Iron Men Page #2

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Just a little bit of respect

and, "Morning, how are you?"

And just, it's a good way

to get the morning going.

[Slaven] OK.

If you're warming up...

And then, after we play

five-a-side,

like four against four,

with four players,

with eight players on a side,

and then we do it, like,

four, three times,

for three minutes,

depending on the intensity,

and then after that, we go

for a little bit bigger pitch

and we finish it

with eight against eight.

- Seven against seven.

- Yeah, or seven-seven.

We have Mikey.

We have Antonio.

- We have...

- Payet.

Payet... He's kind of through.

So we've got two or three

goalkeepers today.

[shouts]

[shouting]

- How long have you been there?

- [Will] Coming up ten years now.

- Long time, innit?

- [Will] Yeah.

- You've seen me get old.

- [Will] Yeah.

The Olympic Stadium, yeah.

I can't believe

how big the place is.

I've never seen

it with people in either.

I didn't go to the Olympics.

I didn't go to the rugby either.

So, I've never seen...

I've only ever seen it empty.

It needs to be

a football stadium

instead of a theater,

if you know what I mean?

Obviously, you want people in

the door but you also want...

You don't want to lose the...

atmosphere

that you get at Upton Park.

[woman] We've made a unanimous

recommendation

to select West Ham United

in the London Borough of Newham

as the preferred long-term

tenant for the Olympic Stadium.

[Boris Johnson]

This fantastic stadium

will not only host athletics

and all sorts of other sports

where the ball is not

necessarily spherical.

This Olympic Stadium

will now be

the home of a great

London football club.

[reporter] The winning team

in front of West Ham's latest

trophy, the Olympic Stadium.

Capturing this

half-a-billion-pound-prize

was a moment to savor.

As a community, we involve

so much local schools,

all of East London

will be coming to it.

There'll be so many local events

and they will say,

it's wonderful what's happened.

So, I think they may see in time

it is a perfect solution.

Well, I'll show that basically

it's more West Ham.

I'll go down the stairs

rather than the lift,

rather than cramming the lift.

I've never been at the club

that's changed ground.

I have been relegated.

I've been promoting the playoff

final, been to a cup final.

But I've never ever been

to a club changing grounds.

It's a very unique thing.

All that is West Ham.

That's every West Ham team

since we've been there.

One day, hopefully,

it'll fill both sides.

That's when West Ham went up

there with the Wembley playoff.

And that's pieces of art,

the Krays and things, you know.

I'll just dim the lights.

I think it's the best thing.

It has to be done,

and this is my little office.

I don't say it's going to change

the club completely.

It gives us

another 10 or 12 million more,

which would buy

one reasonably good player,

but it's not going

to completely change

the whole finance of the club,

but what it does is it increases

the fan base,

increases the status.

We priced it bringing support

from everywhere

and we're attracting

a whole new breed of supporter

and we're bringing people

into football

who wouldn't be watching

a football game.

We're taking

the armchair supporters

and making them real supporters,

and I think we'll attract

more players.

If you show them Upton Park,

unless they are into history,

it's not the most grand

of grounds to play at.

Well, the new stadium

looks the part.

If you're a foreigner coming to

England, it'll have an impact.

When you take them

to the ground,

they think,

"We've come to a big club."

You take them to Upton Park,

they think they're coming to a

middle type of club, you know,

not a top six club, you know,

but the new stadium

will make us look

like a top six club.

Carlie, where's your car keys?

Have you seen her car keys?

[woman speaks indistinctly]

[woman speaks indistinctly]

Found them.

So, what's it going to be like

leaving the Boleyn ground?

Do you know what?

It's going to be...

Obviously, it's the right thing

to do for the club,

but it's going to be strange

because, obviously,

I've played there like, every

two weeks for the last 12 years,

you know what I mean?

You just get routine of walking

in the same doors and sitting

in the same place.

So, it's going to be strange,

but I'm looking forward to it.

Is that a full-size pitch?

Is that a full-size pitch?

- Yeah.

- Looks massive from here.

Hello again.

Hello, mate.

Nice to see you, bruv.

- Are you well?

- Hello, darling.

How are you? Nice to see you.

How are you?

Good, good, good.

You can take your helmets off

and glasses.

I'd rather keep them on.

Because you've got

helmet hair now.

- Too late.

- Don't say that.

[they laugh]

Premier League Football here

next season.

West Ham fans and players

can't wait, I guess.

I just... My one concern is

last-ever season at the Boleyn,

and I did say at the beginning

of the season,

it's probably the most important

in the club's history,

moving into somewhere like this,

and we just need the fans

to stick with us,

stick behind us,

like they have done this year

fantastically

and let's move on together.

[man 1] What you'll miss most

is the atmosphere.

[man 2] The atmosphere,

the singing.

[man 1] Will we replicate that

in the Olympic Stadium?

Don't know. [echoes]

[man 2] You're going to have

20,000-plus new people

in the ground.

[man 1]

We could have this influx

of so-called football tourists.

[man 2] New fans

who don't understand us.

[man 1] There's nothing worse

than people turning up

to watch your team and they

don't know half the players.

Are we going to be close

to the pitch?

Is it going to be as bad as

what people have said about it?

There is the running track and

you'll never see everything.

[man 3] Every other match

is probably

going to be like

an away game, really.

[man 2] It's a bit like

moving outer space

because it's so vast there,

it's so vast,

it's a big, big stadium.

[man 4] What I'll miss

most is Upton Park itself

because there's going back.

Once that's gone,

it's gone. That's it.

[reporter] How do you feel

about moving home

from the Boleyn ground?

[Slaven] It's like

I am having two heads for that

and I have two opinions and

both of them are very strong.

The first one, OK, it's

amazing and it's like shivering

to even think about going there.

It's going to be brilliant.

On the other hand, if I am

talking as a football manager,

if we are talking about

a bit of positive hostile

old-fashioned atmosphere,

it's Upton Park.

There's no way

that we're going to get that,

no matter you're going to have

more than 20,000 extra fans.

You won't get that atmosphere

at the Olympic Stadium.

You hear the same story like

it's not only football game.

The whole family can

spend the whole day there.

You have restaurants,

you have a shopping center,

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