The twats that ran on the pitch. They may well be responsible for West Ham having to play behind closed doors. If you're going to run on to the pitch, have a banner or something that makes it obvious why you're there otherwise you just look like a plonker thug.
Agree with that. The fans lined up giving the board some stick looked really positive to me. Always a bit dodgy when you start throwing coins, but at least one of them hit the target.
Do you get a sense that the REal West Ham Fans lot are now lined up with the board or is it more fluid than that? Having a group of hoolies lined up with the bosses against 'left wing agitators' would be pretty depressing.
Erm, no, indeed.Also - I'm not sure you can call West Ham fans "left wing agitators".
Indeed
They weren't all "fawning idiots" and a lot of the fans put up a resistance with marches and protests, but, whatever. This isn't about Cardiff anyway and in the terrifyingly sanitised world of the Premiership a solo run on the pitch really isn't the smartest move.
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So they all 'got it' but all elected to stay in their seats, with some attacking the other guy? I'm afraid I couldn't see any banner at all in that footage.Like I say, the guy with the corner flag was making a very deliberate point which lots of people got. If that first guy hadn't run on then would the demonstration have started? (and he was carrying a protest banner, it was just quite small
And you think that makes a good pic?Well, the stewards confiscate all banners when people go into the ground. So that makes things difficult. (They've even been confiscating anti-board banners away from home as well). You can see that the guy is holding an A4 sheet with something about Sullivan on it:
The planned mass march was cancelled about two days before the game (see thread).
This was the result of a build up of anger over the last couple of years and it seems to have publicised it all pretty well.
That's just going to piss everybody off even more.
This will presumably lead to a fans campaign to donate to any fines flagman and the rest get fined. Spectacularly stupid stuff by the board.Flag man (you can find his name out easily enough if you want) has given a bit more news:
Raising a civil case to try to get any fine money off the people protesting? They never fucking learn do they?
Yep. Really fucking idiotic. What a bunch of cunts the West Ham board are.
Already started.
This is a thread concerning news about West Ham, no? He is a West Ham fan being asked an opinion and it's a funny clip.
Yep that was disgusting too. Not sure why Cardiff is being brought up in a West Ham thread again but I'm pretty sure Tan's comments were discussed in the relevant Cardiff thread at the time.
Well, I'm not a Hammers fan, I'm not a Cardiff fan and, for that matter, I don't have a beef with you personally. But still... at the moment this isn't a generic WHU thread, it's a focused discussion about shit owners, contempt for fans and the events of the weekend. Seems like an odd time to post stuff suggesting the protesters are morons - or to throw in a random video about thick racists.
Er, no. Wrong.
If you want a focused chat about one specific element of West Ham news, then I suggest you start a new one.
Which is why I said 'at the moment this isn't a generic WHU thread'.
Threads really don't work like that. You can't have a general chat thread on a broad topic and then suddenly expect everyone to fall into line on one single aspect and not mention anything else.
A West Ham fan talking about immigration isn't about West Ham. Why not post links to Russell Brand talk shows or Danny Dyer films? They're about as relevant and funny.
OK, Right. So it's not connected to West Ham in any way at all and bears no relevance at all to the opinions of any West Ham fans or staff past or present. In fact that shirt probably isn't even real. Gotcha.
