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The verdict on West Ham United’s controversial move to London Stadium | BBC Sport

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Two years after West Ham’s final match at Upton Park, BBC Sport visits the Hammers’ new London Stadium home to get the verdict on the controversial move.

Is there an identity crisis at the club?

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  1. @kevinwaylen5770

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    I’m a west ham season ticket holder and the stadium is growing on me. We’ve been here a while now it needs the stands nearer the pitch the gaps all filled in with more seats and the roof closed on match days then the noise would be incredible COYI

  2. @Sainsburys_Local

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    관중석이 경기장이랑 멀고, 관증석의 각도가 완만해서 축구 보기에 별로

  3. @thomasconboy4636

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    I’m American I went to uptown park it really felt like a event

  4. @Smart1529

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    Who is here after the Conference League win

  5. @TheBigGoonerAJ

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    they said they'd break the top 4 , they forgot to mention of the championship

  6. @hartleyhare99

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    I dread it when Everton leave the Grand Old Lady😂

  7. @gabrielpurves7156

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    Cheaper tickets but £13.30 for a pie & beer
    More toilets, better facilities in some ways
    99.9% attendances – 62,500 sell-out games
    Only PL club with general sales straightaway
    Up to £20 for an adult to see UECL footy
    Good transport links

  8. @PlayRoomHR

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    Why would they move stadium place? Football is dead. And england role in its death is 1000%!

  9. @briwire138

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    It's amazing what a few wins does.

  10. @pallyali786

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    Couldn't they increase the capicity at the Boleyn. I'm sure they could have got it to to 45k.

  11. @Mr.E723

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    In the 60s and 70s, there were a bunch of stadiums built in the US referred to as “Cookie Cutter Stadiums”. Built to host both baseball and (American) football. The main complaints from the fans was typically that they were lacking in atmosphere, there was nothing unique about them, and most importantly the compromises that had to be made to accommodate multiple sports caused what would normally be amazing seats to be far away from the action. I’m seeing all the same problems here

  12. @traceurGeorge

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    I’m not a West Ham fan. Whether it’s every game day match or match of the day I watch, I promise you EVERY TIME my heart goes out to the fans of West Ham. There’s no nicer way of putting it, your club sold its soul and with it a lot changed. What happened to Boleyn ground sums up what’s going on across the country and London, pubs being knocked down for expensive high rise flats. What stands our for me the most with it all is the blatant disregard for the locals – those who are left and haven’t been priced out of the area. Not only was a stadium with history and love knocked down, but a landmark of London culture was taken away, businesses were left behind and fans thrown to the wind under the guise of improvement and development. Stadiums are and should be seen as what they are, buildings of modern cultural significance, places of pilgrimage for thousands and they should be shown a worthy amount of respect, not brought by property developers hoping to make a quick couple of quid.

  13. @vladimirmoosegaming7547

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    “West ham fans would never be deluded enough to think we would play champions league” 2 years later we are 4th!

  14. @Genevasplaytime

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    Not whining now are you? grumpy moaning saddos.

  15. @davedrienhuizen6567

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    The guy at 3:433:55 tells it all! I've been a Dutch West Ham fan for over 40 years. Visited the Boleyn Ground about 15 times. I was there when we played the last game. For me, You can’t find a better football experience then Upton Park. Till today, I visited the London Stadium once. Yes, maybe it was the crappiest game (the Burnley game that was mentioned) that I could have chosen but besides all the mayhem on and off the pitch it was a terrible, soulless atmosphere! The only good thing: The Rib Man was still there with his famous Holy F*ck sauce but that was the only positive thing that I could think of.

  16. @kflem80

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    I've been to Upton Park as an away fan and it was a great ground with a great atmosphere. The thought of travelling one end of the country to the other to experience a view from miles away doesn't excite me

  17. @Bootyeheg

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    I dont get how a stadium like London stadium would’ve made them better, if they wanted to get better they should’ve stayed put in their old stadium and signed better players, I feel for you if you’re an og West ham fan

  18. @lucasjwesty2216

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    I remember going to the OG West Ham stadium with my dad for the last time seeing it

  19. @victorcastillo-dx9vh

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    I don't live in London, so I can't tell much about Upton Park and olimpic stadium, however I love the Hammers! COYI. My best regards to every WHUFC supporter. Greetings from Mexico City.

  20. @whoareyou9514

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    It is obvious that there was 0 reason to leave….😔
    I'm gonna miss the satdium that makes you…….family…..
    What I was loved that stadium ….fans were close …scream the fans. and every thing…….💜

  21. @michaelledain5283

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    Should of just rebuilt stands one by one and make them square and single tier 20,000 in North and south. Modern inside a classic football stadium on the outside. The pitch should no more than 3 meters away also.

  22. @SandipanNath123

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    Sharing your ground with Athletics is always a nightmare. Just look at Stadio Olimpico in Italy.

  23. @stevenmcguinness4751

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    Birmingham fan here, Sullivan and Brady were trying for Years to get Birmingham City Council to build a Stadium of 50k for BCFC. City of Birmingham Stadium (you’ll find it on google still). They promised Champions League football and super signings. But it never happened. They are up to the same old tricks, next stage for West Ham will be the sale of the club to foreign investors with no care for the future of the Club.

  24. @njclondon2009

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    the most pointless club in the premier league. gold, sullivan and brady sold west hams soul.

  25. @sihlesihle4399

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    If westham want to move forward they need to stop leaving in the past

  26. @domthiago7539

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    very ugly stadium

  27. @mikeyrx5146

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    This is how redskins fan feel about Fedex after rfk. Very similar. I’m sorry corporate ruined it for west ham fans. One day it will return back to the people. Get loud enough and demand it. Don’t go to London.

  28. @Wayneyb1986

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    Thank you so much Gold, Sullivan, Brady for ruing our club just because you are money grabbing idiots

  29. @andrewkeegan1876

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    The move has been a disaster. The Boleyn was one of the great grounds in English football. Renowned for its atmosphere, and always a tricky proposition for visiting teams. A big part of the soul of West Ham United, and loved by our supporters. Far from being a proper home, the new ground is not even a football stadium, and no amount of scaffolding and tarpaulin can hide the fact. The move was always intended to make the club a more marketable proposition for potential buyers, thus enriching the current owners when they decide to sell up. Under the guise of ‘progress’ we’ve been sold a pup which is unworthy of the club and bears no comparison to Upton Park. If a move was necessary at all – which is not out of the question, but certainly debatable – it should have been properly planned and managed to ensure the club ended up with a modern, atmospheric, purpose-built stadium. And sole ownership. As it is, we are mere tenants of the world’s biggest Meccano set, a soulless bowl of a ground which is barely fit for purpose. The whole affair is a disgrace and a historic mistake for West Ham United.

  30. @zhint9355

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    As a Grasshopper fan from Zurich I can relate. Harturm-Stadion was a proper old school ground. They tore it down with the promise to build a new one. neighbours spoke up at the judge until the investors had enough. since then we have to play on enemy soil (since 2007). imagine you had to move to milwall for your games. we have won 2 votes to build a new one. now it is still beeing blocked by selfish freshly moved-in bastards who want a neat little park for themselves there. and to improve ther real estate value. they forced another vote, because they argue the credit was discussed but not the desing plan. and this one would be "eco-unfriendly". WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER AND WILL FIGHT TILL THE DAY WHEN GRASSHOPPER CLUB ZURICH RETUNRS HOME AND RISES FROM THE RUBBLE LIKE A PHOENIX AND RETAKES THE THROWN OF SWISS FOOTBALL! Good luck to West Ham supporters. May you find a fitting solution and get back your identity!

  31. @Dusknights

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    You don't need a huge soulless bowl to be successful. Liverpool have more than proved that and other clubs like Leicester, Chelsea, Sheffield United, Wolves etc are on the smaller end of stadiums these days and they're performing better than Tottenham and Arsenal and on par/doing better than Manchester United respectively. If Chelsea end up moving away from Stamford Bridge they'll end up being a mid table team at best. You don't have to have a huge glass bowl that barely looks any different to other clubs salad bowls and I don't understand the obsession with it.

  32. @thodoris1418

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    That woman is so punchable

  33. @tsrgoinc

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    Anyone who likes the polished turd it isn’t a West Ham supporter, plain and simple!

  34. @TMBpk

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    Ever since Green Street hooligans, it's been downhill for West Ham. It's pretty much a tourist club, dominated by yankee wanks and indians. Lmfao.

  35. @pisceansith6915

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    Once again the yanks have gone to another country and destroyed something they don't really care about, now the history of Upton Park are gone and the Hammers fans are now suffering because of these greedy money grabbers, and I am a Man United fan, that loves tradition I just hope the Hammers don't get relegated this season…..

  36. @ryanlaird6447

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    That american is talking a load of bullocks

  37. @tenners3258

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    Who's the Septic? She's clueless,any real West Ham knows we've been traditionally underachievers, we're used to it. What we don't do to well is flog off our home (in some dodgy deal) rent an athletics stadium, fill it with tourists, etc. etc. just to make a couple of ageing spivs very wealthy. # GSB OUT.

  38. @Isleofskye

    January 4, 2024 at 8:07 pm

    Sullivan said he would be " disappointed" if West Ham did not make " The Top 6". Well he has achieved that if the Top 6 are West Ham, Brighton, Villa, Watford, Bournemouth and Norwich.
    Just hold the match day programme upside down…:)
    Also there is another misunderstanding. He did not say he would get WHU into The Champions League but Championship and to be fair it's still on…

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