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Reply | Cocaine
at 15:25 12 Jan 2026
Back in the 90's when the people at the company I worked for liked to partake in the stuff, it mostly turned them into the worlds worst game show host.
Nowadays it turns everyone into aggressive dickwad cnts.
Has the recipe changed or have people changed? |
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Reply | West hams ground....
at 15:22 12 Jan 2026
"....but actually used to be the Bryant & May match factory" - me and the missus have friends that live there. Fkin awful. As well as being a gated place (which is probably not a bad thing as the only safe way in or out is to drive, no way would I want to walk there or back out again. My missus did it once from Bow Road tube and vowed never to do that again, only go by car) the flats are awful. Go through their 4th floor front door and they have a small bedroom to the left, bathroom to the right and straight ahead for the kitchen/sitting room (I hate that layout, such a cop out by developers and I don't care if it's trendy, it's a con). Then there are steps up to a mezzanine over the sitting room area which is basically the 2nd bedroom but it's not really a bedroom, it's just a big bunk-bed area.
They have two kids under 10 years old and I think I would go stir crazy living there with my missus and two kids.
Oh... and they have the audacity to be marketed as luxury flats. PMSL!!
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Reply | West hams ground....
at 15:06 12 Jan 2026
Thankfully we weren't lumbered with it and LR being turned into flats/houses. Luckily we had the option to go back. But yes, not acquiring the site in the 80's was a big faux pas but that's a whole other story!
However, forward wind just over 100 years and if the 2012 Olympics were held in west London (say, the Old Oak common trading area) and it was the same stadium architecture/construction and as we were (just about) a PL team then, we could have been lumbered with it in the same way and absolutely no chance to leave. Phew. |
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Reply | Match of the day.
at 14:55 12 Jan 2026
I'm not a huge fan of the BBC these days but it's not just the BBC, it's everyone. All focus on the PL, everyone below can fk themselves. |
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Reply | West hams ground....
at 12:20 12 Jan 2026
I think a lot have stopped going. They are stuffing the ground with tourists, kids-for-a-quid (yesterday) and giving out free tickets to schools and any other incentive they can think of just so they can spin it that the ground is always full, therefore justifying it.
If they do get relegated, we'll see the real level of support and if leaving Upton Part was wise after all. Three stands were already fairly new-ish and only the old 'chicken run' side not development due to issues with houses on that side.
All I can say is thank god the Olympics weren't in west London as that could easily have been us. |
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Reply | West hams ground....
at 11:31 12 Jan 2026
Did a quick google and;
"The refit of the London Olympic Stadium (now London Stadium) cost around £323 million, adding to the original build, with the total project exceeding £700 million".
For that kind of money I wonder if it would almost have been better to have demolished the Olympic stadium completely in the first place and start again. They have the site & footprint so maybe that would be better than the awful refit.
Still would have the same issues getting to & from the ground but I think if the stadium was built properly with good catering etc, that would be acceptable. Let's face it, most grounds in London (apart from the lovely LR of course) have limited Underground links and are always a 'mare. Cannot think of any that match ours.
There's probably no scope now for that if they go down but even if they stay up they have been perennial strugglers for a while now it's probably not worth the risk unless they can get back to a mid/upper mid stable footing.
West Ham contributed a mahoosive £15m (half what hey just paid for Taty, inc add-ons) and have a 99 year lease on a £4m annual rent which doesn't cover the costs so the taxpayer picks up the rest, again, so even if there is any consideration to do it, the costs have to be 100% with West Ham, the tax payers have funded enough already.
So that's not going to happen considering the owners are tighter than a ducks arris so they, the fans and the tax payer are stuck with this monstrosity.
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Reply | West hams ground....
at 10:52 12 Jan 2026
When they play the likes of Blackburn, Preston, Stoke midweek in winter, it'll feel like home for the away fans 'cos it's so fkin cold being totally exposed to the elements. |
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Reply | West hams ground....
at 10:24 12 Jan 2026
I was near the front of block 224 and the view wasn't that bad though not as good as, for example, any of the highest seats at LR.
The toilets were easy to use and no problems getting there and back at HT or the short gap before ET started.
However, that's where any positives end.
I avoided Stratford and with all the various closures went District Line to Bow Road, short walk to Bow Church to jump on the DLR one stop to Pudding Mill Lane. Same reverse journey. Took longer than my intended journey but hey ho, just left home half an hour earlier than originally planned.
Can't blame West Ham for tube line closures but the fact there are so few options makes it harder to get to & from. We really are blessed with amazing Underground links to get to Loftus Road.
Security wasn't that bad but again, my son & I got there at 1.30pm to simply avoid any issues. Had we got there at 2-2.15pm, might have been different but that's why I choose to avoid all that.
The stadium was designed for the upper tier to be temporary for the Olympics then removed to leave a single tier 25k stadium for athletics. When the Olympic legacy people botched that up, they panicked as they didn't want a white elephant that has hampered so many other countries in the past. I know Spurs were mooted but it was never really going to happen (way too close to West Ham), Orient were a non-starter so that just left West Ham and West Ham absolutely pulled their and the tax payers pants down.
The expensive tax payer funded refit left an awful place to watch football and with the stadium being mainly made from steel girders with huge gaps all over the place there is absolutely no protect from the elements. I think it would have been better on the pitch.
Then there's the atmosphere, utter shite. Not the home fans fault, you just can't hear them. Give me Upton Park any day. They (the fans) were desperate to leave Upton Park but their owners have handed them a disaster.
If/when West Ham come down the ticket allocation will be 2,800 (not sure if they'll increase that as all the tourists will have left) meaning I probably won't have enough points to get a ticket but if that's the case, can't say I'll be overly disappointed. |
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Reply | love today....
at 10:03 12 Jan 2026
I don't think anyone is bigging up a 3rd round defeat as a great day as such. We all feel the pain of another 3rd round exit but I think it's more in context of the game itself (putting aside the competition) and everything that surrounded it that has been discussed lots on here. For once we actually showed up, and that mattered.
As has been said, being there would have given anyone as a fan a different experience of the day compared to watching it on TV. I've said many times the two experiences are completely different, you simply cannot beat being there and being there (as awful as it was to get to and the stadium itself) with 9,000 others is what it's all about and I would wager anyone there will have had a different (and probably better, despite the result) experience than a TV viewer.
Pre-1992, football on the whole was mainly watched at the grounds. Live TV games were few and far between. That's all changed and the TV viewer has outstripped the attending fan but, IMO, that does not mean they have a better experience. I think it's actually worse, however more convenient and accessible it makes it. |
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Reply | Fourth Round Here We Come Match Thread
at 19:59 11 Jan 2026
I’ve seen a few comments on social media about it being an opportunity missed.
If we had a full strength team with Edward’s playing and going at it like vs Leicester then maybe, but we didn’t have any of that and they were bringing on £20-£30m signings as subs while we had DS players. Those are the differences between the Championship and PL.
Even at 2-1 down and having to get a goal, you still have to be careful about going hung-ho and getting caught on the counter, it’s a very fine balance. I think free kicks and corners were our best chance of getting a goal back without risking conceding a 3rd but West Ham dug in when we had those opportunities |
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Reply | Fourth Round Here We Come Match Thread
at 18:02 11 Jan 2026
On the tube home. Not read any comments yet but nothing to be ashamed of today.
West Ham weren’t all that and will go down. Probably had a bit more pace than us but that’s about it.
They had to go to extra time against a mid table Championship team and persistently fouling us every time we broke forward, that’s how desperate they were.
I thought the team gave their all, Kolli really worked his socks off. Kone was looking a little bereft, then scored! The defence linked up well and passed their way out of trouble comfortably.
Walsh had a good game too, not at fault for either goal.
We had other chances but just missed that cutting edge.
QPR fans excellent and everyone saying how bad the ground is, is right. Awful place to watch football. So hard to get any atmosphere. Hardly heard them when the first scored and then heard them more fo the second, that’s how desperate they were.
The stadium is made out of a steel frame with higher gaps all over the place and any filled in gaps was just tarpaulin so the wind whistled around the ground, no protection at all. |
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Reply | Are blessed with VAR on Sunday
at 16:04 9 Jan 2026
VAR should be in at the beginning or not at all. Bring it in half way through is ridiculous.... probably because they think all us little upstarts will be out by then and it's just the big boys left who are used to it.
Same in the Championship, not used all season but is used in the Play Off Final, and look what good it did for Huddersfield who were robbed not once but twice. |
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Reply | Stay Classy Man City
at 12:05 8 Jan 2026
What about the 115 charges? Gone very quiet of late. |
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Reply | West Ham tickets
at 14:30 7 Jan 2026
Got the emails (two), accessed them via my phone, clicked on the link, chose 'chrome' then 'add' and voila, both now in my 'wallet'.
Still gonna get there early just in case there are any delays as i don't want to be stuck outside with my 11 year old son then when we do get in, some plank will be in our seats and refusing to move with the usual "find annova seat yaaa caaaant". |
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Reply | W Ham losing last night good or bad thing?
at 11:44 7 Jan 2026
West Ham need a win, any win, as they haven't had one in god knows how long so the Manager's job is on the line and the natives are getting restless.
I think a West Ham win last night might have given them a little breathing room so I think Forest winning is not good for us.
I'd be surprised if they play a weakened team plus, as said, they've got new players they'll want to bed in as quickly as possible.
Anyways, we have no control over what oppositions do, we just got to sort out our own team/strategy etc. and go from there. |
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Reply | West Ham tickets
at 18:01 6 Jan 2026
Well, I'm getting there for 9am as I can see huge queues and 7k still outside at kick-off 'cos it takes so fkin' long for people to get through....... |
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Reply | I'd like to wish Liam Rosenior well...
at 11:45 6 Jan 2026
As far as I'm aware he has/had no connections to QPR so I would not wish him well or unwell any more than anyone else who manages that club.
I remember his Dad playing, who played 38 games for QPR, but as far as Liam goes it's a complete 'meh'. |
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