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Post by starsky on Oct 7, 2013 3:57:44 GMT
I thought it might be worth a mention I think we might have one very happy moderator and one very sad moderator on this forum after that result .......
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Post by JB on Oct 7, 2013 20:18:07 GMT
Haha! I don't mind, I've always thought West Ham were all right really. Comfortably deserved the win, we were dreadful from what I saw of the second half.
The 2lb Grayling earlier in the day goes some way to making me fairly relaxed about it too.
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Oct 7, 2013 20:27:26 GMT
Starsky, bit of a nice surprise. Was fishing with JB, a Spurs fan, and felt we would be comfortably turned over. Was obviously very careful how I refered to Spurs in this current climate!
Stonking grayling JB!
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Post by tobym on Oct 7, 2013 22:14:54 GMT
Did not see that coming. Fear you might get spanked at your place now.
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Post by starsky on Oct 8, 2013 6:39:05 GMT
To be honest if you asked most West Ham fans they would have never seen that coming either.... I was quite surprised to see how Spurs seemed to give up. If I remember rightly the last time we beat Spurs we got relegated !!. Whilst I love catching fish especially 2lb Grayling I'm afraid I would rather this result as we will be living on it for years ....... Nice fish though JB and I can see how it dulled the pain somewhat. Play you at our gaff...... We'd love to play you every week after this result Toby .......
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Post by JB on Oct 8, 2013 20:38:14 GMT
If you can't enjoy results like that then there's not much point watching football! I was lucky enough to be at a few games that I'll never forget, beating Chelsea in the League Cup Final (after beating Arsenal in the semi) and taking Inter Milan apart at the Lane are probably the top ones for me. I was in the San Siro for the Bale hat trick too, and even though we lost it was still a memorable experience in a positive way.
What did you make of the 'Come and watch City's superstars at the Boleyn' fiasco? That's your next fixture too isn't it?
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Post by starsky on Oct 9, 2013 15:31:08 GMT
JB, To be honest I thought it was a bit of a storm in a tea cup. I noticed that they were still advertising tickets for that game in the newspaper yesterday. Maybe some West Ham fans would rather watch the Man City stars in the pub than pay a minimum of £52 per adult and £29 per child. Anyway after a few seasons of being at the OS a rich Arab will come in and buy us and we will be the next Man City ... If it brings the cost of a ticket down then it can't come fast enough.
I'm afraid I haven't ever been to a hammers game which really sticks in the mind for positive reasons( I only go once or twice a season ). I could recall a few serious disappointments though ! My earliest memory of us actually winning anything was of course the 80 cup final when we beat Arsenal. Since then it's been mostly disappointments mixed with the odd highlight like us beating Spurs 3 nil at their gaff...
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Post by JB on Oct 9, 2013 20:11:12 GMT
JB, To be honest I thought it was a bit of a storm in a tea cup. I noticed that they were still advertising tickets for that game in the newspaper yesterday. Maybe some West Ham fans would rather watch the Man City stars in the pub than pay a minimum of £52 per adult and £29 per child. Anyway after a few seasons of being at the OS a rich Arab will come in and buy us and we will be the next Man City ... If it brings the cost of a ticket down then it can't come fast enough. I'm afraid I haven't ever been to a hammers game which really sticks in the mind for positive reasons( I only go once or twice a season ). I could recall a few serious disappointments though ! My earliest memory of us actually winning anything was of course the 80 cup final when we beat Arsenal. Since then it's been mostly disappointments mixed with the odd highlight like us beating Spurs 3 nil at their gaff... The '80 Cup Final must have been special though. £52 for an adult ticket is ridiculous, and I know I don't have to say 'money is killing football' or what football used to be anyway. But then it's not just football that's changed either I suppose. You've beaten us before though haven't you? I can't remember...
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Oct 11, 2013 7:51:42 GMT
Starsky, that cup final is remembered well, it was the only time Trevor Brooking has headed the ball!
How about the 75 cup final? Memorable for so many reasons, West Ham won 2-0 with goals from Alan Taylor but broke my heart to see my hero, Bobby Moore, playing for Fulham. Seem to recall Taylor is a newsagent in Norwich. Can't see Gareth Bale doing that at the end of his career!
I didn't get to the game but went to the Charity Shield in 76 where I had to endure Derby making the Hammers look like amateurs. Think Derby walked away with the league title in 75.
Also my last day as a season ticket holder was memorable. It was the year they went down with Roeder but they beat Chelsea in the last home game. Lampard didn't get too much stick.
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Post by starsky on Oct 11, 2013 13:46:59 GMT
JB, We all as footie fans have selective memory loss, some more than others....
Pete, 75 was to early for me as I was only 5 then. My stepdad took me to West Ham when I was about 8 or 9. You was lucky Pete to have been going to the games during a successful period for us. If only Gerrard hadn't scored that wonder goal against us things would have been so different .... Are you watching the England game ?, I'm struggling to get my interested in the national games at the moment. It's not just me bit also my mates who feel the same.
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Oct 11, 2013 17:27:37 GMT
Starsky,
Yup, it was great although I was only 9.
Funny how you remember all those things though. At the time Mervyn Day was the great hope for English goal keeping and I don't ever recall Billy Bonds being called anything other than swashbuckling! Him and Frank Lampard Snr were proper hard at the back and always played with no shin pads and socks rolled down
Think I could still name the team over that period right off the top of my head but can't seem to remember where I left my car keys most of the time...
The Gerrard goal was a downer. There were so many bad times that season.
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Post by starsky on Oct 11, 2013 19:59:02 GMT
To be honest I can recall the names from the 80 cup final better than the current team.
The worst game I have ever been to at Upton Park was when we were 3-0 up by half time against Wimbledon and got beat 3-4... Oh yeah and I was there when we won on penalties in the league cup quarter final and then had to replay the game due to fielding an illegal player( Emmanuel Omoyinmi). They gave us back our tickets for the replay and of course we got beat.. Only at West Ham ..
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Post by paul on Oct 11, 2013 21:42:11 GMT
This site seems to have been taken over by a group of middle aged ex football hooligans, reminiscing through rose tinted polarised glasses about their attendance (as spectators rather than practitioners) at some arcane pop festival/ ritual (football being about as far removed from sport as 'Strictly Dome dancing') in the East End of the most unpleasant city in the UK. Far removed from Devon Rivers.
Aside of the various fishing firsts, I offer three genuine sporting memories two as participant and one as spectator to at least try and bring the reminiscences bak to a genuine sporting level.
I played rugby at school. I was a fairly immobile front row forward. On a foggy winters day, during the normal weekly games period I received a pass on the opponents 25 and ran, unhindered, to the try line and dived over to score with all my team shouting and yelling at me- only to find that, in the fog, I had got the pass on the goal line and dived over the dead ball line to waste a score.
I have an abiding memory of carrying my bat as opener for the school second team (no-one else was prepared to open on rough pitches against visiting fast bowlers) scoring the winning run for a total of 12 out of our side's 15 for 9 score to win by a single!
The third was in 1982. We were touring Norway by overnight train, ferry coach and coastal boat and coach with our 9 and 11 year old sons. We arrived in Oslo at 8am and had an 11.30pm train to Bergen, where we were catching the post boat up into the fjords for a week.
We found ourselves, mid afternoon, sat in the sun outside the Ra and Kon Tiki raft museum. The local paper said there was an international athletics meeting on that evening at the Bislett stadium- a wonderful track where the spectators line the track very close to the athletes, rather like at an ice hockey rink.No athlete I, but something to do before the train went.
There was a star studded cast- Coe, Ovett, Willie Banks, the US long jumper who was the first to get the crowd clapping to help lift him. A great evening of athletics in this very intimate stadium, with the last event being the attempt by the great Henry Rono on the world 5000 metres record.
Kids tired, just tie to get the bus back to the train station for the Bergen train as the 500metres started. Henry Rono was back in the pack, when, after 2 laps of 13, an unknown broke from the pack and went off on his own.
Lap after lap, he maintained his lead; the deafening cheers of the crowd followed him round the small arena.
It was our own David Moorcroft. Henry Rono ws first and Moorcroft knocked a full 6 seconds off the world record in a time of 13:00:41- only four hundredths of a second off beating the 13min barrier.
A magic, unplanned and unexpected evening!
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Oct 14, 2013 7:12:00 GMT
Hi Paul,
I'll have you know I was referred to as a young Beckenbauer when I played for Hawthorns under 13's. If only I had grown six inches, could run fast and had better ball control you never know!
Sadly as a West Ham fan you have to look through rose tinted glasses they are all you have got.
Like your story though!
Pete
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Post by JB on Oct 15, 2013 16:17:53 GMT
Fantastic stories there, enjoyed reading those.
My footballing career was cut short by a total lack of ability with the round ball. I switched to the oval variety and developed into a moderately talented (at the village level) centre three-quarter and part time loose forward.
I played with a fullback who was a Policeman in the Royal Protection Squad/Unit/Thing. He had to drive me to hospital after a nasty injury in an away game against Gravesend. Which is a nasty place to have any kind of injury.
I chased a kick from our 22 with my usual vigour, being one of the faster members of the team and horribly enthusiastic. My opposite number caught it cleanly and I thundered in to the tackle. Unfortunately he took a half step to the side when I was already committed. His kneecap and my eye socket came together at the point of the collision.
A few moments later I regained consciousness. Later still my eyeball started to fill with blood from a subconjunctival hemorrhage. By the time we arrived at the local hospital the concussion was at a stage where I had to be moved around in a wheel chair to save me falling over. I was very kindly given a small kidney shaped paper-mache dish which didn't so much catch the vomit as deflect it all over the floor.
I think I was probably quite lucky not to lose the eye - my centre three-quarter partner, Spangle, had only one eye and it made passing to him a bit of a lottery. I played in better teams at higher levels but that village side was my favourite by far.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2013 17:34:59 GMT
This site seems to have been taken over by a group of middle aged ex football hooligans, reminiscing through rose tinted polarised glasses about their attendance (as spectators rather than practitioners) at some arcane pop festival/ ritual (football being about as far removed from sport as 'Strictly Dome dancing') in the East End of the most unpleasant city in the UK. Far removed from Devon Rivers. Have to agree with you there Paul, i visited Exeter recently when there was a football match taking place, i couldn't believe the police presence, included mounted police in the High Street, in total contrast was last week, i watched the Exeter Chiefs play Cardiff in the Heineken cup (Rugby), i didn't see any police an not one bit of trouble. Sadly rugby wasn't offered in my school, so not being a fan of football i went down the middle distance athletics route, raced in the All England Cross Country Championships against Steve Cram, but my training partner was my long time friend Simon Kidd, he actually ran for Great Britain until his career was cut short on a training run whilst with me he ran into a lamp post! It was Simon (he has fished for England and works for Snowbee) who introduced me to fly fishing in the mid 70's (showing my age now!) i watched at his house as he tied a strange looking fly, then we went up to Kennick reservoir, he threw this fly out onto the reservoir and it was grabbed almost immediately, great stuff. Cheers Richard
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Oct 15, 2013 19:01:45 GMT
JB, love that one especially the sick deflector!
Richard, I think you might find Paul's comments are just a tiny bit tongue in cheek, be careful you are starting to sound like a grumpy old fart!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2013 19:08:59 GMT
Richard, I think you might find Paul's comments are just a tiny bit tongue in cheek, be careful you are starting to sound like a grumpy old fart! I make no apology for that Pete, just like the TV program, grumpy old man! Cheers Richard ps i forgot to mention Exeter Chiefs beat Cardiff 44-29 now that is a real score card!
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Post by paul on Oct 15, 2013 21:54:05 GMT
wish the Chief's match had stopped at half time!
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Post by Pete Tyjas on Oct 16, 2013 11:19:44 GMT
Been thinking about the voiolence thing and couldn't recall seeing any punch ups at football. I have seen a fair few premature ejections for drunkeness etc but not in the crowd etc
The only violence I have seen as a sporting event was at an England one day cricket (my favourite sport) international at the Oval. It was a bit heated to say the least and there were a bunch of guys spoiling for trouble and one of them got a little over excited when his team was all out after about 20 overs. He was thrown out after trying to punch a bloke and probably arrested.
I also love MLB. JB, Tigers had 2 on in the 8th last night and should have scored and turned over the Red Socks. Ended up losing 1-0. No sign of the Braves!!
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