MickA
Player Valuation: £10m
Sounds like it'll be a great experience anyway......
http://www.kumb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=168067
For the last 40 years I’ve missed only one or two home games a season but since we moved to the Bowl of Disappointment I simply don’t enjoy it any more. We stand and moan, chat about how it used to be and how much we hate the owners for what they’ve done to our club, while a football match takes place in the distance. It’s like watching a game on a big screen in a pub but with a worse atmosphere. At Upton Park we’d have told Brady what we think of her but now the passion has gone and what remains is diluted around the ground. The voice of the BML is no more. There’s no rapport with the players, they’re too far away to hear. Opposition keepers get off lightly, there’s no point in abusing the ref, no humour in the crowd, no banter with away fans – we can see them but barely hear them. It’s hard to know who’s who in the opposition – they’re too far away to read names on shirts and the club are too discourteous to even read out their team sheet. I hate everything about the stadium – the soulless trudge across concrete to get there, the views, the atmosphere, the concourses, the overpriced food, the popcorn and all it stands for, the trudge back to trains, the queues and the fight to get through West Ham station. How bad is it that we go to the likes of Middlesbrough, Southampton and even Bournemouth and are envious of the atmosphere and views in their grounds. Over the years we’ve had plenty of bad teams, bad players, bad managers, relegations and disappointments. We’ve had bad owners before but none who made such an irreversible decision as moving from a perfectly good football stadium that we owned to a rented soulless athletics bowl.
http://www.kumb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=168067
For the last 40 years I’ve missed only one or two home games a season but since we moved to the Bowl of Disappointment I simply don’t enjoy it any more. We stand and moan, chat about how it used to be and how much we hate the owners for what they’ve done to our club, while a football match takes place in the distance. It’s like watching a game on a big screen in a pub but with a worse atmosphere. At Upton Park we’d have told Brady what we think of her but now the passion has gone and what remains is diluted around the ground. The voice of the BML is no more. There’s no rapport with the players, they’re too far away to hear. Opposition keepers get off lightly, there’s no point in abusing the ref, no humour in the crowd, no banter with away fans – we can see them but barely hear them. It’s hard to know who’s who in the opposition – they’re too far away to read names on shirts and the club are too discourteous to even read out their team sheet. I hate everything about the stadium – the soulless trudge across concrete to get there, the views, the atmosphere, the concourses, the overpriced food, the popcorn and all it stands for, the trudge back to trains, the queues and the fight to get through West Ham station. How bad is it that we go to the likes of Middlesbrough, Southampton and even Bournemouth and are envious of the atmosphere and views in their grounds. Over the years we’ve had plenty of bad teams, bad players, bad managers, relegations and disappointments. We’ve had bad owners before but none who made such an irreversible decision as moving from a perfectly good football stadium that we owned to a rented soulless athletics bowl.
