I'm not deluded at all. The behaviour yesterday does not represent an entire fan base. Do you not think that, I, like the majority of others want to see these idiots eradicated from the game altogether? Every club has it's section of tools. Put yourself in a similar scenario. If it's the last match at WHL and scenes replicating yesterday's occur, you're not going to feel slightly peeved that it is the main focal point?
I agree with you 100% on this Mickey.
I think the storm over it is pathetic, especially given the fact that Helen Keller could've predicted that Green Street should probably have been shut and the team buses given FULL police escorts.
People are forgetting that this is about much more than just a team leaving a stadium, it is a local anchor being moved to another port. The entire neighborhood is going to slowly wither away. There won't even be a ground to look at in a few years, just some overpriced fudging flats for a bunch of bankers intent on 'gentrifying' every single thing they can lay their over-paid hands on.
So add that tension to thousands without tickets to POOR planning and what will you get? That situation. It could've been way way worse. I am not saying it was right, but as is typical in modern sanctimonious media, they could not wait to jump all over it and literally 'will back' the '80s (most of those who write about those days were not there - a few fudging tomatoes and two bottles would've been a quiet time back then!)...
I personally found the extreme over-reaction to the Chelski game equally pathetic, and we even saw it recently with an innocent photo of our manager having lunch with SAF; the man had already said he was signing a new contract, yet suddenly, because he shared some fudging crusty rolls with Fergie, he's leaving for Man Utd, etc, etc...
I have no love for West Ham.
I have three very good friends who are die-hard hammers we wind each other up all the time.
I have been involved in several VERY unsavory incidents at Upton Park back in the day (not my doing I might add) but I still think it is SAD to see 'progress' steamroll communities, and was therefore empathetic with the feelings of many hammers on Tuesday.
One final thing - Sullivan remains a taco, and using the 'incident' as another ad campaign for why the move had to happen was as tacky as he is.