My Dad, who grew up in Coventry and supports Coventry, introduced me to West Ham. Having grown up supporting his local team, he instructed me (as I was born in Dagenham) I had the option of the Daggers or West Ham. I made my choice and he took me to my first game at Upton Park in 1993. After watching us concede 4 to QPR without reply, my expectations were appropriately managed. I have, however, been lucky enough to see us in play-off finals, an FA Cup final and a European Final! I have also seen us play in some much less glamorous games on my way to watching a first team game at every football league ground in the country. Hopefully, one day, we will play a football ground again.

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My father was born a short stroll away from the Boleyn Ground. I’ve been a season ticket attender at Irons games for more than thirty years. Over the years the quality of football on the display has varied….. but the passion, humour and knowledge of West Ham supporters has been consistently impressive. Its been a pleasure - mostly - to support my club. It's been a privilege to be one small part of the wider West Ham family.

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TREASURER

Richard started supporting the Hammers as a toddler, when seeing Bobby Moore’s photo on a cereal box and hearing about how West Ham won the World Cup; growing up in NW London and with virtually no family allegiance to West Ham, it was a long distance love affair until he could start going to Upton Park on his own as a teenager in the early 80’s. Several decades later he has brainwashed his sons into accompanying him to most home games.

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FAB REPRESENTATIVE

Kevin was really only ever going to support West Ham: Three generations of his family have held West Ham season tickets. His Dad was born in Forest Gate and knows Upton Park like the back of his hand. As if there wasn't enough pressure on Kevin to support the Hammers, his Mum once worked for a business where Bobby Moore and Geoff Hurst were both clients. For Kevin, supporting West Ham flows through his veins and it's as much a part of his East End heritage as being taken to Southend in the winter 'to see the lights' by his parents and grandparents.

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SECRETARY

Mark is a first generation supporter - but he did start attending matches at The Boleyn Ground in 1967. Following the Club over land and sea ever since, he has experienced the occasional high, quite a few lows and lots of in-betweens. He cried more at the Cup Final in May 1980 than at Wigan in May 2011 and is still crying from 10th May 2016.
Proud that his daughter knew the words to Bubbles before she knew any nursery rhymes.

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I'm a relatively new fan of the club, and it's my local club now since I live a stone's throw away from it! There's nothing better than being able to wake up in the morning and walk past the stadium every day of the club you love.

I'm passionate about improving the atmosphere at the ground, and hope that one day teams will come to the stadium with absolute fear running through their veins. The club is massive [everywhere we go] so I know that's possible!

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Coming from three generations of West Ham season ticket holders and being bought up in East Ham, the choice of football club was always an easy one. After hearing the stories of Bobby Moore, Billy Bonds and the boys of ’86, that glory was surely to come? A few play off finals and the Conference League has done the job so far!

Now living in Exeter and working for the Exeter City Supporters’ Trust, whilst having a season ticket at West Ham it felt right to be able to give something back to the West Ham United Supporters’ Trust.

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CHAIR

An accidental fan. In the 1990’s I went to a midweek game under lights at Upton Park one cold November evening to give a long suffering West Ham fan some moral support. I saw us draw 0-0 against Liverpool and despite the lack of goals I was captivated and keen to go again. I did. A lot. I got myself a season ticket and started going to away games too. Currently I have a season ticket in the Billy Bonds stand. I still go to away games.

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MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS

Chris Wheal was born to support the hammers. His granddad, Norman Corbett, pictured lacing Chris’s first pair of boots, was midfielder for the Club and won 306 caps. Norman won a wartime cup medal in 1940, despite famously not playing in the Wembley final because his commanding officer refused him permission to leave barracks in the Essex Regiment. Chris’s mum’s uncle was Bill Elliott, who set up and ran the Junior Hammers and was awarded an MBE in 1999 for “services to the community, especially Young People's Sport, in East Ham”.
Embarrassingly, Chris now lives in south London.

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