The ‘old lady’ rock n rolled and it suddenly hit me

I really don’t think any one of us is going to know just how bad it’s going to feel until we have moved on.

It hit me hard last night as the old lady rock n rolled to one of the best games of football most of us had seen at the ground for many years.

I understand that we have to move on. I really do. I accept it and understand that nothing stays the same forever – that doesn’t stop us wanting it to though does it?

A quick look down the Premier League table shows that the likes of Arsenal, Leicester, Saints and Sunderland have gone through the agony of waving goodbye to their old grounds.

But somehow it feels different with Upton Park – the place is unique with the close proximity to the players and we don’t talk about “Upton Park under the lights” for no reason do we?

The Mail’s Rob Draper poses this question in his match report this morning when he says: “Will the roar of that crowd shake the expensively-constructed new stands as it does at Upton Park, so that visiting teams with their multi-million pound squads visibly wilt under the glare of the rickety floodlights?”

The answer is of course No but given the team and squad that’s being built at our club that in itself is not going to matter too much because we are showing every sign that we can indeed join those clubs.

What Rob has forgotten is that we have of course gone to the major clubs and beaten them on their own manor but the fact remains: “We are going to miss the Upton Park so badly – it’s going to be like cutting an arm and a leg off.”

Sorry to throw such an emotional moment into our celebrations but I had a very weak moment when I suddenly realised it will soon be gone forever.