West Ham

[ad hoc]

Fucking hell. This sounds fucking awful. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...mpression=true

[imp]

It's alright, though - they all love their mums. And at least the streets around the Olympic Stadium will be safe again.

[Gerontophile]

...members of a fans group called Real West Ham Fans (Real WHF) – until last week known as the Real West Ham Fans Action Group...

Because that would have led to them having the word "FAG" in their acronym.

[Sean of the Shed]

Maybe the board could release a new change kit in honour of their new moral guardians. Black shirts will be a must.

[tee rex]

At least these days you can outrun the ICF. Outwalk them, probably.

Songbook: "Zimmer Zammer", "We shall not be moved (without a push from nurse)" ...

[Ray de Galles]

Reminiscent of Hammam’s time at Cardiff where he openly courted current and former hooligans to try and have them control the supporters groups.

That created the environment that allowed Tan to push his rebrand through and have those that attempted to resist or protest threatened.

I’ve heard rumours that the situation at West Ham is actually far worse than this article states too.

[Sean of the Shed]

At least these days you can outrun the ICF. Outwalk them, probably.

Songbook: "Zimmer Zammer", "We shall not be moved (without a push from nurse)" ...

'Ave a (mashed up) banana.

[Benjm]

That is grim.

And at least the streets around the Olympic Stadium will be safe again.

Joking aside, the layout of the approaches to the stadium is very helpful for anyone hoping to cause trouble.

[E10 Rifle]

It would be easy to use all this just to go "Ha, look at West Ham, aren't they all cunts" but the truth is there's a dynamic like this, to a greater or lesser extent, at most clubs, including my own. And it's always worth applying the Tony Benn democracy test to anyone who claims to be "the voice of real fans".

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

It seems to be wider UK society writ large. A bunch of decent people trying to get a better deal for everyone, most people who aren't much pushed either way, and want to have a rekatively easy life, and a hard core of thuggish fascists Making life a misery for everyone and doing the bosses bidding.

[Lang Spoon]

Is there any chance of Brady and pals being found to have done something illegal over the Olympic stadium deal. Cos obviously herself and the Gollivans will feel no real repercussions from this, but they all need to be sent dahn, for a decent stretch. Or polloniumed.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Didn't Sadiq Khan promise something when he campaigned to become mayor?

[Glass Half Empty]

They have previous - it just wouldn't be fair on their fans would it? -

[Third rate Leszno]

From the reports of crowd trouble and pitch incursions it doesn’t sound like things have calmed down at all.

[ad hoc]

Aye just put this on the TV match thread. It's the live game here and it's chaos

[ad hoc]

https://twitter.com/SkyJohnnyP/status/972510889298612227?s=20

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/kumbdotcom/status/972514019222392832?s=21

[MsD]

Oh my days, Mark Noble ...

[SouthdownRebel]

Given there was a protest march planned for today, the lack of stewarding and apparent police presence at the game seems fairly staggering.

[Sean of the Shed]

Maybe they were expecting the Real WHF to do the ground security.

[Satchmo Distel]

Meanwhile, I'm still reeling from reading that Karren Brady is in the House of Lords. WTF??

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

Stolen, but good:

"The FA have acted swiftly after the scenes at West Ham today by deducting 6 points from Sheffield United".

[tee rex]

There must have been a visit from the fairy godmother:

"You shall have the Olympic Games! Wonderful images of Britain will be seen by the world.

Then you will give the stadium to West Ham. More images will be seen by the world ... "

[Toby Gymshorts]

I know a few people who support West Ham and only most of them are pricks.

[EIM]

The fans aren't to blame here