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1. Up yours Levy you Gollam lookalike;

2. Congratulations to the Spunk Brothers, that so called club "that you would have to be a fan to buy", has just turned into a complete goldmine;

3. Here's to getting promoted to the FAPL just in time for its opening;

4. If Alan Sugar jabs that little podgy finger at the camera one more time, I swear I am going over to his office to cut the f*cker off;

5. We will all turn up on opening day to a soulless cavernous athletics stadium, look at each other and say "hand me the binoculars";

6. Does this mean that we will get some decent catering now rather than the sh*t that we have to put up with;

7. Karen - a liitle bit too much slap on for the cameras there, I think;

8. Who can I talk to about buying my seat so I can remember the years of fun in the East Stand;

9. No season ticket required any more - plenty of room on match days and discounted prices to fill the empty seats;

10. Where's the nearest boozer to the new stadium, I wanna buy it;

11. My sincere apologies on behalf of the spunksters to al those businesses in the area of the Boleyn - you have just been cast adrift;

12. Naming rights - I say call it the Mary Millington Rememberance Stadium.
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East Stand Martin wrote:I say call it the Mary Millington Rememberance Stadium.
Naughty ESM, very naughty...
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Up the Junction wrote:Naughty ESM, very naughty...
Well, if our owner's fortune was built on porn, then why not? Maybe the Ann Summers Stadium? Has a (cock) ring to it, don't you think?
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I'd be happy with either................. :thup:
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East Stand Martin wrote:
5. We will all turn up on opening day to a soulless cavernous athletics stadium, look at each other and say "hand me the binoculars";
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If you sit on the side youll be nearer to the pitch than you currently are in the east stand.
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Must say I'm pleased that we've got it, I think not having it just wasn't an option.

It makes me much more likely to drive up to a match, parking should be better, access, might even consider a season ticket if the price is appropriate.

Start of a new era for the club...just got to try and stay up now!!
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As much as I like reading ESM's threads, isn't this thread just an anti-gs/os post that really, could have gone with all the others in the main thread?

Just wondering. Can't see why it deserves it's own thread. It's just a biased, if not comical, rant.
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I swear i read somewhere that Arsenal fans could not take their seats home with them due to health and safety :lol:
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Dyer's Leg wrote:As much as I like reading ESM's threads, isn't this thread just an anti-gs/os post that really, could have gone with all the others in the main thread?

Just wondering. Can't see why it deserves it's own thread. It's just a biased, if not comical, rant.
Let me guess....you've been entertained in the back of Dodgy Dave's red Rolls Royce?
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The Gibbins wrote:I swear i read somewhere that Ars*nal fans could not take their seats home with them due to health and safety :lol:
Mine is coming home with me my friend. I consider that I own it after years of holding a season ticket.
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What's the point in that, ESM? It's no different to what is being written in the main thread. As I said to you, I quite enjoy your threads usually, well put and well thought out. This one isn't, it's just a rant about the OS and owners, like many of the posts in the OS thread.
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East Stand Martin wrote:Well, if our owner's fortune was built on porn, then why not? Maybe the Ann Summers Stadium?
Dunno, did she die in dodgy circumstances too? :lol:

(apparently not, the real Annice Summers is a fabulously-wealthy recluse)
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D_L ain't lying, Martin.
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Dyer's Leg wrote:As much as I like reading ESM's threads, isn't this thread just an anti-gs/os post that really, could have gone with all the others in the main thread?
Yes.

But then again, ESM has compiled countless match reports, articles and other musings (not to mention a ****ing annual) for the benefit of the readers of this very website, all of his own good will.

So I reckon he deserves to be cut a bit of slack - as I'm sure you'll agree.
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the Dildome has got a certain ring to it
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Up the Junction wrote:But then again, ESM has compiled countless match reports, articles and other musings (not to mention a f***ing annual) for the benefit of the readers of this very website, all of his own good will.

So I reckon he deserves to be cut a bit of slack - as I'm sure you'll agree.
And I am aware of that boss, and without meaning to sound patronising, I guess what I am trying to say is a thread like this is below what I personally have come to expect to read from him.
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So its 99.9% West hams now.
Congratulations, i genuinly mean that
Not often i want West Ham to win
But i cheered this Victory almost as much as the one at Wembley in 1980.

It would have made brilliant Business sense for us to have it(as it does you) but it would never have been home.
Hopefully our lot can sort somewhere nearer our Manor, Enfield perhaps?
I'm sure the starter of this thread would love that :wink:
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Dyer's Leg wrote:I guess what I am trying to say is a thread like this is below what I personally have come to expect to read from him.
Only because you disagree with his opinion. Which is fair enough.
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tall paul wrote:the Dildome has got a certain ring to it
Would this be pronounced Dil-dome or Dildo-me?
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1. I completely echo your sentiments. the man is a sewer rat of the lowest order.

2. I do believe that congratulations are in order to Messrs Gold & Sullivan. They have succeeded where a larger, more influential, financially stronger and internationally renowned and decorated collective of business drivers and leaders has failed. One would suggest again that your continued reference to them as "the Spunk Brothers" is quite crass. One wonders if you would refer to them in person in such a manner if you had the opportunity of a meeting with them?

3. One sincerely hope that we can now collectively focus on survival in this seasons premiership. I'd suggest its time to be positive and show some of that much recently mentioned "electric atmosphere at the Boleyn", rather than going belly up with so many points still to play for.

4. I would be happy to send you the postal orders behind the door if you did that. He has shown himself up as an arse with his comments, and surely his days as the host of the apprentice are numbered, as our Karen prepares to take his mantle.

5. I am looking forward with much enthusiasm to the atmosphere of our closed roofed super stadia, but as touched on in comments on your third point, I am more hopeful that some of the once famous voices in the East Side Lower can again stimulate their peers and assist in creating an atmosphere at The Boleyn, instead of doom-mongering and becoming self-fulfilling prophecies of failure.

6. Having been to Wembley, City of Manchester, O2, Excel and a host of other venues, unless you want to eat at a recognised brand in the surrounding concourse, I doubt if its going to be much better than what we have already. Having had a fair whack of our corporate hospitality over the past few seasons, one would hope that they increase the levels of customer service and employ people who actually want to be there.

7. I agree, and perhaps now that she has won the bid, she can spend a little less time in the limelight, and concentrate on reducing the debt and restructuring the club, which she has already demonstrated she is extremely proficient at doing.

8. A great thought. all season ticket holders, who have held their tickets for ten years consecutively should be entitle to receive their seats gratis. Anybody else should be entitled to buy their seat for a cost of say £19.99 which should cover the handling of its removal and handling. All other West Ham memorabilia that is not being re homed at Stratford should be sold off at auction and the monies raised placed against the debt.

9. I wouldn't be so sure, once they are more affordable, and with considerably better transport links, I think a number of those people who have been forcibly detached from the club will return in their droves.

10. The Carpenters Arms if its still there, or the Swan on the Broadway perhaps. Be a cup of tea at Mums for me though, thinking of selling her gaff, but she'd be a sitting tenant...???? lol

11. No apology needed. The vast majority of the businesses in that area are not football dependant and cater to the vast and varied ethnic population, a number of whom I expect will be happy to have a possible increase in trade due to football being removed from Upton Park. The Pubs deserve our empathy.....I am sure many of us have great memories in loads of them, however they have been gradually going for two decades without the help of Messrs Sullivan and Gold.

12. Ouch.............If he reads that, and gets your details, I don't think you'd need bother applying for that season ticket.


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