wide eyed wonder

with my sister and her husband having no interest in football and with there son showing a growing interest in it Aunty hammergirl was drafted in to take him to a game little knowing that it was not the local football team who play in the combined counties I would take him to see but to the hammers against everton,he was so excited you could not help but smile and his mum and dad looked on in amazement when I came to pick him up and out of the blue he started singing bubbles that was a surprise to me but he had listened to the song on youtube(goodness knows what else he picked up watching those posts!)anyway he loved the train ride decked out in the west ham shirt I had got for him and telling all the passengers he was off to see his first football match with his aunty(at 28 that has to be banned being called that)bit of friendly banter with some rival fans about the life of misery I would be leading him into following west ham!.we got to the stadium and of course into the club shop to buy him some extras and then something to eat before taking our seats a rather large chap and his mate were in front of us and blocking our view somewhat but they very kindly swapped seats(don't tell the stewards!!!) and so we waited for the teams to emerge the music sounded the bubbles machines in full flow and with lungs bursting he again sang out the bubbles song with the rest of us with a great big beaming smile across his face.the game was not the best but he loved every moment of it shouting cheering and booing which he thought was fun(booing at the everton players I will point out).the game finished we sat in our seats as the ground emptied plenty of selfies for him to have memories of the day and slowly we made our way home...he hugged me and thanked me for the best day ever and he thought west ham were the greatest team in the world and so a new hammer has taken up the banner and I felt a sense of pride in his first steps into fandom.COYI