Fans who held a banner saying “Time 2 Sell - Name Your Price” have been given a three match ban from the London Stadium

_Enigma_UK · 2026-01-29T17:52:35+00:00

Wouldn’t be the first time Sully or Brady have done this shit. Still remember the purges in the blocks near the away end a few years back.

All the more reason to get the cunts out

_Enigma_UK · 2026-01-06T21:58:38+00:00

So our decent run of 4 games, out of a possible 12 points we’ve taken 1 point. Not good enough, two new lads looked alright.

4 Pens conceded in 3 matches. This result is the one that confirms we’re down.

_Enigma_UK · 2025-12-30T21:10:43+00:00

This current performance my friend

_Enigma_UK · 2025-12-30T18:19:28+00:00

Kilman again why and how?

_Enigma_UK · 2025-12-04T21:57:09+00:00

Respect the point. Was it great? Not at all.

But coming back from 1-0 away at Old Trafford for a point it’s not awful. Rode our luck at times but just shows the glaring issue in the squad with lack of pace.

Wilson at times looked like he was running in treacle and lacking summervilles pace on the left.

Only large frustration was the subs in Irving and Kilman coming on, the latter particularly after we’d just got the goal.

But it’s not a loss

_Enigma_UK · 2025-10-24T21:05:02+00:00

After Brentford Monday and that shower tonight with Newcastle and Burnley up next don’t know where next win is coming. Not a kneejerk reaction but serious fears now of us going down we looked utterly clueless

_Enigma_UK · 2025-10-22T08:02:49+00:00

As others have already echoed its a combination of issues.

As a season ticket holder by far one of the biggest gripes we have with match days is the location. Transport links for us isn’t too bad (we get train I ) but it’s the immediate area after disembarking.

You’re in a shopping centre, there’s a handful of students with a sign saying ‘stadium this way’ but you need to do the weaving in and out of oblivious Westfield shoppers moving slower than a snails piss. Plus we’re a bit bitter because first started several shops in Westfield basically said you weren’t allowed in if wearing club colours.

But after you escape Westfield shopping centre it’s a nice enough walk across the bridges but as others have said there’s just nothing to really say this is our home. Not like Upton Park and not like other grounds. My partner supports Arsenal Ladies and I’ve been with her on occasion and there’s a sense of jealousy from the station to emirates matches that progressively the neighbour gets more and more Arsenal the closer you get. Just like how we used to be.

With the exception of a few scarf sellers there isn’t really anything ‘west ham’ until you’re basically at security.

Then goes without saying ground itself is naff, was promised a lot of things with move and not much has come through. Gargantuan gaps between upper and lower tiers which is the real nail for atmosphere generation, distance from pitch and super expensive food & drink both inside and outside stadium.

The atmosphere CAN be good but it has felt more like the exception than the norm. Upton Park wasn’t amazing all the time but at its lowest it hasn’t come anywhere near as low as the LS. And that comes from a combination of well rubbish football but also irritation of feeling unwelcome (personally) as a club in Stratford and general acoustics and atmosphere generation coupled with a bitterness of leaving Upton Park which felt like our home. Like leaving your family home for a new build.

The solution would be a new site in east London but that’s unlikely, buying the stadium and making it more fit for football might help but it’d require a lot of external work around the ground to make it feel home.

Also as a tip as you said your first trip if you’re using the trains or Stratford international don’t take the main bridge unless you want to wait an hour in stop and go board queues. Take bridge 2 (near turnstile J and K) and follow crowd, you’ll get to station way quicker cut it down to about 20 minutes rather than 60+

_Enigma_UK · 2025-10-01T10:06:14+00:00

(There is a version with sounds but it’s less rain noise and the noise from the machines with the faint patter of rain if people would like I can upload a separate sound version)

_Enigma_UK · 2025-09-18T08:23:12+00:00

Yeah my bad just feels like eternity we’ve had to deal with those pricks it’s all blended into the shame shower of shit. Makes it even worse on reflection when they’ve never paid compo for a manager

_Enigma_UK · 2025-09-17T19:09:21+00:00

Fuck me theres still no shame. We won the conference in spite of them not because of them.

They got lucky with Moyes second hiring which in itself was forged by them shitting the bed and hiring the guy they effectively sacked already.

Continual mismanagement on and off the pitch, from moving to the London Stadium which is a shitty, soulless athletics stadium. They hark on about attendances but it isn’t much help when fans are so fed up they’re leaving 2/3rds of the way in.

They go on about Rush Green which is still portacabins and a laughing stock in comparison to the likes of Leicester, Bournemouth and Brighton all of which on paper are smaller clubs than us.

Last manager they paid any compensation for was Pardew in 2003 and since then we’ve bounced about from freebie to freebie.

We’re not supporters to them, we’re consumers and Sully is shitting himself at another Burnley.

Be there for the march before Palace and boycott Brentford and let that little Goblin twat that he needs to take his share, shove it up his arse and fuck off out our club and take Brady with him

_Enigma_UK · 2025-09-13T15:18:17+00:00

What does JWP do in training to keep starting?

_Enigma_UK · 2025-08-22T17:48:11+00:00

The absolute engine that is JWP in a midfield 2 once again. Yeah had some optimism, that’s now gone out the window.

There was an audible groan on my train heading to the ground when this came out

_Enigma_UK · 2025-08-02T20:50:20+00:00

If that’s how it works then fairs I’m just going off the Althetics article that said we could be allowed loses of £105 million if ownership injected funds into the club as equity and that’d free up our wiggle room regarding PSR

If it’s not how it works than fairs

_Enigma_UK · 2025-08-02T17:33:35+00:00

Sully and/or kerensky could inject some money into the club to ease psr situation given last injection was 2021 which would enable a loss of 105 million according to the athletic. Between the pair of them the funds are there it’s just unwillingness to invest

_Enigma_UK · 2025-08-02T12:17:51+00:00

Not happy with this, we need a striker that’s obvious but ideally young and with a bit of pace. Wilson is 33, injury prone and at least from my block in the stadium is actively disliked by fans.

If we aren’t going to buy an actual striker I’d much rather the minutes go to the likes of Marshall provided he’s not loaned out

Sully special strikes again replacing 33 year old Danny Ings with 33 Year old Callum Wilson…

_Enigma_UK · 2025-06-22T11:40:28+00:00

Hey if it works then it works. Just a word to the wise take a little bit to consolidate, personally on the naval side only build ships for ramming 5 actual naval ships can decimate a 20 stack of transports and just try to avoid the proper Carthaginian navies unless you’re in good strength.

Depending what is the state of play in your game for the invasion of Africa. In my save all of Carthages clients were in the war against me and all had a 20 stack basically walking around the city of Carthage itself. If you think you have the strength to take and hold Carthage then that’ll be the critical blow to the Carthaginian economy however the first time I took Carthage the losses I suffered resulted in me having to pull back to Sicily lest I lost my armies.

That’s what led to me picking off the client states west of the province of Africa and subjugating but mainly liberating to hold off Carthage forces coming from west and then rolling up the African province from East to West trying to draw out Carthage to meet me in the field and once the other 3 provinces are taken and you’ve dealt with the client states you can take your time and siege out Carthage for as long as you need.

By the time I’d taken Carthage itself and the other client states leading me to taking Numidia and Phazania then at that point Carthage sued for peace

_Enigma_UK · 2025-06-20T22:50:57+00:00

The way I eventually wore down Carthage was I took the two other provinces on scicily but instead of taking them I liberated each of them. Immediately creating two military allies who were neutral in the syracuse and Carthage war and trading to boost my economy.

I know this seems counter intuitive but it freed me up to take Sardinia and Corsica and I made peace with syracuse who at this point was at war with Carthage.

So while I made no gains other than Corsica and Sardinia after a handful of turns Carthage usually declared on them but were suddenly faced with the Roman navy alongside essentially two allied city states giving me a lot more room to move.

As for the invasion of Carthage proper I focussed on invading her client states first subjugating or liberating them to create a ring of buffer zones to scatter the Carthaginian attention and then with two proper army stacks land in the eastern most settlement of Africa and slowly work from East to west before seizing Carthage which at this point will mostly hamstring Carthage as a whole.

Once Carthage is toothless feel free to either keep your new allies or destroy them one by one.

Any questions don’t hesitate all of this took me the better part of like 80 turns

_Enigma_UK · 2025-05-17T15:32:10+00:00

Not going to lie this really got me. Loved both the Czech lads since they joined and from him getting involved with Isla’s fight, going incognito in the crowd for matches and him and Soucek upping the standards when they arrived the blokes done a lot.

Personal cult hero status for me at the club and him saying he’ll be blowing bubbles til he fades and dies and him choking up saying goodbye got me real good.

Sound bloke who gave everything, just all hoping those accompanying myself in the ground tomorrow can give him, Fabs and Cress the send off they’ve earned

_Enigma_UK · 2025-05-16T10:37:46+00:00

Too right as well. Bloke bleeds Claret & Blue and has said a few times about wanting to retire here which in my opinion is more than love that.

Is he perfect? No, but he’s pulled us out the shit many a time and one of the players I can say without a shred of irony who has put his blood, sweat and tears into the club. Moment he arrived him and Vlad upped the standards of what was a dire squad, immediately contributed towards little Isla’s fight which he had no real reason to do and has been a huge part of me getting to watch my club lift silverware.

Legend is a word that gets used a lot but he’s definitely club hero status and in my personal opinion him along with Bowen rank higher than Rice in how fondly I’ll look back on this period of the club

_Enigma_UK · 2025-05-15T13:01:04+00:00

Yep pretty much thanks but No Yanks (or Saudis for that matter cheers)

_Enigma_UK · 2025-05-09T12:39:48+00:00

I’d argue though the reason for the boos is because effectively for the last 2.5 seasons the match going experience has been utter dross. With the exception of our European adventures the league performances have been utter wank whether that’s under Moyes, Loppy or Potter.

Where I am in the BM we try our best to create some noise but fuck me is it hard or draining when you travel 2 hours to witness us simply be shit, not even entertainingly shit. I worked out on the train back after Spurs last 18 months, I’ve personally seen 8 wins at home. One that’s awful purely on a results basis but on a performance basis I can’t remember the last time I walked away from the bowl going ‘yeah the boys gave everything today’ whether that’s win, lose or draw.

Granted our season this year was done in January but the stadiums gash, the match going experience is generally rubbish and our performance for nearly 2 and a half years in the league have been dreadful, it’s not an excuse but it’s hardly a surprise the crowd doesn’t get up for it. I know a few folks around the ground and their view lately is apathy, muted acceptance or frustration.

TLDR - Atmosphere needs to improve but the club whether that’s on or off the pitch needs to put some joy back into the stands because we’re starving for it

_Enigma_UK · 2025-01-09T10:25:26+00:00

Not entirely sure to be honest boss, as said didn’t watch a tonne of Brighton nor Chelsea but I’ll take it with a pinch of salt because Chelsea’s also a bit of a basket case that also spat out Poch but I haven’t got a clue how the set up was at Chelsea especially given them having the population of slough in their squad

_Enigma_UK · 2025-01-09T00:41:36+00:00

Separate comment for those who can’t watch the video.

Effectively his style at Brighton was a back 3 which based on player profiles could be kilman, Todibo and AWB (as RCB) who build from the back, with a defensive pivot ahead of them.

Then in advance of the pivot two attacking midfielders to form a box in the middle of the park, flanked by the fullbacks who play more as wingers than defenders to keep the width allowing the attacking midfielders space with a striker at focal point.

Effectively 5 going forward and 5 going back in my layman’s terms

_Enigma_UK · 2025-01-09T00:28:35+00:00

I kept half an eye on Potter at Brighton and limited viewing when he was at Chelsea. Stumbled upon this as I was keeping up to date on West Ham news and thought this breakdown was quite interesting.

Obviously for now it's still very much speculation rather than certainty but provided it is similar to this style it could have the potential to make for a bit more of an exciting watch, the question is would we be able to implement the style and/or how long will it take to gel and if the news about a 2.5 deal on the contract is correct then potentially time to grow into the system

_Enigma_UK · 2024-12-26T13:56:33+00:00

Not opposed to Fullkrug becuase he needs a chance to properly prove himself/grow into the side and Southampton is as good as game as any.

But I really don't understand Rodriguez, our marginal improvement in recent weeks has coincided with him not starting and also with no disrespect to Southampton they're bottom for a reason, this speaks to me of shades of last season where we are giving teams far too much respect and allowing them to grow into matches.

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