Who would have believed that in the twenty first century of footballing tribulations, the West Ham fans would be facing the fight of their supporting lives? When the Victorian masters on top of the hill would act with impunity, sneer, scoff and deride the spoon fed street urchins until revolutions are hissed with greater ambition? “The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues; probity, kindness, hard…
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Dickensian Rights and the Orphans in the Workhouses

