West Ham | Football | East London | 1978
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- Vintage West Ham football club supporters archive filmed by the Team from 'This Sporting Land' at Upton Park
First shown: 31/08/1978
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Not a hammer but great footage - how it was at every ground back in the day. A game of the people for the people, not the sterile overpriced 'product' it's now become.
Great clip and a reminder of the days when football was the game of the working class - the kinds of people karren brady definitely doesnt want at west ham's new stadium :(
r que
Nice fishing, knob
Used to stand in the West Enclosure back then just behind John Lyall.Could afford to do it on my paper round earnings!!So glad I grew up in such a great era when football was a working class sport...and 3 cup finals in '75 '80 '81.Happy times.
4 cup finals, you forgot the European Cup Winners Cup final in 1976
Long live the Boleyn,this is the real West Ham⚒
My choice shit board,great fans
@My choice your opinions shit, the fans are amazing
As a 19 year old Irish student working in London for a year - I loved going to the Boleyn Ground even though it was quite a trek from Wimbledon on the District Court Line. Fabulous club, fabulous people and a great team in the 1986 - 1987 season. Never a cross reaction to my accent. Great times - so sad to see how the East End has ended up.
I visited Upton Park shortly before it was demolished in 2017. I went to see West Ham at London Stadium and felt as though something was missing. While West Ham’s new stadium is nice and comfortable, I felt as though it values commercialism over the energetic passion of the working class.
My dad told me how he and my grandfather would attend baseball games at Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia in the 1970s. The stadium and neighborhood were very similar to the Boleyn Grounds and Green Street in London. Connie Mack Stadium was demolished in 1976.
It is sad to see sports become overly commercialized and commodified as objects to be sold on an increasingly globalized marketplace.
RIP West Ham United FC. Cause of death: greed-filled murder by Gold, Sullivan and Brady.
Spent all that money keeping you in PL and you saying RIP? You fans deluded
@@mabsrahman8135
We were happy when we were in Div 2. Football was great to watch then.
Proper old school ground. Wish had this type of thing back in the States
Not so long ago..... I never went to Upton Park, but went past it very often. They were a couple of years away from an FA Cup win. I was living in Ilford at the time and recall the Claret & Blue EVERYWHERE. To me (not a West Ham fan) that is the epitome of Cup Joy.
And notice in the footage ... No replica tops. Lovely mix of ages Nobody who had literally eaten ALL the pies. Simpler days. Lovely footage.
Look how fit and healthy the fans are. And the average age is so much lower than today. The energy of youth made a great atmosphere. We eat too much drink to much. And in my case moan too much!
This is a compliment. As an 'away' supporter I hated going to Upton Park in the late 70s and through the 80s. Proper ground nd. Proper supporters back then. Still, looking at this great footage, you realise that UK (as with football) has changed so much and not for the better.
The year I saw my first game against Ipswich town. A David cross hattrick. What a memorable moment.
Great days when West Ham had a real football ground Sadly missed Upton Park Maurice Ireland
R.I.P West Ham
We’re not the North Bank, we’re not the West Side, we’re the South Bank Upton Park 🎶🎶🎶
Had the pleasure of attending a match at Upton Park for a game against Southampton, but damn if it wasn't a death trap. Those aisles were TINY.
@Pat Mahon Ha!!!!
If I ever go to East London now days I inform my insurance companies or wear 'kevlar'
My first match, boxing day 1972 v spurs, the good old days alright. West ham gone and so has East Ham.
Oh wot memories, this oozes nostalgia, 1st there in '78 for me. Brilliant! COYI
THIS, is West Ham United.
A different country to today thats for sure.
RIP West Ham United FC
Miss that ground so much… back in the day when you woke up on a Saturday and decided if you wanted to go to a game, £1 to get in, the peanut seller, Jeff & Georgie Roper the programme sellers walking around the edge if the pitch
It does look a little be earlier than 1978.
I don't know though, one of the kids was wearing a Harrington jacket which were revived in 1978 (if I remember correctly).
I thought the same.flares? Long hair? Punk was two years before. I think this is more 74/75
Yep. Says 77 on the Thames credits at the end so could even be filmed 76.
It a tragedy to all clubs when they leave the stadium I remember going to Upton park three times
The Sally Army band used to perform on the pitch, not in the stand, when I went regularly to Upton Park in those days. (Note to younger fans - we never used to call it by its formal name the Boleyn Ground, which seems to be a modern thing). In all my years of supporting the Hammers I was never once searched by police at the turnstiles - was this footage of a match against Millwall by any chance?
Yes Bubbles from Ted and the sally army band, and the little guy who had cymbals as big as him, a guy always used to shout out give us a cymbals solo..
Now it’s like Bengal they all run away to essex 🤣🤣🤣🤣
What's funny about that?
And Bermondsey is like the Serengeti
The alphabet half time score boards wow like it were yesterday 😂
Priceless ⚒️😃
West Side West Side do your job
West Side do your job
👀🌊F ⚒️⚒️🇬🇧🇬🇧
The West Side.....The Chicken Run.....The West Side.....The Chicken Run.....The West Side......The Chicken Run...............I'm Forever Blowing..
great footage
I would do anything to have our upton park back
With you on that
id do anything to have my london back
@@stevestheboy1 no chance of that
I get you fully but West Ham have moved on an have bigger crowds draw bigger players an they have won something to aswell as being fringe cup winning an possibly top six outfit.
@@redflag8970 draw bigger players???
Have you seen this transfer window?
We are the only club no one wants to join
West Ham ❤
Wow, were those prices (at 1.35min) of 70p for adults & 30p for boys right in 1978 & if so, how much did it cost for girls to watch a game??
I stood on a milk crate in the chicken run with my dad
Season ticket 1992; £90 Chicken Run.
Come On You Irons .
we miss upton park , should have renewed it , or built a new ground were it was , not rented london stadium, we lose so many games there.doesnt fell like our ground.
Very well said.
Roy Keane got it spot on with his cucumber remarks 20 odd years ago.
70s was all about long hairs era lol my dad the same
Hi, I recently made a documentary using a small piece of footage from this video what would be the best way of contacting you directly? Looking forward to hearing from you.
Chicken Run COYI, WHTID 🛠
Many cockles and whelks were harmed in the filming of this programme.
someone needs to call the inclusivity police ; am not sure how they managed to edit that footage .......... id wager that majority of those east end punters have all shipped to essex by now
I used to be a regular in those days, 50p pocket money, get me in and buy a programme, probably get a bovril at half time as well, or a bag of nuts of the peanut man that used to go round the ground and throw the bag up to you in the stand
Great footage, but is there no sound? Or is my laptop fucked?
I thought the Skinhead look was popular back in 1978 ?
Chris Black the First skinheads were in the late 60's/early 70's. The skinhead revival started about a year after this, shortly followed by a football look with longer hair, green flight jacket or Harrington, Lonsdale T-shirts, Slazenger jumpers, jeans and addidas trainers or dm's.
But I seen photos of Sham Skins from 1978 at concerts.
Chris yes, they had a skinhead following
Chris Black I thought it looked more 74 than 78? That's how quick things changed back then!
The shots you saw were people in the North Bank. There were skinheads at that time, but they would have been in the South Bank.
0:03 constantly watched by state agents.
Who won?
These are Villa fans
0.25 couple of old ladies
all that long hair and flares lol
West ham where in division two in this year relegated the previous year
When football was football and the players wore that shirt with pride when Nobes hangs up his boots the heart's gone cus Rice will get swopped on by City or Europe in next two yrs Football gone to the Dogs. ⚒️⚒️⚒️⚒️
Real English blimey
Really? So none of those people at all had Irish, Scottish, Polish, German etc descent? How do you know that by just looking?
@@tdonovan4735 I know.
Westham v millwall 78 bit naughty
No pathetic grown men in the crowd wearing football tops, just the odd scarf and benny hat. Proper fans!
Not a smart phone in sight or social rasist gesture