Got the heads -up on this situation on Tuesday from our Spurs colleagues.
The WHU ISA are the ones who have actually said in public that the OS deal stinks from the POV of taxpayers. One of them is putting in more FOI requests than I do nowadays, and kindly alerts me when he gets an answer.
According to our guys Brady has consciously courted this Swallow geezer, because as she sees it they will keep the peace and keep the lid on protests. The last word in cynicism. Quite sinister really.
Two things stand out in that article 1) How illiterate West Ham fans are and 2) How a Charlton fan is employed as a steward on match days and insists on wearing his Charlton shirt under his uniform.
Two things stand out in that article 1) How illiterate West Ham fans are and 2) How a Charlton fan is employed as a steward on match days and insists on wearing his Charlton shirt under his uniform on match days.
yes that made me nearly choke on my lunchtime soup.
Two things stand out in that article 1) How illiterate West Ham fans are and 2) How a Charlton fan is employed as a steward on match days and insists on wearing his Charlton shirt under his uniform.
I expect all our stewards to be either totally disinterested in football, support someone else, or be just plain poor.
I have never been inclined to try and see what they are wearing under their uniform.
Brady is a hypocrite and is never called out for it. Story below gives praise for her shutting down an apprentice contestant who wanted her team to use their feminine charms to sell. I can't find any critique of Brady in respect of this, and of course shutting down is the proper action to take, but can you ignore who she has aligned her career too and what the nature of the business was? How does she even get away with it?
Great analysis by the independent. This explains in part how their fans,in their many groupings, have failed to organise. The numpties from the self proclaimed right wing of their infamous ICF! The real west ham is now gone and you were too late to organise. Now they practically eat themselves in detering other fans resistance and protest.
That club is in terminal decline and has set its own course. Now if only Millwall could face a ground move... Ultimately football and society may be better off for it.
Extract from the article; "it is felt the use of the word “London” in the crest is an abandonment of the club’s east-end heritage. Those wider concerns for identity underlie a lot of this, and directly fire the situation. Kearns is one fan who feels some of this is wrapped up in the “distinctive mythology” about West Ham, a willingness to embrace “glorious failure”, and “a fetishisation of one of the few things they’ve ever been best at: hooliganism”, and principally through the ICF."
I wish we were suffering West Ham's terminal decline.
No longer playing at their spiritual home
Having to pay rent to play at another ground
I think we’ve tried that one and proved it’s not a long term solution but at least we got to go back home
Yes, but we were playing in front of 4,000 not 56,972 (last seasons average). We'd have been pleased to get 6,972 many games at Selhurst. Terminal decline my arse.
I wish we were suffering West Ham's terminal decline.
No longer playing at their spiritual home
Having to pay rent to play at another ground
I think we’ve tried that one and proved it’s not a long term solution but at least we got to go back home
Yes, but we were playing in front of 4,000 not 56,972 (last seasons average). We'd have been pleased to get 6,972 many games at Selhurst. Terminal decline my arse.
They’re renting an athletics stadium that gets a temporary football pitch marked out for them IF it’s not needed for athletics. The team is dropping like a stone, they are only 3 points above the drop zone with a tough remaining fixture list and if they go down then filling that ground on a match day starts to become a lot harder. And, thanks to the efforts of people like PA, life for them at that stadium could become a lot harder
It will only get harder for west ham and their fans will always struggle to organise if threats from ICF are going to stop them as it has here (and after the event of leaving their ground which they cannot go back to).
Did you read the independent account @Covered End ?
I wish we were suffering West Ham's terminal decline.
No longer playing at their spiritual home
Having to pay rent to play at another ground
I think we’ve tried that one and proved it’s not a long term solution but at least we got to go back home
As with everything in life, if you feel you are on the way down, it doesn't work to try and tell yourself you are better off than the average person in, say, Lagos.
If I were a proper West Ham fan, I would be absolutely gutted to know that the rest of my footballing life consists of going to that soul-less stadium, sitting so far from the pitch that I need binoculars, and knowing who is in charge.
The worst thing is this. At Selhurst, we still had the Valley. We would go and look at it, to remind ourselves of who we really are. We all turned up together to tidy it up. It was our focus, our rallying point. They haven't got that. Upton Park has gone, and with it their identity. Football is all about identity. I don't feel sorry for them, because they are, as discussed, so useless at organising themselves and have a real arsehole element. But I am really glad I am not one of them.
The Guardian is now running the story of trouble within the fanbase, with more detail from the WHU ISA. Give it a read...doesn't it remind you of something closer to home? CEO cosying up to a fan with a very dubious personal profile, because he comes out against protests...said fan starts threatening online abuse of "CARD c***s...
The Guardian is now running the story of trouble within the fanbase, with more detail from the WHU ISA. Give it a read...doesn't it remind you of something closer to home? CEO cosying up to a fan with a very dubious personal profile, because he comes out against protests...said fan starts threatening online abuse of "CARD c***s...
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independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/west-ham-united-board-protest-march-meetings-hooligans-icf-action-group-a8244951.html
The WHU ISA are the ones who have actually said in public that the OS deal stinks from the POV of taxpayers. One of them is putting in more FOI requests than I do nowadays, and kindly alerts me when he gets an answer.
According to our guys Brady has consciously courted this Swallow geezer, because as she sees it they will keep the peace and keep the lid on protests. The last word in cynicism. Quite sinister really.
Separately, it's remarkable how quickly and how far the use of 'AntiFa' and 'the left' has become an excuse for a call to arms for some.
Sounds about right to me.
Morals and ethics left that club decades ago.
I have never been inclined to try and see what they are wearing under their uniform.
https://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/tvfilm/the-apprentice-s-karren-brady-praised-for-shutting-down-sexist-remark-a3651221.html
That club is in terminal decline and has set its own course. Now if only Millwall could face a ground move... Ultimately football and society may be better off for it.
Extract from the article;
"it is felt the use of the word “London” in the crest is an abandonment of the club’s east-end heritage. Those wider concerns for identity underlie a lot of this, and directly fire the situation. Kearns is one fan who feels some of this is wrapped up in the “distinctive mythology” about West Ham, a willingness to embrace “glorious failure”, and “a fetishisation of one of the few things they’ve ever been best at: hooliganism”, and principally through the ICF."
We can suffer our own. Least there is light at the end of the Charlton tunnel
Having to pay rent to play at another ground
I think we’ve tried that one and proved it’s not a long term solution but at least we got to go back home
We'd have been pleased to get 6,972 many games at Selhurst.
Terminal decline my arse.
Did you read the independent account @Covered End ?
If I were a proper West Ham fan, I would be absolutely gutted to know that the rest of my footballing life consists of going to that soul-less stadium, sitting so far from the pitch that I need binoculars, and knowing who is in charge.
The worst thing is this. At Selhurst, we still had the Valley. We would go and look at it, to remind ourselves of who we really are. We all turned up together to tidy it up. It was our focus, our rallying point. They haven't got that. Upton Park has gone, and with it their identity. Football is all about identity. I don't feel sorry for them, because they are, as discussed, so useless at organising themselves and have a real arsehole element. But I am really glad I am not one of them.