archiewasking
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What our opponents' fans are saying about us 17/18
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riggi
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More for me then
Not much there tbf!
stov
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Ok........
Chris Flynn
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Yeah its a London thing. The 'teritories' of the clubs meet geographically. Think of London football in terms of gangs in the US. Think of Spurs and Arsenal as the crips and bloods and West Ham as a couple of blocks of 'ol g's' from the 60s who challenged the big gangs for a couple of years but not any more but still have beef. Chelsea, well obviously thats the eastern europeans trying to mussle in.
Im basing all this on GTA, the Wire and a late night documentary on the H2 channel so its bound to be accurate.
In other news, turns out Aliens were all over the planet thousands of years ago! Who knew?
Shadydan
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Stamina massive, basa!
They overperformed in that same period too. The way they chat you'd think top 6/7 was their normal finish...
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Spurger King
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It's a West Ham thing.
Obviously Arsenal and Chelsea are our big rivals, and more recently you could maybe add Liverpool. Outside of that I can't really think of teams our fans have a genuine hatred of. You'd be looking abroad at Feyenoord, or possibly the lower leagues at Leeds, and even that's a stretch.
London derbies tend to have that added spice because of territorial pride, but it's not usually a matter of animosity from us. Fulham, Palace, West Ham, Millwall, QPR are all just standard London derbies (Millwall is a bit different, but it's the same for virtually everyone that plays them).
West Ham's rivals are Millwall, but because the two rarely play each other these days the thick Spammer fans have invented a 'rivalry' with us that is entirely one-sided.
All they've managed to do is to draw our attention to them, which is a blessing really, considering how endlessly amusing that irrelevant little club is.
BehindEnemyLines
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If only she had some fun bags, she'd be.......well........fun!
Tweeky nips does nothing for me.
Chris Flynn
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Used to be a SC gang on the PS3, not sure on the PS4
riggi
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Whys Chelsea our rival and not West Ham? I'm talking before we got good.
Spurger King
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Doesn't explain the "not West Ham" bit...I think the short answer is that they're utter ****s.
riggi
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I think the short answer is that they're utter ****s.
And West Ham are not?
I don't expect everyone to hold the same view as me but the thing about our location means that our catchment area extends over three other London clubs. So people can't be surprised when some of us regard West Ham derbies as must win!
riggi
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Might be the Chinese.
mark87
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Urgh. Racist.
mark87
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I don't think I've actually met a west ham fan who is a complete bellend to be honest, but I know they can be.
I didn't grow up knowing any and haven't met that many in my adult life so can't say there have been cases where I have first hand experience of them being twats.
I think I dislike them so much because I know how much they despise us, which doesn't really make sense.
Also my old man hates them more than any other team, even more than the scum and the chavs, so that has helped me hate them more.
I didn't grow up knowing any and haven't met that many in my adult life so can't say there have been cases where I have first hand experience of them being twats.
I think I dislike them so much because I know how much they despise us, which doesn't really make sense.
Also my old man hates them more than any other team, even more than the scum and the chavs, so that has helped me hate them more.
Spurger King
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I don't really think of West Ham fans as ****s. Your typical Spammer is more of a 'bit of a wanker' type.
If other clubs were family members:
Chelsea = racist, violent, ignorant Uncle that the whole family despises.
Arsenal = Arrogant yet bitter estranged brother. You can take the piss out of each other, but it usually turns ugly.
Liverpool = Drunk Granddad banging on about the good old days.
West Ham = A distant relative's mangy pet cat that sleeps in its own shit and hisses at you during occasional family reunions.
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