As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
DB10GOONER wrote:They are, and always will be, murdering cúnts to me.
Building our LEGO bowl was a "remarkable achievement"? Not for me. Selling out our heritage and tradition so we could populate our bland soulless AnyModernStadium with JCLs and tourists was one of the worst decisions ever made. Did it make us "compete with Europe's finest"?? Did it fuck.
As for Wham, I've never called it the Boleyn Ground, it was always Upton Park to me. Been there a few times. Whilst it had a certain old English stadium "charm", I found it to be full of complete arseholes tbh.
Agreed our souless bowl full of tourists taking selfies is depressing .......
Been to Upton park many times, good memories as we always seemed to win....walk to the ground was interesting, all there mob lined up along either side f the road, you definitely had to keep a watch out
On one occasion on the underground their mob came in on the train going the other way at the station, they were trying to smash the windows...looking at them they were a serious fucking mob, was counting the seconds to when our train moved out, fucking driver was extra slow on closing the doors, mind you the Arsenal on our train were up for it.....dangerous mob
It's sad to see the old "traditional" football grounds go but apart from the fact they were where football took place none of them were pleasant places to be. SHL looked like a run down Glasgow tenament from the outside, the Bridge was a joke of a place with disabled drivers parked next to the pitch on the dog track, OT was the original concrete bowl and let's not get started on Ayresome Park. Highbury was beautiful when it was tarted up but look at pictures of it from the 60's and early 70's and it was scruffy. Memories of using the bog on the North Bank still make me constipated! Things are more civilised now but not necessarily better.
Personally I think the shammers will suffer more than any other club has when moving grounds - upton park was a compact ground where the fans were almost on the pitch, but the fans will be well away from the pitch at the Olympic stadium cos of the running track going around it. It is just my opinion of course but no football stadium should be allowed have a running track around the pitch, cos the further the fans are from the pitch the more it affects atmosphere
Never been but I have an image of thousands of Grant Mitchell lookalikes in retro West Ham shirts.
Think it was Colin Ward who described Upton Park as the "epitome of nastiness" ?
augie wrote:Personally I think the shammers will suffer more than any other club has when moving grounds - upton park was a compact ground where the fans were almost on the pitch, but the fans will be well away from the pitch at the Olympic stadium cos of the running track going around it. It is just my opinion of course but no football stadium should be allowed have a running track around the pitch, cos the further the fans are from the pitch the more it affects atmosphere
yes agree they are going from one extreme to the other....Chavs had a track around there pitch....
overated ground, overrated atmosphere and above all they have a fucking bubble machine. wankers
hope their move to a soulless bowl hurts them, as they are so proud to beat their chests and tell us what a corporate shithole our ground is, I'd love to see what the olympic stadium looks like a couple of years down the line when the initial hype has died down, would be surprised if it holds anywhere near the atmosphere upton park did.
They know how to give the manure a proper welcome to the city though..
and not that I give a damn about wham, but these days it's hard not to get sentimental about all the bulldozing going on. It's the proponents of uglyness boredom castration at it again.. fuck off!
Isn't the running track at the Olympic stadium going to be covered by retractable seating? After all the money we London ratepayers threw at it for no return, something needs to have been expensively altered!
hertsgunner wrote:Been over there a few times and it was always a dump to me and certainly not a patch on Highbury.A bit hairy going there in old days but more recently nowhere near as bad, as for the locals I don't think any of them support the spammers all their mob seem to come out of upton park tube from Essex.As for filling a 66k stadium their having a laugh.
Yeah locals are not West Ham, they all come from Essex making out they are cockneys
GoonerN5 wrote:All kicking off there, bottles thrown at the Man U coach and kick off delayed!
Good old Essex welcome. I'm just surprised there wasn't a sunbed or a fake handbag thrown at the coach.
How fucking useless are Manure though? That's twice they've been late for kick-off. Should be a points deduction.
Herd wrote:Not to put to fine a point on it ,iot was a fucking orrible place to go .
I first went in abt 73 aged 14 and west ham had not 1 @end but 4 ,yes they had orrible *word censored* in all four sections of the crowd !
getting in and out was hairy in the extreme with the very few arsenal who did go hiding in the lower end of the southbank with a massive mob behind you !
some used to go with the west ham mates in a bid to stave of torture whilst others plumped for the saftey of buying a west ham scarf .
getting out was hairy too as u had to que for up to half an hour down the side of upton park station .
I wont miss it !
Agreed West Ham have been consistent with there hooligans over the years....
Red Snapper wrote:Isn't the running track at the Olympic stadium going to be covered by retractable seating? After all the money we London ratepayers threw at it for no return, something needs to have been expensively altered!
why do they need a running track at a football stadium ffs?
