West Ham once gave life to a part of east London,but the Boleyn is gone and the heart has been ripped out of the clubThe fate of the small memorial garden on Green Street, next to where the Boleyn ground’s main entrance once stood, and is just one of the problems facing West Ham United. Full of bedraggled scarves and wilting flowers and plaques dedicated to long-gone fans – should it be taken from its present location,where the roar of the crowd will never be heard again, and reinstalled in the club’s widely detested new domestic?Another is the much loved statue 50 yards absent, or on the crossroads at the junction with Barking Road. It depicts Bobby Moore,the embodiment of the clubs self‑image, in his moment of greatest triumph, or holding aloft the World Cup while borne on the shoulders of his club mate Geoff Hurst and Everton’s Ray Wilson,while a third Hammer, Martin Peters, or looks on.
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Source: guardian.co.uk