Big clubs just don’t understand what being a football fan really is, being a fan means sticking it through the good times and the bad times, too many times fans are on the back of the manager and the players at big clubs. Tottenham Hotspur for example win 7 on the bounce and say Harry Redknapp the messiah, draw a game against Wigan and there moaning on 606 like mad. That’s not how to support a club. We have had their fair shares of ups and downs and that is why we Love it so much. So here are my top 5 reason why I love West Ham so much.
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Number 5: Defying the odds: West Ham do like a good upset in their time, in my lifetime too. Beating Manchester United at Old Trafford in the great escape season, when everyone wrote us off, being the last team to win at Highbury and the first to win at the Emirates. It’s moments like these that send shivers down the spine. Beating Liverpool last year, when we had that dope Grant in charge. Leaving the Boleyn that day reminded me after such a woeful season why I Love this club, the sheer unpredictably of West Ham. World beaters one week awful the next, it’s what makes us so damn appealing to watch.
Number 4: Those evenings under the lights at the Home of football the Boleyn: I don’t know what it is that makes it so special but going to an evening game at the Boleyn ground just gives you that extra buzz. The atmosphere under the lights is electrifying, hairs on the back of the neck stuff. The players thrive under the lights and the games produced can often reach epic levels of excitement. Seeing men singing in their hearts out still in their work clothes, whether it’s a suit or a builder coat just makes it the more special. Who will forget that night at the Boleyn in the snow? West Ham United 4 Manchester United 0, I for one was gutted I couldn’t make it due to the trains not running. It’s those moments, these moments of magic which means supporting West Ham is so addictive.
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Number 3: London Rivalries: It’s what we thrive on, fellow London teams coming onto our manor. It’s our mission whether were losing or winning to out sing the opposition fans, particularly if it’s Spurs or Millwall. The results against these are the stand out ones from the season the ones you’ll never forget. The ones you look for when the fixtures are announced at the start of the season. Who will forget the time we stopped Tottenham getting to the Champions League in 2006? The emotion and pride on show that day will live with me forever. When Yossi Benayoun picked up Marlon Harewood’s back heel and rifled it into the top corner, the roar of the crowd, the sheer joy of beating the spuds exemplified everything good about West Ham, I’ll never forget that moment.
Number 2: A cup run: West Ham United’s hope of a trophy every season, this year will be our year. So much expectation so much hope. Nearly every year we are left disappointed. But some years it is our year, namely 1964, 1975 and 1980. Those years are the moments West Ham fans look back on with pride and joy. 1980 in particular, no one gave us a prayer. We faced Arsenal a division higher and player for player better than us. But we believed this was going to be our year our moment. Trevor Brooking head and the rest is history. I have never seen us win anything major but I know one of those moments isn’t too far away. Defying the odds it’s what we go best. My only memory of near FA cup glory is 2006, unfortunately my father and I couldn’t get a match ticket for the final but you could feel like you were there the passion oozed through the TV set and it was so nearly our day. The pride I felt that day is why I support West Ham every player to a man put in a 1000% and if it wasn’t for that last swipe of a boot from Gerrard it would have been our day, our day in the Cardiff sun.
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Number 1: Those academy players: Joe Cole, Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard, Michael Carrick, Mark Noble, and the great Bobby Moore the list goes on. The spine of the England squad didn’t come from a top four teams academy no, but ours. I may be club before country but every time that England team squad is announced the pride of seeing how many are “ours” send a lump in my throat. Seeing one ours scored a goal in front of the Bobby Moore stand is that much sweeter. Seeing a young debutant settle in so gracefully and not look out of place makes you so proud. Those moments when you can look back and say, “I was there when so and so made his debut” will remind you what greats Carr and his academy staff have produced. Here’s hoping for more from the great man.
Those are my top 5 reason why I LOVE West Ham, and why to me they are so thrilling to watch and so addicting and why you can’t escape.
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Enjoy it while it lasts you Spurs fans. After so many years of mediocrity (that means not being very good for those of you from the less salubrious districts of N17), its hilarious to watch you crowing and strutting like deluded cockerels, convinced that all the disappointments and under achievement of the past are now gone for good, and that you have at long last joined the “big boys”. Remember, todays headlines are tomorrows fish ‘n chip paper…Enjoy it….. while it lasts !
How can you talk about moaning when you have driven out managers like Pardew who has the Geordies flying at times and the complaining about not wanting Allerdyce a man who has become the hallowed Sam and f**k the football as long as we get back to the premiership. You are as you always were a bunch of jealous moaning hypocrites.
Spread some love guys… I love anyone who makes my club good…. Hence I freakin love Wet Spam…..
Yes Tottenham are playing good football but thats because they have an ex West Ham player coaching them who knows how to play the game football.
We all know not if but when Harry takes the England job Spurs will be back to a mid table team.
West Ham are my team and will be to the day I die if like me on matchday when bubbles starts playing you can feel the hairs on the back of your neck and the atmosphere in the stadium is a electric, how many teams in any division have that atmosphere and feeling.
Every fan at every club gets it, that’s why they support the club. West Ham fans have to dig at spurs all of the time because they are jealous otherwise they would concentrate on there own club. Your not even in the same league anymore so how do you have the nerve to criticise a team 3rd in the premier league. COYS
Its good you remember beating Spurs because it happens so rarely it is easy to cling on to an odd victory! where as bobbing along in the fizzy pop league is something your more used to and wins over teams like scunthorpe or grimsby are easier to aquire. Cant wait for you to get back inot the pemiership and get smashed every week and then back doen to the fizzy pop league again at least the spammers are predictable
easy 6 points
Like last year you mean?? Oh that’s right 4 points for us. Get off your high horse must be getting dizzy!
stop talking about the past im talking about next season “if” you get promoted. you will be going on about the 1966 world cup next.
ignore him Bowden, he is clueless he even misspells his own name there should be an o in there somewhere.
Shut up. West ham are shit end of
No really WHU are a massive club, they tried to sign Tevez & Torres on loan.
What a joke.
Still not as funny as playing a home game in the Olympic stadium. God I want to see that so bad.
one minute karen and the davids are saying how amazing the OS will be when its packed with 60k claret and blue scarf waiving families, feasting on the great football west ham play in the Champs League, and of course what a wonderful legacy west ham will provide to the East End when they take over the OS..karen even drew a picture and had it printed in the Sun, complete with the CL livery which always cracks me up when I think about it!..and the next it’s well actually the OS is a bit rubbish so we’ll string you supporters along for a few more years talking about redeveloping the Boleyn, presumably with Monopoly money coz you are 80m in debt and no one apart from a payday loan company would lend you a brass farthing. aren’t you sick and tired of being mugged off by your board? meanwhile i’m loving life at the Lane right now, it’s awesome! Enjoy.
Don’t make me laugh. West Ham whoareya?
Spurs are the biggest club around, we win everything…. well apart from what ManU, Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool leave behind.
We’re Champions League regulars…. ok we qualified once but it looks like we will again this year. Only another 15 qualifications after that and we’ll catch Arsenal up.
Cups? cup? you want cups? we have two league cup victories to gloat about. ok ok so other teams play their youths and its a Mick Mouse cup but thats all the big clubs leave for us.
Must be off – Bagel bye
Interesting
Good Post and as a small blog, very well written.
Makes a nice change from seeing commercial blogs like West Ham Till i Die and KUMB (Rubbish Blogs) taking the limelight.