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We were warned by the Birmingham City fans what to expect & with serious regret I haven't found what they said to be wrong. The 2015/16 season was a freak just look who won the title! We just had an inspired season with you know who being the talisman, he could see the writing on the wall and left somewhat acrimoniously but looking at what has happened since less people can blame him.
That'll be the season after we left Upton Park.
Talk about jumping on the bandwagon!
One of the reasons they are marching is because the board moved us out of our home (which was crumbling) to the new stadium in Stratford.
The Real fans state that by moving and changing the badge( after a poll), we are losing our LOCAL heritage depicted by the Boleyn Castle, which in fact never existed! It was an idea dreamed up in 1964!
Bobby Geoff and Martin just had crossed hammers on their badges till then!
There was a manor house with small turrets given to Ann Boleyn by Henry V111 on the corner of Green Street.
Couldn't be more LOCAL!
Breame only bought the manor of East Ham in 1544, eight years after Anne was beheaded. He built Green Street House aka Boleyn Castle sometime after that and it was demolished in 1955
The first time the crossed hammers and castle were combined on the crest was on the cover of the 1958/59 West Ham Players Promotion Souvenir Handbook
The cost of season tickets & in time hopefully world domination.
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I expect it's so "some" of the fans can express their dissatisfaction at the last few years since we moved stadium and all that was said prior to it happening and no signs of that actually becoming reality? ;ok
What is striking is the number of people who've donated, loads have chipped in a tenner just to do theyre bit for the club. Makes you proud to be a hammer ;ok
There are lots of clubs who were premier league who would gladly swap places with us.
As for banners saying 'sack the board' who exactly do they think would be able to do that. The directors could be sacked I suppose by the owners and a new board appointed but wouldn't that leave the owners still in place.
If the owners were to walk away and take the money owed to them the club would fold and go into administration. Most likelihood it would be years before we got back into the PL if we in fact we're still in existence.
By all means protest at some of the things that happen such as the Henry affair but not the fact we are not buying players like City or Chelsea etc or not regularly in the top four.
They want Gold, Sullivan and Brady out? But who replaces them? Have they crowd funded enough to buy the club?
If the fans are correct in their belief, presumably the owners, sitting in their comfy seats looking at all the season ticket holders holding up bits of paper, are thinking ha ha ha you mugs. ;puzzled
I moan when we play like we did yesterday and get outplayed by teams we shouldn't really but come the next game I'm ready. I go into the game hoping for a win but at the same time expecting nothing. If we play our best or near our best but are beaten by the better team on the day then that's the nature of football.
I'd also like us to buy the best players but the best in true terms are out of our range but if we can buy the best available to us then I'm happy. I don't go into meltdown because we haven't signed this player or that player we've been linked with if I've never really seen them play and can't really make a judgement one way or the other.
There's been many a post on here slagging off players such as Ayew et al saying they're useless and a waste of money but then when they get sold to a rival team it's suddenly ridiculous.
Posters were slagging off Hughill from the moment he arrived and most of us had never seen him play. Give him a chance.
I wouldn't march if I were in the UK, and I don't believe I agree with or support many of the aims or beliefs of those who would march, and I would strongly object to being told, or having it implied, that as a result I was not a 'real' fan.