Now I have to be careful because of my pledge to back Allardyce until the Reading game is done and dusted - irrespective of team selection and tactics - but the fact that such a huge game is being boycotted by Hammers fans must tell us something surely; and given Sullivan & Gold are focused on financial returns, the something it tells us will surely give the owners pause for thought.
Allardyce was surprisingly conciliatory in his latest interview, given his belligerence earlier in the week, and the availability of tickets on the eve of such a crucial game probably tells us why. I'm still backing our manager but it seems others are withholding their support - literally.
Here's hoping for a full house and passionate and positive home support. Tomorrow's game is one of the biggest we have played in the forty plus years I have supported the club. Let's get behind Uncle Sam and his boys and cheer them on to a convincing victory!
Come On You Irons!
In fairness HF, a lot of games seem not to sell out lately but 99% of the time sell out on the door! Not sure why this is, but even though the Palace gane 'sold out' I was sitting the BML with probably 25-30 empty seats around me! Odd!
ReplyDeleteYou might be supporting him but I'm not, sack the fat lippy useless prick.
ReplyDeleteDeluded fans?
West ham way is the lossing way?
Honestly, the tea lady he is shagging for his board room gossip would do a better job.
Sack him and do it now, fuk promotion, I'll take championship football played right any day over this boring negative bullshit football
You say that Reading are 'only' bringing 3000 fans, this is because they weren't allocated any more tickets than this...... I'm pretty sure that a bigger allocation would have resulted in more Reading fans.......
ReplyDeletewell said Beelzebub It would be lovely to boycott Murdoch's media circus and get real football back The Bundesliga have done it and the competition is great the football entertaining and the fear factor not as debilitating as the Premier League Football clubs are well run within proper financial constraints
ReplyDelete1004, where do I use the word "only"?
ReplyDeleteAnony-mouse says,
ReplyDeleteThere's lots of factors involved in this. I know what you're hinting at and I agree there are some who rightly or wrongly aren't going cos of the perception of the football. It's not as pretty as we'd like but pretty football doesn't always work in getting out of this division- as our 1980 cup winning team found out before they got the hang of it and tore the arse out of the division the following year.
But there's other factors too, including-
1). Its not kids for a quid and there's no £20 tickets like there have been at recent games,
2). We always drop the less committed fans after a relegation- when Pardew got us promoted we averaged about 27,500 (far less than now) if my memory is correct,
3). Working people have less money in their pockets in these economic times- I for one do- so I'll be watching it on the computer today rather than go. I can't afford the £40-£50 today I'm afraid.
Anyway, it'll still be comfortably over 30,000 today and I've got a feeling Reading are not going to get the kind of atmosphere they are hoping for. I've got the feeling it's going to be a proper UP atmosphere. F*ck it- is it too late to go? :) COYI!
Hammers fan, you didn't use the word 'only' but you said it was chicken feed compared to the WHU away support. You can only have as many away fans as there are tickets for them......? Give Reading 5000 tickets and you'd had 5000 away fans in the ground.....
ReplyDeleteAgree with most of that Anony-mouse. Let's hope the stadium is pumped!
ReplyDelete1108, it wasn't an attack on Reading fans, it was a tribute to West Ham's travelling fans. Over 5000 at an evening game in Peterborough; how many did Reading take? However, the same enthusiastic support is not evidenced by the home fans!
Tom writes....
ReplyDeleteA present for you hf, Enjoy!!!
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/12/10/article-0-004A5F8100000258-871_468x560
Anony-mouse says,
ReplyDeleteI know the old 4 5 1 or 4 4 2 argument but I like the shape of that side he's put out today. Faubert has been better this season than previously but is still a poor player in my view. However he works like a dog, albeit sometimes a mad scampering in the wrong direction poch, and somehow the team plays with more energy when he's out there.
All 11 to please stay on the pitch and do Reading what we did to Saints early doors. Come on you f*cking rip-roaring, goal-scoring irons!