This is one of the hardest days of my football career.
I’m devastated for our fans, for everyone at the club and for what this means after 7 years in the club and in the Premier League.
You deserved better from us.
Thank you for standing with us even in the toughest moments.
I truly believe the West Ham family will stay united and loyal through this difficult time, just as you always have.
Now it’s on us to respond the right way, work harder than ever and fight to bring West Ham back where it belongs.
West Ham feels like a club in genuine crisis to me. To many on the outside, they see Premier League football, a big stadium and a recent European trophy and think it’s all just whinging but so many of their fans feel totally disconnected with their club.
Long-term season ticket holders are giving up their seats year on year, they despise the ownership, hate the stadium they play in, have had to fight tooth and nail to keep things like concession prices in place and worst of all, can’t see a logical way out of the mess they find themselves in. It’s a club which many of their fans feel is willingly forging a path away from the core support which has stuck with them for generations.
Yes, the headlines are regularly dominated by the team’s struggles under Graham Potter in the here and now but the sense of frustration the vast majority of that fan-base feel runs so much deeper than the 9 months he’s been in charge.
This, in my opinion is the best anthem in football, and I doubt you’ll ever hear it belted out louder than before the last game at the Boleyn Ground back in 2016.
Spine tingling. 👏 #WHUFC
@jbraggsports Thank you for the updates tonight, will you be back for the next home game when Lincoln play against another relegation threatened team of Bristol Rovers
Won 4 games in 4 months for us breaking goal conceding records and there’s fans out there moaning he’s gone.
I’ll always be grateful for the best 3 years of my life that he gave us but some people have short memories.
Lopetegui set us back 6/7 months.
Potter will succeed ⚒️