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Today for many marks the end of a great romance, a love affair of history, comradeship, allegiance and pride, an affair of the heart and the mind, the mistress and the wife combined. After tonight the smell of the burgers, the mad traffic, the crowded pubs and off licences keen to oil the wheels of fans making their way to the Old Lady that is the Boleyn Ground, continuously and annoyingly referred to as Upton Park by lazy journalists and commentators, will be no more.

West Ham : Randolph, Antonio, Cresswell, Reid, Ogbonna, Noble (C), Kouyate, Moses, Lanzini, Payet, Carroll.
Subs: Spiegel, Tomkins, Valencia, Obiang, Sakho, Collins, Emenike.
Swansea: Fabianski, Naughton, Fernandez, Amat, Kingsley, Ki, Cork (C), Fer, Routledge, Barrow, Ayew.
Subs: Nordfeldt, Rangel, Fulton, Britton, Gorre, Emnes, Gomis.

A house is merely bricks and mortar, it is the people who make it a home! as the old saying goes and we are moving shortly from our private residence to our private (yet shared) let. I was born on Feb 23rd 1960 just a few short years before we won our first FA Cup, dazzled Europe and supplied arguably the 3 most important Lions for the English national team to date. I was born in the old Forest Gate Hospital and was brought up in Plaistow in Dacre Road so in effect pretty damn near The Boleyn.