I know he got homesick travelling 60 odd miles down the M40 to East Londinium but R.I.P Joey Beauchamp. Taken from this mortal coil before his time.

The much maligned Anglo-Italian cup was a great competition. For the Cremonese match I was on one of the four official coaches that had left the Boleyn. Although, I remember leaving the old ground at about 1.30pm the day before the match and arriving at the Giovanni Zini just before the kick off the next day at 1.30pm. Right after the match it was straight back on the coach for another 24 hour road journey. We later heard that one of the official coaches had broken down, I think on the Swiss border. They had to wait for a replacement coach to set off from England in order to pick them up. What a palaver that was. We finally arrived back at the Boleyn at about 1.30pm on the Thursday. All-in-all, it was a 48 hour journey, there and back with just the odd stop, here and there. Luckily, these days, we can just catch a plane to our European away trips

This just reminds me (again) of just what some player Clive Allen was. We were lucky to have him!

The Anglo-violence cup was superb. Even the players embraced the spirit of the comp and got stuck in.

Fantastic Robert……..another great one……the normal though…….Saturday has started officially after watching this

Great work Robert many notable glimpses back including the lemon heads the shaman Jesus jones and of course Steve jones loved him mate proper West Ham. Cheers mate once again 👍🏻⚒

@robinpunter4377

5 ай бұрын

The Lemonheads, with possibly the greatest cover version of all time 👏👏👏

@tobyadams7206

5 ай бұрын

Indeed Robin in my opinion better than the original ⚒👍🏻

Went to cremonese there were more of us there than the home fans which tells you what the italians thought of the competition. Remember seeing some of the fans coming in late who had travelled by coach for 24 hours ! Only at West ham eh ?

The trip to cremonase was eventful, didn't arrive until 10 minutes after kick off as they had no flood lights, the polizi insisted on searching us 3 times before letting us in, one with a sub machine gun nuzzled in the back of our heads, then we got in to find the player had only turned up in body not spirit, the trip home was epic, coach broke down on swiss italian border, then again about 5 miles into Switzerland, as they repaired the coach we got blitzed in the border restaurant, then some went for more drinks as they repaired the coach at the garage, someone put a bottle through a car window and the stewards got arrested trying to sort it out. We had to bailout the stewards, the local Polizi made about 1400 swiss franc that night, got home 12 hours late but did get to take the piss out of a Gooner who crapped himself when he saw 48 pissed up hammers walk into the bar on the ferry. Got a £25 refund for because of everything that happened. What did i do with the money? Bought a match and coach ticket for Tranmere away on a Friday night, 10 hours to get there, through the traffic james at spaghetti Junction, got nothing to eat as we arrived as the game kicked off and all the stalls were shut, the team again only showed up in body, not spirit and we got smacked 5-2. The joys of being a hammer.

@westhamhistory

4 ай бұрын

Now That's what I call a comment! Thank you..

Bob the Cap...Gina Allen...Cozenza away....Both sadly no longer with us.

Topnotch 😀

What was the point of the Anglo Italian cup ?

@westhamhistory

5 ай бұрын

Pretty much the question posed by the video. bonds summed it up by saying if we don't go up we aren't taking part next year. Pretty pointless amount of travelling and extra games when no one really gave a toss.

Wow. Dirty racist Millwall idiots noise when parris got the ball. Clean forgotten how bad that side of things used to be

@westhamhistory

5 ай бұрын

I wasn't there that day, but I heard the noises on the clips. I didn't want to assume it was racism. I thought, maybe he made a bad challenge and they were booing him. I can see no evidence of that in any of the reviews or newspaper articles so I think it's safe to say it's Millwall being Millwall. I didn't mention it on the video because I couldn't be sure.

@MrWiggsy4

5 ай бұрын

@westhamhistory sadly for players like George it probably happened alot. Thankfully it's pretty much a thing of the past now (unless eastern European teams are involved)

@tomputnam5364

5 ай бұрын

@@westhamhistoryStood out to me as well. It was so bad I reckon it was booing- that sort of thing was becoming rarer by 1992.