West Ham will learn there’s no place like home after Upton Park exit

It is not often you see grown men cry, particularly the sort of shaven-headed burly blokes with tattooed knuckles that tend to follow West Ham, but there are plenty of tears being shed as the Hammers leave Upton Park after 112 years.

Moving to the Olympic Stadium is a positive one for the club and will enable them to have more money and buy better players.

But leaving Upton Park is an emotional upheaval, almost like a death in the family. I know because I have been going there since 1966, when ‘we’ won the World Cup — that is the West Ham of Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, and Martin Peters who were central to England’s win over West Germany.