Coffee 6:47 Wed Feb 15
What's your worst West Ham memory?
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There are many, of course, but for me sitting in a McDonalds car park on a cold and rainy May afternoon in Manchester in 2004, listening to the radio and hearing the Hammers go down and Steve Bruce rejoicing about it ranks high. What an awful day that was.
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boy40
10:35 Fri Feb 17
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Jan 22nd 2003
Charlton 4-2
Insisted that I would only go to my in laws for new year as long as someone drove me back for Charlton away. Got back as far as Woolwich- game called off-waterlogged pitch.
3 weeks later... Glen Johnson debut and the "we need a new back four" chant.
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jack flash
8:56 Fri Feb 17
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As has been said, there's so many!
Back in the Greenwood era, we were playing Chelsea away. It had been raining heavily for days & on the morning of the match (it was a Saturday, as they only played Saturdays or midweek back then!) there was an absolute deluge
Me & my mate were traveling down by tube from north London where I lived then
Various supporters of other clubs were piling on to the train as plenty of matches had been rained off
It was all very friendly though as all the rain had dampened everyones enthusiasm
We got chatting to a large group of Man.City fans whose game against Spurs (I think/) had been postponed after they'd traveled all the way down
They had all decided to come & support us in the circumstances (& were very complimentary about our style of football & what great players we had & how we seemed to underachieve etc)
From there on it went steeply downhill
We arrived at Chelsea's shithole of a ground, exposed to all the elements (it was still pissing down!)
The team was announced on the tannoy
Greenwood fielded a bunch of kids (sound familiar?) as we had an important cup game coming up. It might possibly have been a young Trevor Brooking's debut
The pitch was a mud heap
Men against boys
We lost heavily (5-0) I think
We trudged back to the tube station, wet through, not only humiliated but humiliated in front of supporters from several other clubs
It was a bad day!
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lukie
8:45 Fri Feb 17
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Aside from the numerous relegations, Everton away, late 90's.
Drove up there with a mate in a batterd Citroen. Pissed it down the whole way, and the windscreen wiper broke. No sat navs/smart phones so just carried on in the slow lane praying we wouldn't rear end anyone.
Got there and couldn't find anywhere to park, eventually found a spot we thought was ok god knows how far from the ground.
Ran there in the pissing rain, got drenched, we were 1 down already.
Our spot was a restricted view and strained our necks watching us concede another 4 or 5. Think it was 6 nil in the end.
Couldn't find the car for fucking ages, it's still belting down. Eventually got to it and had a fucking parking ticket.
Then drove the wrong way out of Liverpool for about 30mins (windscreen wiper still broken) before we realised and turned around. Got home about 11/12am.
Shit fucking day!
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Electric Retro-pants
7:26 Fri Feb 17
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Tough call- sifting through many TBH!
One that sticks is watching a poor cup game against Notts Co (I think) and watching Rufus Brevett in possibly his first game back after his big injury and thinking that all of his pace had gone...poor sod, and I thought he was a really intelligent player too. Sodding West Ham curse!
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one iron
7:24 Fri Feb 17
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My worst memory, was when westham banned me for life, it felt like ide had my heart cut out, that was in 1986,now back in since 1990.
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Bungo
4:48 Fri Feb 17
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Joe C 2:59 Fri Feb 17
I have some good memories of Fulham as well. I always remember the people near the top of the away stand singing at the bloke in difficulty in his boat on the river, 'You're gonna sink in a minute, sink in a minute etc'.
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LeroysBoots
4:32 Fri Feb 17
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Way too many, one in particular, losing to Oldham 6-0 in League Cup semi final, 14th Feb 1990
St Valentines day massacre
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mattyolmes
3:54 Fri Feb 17
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haven't read the whole thread but do we remember this beauty -
Stockport 3-2 West Ham (agg)
Coca Cola Cup second round, 18/12/96
with the Dowie og, didn't he also break an arm?
or any of these:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/fa_cup/1737385.stm
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Far Post
3:50 Fri Feb 17
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Play off final against Palace is up there for me. In the 49th and most important league game of the season we just didn't turn up on the day. Pard's substitutions when needing a goal were crazy.
Remember walking back to our minibus after the game listening to some fans who were looking forward to a trip to Plymouth - incredible. Hardly spoke on the journey home and spent the following day face down on the sofa and refused to speak to anybody.
The cup final was a killer, still can't watch 'that' goal but at least it was a performance to be proud of despite the heartbreak.
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Percy Dalton
3:21 Fri Feb 17
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Mansfield away in the cup 3-0.
Not for the shifty performance was used to that it was that the game was called off about five times Three times I was on my way up there only to hear on the radio that it had been postponed.
When we finally played it we were abysmal.
That match cost me a fortune.
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stewie griffin
3:17 Fri Feb 17
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No, still Gavvy
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JustAFatKevinDavies
3:16 Fri Feb 17
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or the day you cried on live tv, gwiffles?
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stewie griffin
3:14 Fri Feb 17
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Probably the day Gavvy started supporting us in 2014
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Eggbert Nobacon
3:14 Fri Feb 17
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axlEOzKv41A
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Eggbert Nobacon
3:13 Fri Feb 17
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yeah and even then only just
10326 for a league home game
a good 3-4000 of that was Sunderland too
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Northern Sold
3:09 Fri Feb 17
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10000 for that Sunderland games wasn't it ?/
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Eggbert Nobacon
3:08 Fri Feb 17
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pretty much all of 91-92
start of 92-93 was grim with less than 15000 in the ground every week and less than 12000 on numerous occasions
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Aberdeen Iron
3:01 Fri Feb 17
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Strangely I've probably steeled myself to the inevitable defeats over the years so I'd say it was when my single share got taken back from me (at the Icelandic buyout?), I was fcking gutted and angry and still am. I know my share was only 0.0000001 % of the club probably, but it was mine you know?
Also, strangely, I was properly gutted when Joe Cole left. I mean, I wasn't a fanboy or anything but it just seemed he was `our` player.
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Joe C
2:59 Fri Feb 17
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Bungo - Fulham away is a terrible place. I can't remember too many times where we really needed a result, and we didn't get it there in the most horrible of ways
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Bungo
2:57 Fri Feb 17
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The most recent one I really hated was away at Fulham on New Years Day in 2014.
It pissed down hard all day. Nolan was sent off (deservedly) at 1-1, and I just knew we'd ultimately lose it (we did).
I went home about half time as I was not enjoying it at all.
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The Stoat
2:55 Fri Feb 17
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Probably OLDHAM
But there have been so many over the years and most have been mentioned here
Losing Bobby Moore was a tearful time :-(
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