West Ham 2016/17

[cleavers]

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.

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.

It does seem like there are serious issues to overcome though, the segregation at Upton Park was by and large excellent, and as I said above, in my many visits there, the only trouble I've seen was against people in pubs, who were taking the piss, and it didn't affect those of us who were just being sensible, but from the outside it seems the segregation in the stadium is lacking at the moment, and does need to be addressed.

I hope they sort it out, and that the ordinary football fan isn't put off by it all.

 

[shackattack]

there are obviously segregation/stewarding issues at the stadium and the fact they have had problems with watford, middlesborough and sunderland fans is testimony to this. hope they sort it out as i work with some decent west ham fans. they seem split on the advantages of the new stadium mind you.

 

[law74]

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"

 

[stony]

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"

Got a link for that mate?

 

[law74]

 

[stony]

Cheers for that. Chemical Mark will be along in a minute to tell us everything is perfect.

 

[aguero93:20]

Cheers for that. Chemical Mark will be along in a minute to tell us everything is perfect.

He really should try and put it to music, like S Club 7 or something.

 

[mat]

Are the club's owners using this as a bargaining chip to get ownership of the stadium perhaps ?

Wouldn't put it past them.

 

[mat]

In other words tourists over true fans.

 

[worsleyweb]

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.

and anyone in stone island or retro fila.