Quote Originally Posted by dagenhamJohn View Post
indeed Sir hope you are well mate, and yes we are the same !
take care now
john.
Evening John...Personally I have never understood this so called hatred. I first started going to the Den in the 1957/8 season and continued up until I left the UK in March ‘ 73 During that period we never played against the Hammers and frankly I never heard anything down the Den about any rivalry between the two clubs. The only incident that I recall was just after when West Ham “won the the World Cup” in ‘66. For a few games at the Den about a dozen or so Hammers would turn up for the game and stood on the main terrace near the bar on the half way line. There was a lot of good humoured banter and I let you guess the reaction of the ‘Wall faithfull when they started to chant “ We won the World Cup “ Then at one match for a reason that I ignore it all kicked off and the the out numbered Hammers didn’t have much choice than to hoof it and to never come back.