Dream come true

Small Dreams but when realised make you feel happier.

To watch a football match in the Stadium was a dream and it was realised in style when we ( Manju and me ) had been to watch a Barclays Premier League Match between West Ham United and Boltan Wandarers at the Upton Park.


We were very excited as this was the first time we would see a Premier League match live in the stadium, we managed to reach early so that we wouldn't loose a single minute. It wasn't hard to find the place as there were thousands of people heading towards the stadium.

People in here love the game to a large extent. The stadium has a total capacity of about 35,000. Although this match was a Category B match, all the tickets were sold out, atleast that is what we were told.

As we entered the stadium, it was wonderful, lush green outfield, a thick bed of grass layed in the middle, we wished we could go there and jump on it for a while.



it was just 15 minutes for the kick off, Manju and me were wondering if all tickets were not sold out and may be they were bluffing but ten minutes later all the seats were occupied and then the fun started.

It was a buzzing atmosphere when the players came onto the field, followed by the Club anthem. We didn't know the club anthem, we only managed to move our lips and singing our own anthem.

It was time for kick off and all eyes on the players moving quickly Left and Right to and fro to the goal post.
There were a few guys sitting on my left side, I thought they should be coaching the team coz every time someone looses posession he would yell and say on what they should have done instead, I wonder if he had every played football.

Back to the match, we were just praying atleast we get to see a Goal and then came the moment when a flying right-foot volley from George McCartney of West Ham opened the scoring. It came after sustained pressure from the hosts that saw a clearance off the line from the Bolton Defenders.

The Crowd went wild... screaming enjoying appreciating applauding and we joined the party, a few minutes later it was half time.

As we didn't get tickets next to each other we swaped seats in the second half so that we could have a different view of the match.

The second half was more of a dismay for West ham and luck didn't favour the hosts as there were several goals on target saved and several shots off the target and many a times lost the posession when it mattered. Bolton tried very hard but couldn't manage a goal so far, however they did manage to hit the Bar once.

5 minutes to the Full- time it was still 1-0 and West ham had a upper hand and from no where there was one more Bolton attack and this time to the horror of the crowd it was Nolan ( bolton ) who equalises with a neat finish from close range after the ball was lofted into the area and flicked on by Michalik ( Bolton ) . There was nothing that Robert Green ( West ham ;s Goal Keeper ) could do about it.

Crowd went quiet and there was silence all around the park, some left the stadium after the misery Goal which otherwise would hv fetched Westham their all important 3 points but now they just have 1 point from the Draw.

But we were very pleased as we did see couple of Goals and I forgot to mention there were also couple of yellow cards during the match as well so in all we did manage to see everything except for a penalty kick.

It was a satisfying evening as our Dream came true of watching a Football match.

and in the end let me thank Manju coz without his persuasion and efforts I wouldn't have had made it to the Boleyn Ground.. thatz the name of the Stadium..



there is more coming until next time, itz me signing off..