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West Ham's final season at the Boleyn Ground was always going to be memorable. It featured a new manager in Slaven Bilic, the arrival of a French magician called Dimitri Payet, Europa League football in July, away wins at Arsenal, Liverpool and Man City, an unexpected tilt at the top four and an epic last game at the Boleyn against Man United.Lifelong fan Pete May also reflects on the role of West Ham in his own family, memories of the old North Bank and Chicken Run, the enduring charms of Ken's Caf and the joys of sticky carpets, plastic glasses and blokes singing on pool tables in the pubs around Upton Park.But a new beginning is around the corner as Pete joins the claret and blue army for the first games at the OIympic Stadium.Goodbye to Boleynis an indispensible souvenir of both the Hammers' old stadium and the start of the Stratford era for all West Ham fans.

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9781785901478

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Essex scribe and literary Hammer Pete May writes with humour and eloquence about the most turbulent year of change at the Boleyn since Ken's Cafe got a tub of Flora. - Phill Jupitus

Essex scribe and literary Hammer Pete May writes with humour and eloquence about the most turbulent year of change at the Boleyn since Ken's Cafe got a tub of Flora. - Phill Jupitus; Pete is a lifelong Hammer and it shows... Things change, but West Ham fans do not and this must-buy book for fans is the perfect example of that. - Newham Recorder

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Pete May is the author of The Joy of Essex, Hammers in the Heart, West Ham: Irons in the Soul and There's a Hippo in My Cistern. His blog - hammersintheheart.blogspot.co.uk - has had more than a million views. As a journalist, Pete has written for The Guardian, Observer, Independent, Time Out, Loaded, the New Statesman and numerous other publications.

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