that...I'm sure the club will ban anyone that started that with the CCTV footage, but overall I thought the stewards did a brilliant job from what I could see at my end of the ground. the atmosphere was great and felt like a proper football match..hopefully will continue and look forward to the London derbies and Liverpool manu etc
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