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My 43rd birthday today 
I’ll admit I’ve been bought quite a few 8% beers by my family which I’ve gone through today 
but they’ve gone home now and I’m sitting here now thinking about West Ham and trying to evaluate how I feel 
I have 3 loves in life, music, film and sport 
West Ham taking the crown in the sport department 
but I just feel like it’s gone 
by that I mean my passion, I still care, I’m still making this post which means I obviously feel something 
but when we go behind it doesn’t hurt like it used to, and on the rare occasion we score when it matters I just don’t react like I used to 
I feel like I’ve fallen out of love with this club but I can’t just forget about them and fuck off and do something else 
Anyone else feeling like this? 
if not then fair enough and delete this thread 

I will flit between being really annoyed about it and it playing on my mind, or being a little bit more circumspect and apathetic depending on the bigger picture. I was more annoyed about the Chelsea game than this one as we actually deserved something out of it and there was a sense of injustice. We deserved nothing out of this game. 
Also the fact that we are clearly just going to be 'on autopilot' until the end of the season now and it's all a bit of a free hit for Potter to analyse exactly what he's got, who he's keeping, what we need and who he is ditching. Not going to rise up the table and not going to get relegated. There aren't really any big stakes or expectations until next season starts. Some of the results are also tempered by (not yesterday or against Palace) a clear change in how we set up and how we play, so bigger picture it's not actually all bad. I'd feel much more fed up if we were still with Lop in charge and no end in sight to that. It's going to get better. That's the bigger picture. 

I also forgot to mention VAR and the current standard of refereeing 
that’s another reason I’m not as bothered 
too used to seeing the big clubs have goals against them chalked off for made up reasons 

I hear what you’re saying maverick. Totally understandable when you consider what the match day experience is like now compared to say 10 plus years ago, it’s all got progressively worse. I’m 52 this year and find it very boring now as I’m sure most will my age. The younger lot may feel different as they haven’t experienced what my age group have, they don’t have quite the same comparisons. I was in the stadium at Prague and went to many of the euro games, saville away etc and funnily enough I sort of felt it was over for me after that, to some extent. Lets face it, apart from the odd good win here and there, I’ve probably got to except that I’m never going to recreate some
of the feelings I’ve already had following west ham and I’d be very surprised if from a supporters perspective, the whole experience doesn’t get even worse over the coming years.

I think it's mostly age and you have to accept that younger generations will get different things from it, than maybe someone of my generation got.

That's probably always been the case, but maybe more so last few decades, as football has changed so much and I think the Americanisation and sanitisation of the game, may have sppeded up that feeling for a fair few, myself included. All-seater stadiums, the increased costs of everything connected to the game, less natural atmosphere and an orchestrated one instead etcetc

Throw in the Sullivan factor....

, wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025, 09:41 Actually Maverick you’d be abnormal if you still had the obsession with WHU from the past lasting into your forties. By then people have also got families, careers, hobbies etc all vying for attention and emotional time. The other thing is this is WHU you are talking about and just imagine if you had started out supporting ManU and grew up with a bad year being just one trophy and then SirFerg retires leading to these recent barren years culminating in this one of regular humiliation.

 

Manuel wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025, 09:28

fraser wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025, 08:02 I can't even say it gave me the hump while watching it Saturday, not anything riding on it is there. Other things going on which put it into perspective. 

EVERYONE has stuff going on, let's be not all dramatic now. You were on here all pre match banging on about the game, but now saying it didn't bother you, lol.

Actually Maverick you’d be abnormal if you still had the obsession with WHU from the past lasting into your forties. By then people have also got families, careers, hobbies etc all vying for attention and emotional time. The other thing is this is WHU you are talking about and just imagine if you had started out supporting ManU and grew up with a bad year being just one trophy and then SirFerg retires leading to these recent barren years culminating in this one of regular humiliation.

Mav - You are coming over like a right old look at me queen, mate, ever thought about KUMB?  You either go or you don't go, it don't need analyzing to death like it's some massive deal. jeez.

fraser wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025, 08:02 I can't even say it gave me the hump while watching it Saturday, not anything riding on it is there. Other things going on which put it into perspective. 

You're getting older. You're starting to lose your passion. Same with everything. When younger you are more passionate. A band you love announces a tour and its a matter of life and death to get a ticket. Now you're like "Seen them before, not end of world". 

But, right now, we are shit. A culmination of poor squad management, poor recruitment of coach and a club that are just stagnating. Add to that the stadium is not fit for purpose and the atmosphere is a fucking joke. 

West Ham does have a bright future. If we get owners that care about the future and can wrangle approval and have the money and nous to develop the stadium, we will hopefully see exactly what Juventus did at their Olympic stadium. Good sound investment in players and a decent manager could see our fortunes change for the better long term. Although me and you will probably be dead by then. 

I enjoyed the 2016 season and the 2006 season so maybe I will the 2026 season. A season every 10 years FFS.  The EC win was one high point. 

For me it comes down to basics. From my first game in 1978 to the present I'm used to us being shit but now being the 14th richest club in the world and an average attendance of approx. 60K this aint right. How the hell are teams like Bournmoputh, Brentford and Fulham above us? We are considerably under achieving.now.

Total mismanagement from the top down. The S&G have destroyed our club. I'd rather be mid table or relegation struggling at Upton Park in front of 36K fans thank you than the so called promise of moving up a level when we moved to the OS. 

I wouldn’t say it’s because I’ve got older it’s more to do with how this club is being run and what I’m seeing on the pitch
the selling of Upton Park so we can financially compete with the bigger clubs and most of the time being told we’re skint
refusing to pay compensation to get a decent manager who’s in a job and only looking at ones that aren’t 
And in terms of what I’m seeing on the pitch, for the first time ever this season I’ve witnessed 2 managers set us up wrong in every single match barring 1 cup game 

To be fair, we’ve been run poorly ever since I’ve supported West Ham but under Sullivan it’s just next level shit 
selling Payet for peanuts and replacing him with Snodgrass being one example, and then repeating the feet with Rice, I honestly think we’d of been better keeping him and letting him run his contract down cos we completely wasted the money we got for him 

I realise this is all negative stuff, which isn’t allowed on here in the eyes of some posters, so cue the site dictator twoleftfeet to start banging on about fishing like he’s Jeremy Wade and I must be a spurs fan 

I can't even say it gave me the hump while watching it Saturday, not anything riding on it is there. Other things going on which put it into perspective. 

A west ham defeat use to ruin my weekend as a young'n.

It must've been a miserable existence!

I'm usually over it by Saturday night now as I'm accustomised to it after years of conditioning.

There's more to life than football. 

simons wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025, 07:33 I think it went years ago. Spoiled with three seasons in Europe (even if the league form was as dull as dishwater on the whole). This season is done, apart from the finishing above Spurs trophy which we’re still in with a shout of winning. 

I think it went years ago. Spoiled with three seasons in Europe (even if the league form was as dull as dishwater on the whole). This season is done, apart from the finishing above Spurs trophy which we’re still in with a shout of winning. 

Ello, ello, ello, and what’s been on here then?



FWIW, yeah it’s shit supporting West Ham at times but far more important things to be concerned about in the scale of things, but I do get the OP

Tyyyson wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025, 01:46 Bore off

nychammer wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025, 23:15 Being in the states I've naturally felt a little bit more removed from the front lines of being a supporter and get less wound up these days when we lose games. Games like yesterday and palace at home would have HURT back in the day when I was a ST holder. Not to mention the  Relegations which were painful to go through, I felt the insane highs and lows, hope and despair so keenly. Now if the club got relegated I'd probably just shrug and think 'Serves them right' based on Sullivan's stewardship

Of course I'll follow and support them the rest of my days and live the highs and lows like all supporters. Dont get me wrong I'm still upset when we lose and overjoyed at a good performance and a win, it just does not get to me like it used to. 

Not this melodrama again - yea when you're older you get other responsibilities and football is less important, losses no longer ruin your weekend blah blah...it's all been done to death mate.

And since this is the new sanitized modern day WHO apologies for being the forum police!

Bore off

when you're fourteen  the most important thing in life

when you're forty it isn't

you're doing OK mate
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The fishing on here

Happy birthday mate!

I was at Spurs today (work related) and that is definitely a club that exists for economical  reason.

On the other hand let’s all be grateful that we support a club that is largely still in touch with their fans.
 

Hello and happy birthday!
I think most of us feel the same, not just at west ham but all football supporters. Its not as fun and exciting as it used to be, its expensive, hard to get away tickets, biased towards elite clubs, rubbish decisions like giving saudi the world cup . . . Potter coming in, and the players pulling together had revived my interest again so hopefully yesterday was just an off day.

As for the idiots/trolls on this board, its a shame. 
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