Posted on 26 September 2015. Tags: family, football feeds, life and style, parents and parenting, sky sports, West Ham United, west ham united feeds, westham fc
A supporter recalls many cherished memories watching his beloved team, first with his dad and then with his daughters, at their Upton Park ground, which is now to be redeveloped as flats This season my family will be losing an old friend: West Ham’s Boleyn ground, commonly known as Upton Park. The club is moving to the Olympic Stadium at Stratford and the old ground will become flats, and part of my family history will be erased. Once people had village churches to …
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Posted on 02 February 2015. Tags: football latest, guardian.co.uk, health & wellbeing, life and style, london, manchester-city, olympic games 2012, sport, tony blair, West Ham United
Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis-Hill were supposed to inspire us to be active. But the latest depressing figures will surprise no one who understands spectator sport The finding by Sport England that fewer adults in England are doing even half an hour’s moderate sporting exercise a week, with a particular drop among the poor, has dealt another blow to the grand claims made for the 2012 London Olympics. Tony Blair famously added the vote of the International Olympic Committee to other …
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