I'm just sitting watching Hammers in the rain

            Hope all you Hammers enjoyed being back in front of our team yesterday.  

18 months is a very long time to be away from WH.  Brought back memories of getting soaked week on week at UP – such was the viciousness of yesterday’s downpours outside the stadium.  Saw Covid Jimmy on the concourse within about a minute of arriving – gave me a 5 minute lecture on GSB – COYI mate.

Lot of camaraderie yesterday.  Saw people we hadn’t seen in ages.  Loads of people asking me to take their picture.  Or if I’ve got any more copies of my book.  Or if there will be another book – well watch this space I guess.

Special mention to everyone who was on the 10.42am train from Gravesend that blew up at Ebbsfleet and left us onboard with hanging down live wires wafting in the wind dangerously towards people in my carriage and sparking off the top of the train for 40 mins.  

The kid with the Bowden-coloured mohican playing guitar and singing Pink Floyd and RHCP on the Eastway – well that’s my son Gabriel, and the other lad is his best mate Lew – just want to thank everyone who stopped to clap, cheer, whateever or who gave them dosh in such awful weather as they’re incredibly good.  Shame the rain meant we had to get inside the OS a lot earlier than planned as this limited the guitar playing and the photo taking.  

For some reason yesterday, I found myself referring to the OS as the London Stadium.  So maybe that’s a turning point for me.  I have wondered before whether this will trigger some element of acceptance, maybe that’s the change: but then I get so angry at the loss of the Boleyn, that it never lasts very long.  But the atmosphere yesterday was pretty good and something I miss so much about UP – Noble and some of the others coming over and hailing the fans like we are all part of the same thing, rather than 'us' in the Bobby Moore and 'them' too far removed on the faraway turf – well this is a bit more ‘like it used to be’

COYI

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Taken on: August 8, 2021

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