OLAS V Cardiff 13/14

Welcome back one and all for another year of Upton park life.
We all live our own various lives yet we converge on mass, us fans, like iron fillings to the Boleyn stadium sized magnet, all with our own habitual haunts where we like to eat or drink, Kens Café, Best Turkish kebab, Ercans chips, Nathans Pie & Mash, The Boleyn, The Central, The Wakefield, The Stanley and the Black Lion. All of those have served not only us fans but our fathers and grandfathers and possibly even great grandfathers, the list seems endless yet many old favourites have gone.
The supporters club, the programme sellers, the OLAS sellers, the charity collecters, the leafleters, even the ticket touts.
The Lyall gates, the world cup statue, St Edwards school, Our Lady of Compassion church, whose bell can often be heard tolling as we leave the ground with its single thud.
Hot dog Hamburgers, sweets 3 for a pound.
Home fans, away fans, tourists and the locals who just walk past.
The youngsters here for the 1st time whose faces light up as they get their 1st look at the stadium, something they will never ever forget.
The Chants, The songs, The Bubbles.
The list is possibly endless yet as in life for every beginning their has to be an end, but that is 3 years away so for now lets all embrace what this area means to us all and enjoy our UPTON PARK LIFE.
(Cue blurs parklife)


“Green Street is the preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as (Upton-park life)
Queen’s road Market can be avoided if you take a route straight through what is known as
(Upton-park life)
Away fans get herded and intimidated by the old bill
They want a bit of it (Upton-park life)
Who's that gut lord marching, oi Stevie Bacon, cut down on your pork life mate... get some
Exercise

ALL THE PEOPLE
SO MANY PEOPLE
THEY ALL GO HAND IN HAND
HAND IN HAND THROUGH THEIR UPTON-PARKLIFE
Know what I mean

I get there early except on night games when I normally get stuck on the underground
(Upton-Park life)
I buy my programme, I buy my OLAS and think about entering the ground (Upton-Park life)
I cheer the team on, I always sing bubbles too, it gives me a sense of enormous pride,
(Upton-Park life)
And then I'm happy for the rest of the day safe in the knowledge there will always be a bit
Of my heart devoted to it (Upton-Park life)

ALL THE PEOPLE
SO MANY PEOPLE
THEY ALL GO HAND IN HAND
HAND IN HAND THROUGH THEIR UPTON-PARKLIFE



Upton Park life (Upton-Park life)
Upton Park life (Upton-Park life)

It's got nothing to do with your Francois Van Der Elst you know
And it's not about David Gold who just tweets and tweets and tweets and tweets,
Upton Park life (Upton-Park life)


ALL THE PEOPLE
SO MANY PEOPLE
THEY ALL GO HAND IN HAND
HAND IN HAND THROUGH THEIR UPTON-PARKLIFE”