mallard
6:54 Sat Oct 29
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I think it's the fact of not playing them enough that makes the rivalry so fierce
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TheBoleynBoy
5:59 Sat Oct 29
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I'm 25 and consider Millwall our main rivals. Tottenham do not even come onto my radar until the week leading up to our games.
Man United and Chelsea are my biggest games in the league for rivalry.
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only1billybonds
5:42 Sat Oct 29
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Eerie.
I dont buy the 'we dont play them often enough'arguement. If we spent the next 20 years in the championship alongside Brentford would they become our biggest rivals. Also,real football rilvalry goes beyond the actual game. I also think this whole issue is a generation thing. For older cunts like me (mid 50's) it always was and always will be Millwall whereas many of our younger fans seem to consider Spurs to be our deadliest rivals. I have mates who support Tottenham,one of them was my best man but I've never had a Millwall supporting friend though this could be coincidence
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bruuuno
4:16 Sat Oct 29
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If we drew them at home then it would have to be behind closed doors or no away fans.
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Crassus
12:58 Sat Oct 29
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Imagine drawing them in the cup, at home
Now that really would be a thing, fuck me the media would wank themselves silly
Would not be for the feint of heart
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xeastham
11:46 Sat Oct 29
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Crips game was worse
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Eerie Descent
11:29 Sat Oct 29
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only1billybonds 9:21 Sat Oct 29
I don't think it's as simple as that mate, it's just that we very rarely play Millwall, but think back to the most recent games, and even they will not leave anyone in any doubt who the real rivals are.
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Pop Robson
11:26 Sat Oct 29
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eswing hammer 12:15 Sat Oct 29
Cheers didn't know that, I'll check my old scrapbook when I get in the loft might have something
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only1billybonds
9:21 Sat Oct 29
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And yet there are still many who class Tottenham as our bitterest rivals. Dont remember reading or seeing anything that comes close to matching our battles with the other lot.
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Bullet
3:50 Sat Oct 29
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I went with a Wall mate once in the CBL around 1975. Went there again in 1979, first time we played them at the old den since the Cripps game and after one of there's got cut in two at New Cross, the only time I went there with West Ham.
Lived in South London and remember arriving by bus from Lewisham. Most evil atmosphere I have ever witnessed at a game, was a night game, pubs were smashed up, fights had been going on all afternoon. My mates older brother was 6ft 6" got there early and used to be at the front, said one of ours was thrown through a pub window, and a few had been stabbed.
Neither wore colours so difficult to know, me and my mates were only teenagers and all the grown men milling around looked like boxers or ex-dockers, we were massively out of our depth and shuffled on towards the Alderton Road end. Loads of banging on the corrugated fencing by Millwall, chants of you'll nor make the station. We were kept back afterwards and there was a police escort all the way around the arches at Surrey Docks with helicopter overhead. West Ham had a massive mob that day but even though the police lost control before the game they mostly controlled it after the game.
Year before 1978 at UP was superb we won 3-0 pop got a hatrick. Their police escort from UP station with helicopter overhead again to the ground was infiltrated and when they got to the top of the south bank steps West Ham broke through the police line in the South Bank and chased them straight out. Their away end sat empty all game.
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Baggins
3:18 Sat Oct 29
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This was one of the first away games I went to.....absolute caranage, everywhere.
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PostmanPissed
2:18 Sat Oct 29
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Was at The Den in 88 as a 15 year old.
Remember our players getting pelted with coins when leaving the pitch after our 1-0 win.
The walk back to the station was a bit hairy, bricks and bottles thrown at us. The front of our lot chasing Millwall back up a side road. A few fellas walking through the rest of the Hammers fans, telling us to stick together otherwise we'd get picked off.
Some Millwall fan giving it large at the station, shouting I'll fucking kill all you's cunts, but not actually confronting anyone. Fella bowled off round the corner, only to come running back 30 seconds later with three West Ham on his tail.
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Gentile
1:39 Sat Oct 29
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I had a season ticket that season and was st the away game.
Absolute carnage and would have been worse had I not been so young I think.
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Sham67
12:46 Sat Oct 29
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Had a hell of a day. Broke the escort outside the ground and then proper toe to toe with them. Got smashed on the head with a brick passed out but my mates looked after me. Old bill wanted to take me to hospital but refused cos on a banning order and didn't want them to know my name. Happy days
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only1billybonds
12:28 Sat Oct 29
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Was all these but the Harry Cripps testomonial in 73 was fucking savage,maybe because the football violence was still relatively new. Didnt do myself any favours going to that game as i was only 13 and saw some things going on that i wish i hadn't. Horrible scenes and to make it worse the old den was very sparsely policed.
As an aside,seeing as theres so much talk on here of stadia,the old den was a proper FOOTBALL ground,can only imagine how some soppy naieve northerners felt going there back in the day, must have absolutely shit themselves.
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eswing hammer
12:15 Sat Oct 29
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Pop Robson that Chelsea game ,which was the greatest end take in history btw ,was on the news that night .
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stoneman
11:52 Fri Oct 28
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I've been supporting West Ham since 1975 and been to a 100 plus games and I have never seen any trouble, where am I going wrong?
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Pop Robson
11:50 Fri Oct 28
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Chelsea away 78 or 79 was good, took the shed early doors invaded the pitch.
Someone threw a shovel though the window on the tube
Not sure it made the news or the papers, maybe the Hammersmith Gazette
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Upton Park Mark
11:46 Fri Oct 28
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Jam packed behind that goal, bedlam when we equalised.
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Steady
11:46 Fri Oct 28
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Only got to go to the old Den once when I was 17 and that was our last match there, lost 2-1 with Robson getting our consolation. Remember Mad Dog who was a sub had to leave the dugout and sat in with the Millwall fans who kicked off at him, he then came and sat near the West Ham end. Shit hole ground, tube went from New Cross to Whitechapel without stopping on the way back.
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Benny the Bus
11:03 Fri Oct 28
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Let's bump this thread up for all the 'NEW' Happy Hammers.
This was 26 years ago.
This was what West Ham was all about.
It's not about living in the past it's about understanding your product.
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