Great scenes at the end at Upton Park. Now we are playing our home games in an athletics stadium. What a shame and farce. If we could turn back time...

The game against Cambridge? My best ever West Ham experience. It meant so much. And after? We drank The Denmark dry. Thank you to Martin Allen, for coming down to The Denmark, the bus driver outside The Denmark who waited patiently while we all danced round his No15 bus, and to dear Woody, a beautiful man, who wore the most outrageous jacket at Swindon, and kept his word on the way back to the station. R.I.P. Dearest Woody. And thank you Billy Bonds, for giving me my favourite season of all, and I've seen a few. And thank you Robert. So much. ⚒️💔❤️X

That was a great season and one full of adventures and passion, especially away. Of the away matches shown in this video, I attended the Birmingham, Southend and Swindon ones and all were memorable for various reasons. At Southend when they scored even the Essex police were jumping up and down in their control room on stilts when they scored and were flicking V’s at us 😂 At the Birmingham match, it was a classic smash and grab at the end and their fans were going mental, we were all laughing at them. It made up for several years of abuse from them at St. Andrews. At Swindon, which was tougher than it seemed on film, it was all limbs from us when we scored and it still ranks as one of my favourite away matches. Such was their confidence, the Swindon fans thought that they would easily roll us over.

Ah I remember that final game, queueing up for a couple of hours to get in the south bank. I recall their disallowed goal was a bit iffy and they had a certain Dion Dublin uo front too. Watching these great videos really makes me miss the old ground as it was, I hate so called progress.

Brilliant memories. Once again, excellent choice of music for the backing tracks. Very nostalgic. COYI

Many thanks for these excellent videos Rob. 92/93 was a fantastic (but nerve jangling) season. I attended every home game (and quite a few of the away games too) and miss the incredible atmosphere on the terraces (including North and South banks very wittingly chanting at each other). God knows what would have happened to our then-penniless club if we hadn't got promoted at that first attempt. COYI🙂

I’m just going to keep saying it; these are so good!

@westhamhistory

4 ай бұрын

Chris can I message you on twitter I think we follow each other.

That Birmingham game was insane, especially after the game and Swindon was one of my favourite ever away games. Football changed so much for me after that brilliant season.

@MrWiggsy4

4 ай бұрын

I travelled to both on my own as a 16 year old. Mental days. Remember thr brummies attacking us and out coaches outside. Swindon was day before 17th. Again travelled on my own. Great days

Another great episode showing all of the drama of those last few games in our fight for promotion. A big shout out to Speedie and Clive Allen for their contributions but even more so to Kevin Keen, a great servant to the club and so happy to see he is back in the fold.

We have lift off Brilliant memories Rob. I will never forget running on against Cambridge 23 years old rapidly approaching 54 now. Many many thanks for putting these out there mate COYIs 👍🏻⚒

The weekend has started!!!! Speedie was not a typical West Ham player or really fitted but was a clever signing by bonzo that did a job

@motr1912

4 ай бұрын

Spot on. Everyone thought it was a stupid idea but it worked. You need to get strikers on to do a job, even short term. Worked perfectly.

@mrkipling2201

4 ай бұрын

Even if Speedie had a bad game, he was one of those players who you knew would still give 100% and work his socks off.

@chairmanalf7856

4 ай бұрын

The abuse he received from some of our fans was quite criminal really. This was mainly due to him playing previously for Chelsea, but I was really hoping that he could have signed for us.

Although the tension was awful, I can't help but feel that goals scored was a better tie breaker for excitement than goal difference is I was living in the North East that year, so I went to the Sunderland v Portsmouth game with home fan, who needed the win as much as we did. Found myself stood behind some Mackems with Don Goodman perms pulling contorted faces and shouting "Eeeeeh!" for the whole 90 minutes. Weird

@westhamhistory

4 ай бұрын

I agree, makes teams go for it a bit more. Although ironically, if Clive Allen hadn't scored that late goal v Cambridge we would have been promoted by virtue of our better defensive record!

Great vid thanks Rob ⚒️👍

Funny, I always assumed that Speedie had strong Scottish accent 🤷‍♂️

Why were Millwall fans in the home area for that game? Looked like they had an enormous amount of fans there that day.

@westhamhistory

Ай бұрын

Away fans were often given the whole of the South Bank to allow better containment and segregation.

Hi Robert hope you see this comment. I'm collecting all these video's of yours which are excellent. However episode 34 of the John Lyall years has been deleted due to ITV issues? Was this recently taken off and is there any way of retrieving it. It's called Crossroads I think. Many thanks ⚒️

@westhamhistory

4 ай бұрын

Hi, yes I need to trim out the offending section as I don't have the original any more to amend and re-upload

@rodlevicount9834

4 ай бұрын

@@westhamhistory OK thanks for getting back to me. Seems a shame that just that one is missing ATM. Cheers mate.

@westhamhistory

4 ай бұрын

sorted.... cheers

@rodlevicount9834

4 ай бұрын

@@westhamhistory that's brilliant mate. Well done Rob ⚒️⚒️