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West Ham v Chelsea ~ EFL Cup Fourth Round ~ Wednesday October 26th 2016.
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I went to the EFL Cup game between the Mighty West Ham and Chelsea on Wednesday Evening at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, East London - This shot was taken from my vantage point down the front by the corner flag - West Ham won 2-1 and a great night was had by All...well, the claret and blue section anyway lol..COYFI.:)
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West Ham v Chelsea ~ EFL Cup Fourth Round ~ Wednesday October 26th 2016.
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I went to the EFL Cup game between the Mighty West Ham and Chelsea on Wednesday Evening at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, East London - This shot was taken from my vantage point down the front by the corner flag - West Ham won 2-1 and a great night was had by All...well, the claret and blue section anyway lol..COYFI.:)
Have a Fab Friday and a Great Weekend Ya'll..:)
Marko Arnautovic ~ West Ham V Bournmouth ~ London Stadium ~ Stratford ~ East London ~ Saturday Aug 18th 2018.
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West Ham are not having a good season .... sigh. The song "I'm forever blowing bubbles" is sung by the fans watching their team. Its a great club with lots of history :o)
See, watch and listen to the fans singing!! Makes your spine tingle.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-a69_Hm3gI&feature=related
I'm forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air,
They fly so high, nearly reach the sky,
Then like my dreams they fade and die.
Fortune's always hiding,
I've looked everywhere,
I'm forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air.
It depicts a famous victory scene photographed after the final, held at the old Wembley Stadium in London, featuring Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters and Ray Wilson. It was the first and only time England had won the World Cup, and England captain Moore is pictured held shoulder high, holding the Jules Rimet Trophy aloft.
The view from the Sir Trevor Brooking Stand Lower Tier, Boleyn Ground, London. West Ham United versus Crystal Palace, Premier League match, Saturday 02 April 2016.
West Ham 2-2 Crystal Palace
Premier League match
Boleyn Ground, Green Street, London E13 9AZ
Saturday 02 April 2016
West Ham Utd v Swansea City at the London Stadium 8th of April 2017. A much needed win for West Ham. West Ham 1 Swansea 0. Great day out
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Hope all you Hammers enjoyed being back in front of our team yesterday.
18 months is a very long time to be away from WH. Brought back memories of getting soaked week on week at UP – such was the viciousness of yesterday’s downpours outside the stadium. Saw Covid Jimmy on the concourse within about a minute of arriving – gave me a 5 minute lecture on GSB – COYI mate.
Lot of camaraderie yesterday. Saw people we hadn’t seen in ages. Loads of people asking me to take their picture. Or if I’ve got any more copies of my book. Or if there will be another book – well watch this space I guess.
Special mention to everyone who was on the 10.42am train from Gravesend that blew up at Ebbsfleet and left us onboard with hanging down live wires wafting in the wind dangerously towards people in my carriage and sparking off the top of the train for 40 mins.
The kid with the Bowden-coloured mohican playing guitar and singing Pink Floyd and RHCP on the Eastway – well that’s my son Gabriel, and the other lad is his best mate Lew – just want to thank everyone who stopped to clap, cheer, whateever or who gave them dosh in such awful weather as they’re incredibly good. Shame the rain meant we had to get inside the OS a lot earlier than planned as this limited the guitar playing and the photo taking.
For some reason yesterday, I found myself referring to the OS as the London Stadium. So maybe that’s a turning point for me. I have wondered before whether this will trigger some element of acceptance, maybe that’s the change: but then I get so angry at the loss of the Boleyn, that it never lasts very long. But the atmosphere yesterday was pretty good and something I miss so much about UP – Noble and some of the others coming over and hailing the fans like we are all part of the same thing, rather than 'us' in the Bobby Moore and 'them' too far removed on the faraway turf – well this is a bit more ‘like it used to be’
COYI
People keep asking me if I'm looking forward to going to the 'stadium with no name' for West Ham's first fixture there. Well, let's answer everyone all at once - no, I'm fecking not. The worry is - is that I'll flipping hate it. That there will be no atmosphere, poor views, I'll lose touch with all the colourful characters from the old East Stand at Upton that I've known. I keep having nightmares about the seats being miles away from the pitch and needing a telescope to see the action.
I spent seven years documenting West Ham United - not as a football club, but as a magnet for fan fervour. And what I really loved about Green Street was the massive concentration of Hammers queuing, buzzing around the paper shops, or even dodging traffic in the middle of the road. In a site as big as QEOP - I'm not sure such scenes can ever be repeated
When we lived in Norfolk, we befriended several Norwich fans and went to some games at Carrow Road. But it was never the same as being somewhere like Upton, Craven Cottage or Selhurst. The atmosphere was just too polite. I think that will happen at Stratford - but it's my belief that this is what the owners are aiming for - with the intention of resigning a particular type of West Ham fan to history. I have spoken to many Hammers since last season ended, frustrated that after years of following the club they love - they now cannot even get a ticket for the first home game and have little chance of securing one for the whole season.
And I've had to question my own motives for doing this project - what is it I have loved about football since I was about 12 years old? What makes it such an attractive pastime to want to throw money at (often in vain) year after year - season after season? Because now I'm not sure
Well, I have my ST now - in the supposed retractable seating area - I am sceptical, but will give this first season a go - hoping the atmosphere will build and we will 'settle in' and make the area our own. But sharing the Olympic Stadium with so many other sporting events, I wonder if Stratford will ever feel like the home Upton Park did
Jury's out
West Ham 3, Bournemouth 4
By the time we leave the Boleyn ground at the end of this season, I will have been taking photos of West Ham fans for six years. But it is only now that I am actually taking the kind of pictures that I had hoped for. And it's becoming more important to me to capture this as whatever spin is put on it, this slice of East London life won't ever be seen again.
I was taking a photo of the guy eating outside the derelict brush manufacturers at the bottom end of Green Street, when the kid just walked across the road and made the shot for me. (By the way Hammers fans always have these expressions).
Covid-19 Lockdown boredom. A couple of weeks ago I decided to stop shaving. Anyway, it's a beautiful day here in southern England so have been out in the sunshine. It was warm enough for me to just wear my West Ham shirt and shorts,
Collage
EffiART 2016
Eröffnungsspiel
10.06.2016 21:00
Frankreich - Rumänien
2:1
Im weiteren Verlauf des Turniers müssen sich "Les Bleus" allerdings deutlich steigern, wenn sie tatsächlich etwas mit dem Titelgewinn zu tun haben möchten. Rumänien hat das Spiel über weite Strecken nämlich zu offen gestalten dürfen und die Gastgeber so in Bedrängnis gebracht.
Payet erlöst Le Blues mit einem exzellenten Linksschuss (angeschnittener Innenrist - Flatterball | Knuckle Ball | ).
Vier Verteidiger lassen den ballführenden Payet eine Drehung machen und abschliessen, weil sich kein Abwehrspieler zuständig fühlte.
Der Schuss war unhaltbar und so ewtas wie ein lucky punch.
Glück und Entschlossenheit des 29-jährigen Spielers aus Réunion haben das Spiel entschieden.
Réunion liegt knapp 700 km östlich von Madagaskar und gehört mit dem 200 km entfernten Mauritius sowie Rodrigues zu den Maskarenen, einer Inselgruppe, die 1511 von Pedro Mascarenhas entdeckt wurde.
Bis zur Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts war Réunion unbewohnt. Im Zuge der französischen Kolonialisierung kamen französische Siedler auf die Insel, die für die Plantagenwirtschaft (Bourbon-Vanille, Zuckerrohr) Sklaven aus Madagaskar, Ostafrika und Indien dorthin verschleppten.
Mit dem Ende der Sklaverei auf Réunion 1848
erhielten ca. 60.000 freie Sklaven den Status der ca. 35.000 Bürger.
Billige Arbeitskräfte für die Landwirtschaft wurden nunmehr aus Indien, Afrika und China angeworben.
Die Nachkommen der einstigen kolonialen Siedler und Sklaven bilden eine verhältnismäßig homogene Gesellschaft und werden zusammen als Kreolen (créoles) bezeichnet. Als identitätsstiftend für alle Réunionaisen wird heute die als Métissage bezeichnete Vermischung und das friedliche Zusammenleben aller Bevölkerungsgruppen betrachtet.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9union
Wichtigster Wirtschaftszweig ist noch immer die Landwirtschaft, vor allem die Produktion von Rohrzucker und Rum, daneben verschiedener Früchte, beispielsweise Bananen, Ananas, Litschis und Vanille. Allerdings ist La Réunion wirtschaftlich stark vom Mutterland Frankreich und von der EU abhängig: Die Einfuhren nach Réunion überstiegen im Jahr 2007 die Ausfuhren um das Fünfzehnfache.
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Seit 1972 hat Réunion durch weitere Rechte eine größere Unabhängigkeit von Frankreich bekommen. Seit 1997 ist die Insel außerdem eine sogenannte région ultrapériphérique, ein Gebiet in äußerster Randlage der Europäischen Union. Die Hauptstadt Réunions ist Saint-Denis, mit etwa 145.000 Einwohnern auch die größte Stadt der Insel.
Da Réunion ein französisches Überseedépartement ist, ist der Euro dort offizielles Zahlungsmittel. Aufgrund der Lage von Réunion in der Zeitzone MEZ +3 war die Insel der erste Punkt auf der Erde, wo am 1. Januar 2002 offiziell mit dem Euro eingekauft werden konnte.
Persönlichkeiten der Insel
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Laurent Robert (* 21. Mai 1975), Fußballspieler
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Guillaume Hoarau (* 5. März 1984), Fußballspieler
Florent Sinama-Pongolle (* 20. Oktober 1984), Fußballspieler
Dimitri Payet (* 29. März 1987), Fußballspieler
. Erst am 12. Mai 2016 wurde Dimitri Payet von Nationaltrainer Didier Deschamps in den vorläufigen Kader für die Europameisterschaft 2016 im eigenen Land berufen.
Payet is rated as a 25/1 shot to be named Player of the Tournament, behind only teammates Pogba and Griezmann, Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo, Germany’s Thomas Muller, Belgium pair Kevin De Bruyne and Eden Hazard and England’s Harry Kane.
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He is also a 50/1 chance to finish the competition as top scorer.
He primarily plays as an attacking midfielder and is described as a player who is "better than Zidane" and "blessed with terrific technique and dribbling skills".
He assisted the first goal and then scored the winning goal in the opening game of Euro 2016 against Romania.
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Read more at www.whufc.com/News/Articles/2016/June/9-June/Payet-preppe...
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West Ham United 1 Swansea City 0. A much needed win and 3 points for West Ham at The London Stadium. 8th of April 2017
Had such a wonderful day. Not only because of my gorgeous, beautiful, amazing man, but also due to the large amount of industrial strength horseshoes and filthy lookers that obligingly gawped at us and thought 'wtf' - obviously. Need to upload some before tomorrow's game.
The Boleyn Ground, London, before the West Ham United versus Crystal Palace, Premier League match, Saturday 02 April 2016.
Boleyn Ground, Green Street, London E13 9AZ
Another one. This guy was seriously not happy with me. Have several of him glaring at us.
Last Saturday
The Boleyn Tavern built in 1899-1900 is a Grade II listed public house.
The Boleyn Tavern, 1, Barking Rd, London, E6 1PW
please excuse my boys - apparently I should consider myself lucky that they agreed to be photographed at all - actually posing the way I wanted them to was not included in the contract ha ha. So they gave me about 10 mins of their time lol, good job I'm snappy!!
Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Check out the lis of prohibited items at the OS:
knives
airhorns
canned drinks
large radios
music equipment
darts
smoke grenades
flares/fireworks
flag poles
large cameras/video
glasses
spiked umbrellas
tools
Maybe supporters who want to stand, talk above a whisper, or try to walk round the stadium during the game should be added
West Ham Utd v Swansea City at the London Stadium 8th of April 2017. A much needed win for West Ham. West Ham 1 Swansea 0. Great day out
GOAL! Crystal Palace supporters in the Sir Trevor Brooking Stand celebrate Dwight Gayle’s equaliser which secured a 2-2 draw against West Ham at the Boleyn Ground. Premier League match, Saturday 02 April 2016.
West Ham 2-2 Crystal Palace
Premier League match
Boleyn Ground, Green Street, London E13 9AZ
Saturday 02 April 2016
GOAL! Crystal Palace supporters in the Sir Trevor Brooking Stand celebrate Damien Delaney’s goal that put Palace 1-0 up against West Ham at the Boleyn Ground. Premier League match, Saturday 02 April 2016.
West Ham 2-2 Crystal Palace
Premier League match
Boleyn Ground, Green Street, London E13 9AZ
Saturday 02 April 2016
Genius piece of late 1960s/early '70s footy memorabilia: the Sir Bobby Moore cardboard coathanger! Dedicated to all West Ham fans and all Balham Hammers past and present.
West Ham United 1 Swansea City 0. A much needed win and 3 points for West Ham at The London Stadium. 8th of April 2017
Crystal Palace's Bakary Sako prepares to take a corner in front of the Palace fans at the Boleyn Ground. West Ham United versus Crystal Palace, Premier League match, Saturday 02 April 2016.
West Ham 2-2 Crystal Palace
Premier League match
Boleyn Ground, Green Street, London E13 9AZ
Saturday 02 April 2016
A none too happy horseshoe clocker that was clearly not happy that I was marrying an Orient/Palace fan. Plus Gary Neville looking a bit confused as to his place in football after being sacked by Valencia
Two weeks ago I wrote about how this kid had said 'It just doesn't feel like West Ham anymore' and yesterday that impacted on me even more. It just doesn't. I thought these faces of woe standing around in front of OS looking rather lost - just about summed it up.
Not a very inspiring game against Bournemouth in all honesty and the on field action was overshadowed by the standing/sitting debacle - where on social media you will no doubt see footage of a fan being dragged out of BML by a chain of security guards for standing. Added to this - stupid messages flashing up on the scoreboard telling us to sit down, hundreds of empty seats, and people who have STs 'in the gods' who didn't even have a seat - but were greeted with bare concrete where rows are yet to be installed.
Where we are sitting - too many new 'day tripper' type fans moaning at who I call 'old school Hammers'. Who have clearly never had a ST before. Telling us what to do and how to behave - like there's now some sort of etiquette and deportment required if to not be ejected from this Carrow Road/Emirates-esque venue.
Got a bloke sitting behind us that talks and laughs like Boycie. Irritating. Then there's the West Ham equivalent of Mrs Birling who keeps tutting and telling my loudmouthed Canadian friend to quieten down - he is really pissed off and is already looking for a ticket exchange to get into BML. It's a really random mix of people - back at Upton you saw the same people week in week out and would be sitting/standing with likeminded people. And when it was time for ST renewal - there would always be discussion in the ranks about who was going where - because I mean - you wouldn't want Boycie or Mrs Birling in your row.
The standing/sitting debate is an interesting one that West Ham need to address. A shock suggestion maybe is that the owners could actually listen to what fans want - rather than ordering us about. We were even told to 'sit down' by Mrs Birling last night when the team came out to Bubbles - which was incredibly annoying. I was literally thinking 'WTF' at this person. Good old days back at the East Stand we would have just said 'jog on' and clambered into the wind tunnel to hang off the wall.
Jobsworthy stewards giving me hassle yesterday about the camera and about trying to walk round the stadium during the second half. Was followed towards the disabled toilet (not sure where these 900 toilets are they said existed - it's like half a mile walk inside the OS to queue for approx 10 toilets) - sat in disabled toilet chimping my pics for about 5 mins until said security had decided to feck off. These sort of scenarios previously did not exist. And now it pisses me off. Because I'm a Hammer and I don't like being told what to do. It's not part of the club's history to be served up 1984-style orders for Sunday lunch. Flashing messages and threats of ejection are not in our script. 'Excuse me madam you can't go that way' and 'Could I ask what you are talking pictures of' is not part of my football vocabulary - however meaningless and trivial this may seem to others. And I have been taking photos at football matches since I was about 12 years old.
Anyway got home at 9.20pm - hating these Sunday games - my husband hands me his iphone and pair of gigantic headphones and - all smiley and enthusiastic - says 'listen to this' and within 5 mins I'm asleep on the sofa - which really (honestly) isn't what I think of his music he's been working on for weeks - but I am just so knackered after the hassle of getting out of QEOP - being pushed here and there by railway dkhds into various queues just to do a 15 mins train journey home ffs.
Like the kid said - it just doesn't 'feel' like West Ham anymore. And will it ever?
Dunno.
Yesterday was pretty much as expected - other than the terrible result - the crowds were insane and I spent the night before worrying about the quality of photos - envisaging Green Street to be largely unpassable - which it was.
Also when I woke up, I thought - well, after doing this for seven years - what can I do differently for this last Saturday.
(I was right to participate the plethora of street photographers everywhere who had nothing whatsoever to do with supporting the club and were there to start some kind of 'for whom the bell tolls' project no doubt - those people sort of pssd me off tbh)
Well I took a wide apeture prime lens and am kicking myself for never having taken one before as despite the insanity, these may be my best ever pics. How many I will publish and how many I will save for the book, I am not yet sure. Will make that decision on Tuesday night.
Thanks to everyone we saw yesterday. See you v's Man Ure on Tuesday and at Stratford
GOAL! Crystal Palace supporters in the Sir Trevor Brooking Stand celebrate Damien Delaney’s goal that put Palace 1-0 up against West Ham at the Boleyn Ground. Premier League match, Saturday 02 April 2016.
West Ham 2-2 Crystal Palace
Premier League match
Boleyn Ground, Green Street, London E13 9AZ
Saturday 02 April 2016