East London Life

Effra has a piece up at Caught Offside about the astounding roller-coaster ride that West Ham supporters have been on this season. Now, I am new to East London, and new to West Ham football, but if my response as a newcomer is any indication, the ride must be absolutely sickening for the die-hard supporters, the type who will have their ashes scattered over the pitch…

You can tell yourself a hundred times about ridiculous good luck, remind yourself that beating Arsenal one week and losing to Sheffield United the next is the kind of thing that West Ham have been doing for eons, or just remember that we well could stay up and then have all that heroic passion smashed to pieces by some suits meeting at the other end of town, but you won’t be able to help succumbing to the belief that the great escape is now part of the script.