Boleyn ground / Upton park

Crying shame there leaving that ground!! Certainly in my top 5 grounds I've been to.

A bet there fans are gutted they'll be moving at the end of the season

 

Decent stadium/atmosphere, coupled with their fans not being the most welcoming either!

I hope the Olympic Stadium doesn't turn them in to just another soulless set of supporters like Manchester City have become.

 

Agree, proper football ground

 

I don't understand why clubs want to trade in their roots, history and community connections for a few extra seats.

 

Really? This'll put them up there with Spurs, more income, better players.. They'll be pushing for Europe every season and no doubt their attendances will be drastically improved. They've been doing **** all for years apart from living off Bobby Moore and thinking they're some kind of Academy of football.

 

Of course you do. Money....

History and fans mean nothing to most clubs. (Especially when they hit the big time)

Whilst I'm not a fan of PC. It's one thing I can never accuse him of.

What was it. 90 quid plus for a ticket today at UPTON PARK.

 

Of course it's all down to money, it stinks and it boils my blood. If we ever got back to the premier league I'd rather us struggle by in Oakwell than sell our souls and move to a shitty corporate identikit stadium. I know a lot of hammers fans opposed the move which just shows how much contempt clubs have for the fans.

 

Definately. I take heart at the number of opposition fans who visit our ground and say it's a proper ground.

4 proper sides and not a circle of soulless *****.

Yooooooo reeeds

 

But yet Sullivan said on sky that every game next season is already a sell out.

 

Unfortunately club owners know that no matter how much they charge or how much they treat their fans like something they've stepped in the loyalty given by fans won't break and they'll keep coming back.

 

Unfortunately club owners know that no matter how much they charge or how much they treat their fans like something they've stepped in the loyalty given by fans won't break and they'll keep coming back.

 

Really? I thought it was a horrible ground with absolutely no legroom. Looks ice and pretty from the outside but get in and its a shithole.

 

Proper ground

 

For midgets.

It's a ground done on the cheap where milking the fans for money was more important than the comfort of the supporters. Compare and contrast with oakwell where the convertion to seating was done with supporters in mind

 

That's how footballs become I'm afraid. It's the sensible thing to do from a chairman/business point of view. It's a opportunity for West Zhan to compete with the top 6/7/8

 

Personally thought it was a right dump.


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As much as I love football, visiting these new grounds dosen't excite me 1 bit! Zero character, usually stuck next to a dual carriage or a A/M road and they all look the same!

Give me a Burnden park, Filbert street, or Baseball ground any sarurday of the month

 

Because the people that run the club are ambitious and have worked hard to move the club to the next level. It's not a few extra seats it's pretty much doubling their entire capacity. If we were selling out Oakwell all the time in the premiership and our owner of the time wanted to move us into a new 45k stadium i'd be up for that too if they think like West Ham do that they would still fill it. You'd obviously be upset to leave the ground but you need to move with the times. They want to challenge for Europe every season, maybe even a champions league place. At the moment achievement is mid table and that's not ambition.

 

Stadium size and number of fans in the ground doesn't necessarily correlate with on the pitch success - just ask Newcastle fans. Some of the grounds being lost to 'ambition' are beautiful football grounds and are steeped in history. Moving from Highbury to a soulless corporate Emirates hasn't exactly ensured Arsenal have won trophies by the bucket load has it?

 

Every club is a selling club but Newcastle ruin themselves being one more than most. Alan Carr's dad Graham as chief scout finds them shitloads of unheard of foreigners to sign on the cheap, that are later sold on for good amounts. Arsenal are run better than the majority of clubs and the ground change to what i'd not call a soul-less ground has allowed around 25k extra fans watch their team.

Changing stadium doesn't guarantee success for West Ham, but they have a much better chance of it there than they do right now.