Josh
10:37 Mon Feb 12
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Hanmer Springs, South Island of New Zealand. Two boys and their dad in the current WHU Shirt at the time. They had just immigrated over there.
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ironsofcanada
10:34 Mon Feb 12
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Met a Thai security guard who was a Hammer. However, it was in the Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine, just before I headed over to the Stadium the last time I went to a game.
Never West Ham in my travels, but that has been mostly limited to North America. When I was back home, I did have a momentarily concerning experience when a cop car blipped its siren at me and the officer pointed at my West Ham scarf. Turns out he was from originally Bolton and just wanted to talk football. It was not that long before they had pretty much sealed our relegation, so he enjoyed that.
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Joe C
9:53 Mon Feb 12
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Furthest afield was Melbourne - went to see Melbourne Victory v Sydney and was sat next to a bloke in a West Ham shirt
Weirdest place was while climbing a waterfall in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan guide was a Hammer
Have met Hammers in Mumbai, Singapore, Langkawi, New York and Texas as well
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Grumpster
9:35 Mon Feb 12
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My first law firm went through a stage of employing Kiwi's (travellers basically) on short term contracts and 3 of them in a row were Hammers.
Took them all to away games and bizarrely the people travelling with them were also West Ham, so am thinking we're popular in New Zealand!
Years before Winston Reid as well.
And once opened my wallet at a bar in Copenhagen and the woman next to me got mentally excited at the sight of the season ticket in my wallet. If I hadn't broken my ankle a few hours before, it could well have been her unlucky night!!
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BMorris
12:19 Mon Feb 12
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Oh and ofcourse the Dubai hammers. They are a great bunch!
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BMorris
12:18 Mon Feb 12
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On my honeymoon, we did a bit of island hoping around Greece and booked a different hotel every 2 days. When in Kos, there was a guy in a West Ham shirt at the bar. Made good friends and still talk to him now. On the way home from the honeymoon - Bodrum airport in Turkey, a 50 something women behind me in the TIW shirt.
Then the cabbie from outside the Guiness factory in Dublin said he was a hammer and got over to UP at least 4 times a year.
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Steady
11:51 Sun Feb 11
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Years ago was in a sports bar in Warsaw, got chatting to a bloke about the footie on, turns out we both supported West Ham and used Westhamonline - it was SwissToni, now just Swiss.
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joe royal
11:46 Sun Feb 11
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Jfk
John from Romford? Does he own a motorbike shop?
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jfk
11:17 Sun Feb 11
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Great thread .
Love reading stuff like this.Lets have it right there ain't too many clubs worldwide that actually did win The World Cup.
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jfk
10:55 Sun Feb 11
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New Orleans mardi gras a fella from Dagenham he's name was John which is mine.I'm Romford.
He married a bird from Texas a funny fella obviously a Hammer.Had a mouth like a sewer.
Funny man.three days I'll never forget.
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eswing hammer
9:59 Sun Feb 11
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*anderlecht*
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eswing hammer
9:53 Sun Feb 11
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Slightly off topic early eighties ,went to the wiess beer festival me and a few mates missed the bus home,wandered into a backstreet bar in Brussels and above the bar was the seventies West Ham badge but instead of West Ham united it said 'SP jacks boys 'l asked the barman what it was but he didn't speak much English except it was something to do with andderlech ,he did however give us some of the same in sttickyback ,the badges were lost in time ,never found out what was SP jacks boys !
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joe royal
9:40 Sun Feb 11
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Was quite surprised to walk into a West Ham pub in Milan.
Walked around partisan Belgrade FC and a few workers sang bubbles at me ,they were fans of Green Street ,
Met a few of you on my travels either via work or holiday.
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jack flash
9:31 Sun Feb 11
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I live near Scafell Pike & have a West Ham beanie hat so it might have been me!
Scafell is in UK though so does it count?
Plenty of West Ham fans in Trinidad & Tobago when I had a place there (probably to do with Shaka Heslop-?)
Also seen our fans in Margarita, Venezuela, Cuba & more rarely, in Jamaica
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Norman
8:44 Sun Feb 11
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Worked in The Hague for 5 weeks with my Uncle who used to get large Roofing contracts out there. Used to drink with him in Irish bars and our local Dutch bar which was 1€ for a bottle. One night I was out on my own think it was O’ Caseys and the first bloke I spoke to at the Bar was a Hammer who was from Romford and had lived out there years. Nice bloke
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Mike Oxsaw
8:10 Sun Feb 11
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Swiss. 4:53 Sun Feb 11
I know it, but I was too busy being a single parent to have time to go into bars (to watch football).
When we ate out we tended to stick to a few bars/restaurants/cafes in and around Scheveningen, where we lived.
That being said, there was a group of fans who'd take the kat over on a Saturday morning from HvH - the timings meant they could get to a game, and, if all was well, get back to Harwich again that evening for the return crossing.
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After8
8:01 Sun Feb 11
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Japan LA Washington DC Seattle. Dubai
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jimbo2.
8:01 Sun Feb 11
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I have bumped into fellow WH fans in Queenstown, NZ; Manley (Sydney) in Oz & many times in Paphos, Cyprus to name but 3 places. We have extraordinary global support for a team that that has won so little, for so many years. Some of it still seems to be be based on our 66 WC win!
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sanfrancis-co-uk
6:43 Sun Feb 11
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Cup final against the scouse in The Mad Dog in the Fog here in SF.The place was rammed with Hammers,not just Scouse haters, but full on wearing the jersey Hammers.There were also about 8 bikers from some Oakland chapter wearing the colours and inked up with WH tatts.Also saw three in Hawaii on the same day.
Blew me away tbh.
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gph
6:34 Sun Feb 11
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I've seen traces, like West Ham shirts pinned to walls in bars, alongside other club's (but not part of a collection that includes every club), but never met any.
Unless you count Scotland.
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Peterboroughiron
6:17 Sun Feb 11
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Bumped into a fair few in Sicily a few years back
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