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Q: 2023/24 Hopes & aspirations for this season
a. As Champions of Europe there's no reason we shouldn't be pushing for a top 7 spot & a run in the Cups
24%
  
b. Last season was a trophy winning one and there's only one way to go after that, I expect a dull mid table bore fest of a season
17%
  
c. Buy some f***ing players or we're in a battle to stay up & that's as good as it gets
18%
  
d. Moyes out
37%
  
e. New season you say, woohoo time to get the new kit and wear it it to the pub for all the big games, the wags down there call me Mr West Ham
3%
  



13 Brentford Rd 10:45 Sun Sep 18
Crossed arms Hammers pose...
Not for me, don't like it and never done it.

When & how did this become a thing?

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GRiM71 3:43 Mon Sep 26
Re: Crossed arms Hammers pose...
Clive Bissell in the Firm was the first time I can remember seeing it

Browno22 9:23 Sat Sep 24
Re: Crossed arms Hammers pose...
It's been around for donkeys. Just more cameras around now

nychammer 6:08 Sat Sep 24
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"but interesting point that we are lucky to be able to signify our club so easily. spurs would have a problem"

Yes indeed, hundreds of spurs fans giving each other the massive wanker sign in public would do at all

Mike Oxsaw 11:15 Sat Sep 24
Re: Crossed arms Hammers pose...
Just doff yer cap to the gov'ner (i.e. everybody else in the world) and get back in your fucking place.

Roger Mellie 11:02 Sat Sep 24
Re: Crossed arms Hammers pose...
It started on the X-Factor.

nerd 5:07 Wed Sep 21
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I think it falls into the category of who cares ,youngsters like it and us old grumpy gits will be gone.

scott_d 4:23 Wed Sep 21
Re: Crossed arms Hammers pose...
First I recall seeing it was Freddie Sears when he scored on his league debut.

panamahat 9:13 Mon Sep 19
Re: Crossed arms Hammers pose...
I like it personally , no cringe for me at all but I live in the Caribbean & am only back home maybe 1 month a year so see it far less than most .
My daughter when she was about 4 went up , doing the pose ,to a Hammer on the train at Hove on his way to a game ,the joy on his face was a thing of beauty .

⚒️ 5:33 Mon Sep 19
Re: Crossed arms Hammers pose...
It’s complete cringe. No wonder OTB thinks it’s brilliant.

He was probably doing it at Eurovision, the cunt.

essexmaniacinexile 5:30 Mon Sep 19
Re: Crossed arms Hammers pose...
Leeds fans are not banging their fists on their chests. It's different and more akin to a fascist salute. Unique amongst UK fans.

Huffers 4:34 Mon Sep 19
Re: Crossed arms Hammers pose...
https://twitter.com/AnthonyHufton/status/1571854194654445570

That is the old photo

Wilko Johnson 11:29 Mon Sep 19
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On The Ball 10:32 Mon Sep 19

Fair dos, the Leeds salute is massive amongst their support. I've never seen another set of fans anywhere in the world use the same thing.

goose 10:42 Mon Sep 19
Re: Crossed arms Hammers pose...
I blame Ray Winston for making it popular.

On The Ball 10:32 Mon Sep 19
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Wilko Johnson 10:22 Sun Sep 18

Had to Google that! Then watch it on YouTube. All I see is that banging on the heart that's done the world over in a million different settings - I'd never link that to Leeds in any way. It certainly isn't unique - players bang their chests all the time, but you wouldn't get another player in Britain doing the 'arms.

I appreciate the 'arms' might also be something to do with Wonder Woman et al, but to me it's unique in British football.

bruuuno 10:43 Sun Sep 18
Re: Crossed arms Hammers pose...
It’s gay

Wilko Johnson 10:22 Sun Sep 18
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On The Ball 4:39 Sun Sep 18

Leeds fans have been doing the 'Leeds Salute' to each other for many years.

Wilko Johnson 10:20 Sun Sep 18
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Huffers
1:39 Sun Sep 18


The photo is of Slater and Dolan.

chav_corner 8:05 Sun Sep 18
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Me and a few mates started doing it 30 odd years ago,hope to god it aint down to us.Makes me cringe now.-Hate it,sort of thing I would expect from Palace.

Northern Sold 7:19 Sun Sep 18
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First time I ever saw it was a CFC mate that used to work for the post calling me out in his post van.... after that we caught on about a decade later... PERSONALLY I think its cringe... but each to their own... proper X factor for me...

Wils 6:27 Sun Sep 18
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It's cringe. Never done it. Dunno when it started really.

On The Ball 4:39 Sun Sep 18
Re: Crossed arms Hammers pose...
I love it. I can't think of anything else like it in football - what other fans can signal each other from a hundred yards? It's completely unique, it's not some silly made-up thing - it's brilliant.

First player I remember doing it is also Chris Powell (always wondered where he'd seen it, but he was a Hammer as a kid), but I remember the last time we had this thread someone dug up a picture along the lines of what Huffers said.

gph - that was something to do with Wonder Woman, I believe.

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