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SE5 Hammer 2:46 Sun Feb 5
'Tourist' season ticket holders

Hello old cunts ( some may remember me) and everyone else. This tourist season ticket thing is it really true? is the new ground packed with tourists who know nothing about West Ham? I only ask 'cos now my kids are getting old enough I applied for a season ticket a good 18 months ago (i had a season ticket for 20+ years before 2006) still on the waiting list and I know a fair few like me too - so all the new 20,000 odd thousand can't all be 'motivated' tourists? most of them must be proper supporters - is the tourist narrative something that's developed and is now "FACT"?

Far Cough 3:23 Sun Feb 5
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SE5 you old cunt where you been hiding?

NaG here

Far Cough 3:25 Sun Feb 5
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It's not full of tourists maybe 10% in my opinion

SE5 Hammer 3:34 Sun Feb 5
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North Bank bar

SE5 Hammer 3:35 Sun Feb 5
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North Bank bar

Far Cough 3:40 Sun Feb 5
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Haha

AKA ERNIE 4:06 Sun Feb 5
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Hardly any and not seen any awah fa s in home bit although apparently theres thousands of them

On The Ball 4:13 Sun Feb 5
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It's certainly not true from what I see over there. There are still plenty of foreigners (the Supporters' Clubs), but there were at UP.

Oh Billy Billy.... 4:17 Sun Feb 5
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Was talking to a Man U fan at work on Thursday - he has bought 2 season tickets - just to watch Man U and a couple other "big games" then sack the rest off - he said he had a few mates doing the same

Johnson 4:19 Sun Feb 5
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I think if people went in the designated Thomas Cook day tripper bit behind the goal by the aways or round by the dugouts you might find some.

There's certainly plenty of folk who support other teams who have STs as we know from people on here who know them.

On The Ball 4:24 Sun Feb 5
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I'd be interested to know how many Thomas Cook actually sell.

Johnson 4:38 Sun Feb 5
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You mean you're not in a position to find out?

chim chim cha boo 5:27 Sun Feb 5
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I'm in block 106 near the back and every week there are different people in the row directly in front of me. Everyone else around me are regularly there so I suppose they're season ticket holders. its just the row of seats in front.

It's not them who bother me though, it's the eclectic mix of West Ham fans. I would say that I'm one of our more 'vocal' fans but three little girls and their dad sit directly behind me and I constantly have to remind myself not to call the referee 'a cunt'.

a screechy (but nice enough) mum sits on the end of the row and every time she vents a couple of oldies a few rows down turn around and look at her like she's a piece of shit. I don't know if they actually are but they look like those religious bastards who want to kill the white working classes- Christians.

I came a bit late to a game and saw four stewards on the concourse who had dragged screechy woman out of her seat and she was crying. I waded in and she told me that three separate letters had been written to the club complaining about her language. Hmmm. I wonder who wrote those letters?

To be fair to the stewards they were actually okay blokes who looked awkward that they'd made her cry. One said 'I don't really know how to handle this. One letter said they'd been West Ham supporters for sixty years and had never heard language like it'. He smiled at skreechy bird and said 'they've never been to Upton Park then, have they? Look, just go back to your seat, try and keep the language down for today and try and forget about this'.

She said 'those old bastards have ruined it for me and it was so embarrassing getting hooked out by four stewards' and I had to agree. We went back to our seats but it only took three old cunts to really suck the atmosphere out of our section.

There's a bloke who sits behind me and he's obviously like me an old punk rocker. He's usually got an old punk band's tee-shirt and we chat about the bands we used to go and see. He thought them complaining about the language funny and every time something a bit controversial happened on the pitch he shouted stuff like 'OH FOR FORNICATION SAKE!' and 'REF, YOU ARE A LADIES FRONT-BOTTOM'. Well I found that funny.

That's the problem with the Olympic Stadium for me. Because there's no family stand or God's waiting room stand you get pitched in with all sorts of types. To cap it all, I'm only a few seats away from the posh seats of Club London or whatever the fuck it's called and as everyone knows that section NEVER make a sound but are probably among the first to bitterly complain about a lack of atmosphere.

Hopefully after a massive game of musical chairs at the end of the season or some common sense dictating a family stand, yobs like me will sit with like-minded other yobs.

essexmaniacinexile 5:35 Sun Feb 5
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Last season I was in the towards the back of the main stand, Bobby Moore end. Two hole rows directly behind me had different groups of foreign tourists every game.
Every now and then you'd get a Hammers fan amongst the group but mostly were they were still tourists. Quite a few were Scandinavian but not all the time. One was openly supporting Chelsea when we played them. We certainly enjoyed making him welcome when we beat them.

essexmaniacinexile 5:37 Sun Feb 5
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Pretty clear the club have been issuing blocks of seats at The Boleyn. Just doing it now on a bigger scale,added to all the Trade In seats too.

bobbymoore 6:09 Sun Feb 5
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I was grabbing a beer behind the BML by the big screens..... 2 lads behind me.

"Oh it's a nice stadium isn't it, very impressive"
"Yeah it's not bad, you're stadium will be good when it's built....."

Turned around and asked if he was a yid, went all sheepish and his mate said sorry he has 2 season tickets and just wanted to bring his mate.

Luckily they sit up in the sky behind the BML. Block 147 gets a bit rowdy

chelmsfordhammer 6:20 Sun Feb 5
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Chim, we had a similar thing where I sit. There's a good bunch of people around but we has some bloke and his kid sitting a couple of rows in front of us for one game. The bloke in front me stood up and shouted 'for fucks sake' at the ref.

The bloke with his kid stood up and started shouting at the bloke about how his language was ruining the day. The bloke apologised but the other bloke getting going on and on about and then pointed at his son and said ' look what your language has done , you've made him cry' oblivious to the fact that his kid was crying not because of the swearing but because he'd made such a big issue out of it.

With that , the bloke stormed off never to be seen again.i don't know what some of these idiots expect , it's a football match and if his 12 year old kid has never heard someone say fuck before good knows where he goes to school.

The next game the bloke who swore , swore again , looked around at my 12 year old and apologied. My boy said,'don't worry mate I've heard my dad say a lot worse than that'.

Dan M 8:34 Sun Feb 5
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On Wednesday there was a bloke three rows behind me that hadn't been before. He was having a great time constantly screaming "fuck off you melts" at the City fans, then calling the West Ham fans around him plastics and "only there on freebies" because they weren't joining in with him being a proper fackin' fan.


He left on 65 minutes because West Ham weren't winning.

andyd12345 8:38 Sun Feb 5
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I would be amazed if anyone that wants a season ticket couldn't get one next season.

If the 50,000 supposedly on the waiting list, I'd be surprised if any more than 30,000 ever had any intention of buying a ST given the chance. Of those 30,000, no more than half will be proper fans, and considering what's happened this year the other half would no longer want to part with their cash. That leaves circa 15,000 genuine fans who will want a ST.

If the 45,000 current ST holders we've got, a good 15,000 will be tourists that will definitely not renew.

I'd actually be surprised if they sell out the ST allocation next year.

Troy McClure 9:18 Sun Feb 5
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**Can I just hijack this thread about tickets to say that I need some for Saturday. Whomail me**

Thank you

El Scorchio 9:41 Sun Feb 5
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Pretty much everyone round where I sit (East Upper) are regulars and definitely West Ham. I honestly haven't seen many if any tourist fans at all. Or at least none that stick out as non West Ham.

Not sure if I believe all the stories about Arsenal/Liverpool/Man U mates with tickets on here. If it were all true there'd be thousands of the fuckers! Also most of them must have been given the opportunity to buy their tickets by West Ham fans, which is just weird.

Oh well, I don't notice them anyway so it doesn't spoil my enjoyment (or otherwise!) of the games.

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