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Olympic Stadium; our day in court

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  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,623
    "Interesting times", it seems WHU's problems are multiplying...

    independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/west-ham-united-board-protest-march-meetings-hooligans-icf-action-group-a8244951.html
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,145
    NornIrishAddick said:

    "Interesting times", it seems WHU's problems are multiplying...

    independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/west-ham-united-board-protest-march-meetings-hooligans-icf-action-group-a8244951.html

    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.



  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,004
    ICF peacekeepers - you couldn't make it up
  • Super_Eddie_Youds
    Super_Eddie_Youds Posts: 1,977
    Seems to have all taken a rather sinister turn. West Ham and their inflated sense of self seems to pervade throughout.

    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.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    So pornographers are going to use hooligans to police anti club protests.
    Sounds about right to me.
    Morals and ethics left that club decades ago.
  • Red_in_SE8
    Red_in_SE8 Posts: 5,961
    edited March 2018
    NornIrishAddick said:

    "Interesting times", it seems WHU's problems are multiplying...

    independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/west-ham-united-board-protest-march-meetings-hooligans-icf-action-group-a8244951.html

    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.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,145
    Red_in_SE8 said:

    NornIrishAddick said:

    "Interesting times", it seems WHU's problems are multiplying...

    independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/west-ham-united-board-protest-march-meetings-hooligans-icf-action-group-a8244951.html

    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.

  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,330
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    Red_in_SE8 said:

    NornIrishAddick said:

    "Interesting times", it seems WHU's problems are multiplying...

    independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/west-ham-united-board-protest-march-meetings-hooligans-icf-action-group-a8244951.html

    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.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    edited March 2018
    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?

    https://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/tvfilm/the-apprentice-s-karren-brady-praised-for-shutting-down-sexist-remark-a3651221.html



  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,261
    edited March 2018
    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."

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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    I wish we were suffering West Ham's terminal decline.
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,261
    Covered End said:

    I wish we were suffering West Ham's terminal decline.

    I don't.
    We can suffer our own. Least there is light at the end of the Charlton tunnel ;)
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    swords_alive said:

    Covered End said:

    I wish we were suffering West Ham's terminal decline.

    I don't.
    We can suffer our own. Least there is light at the end of the Charlton tunnel ;)
    It's not quite how I see it.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    swords_alive said:

    Covered End said:

    I wish we were suffering West Ham's terminal decline.

    I don't.
    We can suffer our own. Least there is light at the end of the Charlton tunnel ;)
    That light you can see is a train coming.
  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    eaststandmike said:

    swords_alive said:

    Covered End said:

    I wish we were suffering West Ham's terminal decline.

    I don't.
    We can suffer our own. Least there is light at the end of the Charlton tunnel ;)
    That light you can see is a train coming.
    I left my notebook at home :-(
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,621
    Covered End said:

    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
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    Lady Brady a good idea for a Viz character nothing else.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    edited March 2018
    letthegoodtimesroll said:

    Covered End said:

    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.
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,621
    edited March 2018
    Covered End said:

    letthegoodtimesroll said:

    Covered End said:

    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
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,261
    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 ?
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  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,145
    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...

  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,004
    PragueAddick said:

    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...

    mmm there is a definite similarity
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    Sounds like melting point has been achieved at the Olympic Stadium. Pitch invasions, players manhandling fans and Burnley 2 up.
  • Starinnaddick
    Starinnaddick Posts: 4,345
    Kicking off at London Stadium. Hammers losing 2-0
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Sound s like they're trying to get the match abandoned.
  • Starinnaddick
    Starinnaddick Posts: 4,345
    Starinnaddick said:

    Kicking off at London Stadium. Hammers losing 2-0

    Trying to get the game abandoned.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    You can imagine that once west ham decide to protest they don't muck about.
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,261
    edited March 2018
    Uboat said:

    You can imagine that once west ham decide to protest they don't muck about.

    Without waiting for ICF permission one would hope
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,633

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