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Stand up if you love West Ham started up but very few joined in and very few did.
So North East corner lower fans were ejected I'm assuming because of complaints? Yet BML, STBL and away fans were allowed to stand with no problems?
Is it just me or is it just as simple as a ticket swap system ?
It looks to me like the stewards are targeting areas where some stand and some sit, leaving alone those areas (BML TBL ChavCorner) where everyone stands.
They need to sort it.
Keep ejecting the disruptive fans, and give their season tickets to someone on the waiting list ;ok
Reports that some WHU fans were allowed to exit through the Watford areas as well.
I can only think that the lack of policing around / inside is down in part to cost for the stadium operators, they seem to think they can get away with the cheaper steward option. There will be carnage if they don't sort this out before a big game.
The stewards are trying to do a job that they're not set up to do properly. Not taking the majority of ex UP WHU stewards appears to be a big mistake and assigning the ones that did go to the wrong areas is another problem.
Hopefully the club get it sorted but Brady better not utter another word on this being the best migration to a world class stadium, it looks like and absolute shambles TBH
We can report that following the match against AFC Bournemouth, the Club revoked the Season Tickets of a number of individuals who not only engaged in persistent standing throughout the match but were also abusive to West Ham supporters who were asking them to sit down. The offenders have been banned from the Stadium for the rest of the season.
I sit in the west upper over looking the retractable seating of the BML, fans stand now, fans stood at UP. As far as I can tell from mates in there no attempt has been made to get them to sit down. This is the same in the retractable seating of the TBL / away end.
Chav corner stood at UP, what I think is the the equivalent in the OS also seams to be a standing area. Some attempts have been made to get them to sit but not yesterday as far as I could tell. There is a clear line though where the standing stops and the sitting starts and in the main seams to have sorted itself out.
The one area I am not sure of is directly in front of me which is the bottom corner of the east stand, at UP this would have been the end of the chicken run where it met the BML. They sat down at UP park but it was one of the areas yesterday where fans were removed as some stood whilst other sat.
There has been so much in the press about the fact there are 66,000 seats in the OS and we want to get permission to fill it but whilst there is standing and fighting we will not get permission for higher attendances. It gets to me that people still want to see that we will never fill it.
Please don't be put off going by a few morons.
My block (203 turnstile A) is full of fans all behaving well and having a fine old time. As are the blocks on either side.
A sensible and simple solution to the away fan problem is to only allow that section behind the goal to away fans. If there are empty seats, so be it. They can open up some more at the top and keep the 54,000.
(She sits in the section I mentioned earlier).
For every policeman in attendance within the stadium there is a cost which our landlords do not appear, at this stage, want to bear. What the club should do is take it to our landlord and tell them they are not fulfilling the lease in providing a safe and secure environment.
Of course all the idiots should be sitting, end of.