Colchester Sid
10:39 Thu Jun 3
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WHUDeano 10:01 Thu Jun 3
haha yes my mates Lee and Ian walking past the camera as well, haven't watched that in a long time
Ian and I walked back to town afterwards, don't think many West Ham walked it in both directions
Ended up about 4 in the morning in a little square eating tripe sandwiches. Yuck
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eastham75
10:12 Thu Jun 3
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Had a superb day, travelled alone but got talking on the plane to another WHOer and agreed to go for a beer together then in the city as we got off the bus got talking to W4Hammer and his son we all went for beers and a meal great Hammers away day.
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WHUDeano
10:01 Thu Jun 3
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0UUIvbazRy0
That’s the link - I’m black and white stripes with my old man putting his hand on my shoulder telling me to calm down or I’d be nicked!
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WHUDeano
9:58 Thu Jun 3
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Funny reading someone saying that Palermo fans thought we were mad, because I definitely thought they were fucking crazy. Brought at the worst in me, pretty sure I was on Italian tv after we were stopped at the wrong end, I grabbed the front of the camera and gave it the ‘irons’ shout into it. At the time we were surrounded by police with dogs and a load of Palermo trying to get at us and throwing empty beer cans (my old man “shouting throw a full one, I don’t want a ducking empty one!”).
Colchester Sid must have been near by as we were also marched through the tunnel and across the pitch because the police couldn’t guarantee our safety getting us around the ground. There’s a video on YouTube of us that I love to watch from time to time.
Such a shame we were so shit that we decided to avoid the bother & lock in and leave after around 70mins, we ended up in a pleasant restaurant being overcharged for pizza and litres of red wine.
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jooliandix
9:48 Thu Jun 3
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I've done Cremonese & 1860 twice,I'm hopefully going to Celtic in July,and the missus has given me a pass for 1 group game
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Mike the Hammer
2:46 Thu Jun 3
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Agree heartily with chim!
Seen West Ham away in Europe 3 times - Cremonese, Cosenza and Herenveen - and they are up there with the best away days I've done in 37 years of following West Ham away from home!
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chim chim cha boo
2:31 Thu Jun 3
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Great memories.
I'd advise any of you young 'uns to try your hardest to get to an away leg of a West Ham European tour.
You'll never forget it and post pandemic will only heighten the fun, win lose or draw.
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MancIron
2:22 Thu Jun 3
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Liverpool to Pisa - Pisa to Trapani - Bus from Trapani to Palermo. Reverse it for going home. Came in about a ton.
Great trip, hardly any sleep, lots of Peroni and a picture of me and my mate Si looking as rough as fucking toast on a random Saturday morning in Pisa.
Can't wait for next season...
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southbankbornnbred
1:59 Thu Jun 3
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A good mate of mine is Italian (it's a family thing), but from Turin. So he supports Torino, not Juve, like most good folk from there.
He'd warned me what it would be like in Palermo.
I was messaging him from Sicily, and he said he was reading posts on Palermo message boards. They were basically saying: "Fuck me, West Ham fans are everywhere. They're as crazy as our lot."
Damned by faint praise.
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simon.s
1:52 Thu Jun 3
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Apparently the last mob to march like that down the high st were the Romans. Missed out on it, although from the reports from mATES it was lively from when they got dropped off in the cab, and I’m not sure I want to be watching my back the whole time I’m away, and that may well be the case again, depending on who we get in the Europa.
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southbankbornnbred
1:50 Thu Jun 3
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I went to a Palermo-Catania game a few years ago.
That's tidy. Basically the equivalent of West Ham v Millwall, but with searing heat to make everybody even more uncomfortable and angry.
If West Ham/Millwall took place in near 90-degree heat, the match would never end.
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southbankbornnbred
1:46 Thu Jun 3
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I just remember walking in to the away end and thinking: "This sort of caging is a bit much, even by Sicilian standards."
Five minutes later, after the bottles of piss, fireworks and other projectiles, I'm thinking: "Well...thank fuck for Sicilian cages."
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chim chim cha boo
1:35 Thu Jun 3
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Was there a game of football involved then? I honestly don't remember!
All I remember was being in the perspex away end watching the fireworks display! The Sicilian old bill made me take the lid off of my bottle of Pepsi in case it injured one of their supporters or players. I wondered how the home lot had been allowed in with firework rockets and Roman Candles to fire at us. It was pretty funny to hear us all go 'OOOOOHHHHH' when a rocket went off.
I also had to grab the barrel of an old bill's tear-gas gun on the way out as it was pointed at my face at point blank range.
My favourite away game ever.
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ChesterRd
1:27 Thu Jun 3
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I don't know what game some people were watching in Palermo either, but if they think West Ham were matching Palermo it wasn't the one I was.
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southbankbornnbred
1:15 Thu Jun 3
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We looked like the sort of team that hadn't qualified for Europe for a while and fell for pretty much every trap set for us by a canny and gnarly Palermo side.
A salutary lesson for next season and one which, I think, Moyes will be conscious of.
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southbankbornnbred
1:13 Thu Jun 3
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TBB, not sure which game you were watching, but Palermo picked us off with some ease in that second leg.
Corini (the slaphead) and Simplicio (the little squat Brazilian), their two central midfield players, ran the show.
It was a good counter-attacking performance, because they knew they had the away win and the numbers in midfield. If I'm honest, Pards got taught a bit of a tactical lesson that night.
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TheBoleynBoy
12:45 Thu Jun 3
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West Ham weren’t that much of a let down on the pitch over the both legs, had Palermo had a different keeper we would’ve gone through with ease, he played a blinder both games pulling off a billion saves. Obviously defence let us down in the end but that keeper was unreal them games. Think his name was Fofana.
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ChesterRd
12:38 Thu Jun 3
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Honestly can't remember how our small group got to the ground, definitely wasn't on the march but may have walked or got a taxi. Afterwards got onto a bus into the centre and found a lovely restaurant for some late night grub. Palermo was fascinating, with its faded grandeur. Visited the Catacombs, what a weird place that was with clothed bodies on display. My over riding memory on the flight home was thinking it looked like most of the passengers had been a war zone. Naturally West Ham out on the pitch were a massive let down.
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southbankbornnbred
12:09 Thu Jun 3
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Chim - spot on.
Great place. Been to Palermo three times now, and travelled extensively around Sicily with Mrs Southbank.
My only gripe about Sicily is that, beyond Cefalu, it’s hard to find a decent public beach. So much of the island’s waterfront is still privately owned by “you know who”. But the culture, food, scenery and history is immense.
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