Guest post from a former West Ham steward now working at the London Stadium for OCS who has asked to remain anonymous.

“I’ve read on your site lots of stories about how bad the stewarding is and although most complaints are justified I feel that the Stewards who did come over from Upton Park are being dragged through the mud. None of us wanted to leave Upton Park but some Stewards made the jump over to OCS.

But what supporters have to understand were not happy about the move anymore then they are. We are trying to make it feel like home and get supporters to enjoy the day (can’t help the results) but we’re having to do alot of nagging and prompting the Stewards around us to get them interacting with supporters and be more helpful. There was like some 120 of us that moved over and what supporters don’t see is that us Upton Park Stewards are treated completely differently to everyone else.

We’re separated out once we get past the shambolic signing in process and all Stewards from Upton Park are in a separate section before briefings.

To start with we were given rubbish positions guarding stairs when our years of experience are not used but some off the supervisors are taking advantage of our years off experience.

The Upton Park Stewards are in groups with the supervisors who came from Upton Park and these areas are this likely to see less trouble as we have the experience to spot certain flash points.

But although we try our best we struggle cause a vast majority of the Stewards there are only there for the money and to watch the game for free and laughing at the results or as goals go in and not interested in supporters views, that being said not many supervisors really care either.

If you look around you can see who the Upton Park Stewards/supervisors are were interacting with many old faces from Upton Park and getting to know our new supporters around us, this comes from years of experience something alot of the new Stewards don’t have.

Many Upton Park Stewards are thinking of leaving cause of the trouble and the running of it but I can only but hope it will improve but I’m guessing time will tell.

There was always going to be problems with this move but I believe no one expected them to be this bad I feel for the supporters I really do.