City and West Ham fans

[Gone for a Burton]

December 1967.

CITYs Champions team was coming together, Francis Lee had recently signed.

City beat wet spam 4-2 with a superb performance on a shit pitch.

It was the first time I’d seen a mob tooled up with meat hooks, iron bars, billiard balls etc.

They were a bloody rough lot and well organised. It was a rolling brawl all the way back to the coaches....no friendships in those days.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I'm sure they did us a favour in pellegrini's last season in charge by beating united 3.2 in the last game at Upton Park.

Yep, we only just finished in the CL spots ahead of United on goal difference that season. West Ham made a huge difference to our coffers there!



(Our last 14 games of that season we W5 D4 L5 Pts19/42… that’s really mediocre!)

 

[Saddleworth2]

Apart from his defence of Southgate ;)

Nobody’s perfect :-)

 

[rickmcfc]

Brilliant 34-year-old story behind the mutual respect between West Ham and Man City

A brilliant 34-year-old story explaining the history behind the mutual respect between West Ham United and Manchester City has been doing the rounds.

www.hammers.news

Great read and story which I was unaware of!

 

[Gingers Dad]

Slight issue with this, says West Ham were singing Blue Moon to us, but didn't we only start singing it about 89/90ish

Villa away 1st April 1990 won 2-1.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Marc Vivien Foe..................RIP.........................played for both clubs too remember...........

Used to love him , gutted when I saw that picture laying dead on the pitch. Stayed with me forever that.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Wasn’t around for that 87 match but started going around mid to late 90’s , us and you were always in and around the same sort of positions in the PL with Man Utd taking the piss… so there was always that mutual aspect and enjoyed watching and had a soft spot for City aswell as a kid - Kinkladze, Dickov , Quinn. Legends

Then we had some players between us - Steve Lomas, Foe, Wanchope, Dave James.

So deffo a bit bromance - not sure if it would stay that way if we was batting the title with you lot though! Which you haven’t got to worry about - but such is social media nowadays there would always be some morons fuelling hatred either side. Would be plenty of ‘used to admire West Ham but …. ‘

We’re a good set of fans, loyal , loud and would probably sell out the odd game in the Championship - but Christ our fans can be fools and thick at time - vast majority of fans always ready to turn on the manager after a bad patch and then it snowballs and gets silly, booing whatever subs etc. thank god our owners ignore them. Apologies went off tangent there.

Anyway, glad we could be of help yesterday. Don’t cock up and win the league!

Up the Hammers

 

[BlueRockape]

1974 league cup final was the first time I can remember teaming up with W H fans against Arsenal and Millwall fans

 

[Berts Neck]

Ha ha ha. That's the funniest post I've seen on here for ages. Lol.

Try the Matchday forum, funny as fuck..

as for WHU.. same up and down history, similar colours, underdogs , and a great local fanbase.

 

[BillCarlisle]

Try the Matchday forum, funny as fuck..

as for WHU.. same up and down history, similar colours, underdogs , and a great local fanbase.

Yes, so I've heard. I'm usually at the match though.