Fan gives the case against Upton Park

So much has been written about the move from the Boleyn! 

Many never wanted it but ClaretandHugh follower Diamond Geezer, in an interesting  response, to the UP ‘remainers’ posted this on thet ‘Leave a Comment’ section of the website.

It’s articulate and offers some interesting footballing and cultural observations so it has a place here

By Diamond Geezer

I can’t be alone in thinking the move away from the decrepit Upton Park was needed, surely?

Stuck in an area where the club was an anachronism, with 30,000 mainly white, mainly men suddenly appearing every two weeks in a largely non-white area that didn’t want us there, then disappearing a couple of hours later.

The stadium was one of the worst in the league for space and facilities, taking twenty minutes to empty at the end of games. That one hour queue in the rain to get onto the Tube, the lack of parking…….only the pubs, caffs and pie shops were any good.

Did I miss the huge footballing advantage we got from the place, when we consistently won the league and dominated Europe? No, I thought not. Sentimental nostalgia won us nothing.

We couldn’t really expand further, so it was a choice of either going £1bn into debt to build somewhere new and playing somewhere totally alien for two seasons like Spurs or taking the OS and trying to turn it into a new home.

The rumoured safe standing coupled with squaring off the side

Don’t go open-ended on the protests; there’s no guarantee anyone new would be any better (and most likely be based overseas and even more remote).

A Saudi Prince? Really? Miss a penalty and get your hand cut off?

The views expressed here are those of the blogger and are not necessarily shared by ClaretandHugh