West Ham fans finally got a look inside their brand new stadium on Thursday but not all of them were pleased with what they found.

The Premier League club were playing at the Olympic Stadium for the first time since they were controversially awarded rights to take up residence at the venue built for the 2012 Olympics.

They were involved in a Europa League qualifier against NZ Domzale. However it seems that from some seats no one would have had a clue who the Hammers were playing.


Some fans were left in shock…

Sent this pic from a pal. Surely West Ham can't be serious with some of them seats! pic.twitter.com/icu0z08wjE — Tom Fleming (@trenchfoottom) August 4, 2016

Hoping to avoid Twitter whilst away on holiday but, seriously, the state of this. #FOYI pic.twitter.com/2QtvEWt7t5 — Matt.Spurs (@MattISpurs) August 4, 2016

Them restricted view seats at West Ham really take the piss! ??? pic.twitter.com/AQwTR5XzLj — Wroey (@mswro2012) August 4, 2016

Rival fans though thought it was all very funny…

West Ham have set themselves up to attract the floating tourist coin with that horrendous athletics stadium. They are dead now. — Michael Martin (@tfeditor1892) August 4, 2016

The atmosphere at West Ham is going to be worse than the Emirates… Jheez that stadium is horrid! — Josh Fitter (@JoshFitter95) August 4, 2016

The retractable seating is basically a very expensive version of the away end at Gillingham… pic.twitter.com/d8etGIIwoI — Matt Van-Der-Vord (@MatthewV_ENG) August 4, 2016

It’s not believed the seats were in use for the match on Thursday.



Co-owner David Gold has meanwhile been insisting everything will be alright.

‘Everybody keeps talking about the atmosphere, but we know and are convinced that 54,000 West Ham fans will bring in that atmosphere to the London Stadium.

‘I’ve been there on a number of occasions when they’re nobody there, it’s completely empty, yet even so when you walk into the stadium you just get this feeling that once the fans are in there the atmosphere will follow.’

To be fair the atmosphere sounded pretty good just before kick-off…

West Ham inviger nya arenan.pic.twitter.com/pMUjxj9aoA — sebastianlaneby (@sebastianlaneby) August 4, 2016

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