West Ham leave Upton Park: Reminiscing about the Hammers' 112 years at the Boleyn Ground
The Hammers will play their last competitive match at the Boleyn Ground against Manchester United on Tuesday evening
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Your support makes all the difference.West Ham United will bid farewell to the Boleyn Ground on Tuesday evening after calling it home for 112 years.
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic has called it “a once-in-a-lifetime kind of game. It's going to be emotional but we have to channel those emotions to be our motivator in order to win.
"One part of me is happy we are moving forward with more capacity and everything, but another part of me will miss this special kind of stadium. It's like a home."
The Hammers will be moving just 1.6 miles to the Olympic Stadium in Stratford; the club recently announced they had sold 52,000 season tickets for their first season there.
It is a total bigger than London rivals Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur. The new ground holds 60,000 - an increase from 35,000 at Upton Park.
The opening match will be a friendly against Juventus on Sunday 7 August, ahead of the start of the 2016/17 Premier League season six days later.
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