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Slipperduke

The Camden Cad
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I hate reporting from Upton Park. I've had enough bad jobs in my life to know that I shouldn't whinge about this one, but I really can't stand the place. I'm no shrinking violet, I've done an away trip to Millwall, but that lot down Green Street are horrible. On Saturday, I heard one of them call Gianfranco Zola a child molester. Zola! The nicest man in football! And it was only one-nil at the time!

Gary Neville suffered too. Granted, the West Ham fans don't have much to celebrate these days, but did they really have to reserve their biggest cheer for the moment when he pulled up with a groin strain? That's just mean. Neville is no stranger to abuse, and he brings it on himself sometimes, but even he looked shocked. There are different rules at Upton Park nowadays. They'll boo anyone. You get the feeling that if Bobby Moore was still playing, they'd boo him for not getting his shorts dirty.

But the fans should save their bile for people who actually deserve it. The club's owners keep using a loophole to delay filing their accounts at Companies House, fueling speculation that they're deep in the brown stuff. The lunacy of the Icelandic era has holed the club beneath the water-line. The new owners may have promised to run the club 'sensibly', but many of those responsible for this financial armageddon are still there, picking up their wages.

On the pitch and off it, West Ham are in serious trouble, so it might be time for a change of strategy from the fans. Instead of calling Zola 'a nonce', they might want to give him some support. Instead of screaming abuse at their youngsters, they might want to encourage them. It's not everyone. At least half of their fans stayed behind until the end, singing about bubbles and hoping against hope for a consolation goal. It's the other half that are letting them down. It's the other half that make Upton Park such a thoroughly depressing place to visit.
 
Should've just left it with the title. Hating West Ham needs no justification, surely even people from Singapore know that?
 
Great piece Slip, the so called supporters of West Ham are the main reason why I loathe the club so much. One day they'll tell us how they won the World Cup the next they'll be hurling their vile abuse out to ex players who have committed the heinous crime of being transferred out of the **** hole called Upton Park.
 
Very well said indeed, even more so cos their exodus impacted on our journey home!
 
As soon as I saw the title, I didn't think that you could top that! Brilliant stuff. I have been to Upton Park a couple of times and it is a horrible place.
 
They'll boo anyone. You get the feeling that if Bobby Moore was still playing, they'd boo him for not getting his shorts dirty.

Absolutely disgraceful that you could suggest that in my opinion. Goes a long way to understand your article though and your hatred of Upton Park and the fans.

There are a lot of ****ing wronguns in this world and you should not bracket them as being West Ham fans.

Southend have their own bunch of 'fans' that the likes of yourself would not like to socialise with... however the support at roots hall is on a much smaller scale and 10,000 voices arent as loud as 35,000.
 
I ****ing hate W*** H** with a passion, and to that degree it was a shame we loitered in Greenwich for a good few hours after the match Saturday as i would've enjoyed giving them plenty on their way back to Bas and Pits-sea
 
If ever i held a position of power my first act as God/PM/Fifa President would be to erase Wet Sham from existance.

Vote DS for God. Thank You.
 
Absolutely disgraceful that you could suggest that in my opinion. Goes a long way to understand your article though and your hatred of Upton Park and the fans.

There are a lot of ****ing wronguns in this world and you should not bracket them as being West Ham fans.

Southend have their own bunch of 'fans' that the likes of yourself would not like to socialise with... however the support at roots hall is on a much smaller scale and 10,000 voices arent as loud as 35,000.

If you look at the bottom of the article, I do make it very clear that it wasn't all of them and that at least half of their support was entirely commendable...

There are a lot of nasty buggers watching football these days, do you really think that Moore wouldn't get booed for having a bad day? Christ, there's people out there now who would jeer George Best for not tackling back, picket Anfield because Bill Shankly had gone three years without a title and would...erm...boo Sir Bobby Robson for only making it to the UEFA Cup semi-finals. Two defeats in a row was enough for some Southend fans to start posting 'Tilson Out' messages after two straight promotions and a victory over Man Utd. What makes Moore so different to all the other sacred cows that have been slain?
 
There are a lot of ****ing wronguns in this world and you should not bracket them as being West Ham fans.

Admittedly, this is only in my limited and entirely biased opinion, but more wrong'uns attend the Boleyn than most other grounds in the country.

Whether or not they ought properly to be described as "West Ham fans" (as opposed to, for instance, general trouble-makers) is, perhaps, moot - but there is no question that some deeply unsavoury characters hang around E13 of a matchday.
 
If you look at the bottom of the article, I do make it very clear that it wasn't all of them and that at least half of their support was entirely commendable...

There are a lot of nasty buggers watching football these days, do you really think that Moore wouldn't get booed for having a bad day? Christ, there's people out there now who would jeer George Best for not tackling back, picket Anfield because Bill Shankly had gone three years without a title and would...erm...boo Sir Bobby Robson for only making it to the UEFA Cup semi-finals. Two defeats in a row was enough for some Southend fans to start posting 'Tilson Out' messages after two straight promotions and a victory over Man Utd. What makes Moore so different to all the other sacred cows that have been slain?

What makes him different is West Ham fans only main claim to fame :D
 
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