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  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    sillav nitram said:

    Funny, last night I was thinking of starting a thread on why people hate West Ham?

    I know we all have teams we despise but for me West Ham isn't one of them. If anything they may be the london team I might support, if I ever abdicated from Charlton (won't happen). In fact I did fleetingly toy with the idea of going to watch them last season because of the dire football being served up at the Valley.

    I grew up with Ron Greenwoods West Ham and Moore, Peters and Hurst. I think their ethos was to play attractive football, regardless of if they won or not and very often they didn't.

    I remember watching,I think it was, Inter City Fairs Cup Final against, was it, TSV 1860 Munich ( loved their name ) or Borussia Monchengladbach ( loved their name too ), the Hammers won 2-0. Of course I was only a kid, so very impressionable.

    As fans I think we all have elevated ideas about our team, I don't think we're any different.

    So why do you hate West Ham?

    Umm, I wonder how long this list could get?

    Shit old ground and those bonkers plastic towers - the ultimate in tacky.
    Even shitter new ground (with all its connotations.)
    Inter City Firm
    Jermaine Defoe
    Stealing their place in the Premier League (Tevez and Mascherano)
    East London
    Harry Redknapp
    Maroon
    Julian Dicks
    Frank Lampard Snr
    Frank Lampard Jnr
    Frank McAvennie
    (In fact any wet spam players called Frank.)
    Iain Dowie
    The porn barons
    Karen Brady
    Screwing over Curbishley

    (I could go on.)


  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,301
    Hate Chelsea (the attitude of the club) and Arsenal (their fans) more than West Ham who come third, they almost act like the Newcastle of the South
  • Afternoon Delight
    Afternoon Delight Posts: 912
    Because people keep saying things like "West Ham always like to play good Football" etc. Big Sam had it right when he questioned what the legendary "West Ham way of playing Football" actually was.
  • jams
    jams Posts: 1,219
    Delusions of grandeur is why I dislike them
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    TelMc32 said:

    cabbles said:

    I've also decided that should state aid be found to be proven, Boris Johnson, Karen Brady, gold and Sullivan should pay the taxpayer back £50m each. Seems the fairest way to reconcile

    Blimey! Didn't realise those mod powers were so wide-ranging @taxables :smiley:
    With great power......
  • creepyaddick
    creepyaddick Posts: 6,152
    I can't belive you lot are dissing our national treasure
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    I never used to dislike West Ham mainly because their football was attractive, our record against them is decent, and because of Billy Bonds, and it was better going there than Selhurst in the wilderness years.
    However there are things that have turned me, and can't be reversed either.
    The despicable ownership, and especially that unelected Baroness Brady (who voted to put the boot into the poor that time), the stadium issue, which in my view has betrayed decent Hammers fans and is like going from home cooking to an eternal diet of MacDonalds for them, and the general distain they have shown towards Leyton Orient in all this.
    A smirking Brady said 'it is what it is' to the last enquiry about the stadium. I would love them to go down, and to point to the Championship and say 'Karren, it is what it is'.
    A decent enough club turned into parasites is the short definition of West Ham United.
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,727
    Newcastle of the south followed by muggy Essex types who want to be Danny Dyer.

    Their owners have turned them into a tourist attraction though, hope they crumble.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    No idea why people dislike West Ham based on their owners.

    Their business is legal and they earned their money. Please don't tell me it's because they sell a few dildo's.

    Plenty of owners whose cash has come from much dodgier sources than Gold and Sullivan's.

    Now the whole Olympic Stadium thing is a different thing altogether. I've no sympathy with their plight since this sorry saga.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    edited August 2017
    Croydon said:

    Newcastle of the south followed by muggy Essex types who want to be Danny Dyer.

    Their owners have turned them into a tourist attraction though, hope they crumble.

    And to think they never took their plastic faux castle with them when left that wonderful ground of theirs. Bad move from the owners, and an object lesson that if you are more interested in shifting jizz mags and industrial sized vats of lube you can make silly errors...
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  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    I spent the 70's working for the Civil Service in Somerset House and several of my colleagues/mates were Hammers from the east end.
    As you can imagine, I spent most of the time being mocked or patronised.
    Later there was a time under Curbs when I dared to believe we had effectively replaced them. The future was ours and they were destined to remain in the Championship.
    Sadly I had lost touch with all my old cronies by then.
    And now we criticise them for their ownership and ground whilst we linger in Div 3 with a basket case ownership and uncertain long-term future.
    Somehow I don't think I will be looking up my old mates to crow
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,616
    Whilst I think the situation regarding the taxpayers stadium stinks, I don't hate West Ham and I'm even looking forward to Charlton playing them next season.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    edited August 2017
    Plenty of london clubs to dislike in front of West Ham,

    In order

    Palace - cunts
    Millwall - as above
    Arsenal - fans
    Chelsea - money money money

    Roll on next year

    Palace West Ham and millwall in the same league as us ;)
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    palarsehater said:

    Plenty of london clubs to dislike in front of West Ham,

    In order

    Palace - cunts
    Millwall - as above
    Arsenal - fans
    Chelsea - money money money

    Roll on next year

    Palace West Ham and millwall in the same league as us     ;)

    let's make it so .. back to the good old days .. loads of red in tooth and claw local derbies .. mind you, getting down to the smoke for the weekend to see them all would cost me a small fortune (be well worth it though) ((:>)
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    I cringed yesterday listening to Noble banging on about playing three away games in a row and that it ' had taken it's toll on the players'. Basically using that as an excuse for their poor start to the season.

    Well Mr Noble, you knew this was going to happen and it's your own club who put you in this position. It's a shame your club didn't think that as professional athletes earning in a week what Joe average earns in a year, getting ferried around in luxury coaches and private jets to away games, that you all had the professionalism and merit to deal with it.

    Once my heart stops bleeding, I'll have a look in the cupboard and see if there's any sympathy lurking there.

    You certainly put the Nob in Noble.

  • Robbo on the wing
    Robbo on the wing Posts: 4,135
    West Ham and palace relegated would be like a dream come true
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,441
    Mockney grandeur of many of their fans makes you laugh. Their World Cup win is over 50 years old now and their scummy owners are just as dodgy as RD. On a par with Palace, Arsenal and Millwall.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,995
    Robbo on the wing said:

    West Ham and palace relegated would be like a dream come true

    Sure would
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,441
    Robbo on the wing said:

    West Ham and palace relegated would be like a dream come true

    And Arsenal....
  • Powell Is Pleasant
    Powell Is Pleasant Posts: 1,443
    sillav nitram said:

    Funny, last night I was thinking of starting a thread on why people hate West Ham?

    I know we all have teams we despise but for me West Ham isn't one of them. If anything they may be the london team I might support, if I ever abdicated from Charlton (won't happen). In fact I did fleetingly toy with the idea of going to watch them last season because of the dire football being served up at the Valley.

    I grew up with Ron Greenwoods West Ham and Moore, Peters and Hurst. I think their ethos was to play attractive football, regardless of if they won or not and very often they didn't.

    I remember watching,I think it was, Inter City Fairs Cup Final against, was it, TSV 1860 Munich ( loved their name ) or Borussia Monchengladbach ( loved their name too ), the Hammers won 2-0. Of course I was only a kid, so very impressionable.

    As fans I think we all have elevated ideas about our team, I don't think we're any different.

    So why do you hate West Ham?

    For me, it all started with their fans. I started supporting Charlton when I was 12, and I remember vividly that the Palace supporters at school were utter scum, and the West Ham ones weren't far behind. Curiously, the Millwall supporters at my school tended to be pretty decent guys. Sure, some of them liked to pretend they were tough, but they were quite harmless.

    On the West Ham rivalry, the first match I ever went to was against them at The Valley in autumn 1998. I'd previously hated football but got dragged along to this match and sat in the covered end. The atmosphere was electric and I was immediately hooked on the sport and the team. We won 4-2.
    Nearly 20 years ago, and doesn't it feel like it?
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  • NapaAddick
    NapaAddick Posts: 4,657
    I am stunned West Ham are this bad this season.

    I figured after all their stadium issues last year and their poor play, they would make a modest bounce back to mid table. But they look like a team heading to the Championship.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    I prefer them to Palace, Millwall and Chelsea, but the fans are so self-righteous and delusional it makes me feel ill.

  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
    Oasis - Be Here Now
    Every Stereophonics album since Language, Sex Violence...
    Every Eminem album since The Eminem Show
    Kanye - 808s
    Every Stone Roses since Stone Roses
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,330
    paulie8290 said:

    was looking on KUMB to see how they took the Roger Johnson thing(seems they thought it was funny)

    but I did see this:
    On a side note are Charlton becoming our outcast club? Henderson in goal, Tel Ben Haim and Johnson in defence and Diarra in midfield

    2 of them start today and Diarra on the bench

    this coming from the team who have had Konchesky, Parker and Defoe after us
    and currently have Jenkinson, Poyet and Cole

    From March 2015. Says it all really, and this list excludes Billy Bonds who was also made in Charlton. Plus they stole Defoe and have claimed him as being from their superb youth set up ever since. Dishonest to say the least.

    Remember a WH fan explaining that they play football "the west ham way". "What losing" said I, whilst also pointing out that Julian Dicks played for them.

    Never understood where all their money went. Even in the 70's, loads of good players sold, big crowds, but no money spent? I think they have been shafted for years, so pehaps their owners are a good fit for them.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,842
    The Red Robin said:

    Oasis - Be Here Now
    Every Stereophonics album since Language, Sex Violence...
    Every Eminem album since The Eminem Show
    Kanye - 808s
    Every Stone Roses since Stone Roses

    Wrong thread :smile:
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,810
    cafcfan said:

    sillav nitram said:

    Funny, last night I was thinking of starting a thread on why people hate West Ham?

    I know we all have teams we despise but for me West Ham isn't one of them. If anything they may be the london team I might support, if I ever abdicated from Charlton (won't happen). In fact I did fleetingly toy with the idea of going to watch them last season because of the dire football being served up at the Valley.

    I grew up with Ron Greenwoods West Ham and Moore, Peters and Hurst. I think their ethos was to play attractive football, regardless of if they won or not and very often they didn't.

    I remember watching,I think it was, Inter City Fairs Cup Final against, was it, TSV 1860 Munich ( loved their name ) or Borussia Monchengladbach ( loved their name too ), the Hammers won 2-0. Of course I was only a kid, so very impressionable.

    As fans I think we all have elevated ideas about our team, I don't think we're any different.

    So why do you hate West Ham?

    Umm, I wonder how long this list could get?

    Shit old ground and those bonkers plastic towers - the ultimate in tacky.
    Even shitter new ground (with all its connotations.)
    Inter City Firm
    Jermaine Defoe
    Stealing their place in the Premier League (Tevez and Mascherano)
    East London
    Harry Redknapp
    Maroon
    Julian Dicks
    Frank Lampard Snr
    Frank Lampard Jnr
    Frank McAvennie
    (In fact any wet spam players called Frank.)
    Iain Dowie
    The porn barons
    Karen Brady
    Screwing over Curbishley

    (I could go on.)


    What's wrong with Frank McAvennie?
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    Don't like West Ham , close geographically and a bit too much chat for my liking
    Do like West Ham cos they wind millwall the real scum of football up
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,330
    West Ham v Millwall at the Taxpayers Stadium should be fun to police.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,842
    edited August 2017
    I always used to quite like West Ham. Indeed, I got my first Charlton ST when we were ground sharing at Upton Park. Their reputation for playing nice football, but for also being soft centred and a bit flakey did make them relatively popular, when compared to other London clubs at the time - Chelsea and Millwall were full of thugs, Palace (leaving aside our issues), Watford and Wimbledon were long ball merchants, Arsenal were boring (1-0 to the Arsenal etc)

    Events since them have lost them that "neutral popularity" though.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,223
    Ormiston Addick said:

    cafcfan said:

    sillav nitram said:

    Funny, last night I was thinking of starting a thread on why people hate West Ham?

    I know we all have teams we despise but for me West Ham isn't one of them. If anything they may be the london team I might support, if I ever abdicated from Charlton (won't happen). In fact I did fleetingly toy with the idea of going to watch them last season because of the dire football being served up at the Valley.

    I grew up with Ron Greenwoods West Ham and Moore, Peters and Hurst. I think their ethos was to play attractive football, regardless of if they won or not and very often they didn't.

    I remember watching,I think it was, Inter City Fairs Cup Final against, was it, TSV 1860 Munich ( loved their name ) or Borussia Monchengladbach ( loved their name too ), the Hammers won 2-0. Of course I was only a kid, so very impressionable.

    As fans I think we all have elevated ideas about our team, I don't think we're any different.

    So why do you hate West Ham?

    Umm, I wonder how long this list could get?

    Shit old ground and those bonkers plastic towers - the ultimate in tacky.
    Even shitter new ground (with all its connotations.)
    Inter City Firm
    Jermaine Defoe
    Stealing their place in the Premier League (Tevez and Mascherano)
    East London
    Harry Redknapp
    Maroon
    Julian Dicks
    Frank Lampard Snr
    Frank Lampard Jnr
    Frank McAvennie
    (In fact any wet spam players called Frank.)
    Iain Dowie
    The porn barons
    Karen Brady
    Screwing over Curbishley

    (I could go on.)


    What's wrong with Frank McAvennie?
    He was knobbing a few page 3 girls and cafcfan wasn't.

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