NEWSNOWYour Story Competition Winner
Well done Martin
Your prize is on its way to you.
a 1964 West Ham program ( in mint condition) when West Ham played Liverpool on January 18th 1964 when the West Ham team included Bobby Moore as Captain.
Martins Story on how he became a Hammers fan.
I’ve been a west Ham fan for 26 years. Originally a Kiwi, my dad was a 10 pound pom in 50s after doing his national service in Malaysia. He was from Middleton in Manchester and a Man U fan. Although NZ is a rugby nation, me and my brothers were brought up on The Big Match with Brian Moore on a Sunday and dad would always wake us up at 3am for the FA cup final. So I grew up loving footy and in the eyes of the rugby playing masses was clearly “a poofâ€
At boarding school a mate of mine Jaffa had an album by the Cockney Rejects that had written on the back of it “ Trevor Brooking is God†we decided there and then we were Hammers fans and have been ever since. Partly it was an act of rebellion against my dad, partly the music of the times, but also for the free flowing football west Ham played and the joy of the great days when they came, which, as an underdog were always sweeter.
I moved to the UK to be a musician in 1985 and have been to see many west Ham games as I lived in East Ham. When my wife got pregnant with our first child I broke up the band and got a real job in financial services. I was born in 1964 and an original program would mean everything to me and would take pride of place in my office.
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