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No hero for the Hammers in haunting London Stadium
West Ham host Wolves in an empty London Stadium
West Ham 0 – 2 Wolves
by Daniel Nolan
at the London Stadium
WHAT makes West Ham’s ground their own isn’t the retrofitted furniture or a handful of memories, but the presence of 60,000 fans.
Without them, it’s not the football that raises neck hairs, but the tributes — in front of London’s most cavernous stands — that our times demand.
A silence for the pandemic’s dead, actions in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and the playing of Vera Lynn’s Bubbles were haunting, all the more so in a setting that is characterised by distance and abjection.
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