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Uncle Junior 2:19 Thu Oct 27
The Stadium was Christened last ...

Has been open a few months now but last night
was the first time it felt a little bit like home..
Night match / London derby / edgy atmosphere /
a bit lively in & outside the ground :-) / Good drink in a shit boozer ( fuck off Westfield )
Hopefully the start of the journey to getting our old West Ham back...

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

eastham75 3:23 Thu Oct 27
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Spot on it felt almost like home.
its getting there.

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.

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

yngwies Cat 6:49 Thu Oct 27
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Reminded me of the old South Bank.

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 ;-)

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..

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.

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..

chim chim cha boo 8:36 Thu Oct 27
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Stepney.Ammer 7:07 Thu Oct 27

Nice post. Exactly the kind of thing I love reading about.

Crassus 9:02 Thu Oct 27
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Made me titter that I have heard all day that the club had an alcohol ban in the ground

Well when we went through the concourse no one seemed to have told the vendors - the party deck was bouncing with happy chappies beer in one hand, fag in another and a bloody great grin

Oh as a foot note, dopey cunts in the media banging on about last night being damaging to the brand - THAT WAS THE WEST HAM BRAND

Fair to say it was all in all a rather jovial 'match day experience'

bruuuno 10:50 Thu Oct 27
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There was never an alcohol ban in the ground it was banned at the kiosks outside

bruuuno 10:53 Thu Oct 27
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As I said in the other thread I saw scenes last night thy I've not seen since the south bank. A long way from the sanitised shit we are used to as modern fans

Crassus 11:02 Thu Oct 27
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Bru

As you will have gathered I am many things but a modern day fan is not one of them

Thankfully

Uncle Junior 11:04 Thu Oct 27
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Stepney /Crassus good posts

Hasans Fish Bar RIP 11:08 Thu Oct 27
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Speaking of smoking. I was grassed by a fan for sparking up last night. Of course I 'get' it's not permitted. But its pretty much outdoors, upper tier stairs overlooking old ford lock. To be fair the steward said he was a bit embarrassed and let me finish my smoke. He said he would take my recommendation of permitted smoking areas in grounds a la stadium mk and most recently Wycombe

Hasans Fish Bar RIP 11:09 Thu Oct 27
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Uncle Junior 11.04

bruuuno 11:12 Thu Oct 27
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I'll drink to that crass

Crassus 11:37 Thu Oct 27
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I really enjoyed it last night, fucking loved it to be fair and the result was merely the icing on the cake, a bonus if you like

Last night there were proper blokes having a right good time, bouncing about and being 'West Ham'.

That means a drink to far may have been taken, an oath may have been uttered, a toe stood on when leaping about and generally playing up but we were one, absolutely proper WH.

That is what that club is all about, us.

Fuck all the corporate, media, new branding bollox - that is what we are and what we have always been and last night it showed that you can try but you will not stop it - ever.

The result and and straightening out of theirs that wanted it by ours that were happy to oblige were merely cherries upon a cake of cake reclamation.

Oh and a footnote on branding, I was with an Italian today and his traditional old money large manufacturing/engineering business, very wealthy and equally educated, consumate industrialist - a Juve fan but his best pal is Lazio.

He spent time when first joining the family firm in London with Mr Lazio at UP and as I had heard elsewhere, is hugely pro WH

Why is that I said - Your fans, very special but as you know all of us Europeans know about your club because of its special fans, that is WH

And that Ms Brady, Baroness of Self Publicity, is what is known as a fucking brand

Takashi Miike 11:44 Thu Oct 27
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chassis, it was my first game in the stadium last night (I had been in there during the olympics). you may have noticed me slogging it off on various threads but I loved it last night. we were in block 232 and the atmosphere was great, obviously it won't be like that every game but I had a great time. little things like plenty of toilets was another big plus, especially when you think back the medieval bogs at the old ground when it was all standing. I'll definitely be going again

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