West Ham Video

[ebby]

Not sure if this video on facebook has been posted before - apologies if it has but to me it epitomises how football has changed and if we don't get our act together and stop this happening we could well lose what we value most about it.

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[claptrappers_union]

Stupid video. As a football fan, if you don't like the money-side that goes on around your club, you can go about it two ways

• Carry on being loyal, but ignore the money making **** that goes with it
  
  Support a non-league club where you'll feel your support is even more valued

[Putneyclaret]

I agree with the OP. The whole ethos of the new stadium is to make money out of the loyal supporters (and to fleece the away fans). I live in a relatively expensive part of London, but I was astonished by the rip-off prices at the WHU stadium. As for the traditional "East End" welcome; forget it, and go to Brentford, Fulham or AFC Wimbledon for good examples of clubs with links to their community.

[Rowls]

They should embrace traditional East End things like pie & mash, jellied eels and statues of Michael Jackson.

[JohnDearyMe]

After visiting their new ground in December i couldn't help but feel sorry for West Ham fans. The owners got a great deal for the stadium which ripped off the taxpayers but for the fans it must be awful having to have that soulless stadium as your home

[bob-the-scutter]

They should embrace traditional East End things like pie & mash, jellied eels and statues of Michael Jackson.

Exactly...............seeing as he was Forever Blowing Bubbles!

[bob-the-scutter]

Stupid video. As a football fan, if you don't like the money-side that goes on around your club, you can go about it two ways

• Carry on being loyal, but ignore the money making **** that goes with it
  
  Support a non-league club where you'll feel your support is even more valued

And an even stupider post!

[Enola Gay]

And an even stupider post!

Not really.

You engage with it all as far as you want to. It's perfectly possible to just get a season ticket every season and that be pretty much it.

[bobinho]

They should embrace traditional East End things like pie & mash, jellied eels and statues of Michael Jackson.

Not been lately then Rowls?

[bob-the-scutter]

Not really.

You engage with it all as far as you want to. It's perfectly possible to just get a season ticket every season and that be pretty much it.

Well.......no it isn`t, just go to the game with your fingers in your ears singing lalalalalalala and not be part of anything else?
Of course, not!
What about the "If you don`t like it support a non-league team" True supporting is a way of life, we don`t have an alternative!

[DCWat]

CumbrianClaret would have loved this thread.

I don't think it's simply a case of being loyal and ignoring the money or supporting a non-league club.

The money and all the nonsense is pretty impossible to ignore. Everyone knows where the train is heading, no one seems to want to go there, but most people aren't getting off because they love the game and their club.

Money, money, money.... pretty much what everything boils down to and not just with football.

[claptrappers_union]

I think some people are missing my point. The guy in the video says 'football first', and I agree, but if you want to see your club at the highest possible level, you have to put up with the corporate b*****ks that comes with it, its a vicious circle. A football club is a business - fans are customers and it's as simple as that.

[dougcollins]

I doubt that anyone who went down to West Ham's Stadium would see it as being that straightforward, claptrappers.

It certainly made me think.

[Man of Kent]

I agree with the OP. The whole ethos of the new stadium is to make money out of the loyal supporters (and to fleece the away fans). I live in a relatively expensive part of London, but I was astonished by the rip-off prices at the WHU stadium. As for the traditional "East End" welcome; forget it, and go to Brentford, Fulham or AFC Wimbledon for good examples of clubs with links to their community.

It's a joy to go to Fulham. I try to get to Craven Cottage whenever I can't make it to Lancashire to see The Clarets. It's a fine, friendly and community-spirited club. It's a nice place to be around. As for West Ham, Upton Park was an ugly, unfriendly, odious place and all of that has now been exported to The London Stadium but it's now presented in a modern wrapper with a sprinkling of bungling incompetence.

[Bin Ont Turf]

I tried watching whole of the video but the accent makes me want to vomit blood.

I wouldn't bat an eyelid if that club went to the wall.