Location: Confusingly enough, East London.Nicknames: The Hammers (due to the shipbuilding industry rather than their club name), The Academy of Football.
Stately, Non-Commercial Stadium Name: The Boleyn Ground aka Upton Park.
Crest: It's good that they didn't go the "Cinderella's Castle" route with the fortress there.
Season So Far: Financial headaches and trouble securing a shirt sponsor made them sellers in the transfer market, but they've still put together a not-horrible season.
General vibe to a casual American fan: Tough, combative, uneducated. Being from East London, it's safe to assume that their cockney fans are all exactly like the thugs from Guy Ritchie movies. They sport a history rife with hooliganism, even by English standards. President Obama is allegedly a supporter.
Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible cunt... me.
ReplyDeleteTheir crest looks like something a particularly fancy group of World of Warcraft players might put together.