Comments on: Where have all the real football fans gone?

By: Bob Baker

Bob Baker — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:03:01 +0000

Nice blog son, you sound more like me every day(sorry). Real football supporters live through the good times and bad times and come through life as better people. Where did I go wrong with you? Although some of my best mates support WH. as well
54 years a Chelsea fan

By: KIWI

KIWI — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:33:55 +0000

Nice one………people that abuse players who doing there best make me sick…….if the crowd had started chanting down worry greeno, i bet that second goal would not have happened and the team would have rallied…however you cant convince young c**ts with money to support teams that they don’t really care about…..there should be a knowledge test before you go to a game and if you fail you can still watch the game but with a muzzle.

By: Danny Brothers

Danny Brothers — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:28:21 +0000

Great blog…there seems to be a culture now of wanting success straight away and every season or you have to be calling for the manager’s heads. No-one likes losing and failure but football fans these days seem to think failure is not finishing in the top three or four rather than being relegated.

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:43:13 +0000

r u on Puff Dexy? RnB?

Greeno was superb against Arsenal in that 0-1 win, in fact, Arsenal had 37 shots to West Ham’s 5, yet the Hammers did the double over us!

I’ve said this before in a previous blog it’s one of the main reasons I stopped going to all the Arsenal games, when you hear one of your own fans calling the greatest player that has ever worn an Arsenal shirt (Ian Wright) a black useless prick it almost makes you feels sick and never want to go again.

Something big is about to happen to the game very soon, salary caps, ban clubs from Europe, the Premier League, England win a tournament, who knows? Either way it’s going to happen! MMW!!!!

By: dexylongshot

dexylongshot — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:00:03 +0000

Top read Bakes, totally agree, there are are some proper twots about who don’t now their born. These are probably the same people who think think Rnb is the be all and end all. RnB is Rhythm and Blues, not rhyming and bitches, get another name for your music (crap Sh*te comes to mind). Sorry, went of on a bit a tangent there but it gets right on my wick. Anyway Greeno. Great keeper, been the best English Keeper for the past 2 seasons, check the stats, one of the Sunday tabloids ran an article in pre season comparing the english keepers in the Premiership 2 years and Greeno came out on top, James was 2nd, I think Kirkland was 3rd but don’t quote me (Robinson wasn’t even in the top 5). Why Green he was overlooked by McClaren is beyond belief (well actually it isn’t when it come to that crashhe ducth carrot-top). I’ve been Greeno watching week in week out for the past 3 years and the howler on Sunday was a shock, a shock because i’ve never seen him make a real clanger, that is how good he is, the hammers who took the p*ss should have a good look at themselves, we’d be playing Doncaster this week if it wasn’t for him, remember that. Have a butchers at my England article tomorrow for more about our Goalkeeping situation, probably the one worry for the 3 lions.

Also, on the subject of the hammers, apparently an Indian Businessman is looking to come in a take over at Upton Park, he is the 6th richest man in the world with an estimated 22 billion fortune. Surely The Icemen will take the money and get out sharpish, the game is really coming to something if they begin to sell of the family silver just to cover their losses which had nought to do with the football. Saying that, Eggy didn’t help when he brought in Freddie and co on inflated wage bills. They better get move on an all, it looks like the Mad Blatter is about to make a few changes to club takeovers and such, something which could leave the irons right up SxXt creek along with half the league.

By: Parks numero uno

Parks numero uno — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:37:39 +0000

Unfortunately these “new fans” are the only ones that can afford to buy tickets.

we have that in pompey with all the “johnny come latelies”, all the true fans cant afford to go. i remember when pompey were in the old division 3,they were crap but there was a sense of enjoyment and togetherness between all the fans because you were all there for one thing and that was your team.

people just dont appreciate that anymore,its all about getting names on their shirts and worshipping overpaid prima donnas.

By: got to be 'joking here'

got to be 'joking here' — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:02:07 +0000

The memory of the football fan is short…lets be honest West Ham should have gone down a couple of seasons back so to see them top six and losing a game against Bolton is no disgrace many teams come unstuck against them to boo them off is unforgivable…

As for having a pop at Robert Green…try then selling him and getting in a rubbish keeper in as a replacement then they’ll realise what a great keeper he is. The odd mistake here and there is the life of a goalkeeper. Has Petr Cech become rubbish because of the Euro’s…the answer No.

And yes I agree with wanting to know about the old days I’ve always wanted to absorb and learn everything about your team…I’ve watched as much footage of Boro as I can get my hands on and scrutinised books and web articles just so i know who and where my team came from…

By: Stevie

Stevie — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:16:05 +0000

be grateful as West Ham won’t have a team if the old credit crunch gets worse. All the talk of teams going under and the Premier League in 3 billion’s worth of debt, it had to happen!