Top FIVE Things About Upton Park

[Major]

5 Queens Market, where else can you buy 2 cucumbers for a quid and a great big bunch of tarragon for 80p, my local sainsburys charge a quid for a shity pre packed bag of herbs a 5th of the weight
4 The West Indian fast food stand outside the Queens, great pre match food
3 The Fillipino grocers in Walton Street again where else can I buy a tin of crispy shrimps
2 Driving past the street my old man grew up in during the war
1 Finally walking past the church where my parents met all those years ago, forever being thankfull that's the reason I'm here in the first place

I could go on and on and on

Just a guess but i bet your more than a 34 waiste???

What the **** are you going to do with two cucumbers and a bunch of taragon at a football match!!!

[Major]

Exactly. :wink

If the people of upton park are beneath you. West London is only about 14 stops further on the tube they have big houses and a football team that has just one some cup!!!

[Suffolk Iron]

If the people of upton park are beneath you. West London is only about 14 stops further on the tube they have big houses and a football team that has just one some cup!!!

And they used to sing a song about Celery. Save you a fortune in cucumbers and tarragon.

[westham,eggyandchips]

If the people of upton park are beneath you. West London is only about 14 stops further on the tube they have big houses and a football team that has just one some cup!!!

Did you google the district line?

[Knighter10WHU]

1 - The Pubs
2 - West Ham Burger Bar/Nathans
3 - The Chicken Run
4 - Upton Park Tube Station
5 - WEST HAM!

[Olliek92]

1. When the atmosphere's good, it's unforgettable. Millwall, Ipswich semi, and even the Cardiff semi at home are all recent examples
2. I like the 'feel' of the place, not sure why but when I go to away games where stadiums are on industrial estates it just feels like a place to watch football...and that's it.
3. I like the stadium, the old style chicken run mixed with the new west stand is unique.
4. I like the people, most of the asians I've encountered have been really polite. Generally has a good working class vibe.
5.Despite the long queues for the tube, the plastic looking towers at the front, the fact the hammersmith and district lines are ***** it feels like a home for football for me.

[Major]

Did you google the district line?

Nah just a guess, was it right?

done well to avoid the subject, shame really because i think its an important one. And its one that shows how our fans have changed.

[Mr_Andersonn]

When we eventually leave Upton Park and they demolish it, would you purchase a stamped brick, seat or lump of turf as Memorabilia?

Slightly off topic but the 5 things I like about Upton Park have been mentioned several times over.

[Welsh Iron]

Queens Market,

And this fella: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETSl8gWsFZ0

Irrespective of the surrounding area, we ALL go there to watch our team, West Ham United, play football and have done for generations. Some posters on here have done so for longer than a lot of us have been alive, along with parents & grandparents that are no longer with us.

THAT is why the area means so much to a lot of people, whether they were born/lived within sight of the floodlight towers or not. It's the area that OUR team has resided in for over 100 years and that makes it special.

[westham,eggyandchips]

1. Pubs
2. The ease of getting to/from the ground either by car or train
3. The East stand (or chicken run as it was once known).
4. The Bobby Moore bust in the reception of the BML
5....and most importantly, the history.

[Sweeney Bod]

When we eventually leave Upton Park and they demolish it, would you purchase a stamped brick, seat or lump of turf as Memorabilia?

Slightly off topic but the 5 things I like about Upton Park have been mentioned several times over.

I have my eye on the MDF Towers. They would looking cracking on either side of my driveway, and I am sure I would only need an Allen key to dismantle them.

[Major]

I have my eye on the MDF Towers. They would looking cracking on either side of my driveway, and I am sure I would only need an Allen key to dismantle them.

Its velcro mate, velcro

[the oldham stripper]

anyone under the age of 40 should not be allowed to post in here.

[Olliek92]

anyone under the age of 40 should not be allowed to post in here.

So people in their 20's and 30's aren't allowed an opinion on Upton Park? Sounds fair.

[Sweeney Bod]

So people in their 20's and 30's aren't allowed an opinion on Upton Park? Sounds fair.

Us oldies like to help the new generation with life's lessons.

Lesson no 216....life is not fair

Thank us later

[Denbighammer]

Us oldies like to help the new generation with life's lessons.

Lesson no 216....life is not fair

Thank us later

**** off grandad, you piss-stained old twat!

[Hammer110]

So people in their 20's and 30's aren't allowed an opinion on Upton Park? Sounds fair.

Us oldies like to help the new generation with life's lessons.

Lesson no 216....life is not fair

Thank us later

[Sweeney Bod]

**** off grandad, you piss-stained old twat!

I heard that, pardon

[PTFC Hammer]

1. It's got the modern stadium/old school ground mix spot on.
2. You can just feel the history when you're in the ground - proper old school ground. Money can't buy that.
3. The amount of pubs to choose from for a pre-match pint.
4. Atmosphere for big games - something special about Upton Park. Can be proper hostile.
5. Right in amongst the houses, like a proper British ground should be. Pity this means nothing to the majority of the locals.

[m-h]

I'd like to think we go one, we go all.