Come on. That's a bit of a rose tinted glasses view.
The area around West Ham's ground changed well before they moved out of the Boyleyn Ground. Most of their fans lived nowhere near it. If they hadn't moved, they would probably be in the Championship now.
There all whining now, but they crowed like fuck when they 'beat' us to getting the Olympic Stadium.
It really isn’t. The area and the Upton Park ground where shit but shit in a proper football way like the old White Hart Lane, their ground was a real football stadium. The Olympic stadium is horrific, it’s not remotely suited to football, every West Ham fan I know no longer goes to games and the stadium is the number one reason. They consider the ground move to be far worse than relegation, it’s really that bad a ground and also they have experienced relegation. Ask every West Ham fan I know if they would take relegation to return to Upton Park and they would bite your hand off.
