A respected football writer has ripped into West Ham United’s move to the Olympic Stadium with one paragraph in particular resonating with the club’s fans.
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A woeful start to the season and life at their new 60,000 Olympic Stadium home has left morale on the pitch and in the stands at a new low.
Fighting among fans and safety fears at the ground as well as a perceived lack of the famous intimidating Hammers
Five defeats from the first seven Premier League games is the club’s worst ever start to a season and Bilic’s side were also unceremoniously dumped out of Europe in qualifying too.
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The club finds itself at the centre of a new negative story each week with the spotlight firmly fixed over East London following the move into such an iconic ground.
While some supporters may struggle to put into words how they feel about the move, Daily Mail football journalist Oliver Holt has penned an article which eloquently conveys what many of them are thinking.
Sports journalist Oliver Holt
“West Ham have moved from a football stadium to an athletics stadium,” Holt said in his Daily Mail article.
“Dress it up how you want but there is no getting around it. They’ve moved from a raw, visceral, hostile, historic, adrenaline-filled bear pit to a football wasteland.”
Many disgruntled Hammers fans are determined to give the stadium a chance to win them over and a first London derby against bitter rivals Chelsea in the League Cup at the end of the month offers an ideal test to that end.
Upton Park
Nothing will ever replace Upton Park.
But discontent among the lifeblood of the club cannot be allowed to fester for too long, especially if the board want to continue filling the ground in the medium to long term.
There is no turning back now so West Ham simply have to make it work.
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