A transfer source close to the players of West Ham told C&H today on Nuno:
“Sullivan wants him gone. Players want him gone. Kretinsky wants to keep him: He is clueless”
On this day in 2012 West Ham beat Blackpool 2-1 in the Championship Play Off Final at Wembley in front of 78,523.
@CarltonCole1 and Ricardo Vaz Te scored the West Ham goals.
@FPLFella Sullivan needs to go, I hope that Kretinsky sees what a drag Sullivan is on this club, and his investment - and gets rid. Rip up the structure and start again.
But I will always be West Ham till I die ⚒️⚒️⚒️
3/3
I became a West Ham fan in 1992, right after we’d been relegated from the old First Division. Being just six years old, the drop didn’t phase me. I vividly remember wearing out my "Premier Bond" VHS, watching our 1992/93 promotion campaign back to the newly formed Premier League under Billy Bonds, fired up by the goals of Trevor Morley and Clive Allen.
From 1996 to 2000, I had a season ticket in the Bobby Moore Stand, sitting alongside my Spurs supporting dad. That’s where I fell in love with Upton Park. The Boleyn Ground had a soul. I miss the greasy hot dog vans, the knock-off merchandise stalls, the fanzine sellers, and the smoky bookies inside the concourse. I miss the Hammerettes, "Super Sponge," clearance balls getting stuck on the East Stand roof, and watching the new West Stand rise. I miss the Bobby Moore bust at the entrance, the views, the raw atmosphere, the smells, the people, and the culture. It was pure character and it has been completely ripped away from us.
Look at the infrastructure. Our training facilities are still fractured and dotted around Chadwell Heath and Rainham. Even recently, the club tried to lease the land used by the amateur team I used to play for. The soul of this club feels completely rancid right now.
People will argue that fans hounded out David Moyes after he won us a European trophy. Yes, there's truth to that, but honestly, I reckon my 70 year old mum could’ve guided us to that final with the squad we had.
Speaking of my mum, I’ve shared a season ticket with her at the London Stadium since the move. While we’ve had a few good moments, the matchday experience has mostly been absolute dross. The sterile walk through a shopping centre, the corporate muck food costing over £15 (with a third of that going straight to the stadium owners), the £7 stale pints, and the miserable staff and that’s all before kick-off.
Anyone who actually goes there knows that outside of European nights and the odd derby, the atmosphere is shocking. It is utterly flooded with tourists. Every single game, I see "fans" filming the opposition players or sitting in dead silence because they’re treating it like a theatre.
Maybe the stadium is just too big for us, but that is exactly what Brady, Sullivan, and Gold (RIP) wanted. They didn't want supporters; they wanted "customers," extra revenue, and more bums on seats, all while investing next to nothing into the club's actual foundation. Yes, we’ve spent big fees on players, but there has been ZERO investment into the club's infrastructure. Zero spent to improve the stadium experience. We were promised retractable seats, a giant wrap-around TV screen, and sightlines identical to Wembley. It was all a pack of lies.
Will I renew for next season? Probably, because it would break my mum's heart if I told her I wanted to stop going. But the love for the club is dying. It’s not even about the threat of relegation; it’s the fact that this simply isn't West Ham anymore. It hasn’t been for ten years, and we’ve just been kidding ourselves.
Anyway, rant over. Where are my golf clubs? ⚒️🏌️♂️
@FPLFella When the Davids took over, we were a financial wreck. £120m in debt, and in need of new ownership. The Davids promised financial stability, growth, Champions League and prosperity. Sold the dream! But here we are 16 years later. Still in debt, about to be relegated again. 2/3
@FPLFella Agree with all of this. We are the same age, and my connection started in ‘95. I lived overseas for much of my childhood, and my family being Spurs (Dad’s side) and Arsenal (Mum’s side) - but neither being football fans, I chose West Ham. I miss the Boleyn so much! 1/3
Everywhere you look you can see an Arsenal player committing a foul on a West Ham player, but VAR takes 5 minutes to spot a dubious infringement on an Arsenal player!
That is literally match fixing btw.
🔹Summerville being fouled
🔹Mavropanos being fouled
🔹Pablo being fouled
An arm across Raya's chest and he falls to the floor.
Decision: Disallowed goal. Pathetic.
Massive credit to @daviidraya1 tonight - if he had tried to punch that ball, he might not have got away it but because he had the balls and the bravery to come out to catch it, the foul was correctly given! #safehands#arswhu
West Ham United’s impending relegation is the result of years of mismanagement and slow decline. The patchwork football club, in the 60k makeshift stadium overtaken by dozens of better run, historically smaller clubs with barely half that.
Run with idiotic, short term thinking, by a chairman who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. Loyal fans cast aside and treated with total disdain. No plan off the pitch, a confused mess on it, born from a total lack of professionalism and planning.
Fighting relegation most seasons, despite regularly spending hundreds of millions (via payday loans) on old players recommended by the owners’ mates. A few memorable seasons with David Moyes papering over the huge cracks in the poorly hidden running track.
A decade after we left the Boleyn Ground, WHU has never felt more lost. You’ll see few highlight reels from the club for the upcoming anniversary: for the most part, it’s been a torrid decade in the bowl.
If relegation rids us of Sullivan, so be it. But with 100m of debt (how?) and double that owed in player purchases, it could be a long, long time before we’re at this level again. We’re about to find out just how many clubs we’ve fallen behind.
#whufc#NomoreBS
On a recovery day Tomáš Souček went out to support the West Ham staff running the London Marathon. Got his children to make signs up too. What a player..... ⚒️ ❤️ 💙 @tomassoucek28
What’s happened at Leicester is sad - and wrong. They’ve been relegated after a six-point deduction for financial irregularities whilst City are about to win another title with 135 charges unanswered 3 years later. How can this be?