Blowing up the Boleyn, moving to an athletics stadium, changing the badge, scattergun recruitment, refusing to pay compensation for managers, not investing more in the training ground & years of sheer incompetence & mismanagement.
Good riddance David Sullivan.
Nuno wants to stay and take us back up & I’ll back him. Glad the board acted early so the rebuild starts now & stops endless speculation.
Yes, he’s made mistakes, but he inherited an absolute mess from Potter. Once he got his own players and assistant in, we were top 6 in form.
This relegation wasn’t caused in one season.
It was years of drift, bad decisions, poor managers & losing our identity.
From leaving Upton Park to this.
“World class team, world class stadium.”
From the person who jumped ship during our demise.
Sad day for our football club.
Nothing more than David Sullivan deserves. Where is Karren Brady’s world class team? Where’s the world class stadium? Utter incompetence has led West Ham to this point
Lost our home.
Lost our badge.
Lost our identity.
And for what?
For the soul to be sucked from this football club and relegation.
We were promised a world class football stadium and a world class football team.
We got neither.
Sold a dream. Delivered a nightmare.
Karren Brady’s promise of “a world-class team in a world-class stadium” rings even more hollow now. West Ham United should never have moved to a soulless public athletics track. Great move for the board but not for the fans. Leaving Upton Park made sense for commercial reasons but not sporting/atmosphere.
Daniel Levy was right. The Olympic Stadium should have been knocked down and a proper football stadium built there. It is a good site. But the Olympic lobby and politicians got all protective and precious about the 2012 legacy. How often does this country need a huge athletics arena anyway?
Yes, West Ham won a European trophy since they’ve left Upton Park. But London Stadium was always a problem, always a passion-killer, fans distant from the ones they love, the players, and limited potential for increased revenue streams.
Other reasons behind club’s demise. Lack of leadership in the boardroom. Recruitment an issue, too. What a mess. Record losses, fears over future of Fernandes, Summerville and Nuno, intensified protests against chairman Sullivan.
Relegation likely. Two points adrift of safety following 3-1 defeat to Newcastle. Wretched goal difference (-22) compared to Spurs’ (-9). Spurs need only a point from Chelsea away (hard) or David Moyes’ Everton at home to guarantee survival and condemn West Ham. Can Moyes do West Ham a favour? The club who let him go. West Ham need to beat ex-Spur Joe Rodon and Leeds at home anyway.
West Ham look doomed to the drop. They will return but need better ownership. And many of their fans have been warning of this perfect storm for some time. #WHUFC