City and West Ham fans

Stephen230 said:
Not quite the same as my recollection. Certainly a decent turnout but think we only had the corner bit and I don’t recall it being that packed particularly. Was a good day out though.
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A long standing WHU mate of mine agrees with this.He has been watching the irons since early 80s,and was at UP for the end of season 87 game.he acknowledges the love in at the final whistle but always used to question me in the 90s about why City fans say they had 4k or even 5k in the away end. He pointed out the away end only held 2k on the corner,and the attendance that day was 18k..he says no way dud WH have less than 16k fans there.i trust his word

I've heard since over the years tho that Lots of City's firm were stopped travelling to the ground once they'd reached London,so maybe loads of City set out for the match,a lot less actually got in..
 
dennishasdoneit said:
Fantastic atmosphere
Niall Quinn actually put us in front, Gabbiadini equalised with a superb diving header in front of the packed Platt land,absolutely rammed with mackems..still one of the best away goals I've seen at Maine rd
It gave their fans real hope,it was a proper centre forwards goal and the roar was deafening!
The 3-2 win meant we finished 5th,one place above utd
Great day,great match Top result.
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that was the only time i couldnt get in the Parkside. It had been taken over, and all the area around it.
 
dennishasdoneit said:
A long standing WHU mate of mine agrees with this.He has been watching the irons since early 80s,and was at UP for the end of season 87 game.he acknowledges the love in at the final whistle but always used to question me in the 90s about why City fans say they had 4k or even 5k in the away end. He pointed out the away end only held 2k on the corner,and the attendance that day was 18k..he says no way dud WH have less than 16k fans there.i trust his word

I've heard since over the years tho that Lots of City's firm were stopped travelling to the ground once they'd reached London,so maybe loads of City set out for the match,a lot less actually got in..
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There footage I’ve seen and it’s more than 2k. Let me have a look. It’s a small end but absolutely rammed. City’s lads did get detained and never even got there.
 
Hammers on the east side and QPR on the west
Best clubs and fans in London. Proper sound working class and local fanbases
Fulham and Charlton are nice awaydays but it’s like being at a convention of teachers and social workers
Millwall is like visiting Germany in 1938, horrible racist bastards wallowing in a shitheap
Tarqins, spurs, chelsea are home counties hugos
 
I recently discovered by accident the local where I walk the dog hosts their osc. Watched about 6 partial matches there with them not losing so they see her as a lucky charm as erm lost a fair bit before hand. So in the interest of good relations I’ll take the mutt on a 3 hour walk tomorrow to incorporate the full match.
 
MCFC Wirral said:
Surely nobody would begrudge West Ham fans a trophy? Talk about long suffering…
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Indeed.

If West Ham win tonight they would have the longest standing European run of any English club from their first win to most recent because they were the second English club to win a European trophy with the 1965 European Cup Winners Cup (something seldom mentioned by the Redshirt loving media).
 
I truly hope the Hammers can do it. I never made it to Upton Park until the final season and then took the boys when we drew 2-2 with an Aguero brace. Before the match, I felt like I was back at Maine Road. I somehow felt like I knew the area like the back of my hand despite never having been there before.
 
One of my favourite none City games was their last European final against Anderlecht, it was such a great game although the Hammers lost, but they were up against a very good side who had the amazing Robbie Rensenbrink in it (Pep would have loved him).

I think that’s where my soft spot for West Ham began tbh, I just hope me watching them doesn’t put a hex on it, be great to see them do it so all the best.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
My mate is a hammer and lives in Manc. and when they were relegated with about 42 points a few years back, they played Preston away first game of season. (Think it was the last time Carrick was with them before the twat signed for the rags). It was a 12pm kick off and he dragged me along. They sold out the full away end at Preston and most were Londoners. It reminded me of when we went to Div 2 and our first away was Fulham on a Friday night and our end was packed. Similar fan base.
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Fulham away, now that was a wake up call.
After going to the opening day win with
30, 000 there against Blackpool I thought ,like many 'We'll coast this division', half time 3:0 down at Craven Cottage we all felt a little different.
Going back to West Ham, I've always seen them as more genuine than a lot of the other London club's fans (and are they not the only' proper' Cockney team in the Premier League actually being from the East End?)
Fair play to them for getting decent support in a big populated City when there's certainly been ' easier options' (we could relate to that couldn't we for many years)
There certainly was some 'mither' in games prior to that one in 87, like everyone they had their idiots (and like many in the 80s did have a bit of a racist element at one point).
However, that game at Upton Park when we got relegated was quite unique and there did seem a lot of respect, and I do also remember quite a few staying at the Etihad in 2014 for the presentation.
Personally ,I hope they win tonight as they have had to go even longer than we did without a trophy and their fans deserve it...and they don't seem to always go on about how wonderful their support has always been (not referring to any teams that play in black and white stripes ofcourse!)
 
Good luck you'll need lots of it with Wee Davie in charge

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