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Thursday evening's Europa League Cup game against Rapid Vienna represents a truly unique opportunity to watch the Irons, WITHOUT drowning in anxiety! That is how a lot of fans feel isn't it? A feeling of joy mixed with a healthy dose of dread and fear as the game gets under way, questioning why you buy a season ticket just to put yourself through a state of high anxiety.

Ahead of Thursday night's fixture, Rapid Vienna defender Kevin Wimmer has claimed that the Austrian club’s fans will create a better atmosphere than the Home fans at the London Bowl, and he could be right! How many times have you watched West Ham away only to hear Hammers fans out singing the home fans?

How many times have you heard the away supporters out singing the crowd at Hammers home grounds? We would suggest the answer is often! The very nature of being an away supporter, especially those who have travelled by sea and air, is that you are there for the full experience.

West Ham playing European football under the lights in an advanced stage of a proper competition is a sight that has never been witnessed since the club moved from the Boleyn Ground, just seeing the European competitions on TV whets the appetite for the main fayre that will be on offer, OK it's not the Champions League, but it'll do for now!