Pop Robson wrote:The Complete Record 1900-1987 by John Northcutt and Roy Shoesmith
1929/30 Stats page has the FA Cup game as an away game, but on p.42 ....."The highest attendance of the season at Upton Park saw a sixth-round FA Cup tie against Arsenal"
Looks like John and Roy's stats have been copied onto various other books and the West Ham stats website, as John Northcutt own book has it down as a home game.
Even a photo in West Ham United: An Illustrated History by John and Roy again , states Highbury
Edit: Bloody statto's even they make a typo, (thats copied into almost every WHU book!)
Two problems here....
1. Here we have a game in which neither team plays in its first colours, and one of two games the teams played just a week separated. A check verifies Arsenals second strip, so were probably dealing with West Ham Arsenal as the title says.
2. We rule out Highbury due to the ground layout, it's the Boleyn so certainly West Ham Arsenal, but is it the league game that's listed in the stats as at the Boleyn, or was the FA cup tie listed as played at Highbury really played at the Boleyn ?
The problem with errors is that they get copied to elsewhere, and before you know it everywhere you look you see the error and take it to be the truth - That's what happened with the pink kits, one error copied here there and everywhere and before you know it it's taken us weeks and weeks to get to what was actually the case....
It gets so as the only way to resolve the question is to go to the primary sources, to go to Stratford library and look up the original local paper reports of the two games.
The way things are going this thread could be running for some time