@BlueHammer85 is coming across a bit Chemical Ali in this thread. 'Everything is okay, the Republican Guard will kick the dirty Americans all the way back to Kuwait'
The ground is fucking shocking and it's kicking off every week. I hope they shut it down.
Haha.
Whatever you think it is - it's 100 X times better than Upton Park. It's not gonna be shut down. But cheers for chipping in for it - I fucking love it.
Thanks for the reply, I asked about the ages, as most trouble these days seems to be the wannabe types, who'd run a mile if properly confronted, but I expected you'd say it was mostly the older element causing it now, it seems the club have identified more than 100 though, though I would imagine there will be some collateral damage amongst that number, people who are just associated with the real trouble causers.Firstly, in my experience of going - ive seen zero incidents (wasn't there last night) aside some Hammers fans arguing with stewards, i sit on the east stand.
The issue between the fans seems now to have died down, it was mainly down to having persistent standing at the Bobby Moore Lower at Upton Park - as a club they turned a blind eye to that part but at the new stadium it's simply not allowed - so you have fans that have always been standing coming to a new stadium and being told they must sit - it caused some anger with certain fans.
the very small minority looking for trouble, i'd say look like ex 80's types, complete di*kheads - yeh you get some teenage wannabe Danny Dyers. But honestly you are talking less than 100 people out of 57,000 - thats all it takes for the Media to latch on and make it all sound 100x worse.
The segregation is no different to how it was at Upton Park - Just with a whole new stadium and with some relatively small incidences blown out of proportion there was always going to be trouble last night. It will all die down soon.
There's an interview on YouTube with a steward that worked at both Upton Park and now at the Olympic stadium, from his comments it seems the private security company that employ the stewards have a LOT to answer for (as well as the club making what seems to be a mess of locating people's seats at the new ground)
"What we are doing is changing the culture of West Ham fans"
He really should try and put it to music, like S Club 7 or something.Cheers for that. Chemical Mark will be along in a minute to tell us everything is perfect.
Wouldn't put it past them.Are the club's owners using this as a bargaining chip to get ownership of the stadium perhaps ?
Looking at the images the easiest and simplest solution is just to ban any **** in a baseball cap, problem solved the chavvy fuckers. Problem solved.