[Football] Will West Ham become European Champions?

[Stat Brother]

Oh that would have been so sweet - in injury time.

 

[Gabbiano]

Nearly scores

Typical

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Snorefest half over.

 

[1066familyman]

Biraghi with a cut from a missile. Abandon the game. Award it to Fiorentina.

... And award the Champions League to Inter. Only seems fair

 

[Eeyore]

Possibly

Don't be silly.

This match is like a 70s European final. Ugly, turgid football, stop start, and a few nutters on the terraces thrown in.

Apparently West Ham last played Fiorentina in 1975. This might as well be re-run.

 

[Randy McNob]

Highlight so far is the linesman looks like David Bowie

 

[veuve]

What a load of crap.

 

[Acker79]

Blimey. Didn't realise the head cut was that bad until I saw this...



Surprised the ref hasn't insisted on a shirt change, tbh.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

West Ham killing the argument for Drinking at seats in PL

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Blimey. Didn't realise the head cut was that bad until I saw this...



Surprised the ref hasn't insisted on a shirt change, tbh.

A wound Tarantino would be proud of

 

[Reddleman]

Imagine having to watch this standard of football every week. Shocking.

I was pro West Ham but given how they played and their fans I am now 100% Fiorentina

 

[Sepulveda]

Just seen a "JUVE MERDA" banner among the most visible ones held high by the Fiorentina fans, "obsessed" doesn't begin to cover it. And to think that I was coming into this with such good sentiments and a slight sense that I would be cheering for them.

West Ham doing everything in their power to be unlikable though.

To be fair, they are probably 20 pints deep at this point, part of the reason for this kind of behaviour is the idiotic I’m so hard I can drink so much football attitude

If there's one thing we thankfully don't have here is a widespread heavy drinking culture, and that relates to football as well. No large parts of Italian fans in a stadium will be drunk when watching a match, and ultras in particular usually have to stay sharp throughout. No reason to dull the experience. We're completely sober when we're cnuts.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

To be fair, they are probably 20 pints deep at this point, part of the reason for this kind of behaviour is the idiotic I’m so hard I can drink so much football attitude

I would say, plenty of people manage to drink unreasonable amounts before a football match without doing anything worse than calling Bruno Fernandes a **** in front of small children.
In other words, you're either the sort of twat who behaves like a complete dickhead or you're not.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Imagine having to watch this standard of football every week. Shocking.

I was pro West Ham but given how they played and their fans I am now 100% Fiorentina

I’m still with the Hammers BUT imagine if we were to play even 10mins of that type of football given the slick kind of passing Potter and De Zerbi have treated us to! We are so incredibly lucky not to watch Moyesball week in and week out. It’s awful.

 

[um bongo molongo]

West Ham doing everything in their power to be unlikable though.

If there's one thing we thankfully don't have here is a widespread heavy drinking culture, and that relates to football as well. No large parts of Italian fans in a stadium will be drunk when watching a match, and ultras in particular usually have to stay sharp throughout. No reason to dull the experience. We're completely sober when we're cnuts.

I lived in Italy for a few months, and I found it miraculous just how long most Italians can nurse a single drink for!

 

[The Wizard]

I would say, plenty of people manage to drink unreasonable amounts before a football match without doing anything worse than calling Bruno Fernandes a **** in front of small children.
In other words, you're either the sort of twat who behaves like a complete dickhead or you're not.

Disagree, a high proportion of anti social behaviour at football is down to people drinking too much.

Yes, there is some that can handle it and are totally fine but the dick waving brigade who drink 20 pints every match day and then barely remember the game and stumble about ruining others experience, aren’t for me.

 

[BN41Albion]

West Ham doing everything in their power to be unlikable though.

If there's one thing we thankfully don't have here is a widespread heavy drinking culture, and that relates to football as well. No large parts of Italian fans in a stadium will be drunk when watching a match, and ultras in particular usually have to stay sharp throughout. No reason to dull the experience. We're completely sober when we're cnuts.

Yeah, been to football in a fair few countries and noticeable that in Italy and Spain particularly compared to elsewhere drinking beforehand isn't as common. Although having said that I felt more unsafe at two games in Italy I went to compared to elsewhere! (Not unsafe as in fearful for my safety as such, but more of an air of tension/possibility of violence etc)

 

[1066familyman]

Imagine having to watch this standard of football every week. Shocking.

I was pro West Ham but given how they played and their fans I am now 100% Fiorentina

I was also pro West Ham but now I'm couldn't give a monkeys either way.

 

[Sepulveda]

I lived in Italy for a few months, and I found it miraculous just how long most Italians can nurse a single drink for!

We usually treat them as nice sidepieces to conversations, a bit like cigars were in the past, not as quick shots to get to disinhibition

Although having said that I felt more unsafe at two games in Italy I went to compared to elsewhere!

Yeah, there's plenty of ways to be criminal arseholes without drinking heavily

 

[Stat Brother]

West Ham killing the argument for Drinking at seats in PL

There are tw@ts at every club who would have killed that argument - it just so happens to be West Ham.