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Was sat in a craft brewery beer garden on Friday afternoon and my Fiance and myself got chatting to this man and his Son. The Father was from Watford. Anyway as we got chatting more, I asked if he was a Watford supporter, he replied that he looked out for their results, but he actually is a West Ham supporter. Cue one dumbfounded Fiance and a lengthy chat about The Hammers. Turns out, his Uncle played for us in the late 50's and stayed in the same accommodation as Malcolm Allison. Saturday, went to Stratford upon Avon. My lady and myself were again sat in a beer garden and a family opposite us on another table were chatting away, I thought to myself, they aren't locals, got chatting with them and they were from Plaistow but had moved to Stratford due to work. All three were Hammers Fans, cue my once again dumbfounded Fiance and a great chat about The Hammers. Absolutely love our passionate Fans. We really are something else.

You couldn't really have a better username to go with the thread.

BeauLarkyBuff, which pub are you on about? The Friday or Saturday pubs?

Mashed in maryland You are absolutely right. Villa fans wouldn't go anywhere near the Blues ground on match days. I know as I live in Birmingham. Having said that, as long as I don't go looking for trouble, I have never had a problem cheering on the Boys in a Birmingham pub.

Isolated. Bro tells me it was The George but he was a bit pissed.

Ex, when I lived over your way, whenever I got the train in for home games, every single stop West Ham fans would be getting on. Sometimes 1 sometimes over a dozen. Its the same now I live up north. No way of knowing but would it be the same with Villa fans going into Birmingham from either direction? Bet it isn't. For a club with our lack of success, we are, absolutely massive.

Mashed, you’re right. When I grew up in Exeter, the local park was covered in West Ham graffiti. I started supporting the club in 1974 and even down that way, hundreds of miles from Upton Park, you’d be surprised at the level of support the club have. I know this may sound silly, but the indoor market in Exeter had a football scarf, pennants, mugs shop in it, some 40 years back, and there was more West Ham type stuff in there than any of the other London clubs. Went down to Exmouth a few months ago, to watch my local non-league team play, went into their market for the first time in decades just for old times sake, and again in there, there was loads of our stuff on sell compared to other ‘big’ clubs, walked further into the market and their cafe had West Ham flags up. Didn’t surprise me at all, the club have big support, especially considering it’s success in the league etc.

The exile, I lived in Dusseldorf in the early 2000's, we were playing Sunderland in the FA Cup. I watched the game in an Irish Bar. Some German chap was really irate at the team line up. When we scored, we both went mental, looked at each other, hugged each other. Turned out he worked in London for a few years and was West Ham season ticket holder. Every game thereafter that we were on TV, we sat and drank together watching the match. Some messy Sundays were had believe me.

Work a lot in rural areas of northern England and N Wales. Its surprising every time how many West Ham shirts, stickers in cars etc you see in places you'd never expect. Dunno if its cos we're hard-wired to spot it but never ssem to see as many as similarly successful clubs, or even "bigger" London clubs (obviously see Man Utd and Liverpool shirts everywhere) Can't say if this is other east Londoners who've moved up north or what. But there's always plenty of northern accents at away games and we must have one of if not the most "dispersed" catchment areas of any team in the country (proper fans who actually go to games I mean)

One all she is thick, purely by putting up with me. I am a fucking nightmare.

I don’t think I have been anywhere on hols that there wasn’t a hammer!

Mrs Exile is born and bred over here but is of German extraction. A few years ago we were over in Deutschland and visited a female cousin of hers. Only turns out she's a West Ham fan, having never lived over here or anything. My flabber was truly ghasted. We are everywhere.

The OP mentions his fiancé 4 times, yet no link. Site, dogs etc

I recall, as a schoolboy, Billy Dare joining us from Brentford. He was fairly regular for us before we had Dick and Keeble paired, in our promotion season, and after that he became more a back up forward choice.

Know a few in Liverpool and not limited to West Ham fans who’ve moved here like me. A couple of natives I know follow us (their dad who goes home and away with them is from East London) and I’ve met a couple of other Scouse Hammers.

Bill Do the Dublin hammers still drink in Brannigans?

I moved over to Dublin in 2008, and it always amazes me the number of West Ham fans that fly over on a match day. The Irish lads could have chosen any team, but chose us. I’ve bumped into quite a few in my time over here, one of them genuinely believed that we were the best team in the 60s

Can remember the old man talking about Billy Dare played for us in the late 50s

Can remember the old man talking about Billy Dare played for us in the late 50s

your fiancee seems like one thick fuck

Isolated hammer Spot on mate , this site is getting boring with all the slagging off and keyboard warrior threats, it’s about time the admin on here fcuk a few off so the rest of us can get on with normal discussions about West Ham , it’s every post on here now turns into insults. If you want to have a row with someone sort it out somewhere and give us on here a rest .

I can't believe that after 3 posts, the slanging match started. The Friday sketch was in Gloucester. His uncles name was Billy Dare. If any of the older supporters remember him, would be interesting.

Must have been given a silly moniker when he was younger to react the way he does…..tries badly to give out abuse….and hissy fits when it’s given back…..

I told him about a week ago that he watches a load of old shit on tv and he hasn't stopped following me around since, which begs the questions if he gets so offended and upset at minor provocation then why the fuck is he on here??

Oh look I’ve got the stalking duo. Sad pathetic cunts that you are.

How have you managed to upset this cսnt so badly Manuel?