QPR 3 West Ham 1

F.A Cup 4th Round 30th January 1988. Eventful First Half Which Saw The Game Stoped For An Hour After 2000 West Ham Fans Purchased Fake Tickets And Piled On To The Loftus Road Pitch! Once Restarted QPR Scored Three Cracking Goals Which Put Them In The Draw For The 5th Round

[@busby7255]

Wow brings back a lot of memories this game,I was a proper die hard fan those days and still at school..

[@bungford4]

Thanks for posting this. Fantastic goal by David Pizanti.

[@YJB8CCFC]

Even though this was at Loftus Rd, West Ham seemed as if they were in all parts of the ground. Like they were at Stamford Bridge in April 86.

[@sandcastlejim]

great scenes. old school. was at this game.

[@fava4816]

David pizanti from Israel with that magical first goal wowwwww

[@HammerHealedCD]

I was one of the Hammers fans on the pitch because of the crush that day (had legit ticket).We could only get out of the crush because we had no fences in front of us which was very rare back then.16 months later 96 people died at Hillsborough because of the fences.Football fans were treated like scumbags back then even if you were not a hooligan.

[@tw25rw]

I was there and remember no one manning the barrier so I vaulted it (I had a ticket). There was one policeman telling us there was nowhere to go and trying to stop us adding to the crush. I also remember a groundsman shoveling up manure and flinging it into the away crowd. I hated that pitch. You could see the home players were so much more comfortable on it.

[@MarknoblesAcidhouseparty]

the drastic plastic !!! bouncy bouncy

[@nickspeed7838]

i was there as was about 15k other west ham fans

[@johnjackson1781]

WH had about 9-10 thousand.

[@ascottee]

Great sound in the start,who is playing ?
Good luck in the topflight.
Greetings from a Hammers-fan in DK

[@Gritto1445]

Wow what away support.

[@Chammer1912]

@WrightyBoy8 Stuck us in all corners of the ground, I ended uo in the home terrace with about 20 other WH. It was all ticket but the time i'd got to the turnstile, which took about an hour, it had been put in and we just walked in. All due to over crowding, no trouble in the ground.
It was not long before to Hilsbrough.

[@stevenmacdonald9321]

Happy Days - Was that really 24 years ago!!!

[@MarknoblesAcidhouseparty]

one billy bonds!! he was well in his forties then

[@Westhambill]

Didn't they have a plastic pitch then?

[@CIMAmotor]

Yes

[@CIMAmotor]

I was there, does anyone remember the bloke shovelling the horse dung off the pitch?

[@fulhamboy1968]

I was there when got to the ground I realised that I had left my ticket at home!!!! So I gave the bloke on turnstile a £5 and he let me in ????

[@Martin63]

@EddieB1999 Replacing the Hammers in the Prem next season mate!

[@DAZZACAT1971]

i was there .. proper crush

[@soop67]

Replaced you lot in the Prem matey

[@johnsrules]

back pass lol