Will the Olympic stadium actually increase West Ham's revenue significantly? Obviously it will increase brand awareness. They have forfeited an asset for a cheap lease. They are also flogging tickets on the cheap. Presumably they don't get a cut of other events at the stadium. Do they get all the revenue from match day sales?
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Actually the east end, and further east to Spam territory, as always been ethically diverse.
My Nans fathers side, both his parents came from Germany. There were a lot of Germans in the east end, and a lot of Poles and eastern Europeans. Hence also a lot of Jews.
The difference now, is that the ones that have come over on mass since the end of the war are different colours (edit: edit: I mean, another part of my heritage, on my father's side, is Irish. The Irish lead the way in mass immigration to the UK, yet nobody notices too much, as they are invariably the same colour and it's not so obvious.)
I guarantee you at that if many of those racists traced back their roots, they'd find they descend from immigrants.
A bit like your David Dein, Pleat and Gold all did.
Jews used football as a way to assimilate into the UK
Jews formed local youth clubs which was a route for them into football and supporting local clubs was a cornerstone to settling into life in the UK.
There was a lot of Anti semitism, opposition to Jews in football by some, but look at Dein, Gold, Pleat etc etc.
Maybe the Pakistani's, Bengal's etc are not that interested in assimilating too much into the culture.
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Yeah, well he's not ashamed of his Porn, pimp side. He believes in letting people the have freedom of expression to make their own minds up.His current Mrs and mother of his kids was one of his porn stars as well.She went under the name Eve Vorley back then...Or so someone told me
Mainly if your a woman; a woman who takes freedom of expression to mean showing your gash and getting fucked for a few quid. If she wants to do it it's up to her, she's an adult. She's made up her own mind.
Just as he made his own mind up that he would willingly make money off of those women, whilst they were hot.
His freedom of expression, treating people like adults and letting them make their own minds up doesn't extend to letting the taxpayer see what a fucking con he and his cronies have just pulled off though.
Same Old West Ham…….. Taking the P*ss
Same Old West Ham…….. Taking the P*ss
No, I’m not talking about the new tika-taka, total football, short passing game style of play
implemented by Big Sam Allardyce that has seen West Ham occupy such lofty positions as
4th in the league this year. No, I’m talking about Karren Brady and her cronies, royally taking
the piss out of West Ham United’s loyal supporters by demanding season ticket cash months
in advance of a ball being kicked and their promise of affordable football for all disappearing
into thin air.
I have already made my feelings on West Ham’s move to the Olympic Stadium clear in
STAND issue #11 but having had the pleasure of Baroness Brady writing to me this week
inviting me to sign up to an exclusive member’s club within the confines of the pre-
mentioned White Elephant Stadium I feel the need to put pen to paper for this fine
publication once again.
In her letter, the Baroness suggests that I may be up for the idea of parting with £500 of my
hard earned to join this club that she and her team of marketing experts have acrimoniously
entitled ‘The Boleyn’. In addition to the initial £500 membership fee supporters who are
turned on by the idea of exclusive use of what is essentially a pretend pub with all the class
of a student bar in the new west stand of the Olympic Stadium, will also be required to sign
up to a £168 a month direct debit beginning in June 2015 for a 3 year period. In return for
this considerable financial outlay West Ham are promising members exclusive use of the bar
and café, free half-time drinks and halfway line seats, priority for cup semi-finals and finals
tickets, a dedicated VIP entrance to the Stadium, and a complimentary matchday
programme. This membership scheme is open to 1000 potential nutters who feel this is a
good deal. With the Club reserving 1000 half way line seats for this scam, oops sorry
scheme, that in turn means that the 1000 season ticket holders that currently occupy the
seats in the Boleyn Ground West Stand Lower either side of the players’ tunnel will not be
relocated to seats in the new stadium that reflect their current view as the Club’s propaganda
machine promised but will be turfed out in favour of people who simply wish to pay more.
Now as you may have guessed I’ve never really been one for the corporate side of the game
so why should I be bothered if West Ham want to con 1000 muppets into parting with large
sums of cash for free half time warm piss beer? Well, the shiny brochure that accompanied
Baroness Brady’s letter didn’t just contain details of ‘The Boleyn’ bar but also some details
as to the arrangements for season ticket renewals over the next two seasons. West Ham
had already announced that next year’s season ticket prices would be rising by around 5%.
For me personally that means an extra £32 taking the total cost of my season ticket to £684.
Now I’m prepared to pay that and that is my choice, but the Baroness has demanded that I
along with all other season tickets holders pay a deposit of £75 in April this year, before the
current season has even ended! The club state that this is due to unprecedented demand for
season tickets at what will be the last season at our home of over a hundred years. The fact
that the board have turned a stadium move, which many supporters do not want, into a
marketing ploy makes this pill the more bitter to swallow. A £75 deposit is, in effect, asking
for 20,000 season ticket holders to give the club a £1.5m interest free loan. Nice bit of
business there Baroness!!
It gets better. Season ticket holders for 2015/16 will receive an appointment to attend West
Ham United’s Olympic Stadium Reservation Centre in Westfield Stratford. These
appointments take place between April this year and February 2016 and once there
supporters will be asked to choose their new seat at the Olympic Stadium using some kind
of virtual reality computer and to promptly cough up a non-refundable deposit of 25% of the
season ticket price!
We have been told that 2016/17 Olympic Stadium season ticket prices will be ‘comparable’
to that of 2015/16 the last season at the Boleyn Ground. Anyone with an ounce of sense can
see that this means another price hike of around 5 – 10% so the Club will pocket another
interest free loan from its loyal fan base to the tune of around £5m.
For supporters who have been attending games at the Boleyn for as long as I have these
latest ticket announcements bring back harrowing memories of the hated Bond Scheme that
in the early 1990s saw the relationship between club and supporter reach an all-time low
with vocal and visible demonstrations on the terraces and often spilling onto the pitch.
The rumblings among West Ham fans is that, had all this information been available up front,
then maybe the Club wouldn’t have been able to so proudly state that 85% of supporters
(who bothered to complete their online survey) were in favour of the move to the Olympic
Stadium. Some are going as far as to say that rather than cough up the 25% deposit for a
seat that they will only have experienced on what might as well be a game of FIFA on a
PlayStation, they will wait until the season kicks off and buy tickets on a game to game to
basis. The logic being that with 20,000 extra seats to fill there will be plenty of room for
anyone who fancies going and the need for a season ticket goes out the window.
The West Ham board remain convinced that this stadium move will attract more customers
through their doors but weather it is at the cost of losing life long supporters remains to be
seen.
Same Old West Ham…….. Taking the P*ss
No, I’m not talking about the new tika-taka, total football, short passing game style of play
implemented by Big Sam Allardyce that has seen West Ham occupy such lofty positions as
4th in the league this year. No, I’m talking about Karren Brady and her cronies, royally taking
the piss out of West Ham United’s loyal supporters by demanding season ticket cash months
in advance of a ball being kicked and their promise of affordable football for all disappearing
into thin air.
I have already made my feelings on West Ham’s move to the Olympic Stadium clear in
STAND issue #11 but having had the pleasure of Baroness Brady writing to me this week
inviting me to sign up to an exclusive member’s club within the confines of the pre-
mentioned White Elephant Stadium I feel the need to put pen to paper for this fine
publication once again.
In her letter, the Baroness suggests that I may be up for the idea of parting with £500 of my
hard earned to join this club that she and her team of marketing experts have acrimoniously
entitled ‘The Boleyn’. In addition to the initial £500 membership fee supporters who are
turned on by the idea of exclusive use of what is essentially a pretend pub with all the class
of a student bar in the new west stand of the Olympic Stadium, will also be required to sign
up to a £168 a month direct debit beginning in June 2015 for a 3 year period. In return for
this considerable financial outlay West Ham are promising members exclusive use of the bar
and café, free half-time drinks and halfway line seats, priority for cup semi-finals and finals
tickets, a dedicated VIP entrance to the Stadium, and a complimentary matchday
programme. This membership scheme is open to 1000 potential nutters who feel this is a
good deal. With the Club reserving 1000 half way line seats for this scam, oops sorry
scheme, that in turn means that the 1000 season ticket holders that currently occupy the
seats in the Boleyn Ground West Stand Lower either side of the players’ tunnel will not be
relocated to seats in the new stadium that reflect their current view as the Club’s propaganda
machine promised but will be turfed out in favour of people who simply wish to pay more.
Now as you may have guessed I’ve never really been one for the corporate side of the game
so why should I be bothered if West Ham want to con 1000 muppets into parting with large
sums of cash for free half time warm piss beer? Well, the shiny brochure that accompanied
Baroness Brady’s letter didn’t just contain details of ‘The Boleyn’ bar but also some details
as to the arrangements for season ticket renewals over the next two seasons. West Ham
had already announced that next year’s season ticket prices would be rising by around 5%.
For me personally that means an extra £32 taking the total cost of my season ticket to £684.
Now I’m prepared to pay that and that is my choice, but the Baroness has demanded that I
along with all other season tickets holders pay a deposit of £75 in April this year, before the
current season has even ended! The club state that this is due to unprecedented demand for
season tickets at what will be the last season at our home of over a hundred years. The fact
that the board have turned a stadium move, which many supporters do not want, into a
marketing ploy makes this pill the more bitter to swallow. A £75 deposit is, in effect, asking
for 20,000 season ticket holders to give the club a £1.5m interest free loan. Nice bit of
business there Baroness!!
It gets better. Season ticket holders for 2015/16 will receive an appointment to attend West
Ham United’s Olympic Stadium Reservation Centre in Westfield Stratford. These
appointments take place between April this year and February 2016 and once there
supporters will be asked to choose their new seat at the Olympic Stadium using some kind
of virtual reality computer and to promptly cough up a non-refundable deposit of 25% of the
season ticket price!
We have been told that 2016/17 Olympic Stadium season ticket prices will be ‘comparable’
to that of 2015/16 the last season at the Boleyn Ground. Anyone with an ounce of sense can
see that this means another price hike of around 5 – 10% so the Club will pocket another
interest free loan from its loyal fan base to the tune of around £5m.
For supporters who have been attending games at the Boleyn for as long as I have these
latest ticket announcements bring back harrowing memories of the hated Bond Scheme that
in the early 1990s saw the relationship between club and supporter reach an all-time low
with vocal and visible demonstrations on the terraces and often spilling onto the pitch.
The rumblings among West Ham fans is that, had all this information been available up front,
then maybe the Club wouldn’t have been able to so proudly state that 85% of supporters
(who bothered to complete their online survey) were in favour of the move to the Olympic
Stadium. Some are going as far as to say that rather than cough up the 25% deposit for a
seat that they will only have experienced on what might as well be a game of FIFA on a
PlayStation, they will wait until the season kicks off and buy tickets on a game to game to
basis. The logic being that with 20,000 extra seats to fill there will be plenty of room for
anyone who fancies going and the need for a season ticket goes out the window.
The West Ham board remain convinced that this stadium move will attract more customers
through their doors but weather it is at the cost of losing life long supporters remains to be
seen.
Devil's Advocate for one moment: We complain mightily about the high cost of tickets for Spurs fans, but when West Ham drop the price massively in order to pack their new stadium, we poke fun at them and call them desperate and a small club.
Personally, I'd love it if Spurs embraced safe standing in the new stadium and had a packed-out tier with ultra-cheap tickets.
Personally, I'd love it if Spurs embraced safe standing in the new stadium and had a packed-out tier with ultra-cheap tickets.
I don't mind us having cheap tickets in the new place.But I want a better way of ensuring they get to our fans. It's going to be like the old 5 aside tournaments at Wembley empire in there next season. All sorts of fans,all over the place.
Haha..the empire pool as it was called then ! i remember them really well and the way it usually ended up in a free for all in the stands.. you could be fighting goons on your right chavs to the left millwall below you and west ham rushing in as it kicked off... even the O's seemed to pull a firm !
Our clubs has agreed to implement safe standing when it becomes legal. Right now it's against the law to have safe standing in the PL.
West Ham can give out cheap tickets as they have been gifted a stadium, we can't.
Read under fan experience for the safe standing part, far as I am aware we are one of the only clubs wanting to introduce it again.
New Scheme - New Stadium -Tottenham Hotspur - tottenhamhotspur.com
Post further up is a bit TL;DR, so maybe says in there that this season ticket sale thing is a scam, but it's fucking impressive nonetheless. 52,000 sold for football in miniature is some tidy business by Nookie Bear, Grumpy The Dwarf and Pig In Knickers.
I they can get 52,000 pikies to fill that abomination, we should have no worries about packing our place out when it's opened.
I they can get 52,000 pikies to fill that abomination, we should have no worries about packing our place out when it's opened.
Empire pool,that was it.
I only ever watched them on telly.
They should bring them back,i loved em as a kid
I'd like to think that if our club made season tickets available for that price, then the people snapping them up would be actual Spurs fans/have been in the ST waiting list for a while anyway.
Whereas (albeit only anecdotal at this point), it would seem that neutrals from all over the shop are plumping for a West Ham season ticket just for the sake of it.
I know what you mean though - in an ideal world, you'd have STs being cheap to encourage young fans, etc, etc. Though in reality the only thing it signifies is low demand.
Those Spanner fans will soon be ditching those season tickets once they realise it's not worth the money for the experience they are getting. The view of the pitch from the top tier will be atrocious. Not to mention who would want to go once the Spanners go back to being relegation candidates?
Perhaps a little optimistic to think that they'll go back to being relegation fodder.
Credit where credit is due, West Ham have impressed this season and Bilic has (so far) done a good job. Hopefully losing the home advantage of Upton Park will bite them on the arse.
Depends on who they get in the summer, for me they are probably 3 good players away from a good team. Your right though the bear pit of Upton Park will be replaced with a mellow corporate environment. They won't have home advantage the way they used to.
I don't think the Spanners will have that same sense of intimidation, where the fans were pretty much on top of the pitch shouting dogs abuse at the Boleyn, the players will be hard pressed to hear anything as the fans will be in a different post code from the pitch at the OS.
Not to mention the more family friendly/corporate atmosphere they will try to create having given away 20,000 tickets to school kids and big business.
There will be no sense of dread heading into that cauldron of disney atmosphere.
Not to mention the more family friendly/corporate atmosphere they will try to create having given away 20,000 tickets to school kids and big business.
There will be no sense of dread heading into that cauldron of disney atmosphere.
Boom, you were soooo wrong.Some people on here would get annoyed if I wrote 2+2=4. So I don't take notice of those ones
But for sure I am not overemphasizing the threat West Ham now pose. the threat is here, and it's real. Anyone who has followed their transfer activity over the last few years can see that. Ever since they knew they had won the OS lottery and got back in the Prem, you can see their spending pattern.
We'll see how their squad goes this year, but almost certainly this summer has seen them strengthening.
There's a lot on here and elsewhere who want to live in denial re the OS. I am absolutely confident I am right on this and have been since they won the OS lottery. It's an an amazing club-changing win for them, and to repeat they were never a threat to us at Upton Park, but now without doubt they are.
Just see how they have consolidated since their Championship days, now watch how they push closer to us in the next couple of seasons.
I just know I am soooooo right about this, and let's see who called it correctly at the end of this season and the next. Just remember all those on here and elsewhere who said they will 'flop at the OS,' it will be 'half empty', there'll be 'no increase in revenue', blah blah, blah. Judge then what they have written and what I have in reply
Please come back and tell us some more about how incredible "London Stadium" is, and how it's a threat to Spurs. Because to my eyes, and everyone else's eyes, and a growing number of West Ham supporter's eyes, it's a fucking disaster.
Don't hold your breath on that one. He is either dead, or full on Oldtimers. He was showing early symptoms when posting his shite about the Spammers taking over the universe.
It's so much worse than I even thought it was going to be and I thought it would be awful.