Just in case people run away with the impression that West Ham is a club full of mindless idiots, they should think again.
Jack Collison made himself available for selection last night, less than forty eight hours after learning his father had died on the way to watch him play on Sunday. None of us expected Jack to play, but the fact that he did says a lot about his strength of character.
Those who invaded the pitch did more than let down the club. They also let down Jack Collison.
Jack left the pitch in tears last night. All he wanted was to escape from the traumas of the last few days and play a game of football. He wanted to escape into normality. Those who invaded the pitch prevented that from happening and made Jack’s already parlous state of mind, all the worse.
And if that doesn’t make them feel a sense of shame, nothing will.
Well said Portsmouth Hammer, spoken like a proud Tom, and your feelings are shared by me and any right minded supporters surely.
To Jack Collison, I can only say how much I admire his courage and offer my sincere sympathy. My thoughtaand prayers are with him, and he was the only saving grace from the shamefull events last night.
Such a shame that these mindless fools spoil our young players evening and tarnish our clubs reputation. At the end of the game when Jack Collison came off in tears, I was very touched by Zola’s reaction – arm around the shoulder, talking to him and escorting him into the tunnel. What a thoroughly decent man GFZ is. As for the hooligans, lifetime bans.
West Ham V Millwall
At the age of 62 I have lived through the years of football violence and fences around grounds. Over the last decade things have improved and families have gradually started to come back into football. There is no better site when you are on your way to a game to see a father walking along with either son or daughter wearing the shirt of their team and full of excitement at what they are about to watch.
Then we go back to the dark ages. I had forgotten about the morons, the bone heads that infest our great game the idots that stand there, shirts off, beer guts to the fore, banging their chests like some jungle animal, and thats a slur to the animal by the way. When was the last time any West Ham fan experiance what happend Tuesday night. I was at the Sunday game against one of our greatest rivals Tottenham, there was none of this mindless rubbish going on, fathers could walk from the station to the ground without fear for the lives of their children. For every one of those so called Supportes that took part in what happend I have the following to say. Stay away, we dont want you, we dont need you, you are a cancer that will grow and kill our game and our club.To all those supportes that are real supporters, those that love our team and our club and our sport, I say lets force this scum out and help identify then and help get them banned. GFZ is the best thing thats happend to West Ham since the days of Ron Greenwood and John Lyall, he deserves better, lets make sure that he gets it
not sure why everyone is
getting at Junior for
celebrating in front of
the millwall fans. Carlton
is after all not the only
black player in our team, so
any chants aimed at cole were
aimed at Junior as well.
I don’t know why Collison was playing anyway, his dad just died for gawd sake, what’s he doing playing football? If Zola was a decent manager he should have told him to go home and spend a bit of time with his family. There are more things important than football.
just heard a lot about the night.
2000 millwall ticketless yobs trashed a pub and broke police gaurd. 200 of them supposedly entered the ground without tickets
in the ground word spread about a fan being stabbed, which is why west ham fans tried to get to millwall fans, causing trouble with the police.
and also despite the racist chants at cole, he to faces a probe about reacting a bad way!