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No idea Paul maybe someone from the club may enlighten us for once and then we wouldn’t have to keep asking these questions.
Maybe it’s done to encourage more away fans in the home ends.Maybe 4345 is the amount City have asked for and didn’t want to pay for the remaining 1055 for fear of not selling them.[/quote]
Maybe 4345 is the amount available for open purchase and City have already secured some of the balanced as corporate “give aways” for companies and players ?[/quote]
I know this might seem imaginative and novel but why don’t you just ask the club?
Sure it was about the concourse. The standing up will just be an excuse to have a dig at Latics. It’s traditional Sam, they’ve done it for years.As I recall the limitations in the North Stand started because Man Utd fans persistently refused to sit down. And we weren’t the first or the only club to force this on them.
Don’t think so. Most West Ham fans I spoke to both before and after were a great bunch. No sour grapes with us, just pissed of with their board and Moyes’s team selection.
I openly admit I have a soft spot for West Ham as a club. I’ve never had a problem with their fans, but like any other club, they will have their quota of Idiots. West Ham were a lot of peoples second club in the sixties, an attractive side with the likes of Bobby Moore and Geoff Hurst.
The club of today though… Should never have left The Boleyn Ground. Their owners… Well, we all know them and know what they are. They have ruined a really good old, famous club.[/quote]My beef with West Ham is the preferential treatment they have received. They were not docked points over the Tevez and Mascherano affair when the rules clearly stated they should have been. They were also given preferential treatment, which involved millions of tax-payer’s money, over the move to the Olympic Stadium when both Spurs and Leyton Orient lodged objections. The PL and FA turned a blind eye to their own rules which stipulate a club can only move into a new stadium if it “would not adversely affect clubs having their registered grounds in the immediate vicinity of the proposed location”. It can be argued that in Leyton Orient’s case this was particularly damaging and it is surely no coincidence that they lost their league status last season as a consequence of West Ham’s move.
West Ham stoping up had more to do with Man Utd not bothering to turn up for the last game against them.Quite possibly so but just remind me again who scored the goal in their 1-0 win.
Got our tickets. Can’t wait!
Looking forward to us winning, and also seeing the Iron. If I was a Londoner, West Ham would be my club. Shouldve stayed at the Boleyn, though. Sold the clubs soul down the river.
Cracking cup tie!
Would they still be your favourite London club had we been relegated instead of Sheffield United?[/quote]
Had we been relegated, it’s because we weren’t good enough to stay up. It was winner takes all that day, and we won. Simple as that. You get relegated for a reason. You haven’t won enough games. Fact.
Lovely jubbly.[/quote]
West Ham broke the rules and were successfully sued by Sheffield United.
The chair of the tribunal, Lord Griffiths, judged: “We have no doubt that West Ham would have secured at least three fewer points over the 2006-07 season if Carlos Tevez had not been playing for the club.”Without Tevez West Ham weren’t good enough to stay up. They gained an unfair advantage by fielding an illegible player which would normally result in a club being docked points.
Got our tickets. Can’t wait!Looking forward to us winning, and also seeing the Iron. If I was a Londoner, West Ham would be my club. Shouldve stayed at the Boleyn, though. Sold the clubs soul down the river.
Cracking cup tie!
Would they still be your favourite London club had we been relegated instead of Sheffield United?
Carlisle away in the FA Cup back in 1934. That was a journey. The only way to get there back then was by train. We won 6-1 and I’ve never missed a match since.
Thank you again, all of you, for such fantastic replies.I was hoping you’d all come down on that side of the fence, but hearing (reading) your reminiscing of that day is honestly truly brilliant stuff.
I’ve taken the following from the “Wigan Today” site and was written by Paul Kendrick who reports for Latics in the local rag. I also saw this bit of nonsense and was particularly aggravated by Merson’s complete lack of understanding regarding our FA Cup win and what it meant to Wigan fans.
Having the rare luxury of a couple of days off last weekend, I happened to catch a small segment from Sky’s ‘Soccer Saturday’ programme, that I used to remember as being pretty decent telly.
How things have changed.
With the FA Cup third round taking centre stage, the panel were discussing how important and relevant the famous competition was in this day and age of the Premier League ruling the roost.
“I’ve had a number of tweets from Wigan Athletic fans, telling me they wouldn’t swap their FA Cup win in 2013 for anything,” reported host Jeff Stelling, completely deadpan.
“Their next away game? Crewe,” he added, a smug grin now having well and truly taken over his facial features.
Cue guffawing from the panel of ‘experts’ in the background. I thought Paul Merson was going to wet himself at one point, he was laughing that much. Only Matt Le Tissier seemed to grasp what winning the FA Cup will always mean to a club and a town.
Stelling, who has always prided himself on being a long-suffering Hartlepool fan, should have known better – much better. Openly mocking a standard of football that is above that of his own beloved club and people is poor to say the least.
Indeed, the complete and utter lack of respect shown to Latics, Crewe and lower-league football in general underline exactly what’s wrong with the ‘beautiful’ game at the moment.
Of course since Sky don’t have the rights to the FA Cup the dismissal and mocking of the competition by those involved was no doubt aimed at protecting their own financial self interests.FA Cup.…… but as Garswood said, that trophy (the most famous trophy in the world) will always have the words WIGAN ATHLETIC engraved on it and that can never ever be taken away.
I give you my avatar.
I now live over Clitheroe way and the state of the roads is appalling, especially minor roads which have become noticeably worse over the last few months no doubt due to freeze and thaw damage.
All created by crippling and basically futile austerity measures, exacerbated by the impending cost of Brexit.
Modern football……Shite.
Closes the book and throws it onto the fire. Cheers.
I’ve no idea what you mean by that.
Every football player has his value. Even if the club received 5-7 million for him can they then go out and buy as good a replacement for the same money given there would be other clubs, Championship clubs, after that same player?
He is our best asset. To sell him would be detrimental to our promotion chances.
