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CaptainBlueAndClaret 9:51 Wed Apr 11
Re: Someone save our Football Club.

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Willtell 12:06 Tue Apr 10
Re: Someone save our Football Club.

OK I think we've got the message CaptainBlueAndClaret....

CaptainBlueAndClaret 11:32 Tue Apr 10
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CaptainBlueAndClaret 6:51 Mon Apr 9
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CaptainBlueAndClaret 2:26 Fri Apr 6
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West Ham News @WHUFC_News 1 Sep 2017
Cundy: "WH are now a franchise, they have left their spiritual ground, they have no identity. The owners are there purely to make money."

mallard 7:04 Sat Mar 10
Re: ⚽ West Ham v Burnley - Official Match Thread
George Galloway on Twitter - not everyone's cup of tea, but bang on here -
@georgegalloway

“It’s high time for the Tory porn barons to depart from #WestHam They have driven a great London institution, central to working class life to the point of destruction. All in the pursuit of profit”

Lady Karren Brady
@ karren_brady
Knightsbridge, London
Baroness Brady of Knightsbridge CBE Business Woman of the Year Government Business Ambassador, Best Selling Author, The Apprentice Inspirational Global Speaker
karrenbrady.com

What's going on @British_Airways last flight delayed 12 hours this flight they have lost my luggage!
1:50 AM - 4 Apr 2018

https://mobile.twitter.com/karren_brady/status/981453838514315265

Jack Allum
@ westham009
Replying to @karren_brady @British_Airways
They are obviously run as terribly as West Ham, Karren. Is David Sullivan their CEO?
5:44 AM - 4 Apr 2018

Stuart Jones
@StudiniJones
Toy store owner @TheToyBasement + Digital Marketer. Football (West Ham Utd ), Boxing, UFC/MMA. Rock/Metal. Movie + Gaming junkie (PS4) & all things geek.
London, England
Replying to @karren-brady @British-Airways
Lady Karren, I’m pleased to inform you that the bags have now been found and we will be making arrangements for you to be reunited with your luggage very shortly
https://mobile.twitter.com/StudiniJones/status/981515478060425216/photo/1
5:55 AM – 4 Apr 2018

Darren Dj-dal
@djdalboy

I think that’s Sullivans case

FD 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@Frovski
He ain’t called dildo Dave for nothing

⚒ Roger ⚒ Olas ⚒
@r_jay_whu Replying to @karren_brady @British_Airways
It’s a suitcase ffs, we lost a whole building with a football pitch inside! Get a grip m’lady, you are 49 (today) not 9, act like a lady & not a tramp! Ps, Happy Birthday ma’am 🎉
6:05 AM - 4 Apr 2018

Andy Devaney
@DevaneyAndy Replying to @karren_brady @British_Airways @WestHamHelp
12 hours?!? I've been trying to get my money back from @WestHamHelp for the past two weeks and no one will respond to emails or answer the phone #karmaisabitch
9:28 AM - 4 Apr 2018

Jamie Penfold ⚒
@jamie_penfold Replying to @karren_brady @British_Airways
Is there any chance @British_Airways could delay her even longer so she can be kept away from my club! She lost our home!!!
2:39 PM - 4 Apr 2018

Anthony ⚒ Munday
@BigFellaAnt

18h
Replying to @karren_brady and @British_Airways
Double check their logo and ensure that it’s not just a diluted, soulless version of a once respected ‘brand’ built on tradition and a respect for its supporters #notcustomers

Justin May ⚒
@justinmay72
·
21h
Replying to @karren_brady and @British_Airways
I lost Upton Park a few years back bastard ain’t it #sack the board

West Ham fans react to reports linking David Moyes with new contract
‘Madness’, ‘no ambition’: West Ham fans react to contract reports
Jordan Harris
@JordanHarris811
5th April 2018

West Ham United reportedly plan to offer David Moyes a new long-term contract after their Premier League survival hopes were boosted.

West Ham fans have been reacting on Twitter to the reports that recently emerged from the Daily Mirror that suggested that the Hammers board were planning to hand David Moyes a new long-term deal at the London Stadium.

Moyes has endured an eventful spell in charge of the Irons since signing a deal until the end of the season in the wake of Slaven Bilic's departure.

The low point undoubtedly came just before the international break in the home clash with Burnley, but three weeks later and the situation looks significantly brighter after they thrashed relegation rivals Southampton.

The victory moved the Hammers five points clear of the bottom three and they boast a game in hand over several of the sides below them in the table so can arguably feel fairly confident that they should have enough to avoid getting sucked back into the battle to beat the drop.

The Mirror reports that the board have now come to the conclusion that Moyes is the right man to take the club forward in the long-term and thus, plan to offer him a new contract in the summer - and he is also keen to remain in the job provided that they stay up. He has already started scouting players for the summer.

However, while there is some support for the job that Moyes has done, a large majority of the fans on social media are disappointed by the reports as they feel that keeping the Scotsman represents a lack of ambition given where the team currently are in the table.

They feel that the club should be aiming their sights higher if they want to move themselves away from the relegation battle next season, while others have a lot of sympathy for the circumstances that Moyes has had to deal with and feel that he deserves the chance to get a summer window under his belt.

Here is the best of the reaction...

Baz Cox ⚒
@Baz1980WHU
impressing!
IF we had lost Saturday we’d of been in the bottom 3, so basically beating a poor & out of form Saints side is impressive?Some are easily pleased!
& this is a man that said the fans would stop BIG names joining,forget the name David Moyes is attractive!#cheap https://twitter.com/mirrorfootball/status/981411039903387649 …
6:49 AM - Apr 5, 2018

Ol
@UlvisWHU
Championship bound
David Moyes shouldnt even be in the discussion for next seasons manager. Sad thing is he’ll be offered a contract if we stay up https://twitter.com/whufc_news/status/981593257397321733 …
7:11 PM - Apr 4, 2018

Hammers Chat @hammers_chat

4 Apr
Today's paper reports suggest Moyes is to be handed a long term deal. Your thoughts? pic.twitter.com/fOswNcSlVS

⚒ G WHU ⚒
@COYIRONS
#WHTID completely biased sarcastic wank about the unique and famous West Ham Utd. Dont be a twat and take anything I say seriously COYI
Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Replying to @hammers_chat
Moyes for another season or 2 gets my vote. We need an extended period of stability and he has assembled a good management team. Besides, who are we going to get that would definitely be better? Would be nice to see him change things earlier when matches are slipping away though
2:56 PM - Apr 4, 2018

Mark Harrison
@MarkHarrison23
West Ham season ticket holder.
Replying to @Bazza_WHU_08
The board is a separate issue that we all know the problemsbut I’m talking about just Moyes. If he’s here next season I will give him a chance. I always give managers a fresh start every season. But if you’re asking me if right now I want him for next season then answer is no.
12:32 PM - Apr 4, 2018

MR ⚒
@WHU_MR2013
West Ham United,
Theres one part of me that wants to see what Moyes can do signing his own players with a full summer and a DOF behind him

But then theres the other part that doesnt trust his football to change & be more attacking

I wanna see a ruthless Moyes https://twitter.com/WHUFCFZ/status/981302291394387968 …
10:20 AM - Apr 4, 2018

Chris Helwig
@chelwig54
West Ham United,
Replying to @WHUFCFZ @MirrorFootball
I’m not his biggest fan, however if he stays I will get behind it and pray he is financially backed to get the squad he wants
12:37 AM - Apr 4, 2018

⚒ DAVE G ⚒ #BoardOut
@D_G_00DYWHUFC
#COYI #Whufc #Irons #ClaretAndBlue #Whtid #Westham #EastStand
Replying to @hammers_chat
Unmoved, don’t think he’s right for where the club should be heading but have to accept there’s not many that would work under G/S/B.

Getting a team to be disciplined & professional should be a shoe in for all managers.

He’s got a few of them playing better, sonits 50/50.
8:18 AM - Apr 4, 2018

Jason Inge
@jasoninge
Marketing Assistant. West Ham
Replying to @hammers_chat
If the break clause isn’t used in the summer, then it will prove our owners have absolutely no ambition for the club and we will continue to fight relegation most years.
10:54 AM - Apr 4, 2018

Lord of Glencoe ⚒
@andyrayner9
Scottish Highlands land owner, Freeman of the City of London, Financial adviser, ex annoying scrum half, sometime rugby commentator and West Ham STH
Watford
Replying to @hammers_chat
Shows a lack of ambition IMO, he's not going to take us to the next level. We need a manager who will attract top players and he isn't the one
8:14 AM - Apr 4, 2018 · Watford, East

Matthew Lynch
@MrMML1
Replying to @hammers_chat
God no, 1 win after a disastrous run doesn't make him any better than last week pre Southampton. Madness imo, but I expect nothing less from this board.
8:13 AM - Apr 4, 2018

http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2018/04/05/west-ham-fans-react-to-reports-linking-david-moyes-with-new-cont/

'No ambition' & 'I will get behind it' - West Ham fans are split over David Moyes reports
Latest West Ham news includes fan reaction to reports regarding David Moyes
BY TASHAN DENIRAN-ALLEYNE
23:00, 5 APR 2018

Reports suggesting West Ham United are preparing to offer David Moyes a new contract hasn't gone down too well amongst some supporters.

According to The Mirror, the Hammers are set to hold their annual review in the summer, and they already believe Moyes is the man to take them forward following his decent work at the London Stadium since being appointed back in November.

The ex-Everton & Manchester United manager, who contracted to the east London outfit, until the end of the current campaign after succeeding the sacked Slaven Bilic, has taken Irons out of the drop zone and up to 14th in the Premier League table - five points clear of the dreaded dotted line, with a game in hand on four of the clubs below them.

He's made it clear that he would like to stay on past this season — but only if he keeps them up - and it would appear that the club's hierachy are pleased with the job he's done thus far.

The report states that the board are particularly pleased with Moyes’ approach to discipline and the response from the players since his arrival.

Furthermore, the likes of Joe Hart, Michail Antonio and Angelo Ogbonno have all responded well to the changes the Scotsman has made across the past six months.

However, some Irons fans aren't too keen on the 54-year-old being offered a contract extension, while others are warming to the idea.

Take a look at some of the standout responses on Twitter to the report....

nigel bunning
@yorkyhammer
audio visual engineer.computer repairs. WESTHAM fan

Replying to @Baz1980WHU
@davidgold please dont extend Moyes contract, god help us if you did
7:22 AM - Apr 5, 2018

Chris Harris
@FumingHammer3
Until Sullivan, Gold and Brady leave West Ham will always be a second tier quality club as they run the club like their lives., Cheap. BSC Forensic Computing.
Margate, England
@davidgold David, good morning, can I please ask why it’s being reported David Moyes will be offered a long term contract if we survive, we know DS already wants him in the position however he has a worse win record than Avram Grant who was publicly called a mistake. Thoughts?
9:08 AM - Apr 5, 2018

Baz Cox ⚒
@Baz1980WHU
impressing!
IF we had lost Saturday we’d of been in the bottom 3, so basically beating a poor & out of form Saints side is impressive?Some are easily pleased!
& this is a man that said the fans would stop BIG names joining,forget the name David Moyes is attractive!#cheap https://twitter.com/mirrorfootball/status/981411039903387649 …
6:49 AM - Apr 5, 2018

Dan Tolley
@Dantolley28
Moyes to get a new contract at West Ham. Seriously
1:01 PM - Apr 4, 2018

Ol
@UlvisWHU
Championship bound
David Moyes shouldnt even be in the discussion for next seasons manager. Sad thing is he’ll be offered a contract if we stay up https://twitter.com/whufc_news/status/981593257397321733 …
7:11 PM - Apr 4, 2018

Last week Moyes stated his intention to manage in the Premier League next season - ideally with the Hammers: “I want a club I can move forward and I want a club which gives us every opportunity to do that," he told reporters.

“There’s no reason not to stay, but I want the club in the Premier League. It’s a big club, but I think it can get bigger.

"By having 60,000 people coming to the game, giving yourself that opportunity, you give yourself a real chance of attracting players – and obviously we’re in London.

“But I think people want to see that there’s a stability to the club as well in the way things are being done. So until I get a position we are in the Premier League then after that then let’s sit down and have the conversations.

"At the moment I’m trying to focus totally on staying in the league.”

The Hammers are back in action on Sunday when they make the short trip across London to face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

https://www.football.london/west-ham-united-fc/news/david-moyes-west-ham-contract-14496764

Comical Sulli: “I can assure you there are no lies coming out of the London Stadium”

https://www.redbubble.com/people/thamesironworks/works/30932809-comical-sulli?c=869187-iron-dreams

Resistance is not futile - HOPE

https://www.redbubble.com/people/thamesironworks/works/30930594-original-flagman?c=869187-iron-dreams

David Gold Interview . . . . THE TRUTH
Hammers Chat Forum Channel
Published on Mar 9, 2018
Nigel Kahn takes a look at David Gold's masterful performance in the West Ham Way radio show, but is it all as it seems?

AVITHAMMER (You Tube)
Better than Panorama ... nice job

Alice Fox (You Tube)
It is a World Class Stadium...for athletics. It just doesn't work for football. Did anyone ever doubt it.?

MyShowbizName (You Tube)
These interviews will never tell us anything new. They'll apologise for the frilly bits that could have been better, but they'll never admit to outright lying about the stadium plans/transfer funds/debts etc.

Great video. It's nice to see the facts laid out for lazy people like me. Obviously I suspected a lot of economical answers, but it's great to see the evidence to highlight just how political his responses were. I believe David Gold is a fan, but I think he's a fan of money more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKFEBlqwcKE

Sullivan Brady & Gold PLEASE announce a 'sale date' for West Ham United ASAP!
Hammer and Talk
Published on Mar 12, 2018

David Sullivan, Karren Brady and David Gold please set a 'sale date' for West Ham United. That's Hammerand Talks message to the board. What do you think, please leave all your thoughts in the comments section below the video.

Revman (You Tube)
Spot on mate.......big up !........West Ham will never die, even the efforts of these owners cannot undo the testimony of time and tradition, one day we will re-emerge with our old badge and a NEW board and rediscover our way.........until then we must endure this nightmarish saga, which will in the fullness of time will be just be a minor scar on our legacy of our club......until then ⚒COYI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5CGlAfyjm8

A message for West Ham fans: "one day you'll get your club back"
Posted by Roy Bentham, Spirit of Shankly 13th March 2018

http://fsf.org.uk/blog/view/Message-for-West-Ham-fans-One-day-you-will-get-your-club-back

'No confidence in the board'
By Simon Stone BBC Sport 31 Mar 2018.
Just after noon, at the end of a two-hour meeting in a cafe-bar close to London Stadium, the West Ham United Independent Supporters Association decided upon a course of action.

"We were promised a world-class team in a world-class stadium," said a statement. "Today the members of the WHUISA that were present voted unanimously in a vote of no confidence in the current board of West Ham United to deliver this.

"We will therefore launch a concerted 'UNITED Campaign for Change' and will announce further details shortly.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43606646

CaptainBlueAndClaret 11:54 Thu Apr 5
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CaptainBlueAndClaret 9:25 Tue Apr 3
Re: Someone save our Football Club.

West Ham News @WHUFC_News 1 Sep 2017
Cundy: "WH are now a franchise, they have left their spiritual ground, they have no identity. The owners are there purely to make money."

mallard 7:04 Sat Mar 10
Re: ⚽ West Ham v Burnley - Official Match Thread
George Galloway on Twitter - not everyone's cup of tea, but bang on here -
@georgegalloway

“It’s high time for the Tory porn barons to depart from #WestHam They have driven a great London institution, central to working class life to the point of destruction. All in the pursuit of profit”

From page 5 of WH Holding Limited Group of companies’ accounts, written by David Sullivan, Joint Chairman, 13th October 2017;

Paragraph 5: “Once again, this season, our second at the London Stadium, we know will bring challenges, but we continue to believe we will deliver both on and off the pitch by investing in the team, the brand and managing the business well. We all, as usual, hope it will be one of our best seasons ever.”

In reality: Between the 10th March and the 31st March 2018, the building of THE BERLIN WALL at the London Athletics Ground, so that David Sullivan dressed in a Russian uniform, can watch his television monitor in a ‘Private Shop’/Box!

Paragraph 7: “Finally, I would like to pay tribute to every single member of staff who gives 100% of their commitment and loyalty to the Club every day and of course to our supporters, who frankly are the best in the world.”

IN REALITY;

chav_corner 9:34 Mon Apr 2
Cleansing of West Ham Fan Base. (“…our supporters, who frankly are the best in the world.” David Sullivan)
I watched Saturdays match in a bar.There were about 80 of us in there.all of us regular committed West Ham fans over the last 40 years,quite a few of us accompanied with our now grown up children.Most of us season ticket holders for decades.We weren't all from East London,Essex or Kent.There were friends from the Shires ,from Southampton,from Telford, Wales and Scotland.

We all have a common love for West Ham United.Of the 80 about 30 went in to the match and about 50 no longer go in to the London Stadium.many of those 50 still go to away matches.Of those that still go in half do not intend to renew and will stop going in until GSB are gone.So there you a have it.A whole section of some of our most fanatical fans gone.

Will we be replaced by the season ticket waiting list.-Perhaps,perhaps not.Those few that remain will be very sorry that we have packed it in.The new supporters will be pleased to see the back of us.That is all.

Northern Sold 11:56 Tue Apr 3
Re: Cleansing of West Ham Fan Base. (“…our supporters, who frankly are the best in the world.” David Sullivan)
Got together with a load of me MATES for the boxing on Saturday... 3 of them at the game on saturday... 2 100% not renewing... one is following Southend next season to chalk off some of the league grounds he has not done... the other is gonna start watching a bit of non league stuff ... like they both said... they want to start enjoying the game again... I can fully dig that...

neilalex 2:12 Tue Apr 3
Re: Cleansing of West Ham Fan Base. (“…our supporters, who frankly are the best in the world.” David Sullivan)
I don't think this is about change that much. I doubt Tottenham fans will not be rioting over moving to their new ground as an example, nor, I suspect will Everton or Chelsea fans. People accept that things move on, and as long as they are provided with something in return that is as good as what they are leaving, they accept the difference.

This is principally about people realising that they've been lied to and reacting to that. We've been lied to and find ourselves in a ground which for many simply isn't fit for purpose and diminishes or even ruins an experience which has been part of the fabric of their lives. It's the ground, that fucking bowl in the middle of nowhere which is the main problem.

Many will put up with it and moan to whatever degree, a small number actually like it, and many will just drop out completely. Once the kids are older I'm in the latter camp, but it's got nothing to do with being unable or unwilling to change, and everything to do with the intrinsic shitness of that bowl as a football stadium.

The Board's response to people realising they've been lied to has been to try and suppress and alienate the traditional fanbase by various means in the belief that a more docile fan on the season ticket waiting list will replace them. Clearly there is some merit in that strategy.

From KUMB:

Re: Protest/rally/march latest
by Boris Badenov on Mon Apr 02, 2018 6:04 am
“Beavis Danzig wrote:the pressure is off mate. been to every amble/protest, was there up at the directors box, did everything i could bar running on the pitch. a win is the opiate of the masses.”

I’ve never viewed the protest movement as anything other than a process that could take years. If we’d lost against Soton and the ground had exploded, I don’t think it necessarily would have improved anything. We’d just have been relegated and would have had even less money to spend on players and fixing the issues with the stadium.

There’s no guarantee that GSB would have sold the club. We were relegated in much worse circumstances - losing half a potential England team - but Brown didn’t sell after the relegation.

Even if GSB was completely genuine right now about spending big in the transfer market and fixing some of the issues surrounding the stadium, they can’t do anything until the transfer window opens and plans are made for improving the stadium. Let’s judge them on their response. If they continue to ignore the anger of the fans, then the protest movement will pick up steam again.

http://www.kumb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=171209&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=2520#p5203158

jimmy666 on Tue Apr 03, 2018 12:02 am
I rambled and then joined the other mob for the wander down to the ground. I thought everyone was in good spirits, but more importantly there was a mix of people there showing that there is dissatisfaction across the board, who wanted to be with like minded fans who are tired of the lies and want to try and change things.

More importantly did anyone get a recording of the bloke singing the anti board song walking through the underpass that got a round of applause, as that cracked me up!

spod on Tue Apr 03, 2018 12:26 am
I wish I'd got that on tape. Never forgive myself for missing it.
Was it to the tune of My Old Man's a Dustman?
I thought the numbers were more like 1,000 as we were marching.
Definitely a lot more than 200.

Did Crystal Palace get lucky escape as West Ham fans slam Hugill deal
Danny Owen
@danny8195

West Ham United beat Premier League rivals Crystal Palace to the last-gasp signing of Preston North End striker Jordan Hugill in January.

Crystal Palace might have had a lucky escape with Jordan Hugill.

As reported by the BBC, the Eagles lost out to West Ham United on January’s transfer deadline day as the Preston striker completed his £10 million move to the London Stadium.

But while Palace’s own lack of goals could yet cost them their Premier League status, Hugill has done very little at West Ham to suggest that he will play a major part in the relegation battle.

The striker, who scored a far from prolific eight times in 26 starts for Preston in the first half of the season, has managed just 22 minutes of league football for West Ham spread across three substitute appearances.

And, when asked why the Middlesbrough-born front man has struggled to make any kind of impression in claret and blue, Hammers fans have been fairly unequivocal.

Hugill, some believe, was simply an affordable panic buy with the window creaking shut, after Diafra Sakho had completed his return to Ligue 1 and left David Moyes rather short of goal-scoring options.

Others, however, go as far as to claim that Hugill was signed in preparation for West Ham’s possible relegation to the Championship.

One thing is for certain, however: Crystal Palace might just have saved themselves £10million.

Sam Inkersole
✔ @Sam_InkersoleTM
Why has Jordan Hugill's West Ham career yet to take off? https://www.football.london/west-ham-united-fc/players/jordan-hugill-west-ham-striker-14484202 …

⚒Snowy ⚒
@snowym1722
Hammer.
London, England
I thought it was because he was a panic buy and simply isn’t very good.
7:14 PM - Apr 2, 2018

Ricky Forrest
@rickwhufc
✭
London, England
Replying to @Sam_InkersoleTM
Because he was a panic buy and a championship level player! He was never gonna be givin a chance if Hernandez hardly get a look in
9:04 PM - Apr 2, 2018

Gep 父
@GEP_WHU
London
Replying to @Sam_InkersoleTM @PW57WHU
Because we’re not in the Championship yet.
9:08 AM - Apr 3, 2018

Ⓟⓗⓘⓛⓘⓟ 父 Ⓦⓘⓛⓚⓘⓝⓢⓞⓝ 父
@PW57WHU
父Security Professional父 Work Hard, Play Harder,The Only Way is West Ham, 父COYI父 ▓█ C █ O █ Y █ I █▓ Part of #WestHamFamily ♖ Founder Member 2016 ♖
Replying to @slaphead2121 @Sam_InkersoleTM
another £10m flop.... We must stop signing players for that amount....

Savio, Jarvis, Snodgrass....
10:25 AM - Apr 3, 2018

Mike Benson
@Michael18761
West Ham fan for over 30 years and counting.
Replying to @Sam_InkersoleTM
Total waste of money, obviously fuelled by a knee jerk reaction by the owners for lack of transfer activity in Jan. Nothing against the boy, and financially he’s set up, but hes not going to set the world alight, although a part of me wants to see more of him play.
10:09 AM - Apr 3, 2018

joymbaker
@avocadothrower
Traveller, former journalist, family historian and West Ham supporter.
Replying to @Sam_InkersoleTM
Leave him alone. Let’s see what he’s like next season if he’s still here. If he goes back to the championship at least he’s had a bit of PL experience. Suspect he was a cheap as chips punt & May yet come good.
9:25 AM - Apr 3, 2018

E13
@DavidSulivan78
Nothing in life is a given, live it, love it, own it...
England, United Kingdom
Replying to @Sam_InkersoleTM
Cos his championship at best and only bought in the instance we go down...
9:24 PM - Apr 2, 2018

Greg Richards
@Made_of_Iron

London, England
Replying to @Sam_InkersoleTM
Because he was bought as an investment in case we get relegated. I imagine that if we stay up, and Preston stay down, a loan back would not be too much of a surprise.
6:19 PM - Apr 2, 2018

http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2018/04/03/do-lucky-escape-crystal-palace-west-ham-fans-condemn-jordan-hugi/

‘10% OF THE PLAYER HE WAS’, ‘I’D TAKE OFFERS’ – WEST HAM FANS REACT BRUTALLY TO SKY BOMBSHELL
Date: 2nd April 2018 at 6:10pm
Written by: Football Insider
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By Richard Parks

West Ham fans took to Twitter to declare their lack of sympathy after it emerged that winger Michail Antonio is set to miss the rest of the season.

Sky Sports claim on their website that the winger, 28, will be sidelined for the Hammers’ final seven matches of the season with the hamstring injury he suffered in Saturday’s 3-0 win against Southampton.

The right-winger left the pitch in tears after breaking down just 10 minutes into the clash at the London Stadium.

Sky Sports’ report that Antonio underwent a scan on Sunday and the feedback is shattering for the player, who has scored just three goals from 20 matches this season.

Antonio has suffered from countless injuries in recent seasons, including calf and rib problems in the current campaign, and a torn hamstring that required surgery last April.

West Ham fans have demonstrated a startling lack of sympathy to a once revered player.

One supporter tweeted that injury-ravaged Andy Carroll would have some company again, while another said Antonio must be offloaded in the summer.

Here is a selection of their best messages on Twitter:

Sky Sports NewsVerified account
@SkySportsNews
The official Twitter account for Sky Sports News. Your home of sports news on channel 409.
BREAKING: West Ham winger Michail Antonio to miss rest of season with hamstring injury, according to Sky sources. #SSN pic.twitter.com/Nam6UGqxrM

⚒ NI ©️K ⚒
@N13KKF
West Ham Season Ticket holder - Dad - Sparky - Yeezy Collector. ------ @solekingsldn ------fᎾᏒᏆuᏁᎬs ᎪᏞᎳᎪᎽs hᎥᎠᎥᏁᎶ
Replying to @SkySportsNews
Gets to keep carroll company AGAIN!
11:06 AM - Apr 2, 2018

Paul Butler
@pbutler66
Replying to @SkySportsNews
Hardly a huge loss, its not like he's been ripping it up all season is it. 10% of the player he was since Payet left
10:20 AM - Apr 2, 2018

Allenmccarthy
@Allenmccarthy13
Realist. classic rock music.west ham utd supporter.
Replying to @SkySportsNews
Moyes might have to play a striker.
10:19 AM - Apr 2, 2018

leslie law
@lglaw8
Replying to @SkySportsNews
He's been a waste of space for two seasons now. Unfit and only making up the numbers.
10:20 AM - Apr 2, 2018

Arthur 🔥
@Messiaku_
Masuaku is better than Lionel Messi
England, United Kingdom
Replying to @SkySportsNews
Sprints 10 metres and gets injured , its getting boring now
10:20 AM - Apr 2, 2018

daniel nash
@nashdan69
Replying to @SkySportsNews
Next andy Carroll
10:13 AM - Apr 2, 2018

lee seater
@LeeSeater
West Ham till I die . Bulldog lover. Have a strong dislike for idiots.
Replying to @nobleart16 @ExWHUemployee
Bryam was a bad buy full stop
Antonio has been rubbish this year prob not fully fit all.season and defentitly questionable of he still want to play for us. Reid has been solid for years. Him and MA need time to get over their injurys fully and stop being rushed back

Noble Art ⚒
@nobleart16
Between 8th and 15th in the premier league
Replying to @SkySportsNews
Can’t see Reid or Antonio ever being fit for a season, I’d take offers for them
10:50 AM - Apr 2, 2018

https://www.footballinsider247.com/west-ham-fans-react-to-antonio-blow/

West Ham fans react to Michail Antonio's injury update
Adefunmiloye Alani
@adefunmiloye

Michail Antonio has been ruled out of West Ham's remaining Premier League games due to a hamstring injury.

West Ham United secured a vital victory over the weekend, handing Southampton a 3-0 defeat at the London Stadium to go five points and four places clear of relegation.

However, an injury to Michail Antonio eight minutes into Saturday's game cast a shadow over the excellent result and BBC Sport report that the winger has played his last game of the season.

Sky Sports News
✔ @SkySportsNews
BREAKING: West Ham winger Michail Antonio to miss rest of season with hamstring injury, according to Sky sources. #SSN
10:06 AM - Apr 2, 2018

The 28-year-old only recently returned to action in February after sustaining a groin injury two days to Christmas.

Antonio has already had two stints on the injury sideline this term, as a hamstring injury he sustained last April ruled him out of pre-season preparations, while he also missed a month (six games) to a rib injury he suffered two months into the campaign.

The winger has featured in 21 Premier League games this term, but will now miss the remaining seven of West Ham's campaign.

Antonio emerged as the Hammer of the Year for last season after he contributed nine league goals and five assists to the club's campaign.

The former Nottingham Forest man scored eight league goals and assisted four during his debut campaign in 2015-16, but his return of three league goals and an assist this term indicates that his injury woes have gotten the better of his form.

Despite Antonio's lack of sharpness in front of goal, West Ham's run-in would have been boosted by his presence in the squad.

Hammers fans are divided in their opinions regarding the forward's injury, and some of their Tweets below say it all.

Paul Butler
@pbutler66
Replying to @SkySportsNews @MikespaceOnline
Hardly a huge loss, its not like he's been ripping it up all season is it. 10% of the player he was since Payet left
10:20 AM - Apr 2, 2018

父 George Karby 父
@GeorgeKarby
23, Electrical lighting engineer, Tattoos, Music, West Ham United! 父
Replying to @SkySportsNews
Absolutely gutted
12:07 PM - Apr 2, 2018

@JakeBalding
Replying to @SkySportsNews
No loss
10:14 AM - Apr 2, 2018

leslie law
@lglaw8
Replying to @SkySportsNews
He's been a waste of space for two seasons now. Unfit and only making up the numbers.
10:20 AM - Apr 2, 2018

Jace De Souza
@desouza1994
Replying to @lglaw8
Was our best player last season? Been injured most of this season.
10:23 AM - Apr 2, 2018

Oliver Bruton
@olliebruton
// Buyer // 18 // footballer
Sawbridgeworth, England
Replying to @SkySportsNews
Sell him in the summer
3:44 PM - Apr 2, 2018

Ryan Worley
@RyanWorley86
Replying to @SkySportsNews
Why don’t they just sell him :)
10:07 AM - Apr 2, 2018

http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2018/04/02/west-ham-fans-react-to-michail-antonios-injury-update/

Comical Sulli: “I can assure you there are no lies coming out of the London Stadium”

https://www.redbubble.com/people/thamesironworks/works/30932809-comical-sulli?c=869187-iron-dreams

Resistance is not futile - HOPE

https://www.redbubble.com/people/thamesironworks/works/30930594-original-flagman?c=869187-iron-dreams

David Gold Interview . . . . THE TRUTH
Hammers Chat Forum Channel
Published on Mar 9, 2018
Nigel Kahn takes a look at David Gold's masterful performance in the West Ham Way radio show, but is it all as it seems?

AVITHAMMER (You Tube)
Better than Panorama ... nice job

Alice Fox (You Tube)
It is a World Class Stadium...for athletics. It just doesn't work for football. Did anyone ever doubt it.?

MyShowbizName (You Tube)
These interviews will never tell us anything new. They'll apologise for the frilly bits that could have been better, but they'll never admit to outright lying about the stadium plans/transfer funds/debts etc.

Great video. It's nice to see the facts laid out for lazy people like me. Obviously I suspected a lot of economical answers, but it's great to see the evidence to highlight just how political his responses were. I believe David Gold is a fan, but I think he's a fan of money more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKFEBlqwcKE

Sullivan Brady & Gold PLEASE announce a 'sale date' for West Ham United ASAP!
Hammer and Talk
Published on Mar 12, 2018

David Sullivan, Karren Brady and David Gold please set a 'sale date' for West Ham United. That's Hammerand Talks message to the board. What do you think, please leave all your thoughts in the comments section below the video.

Revman (You Tube)
Spot on mate.......big up !........West Ham will never die, even the efforts of these owners cannot undo the testimony of time and tradition, one day we will re-emerge with our old badge and a NEW board and rediscover our way.........until then we must endure this nightmarish saga, which will in the fullness of time will be just be a minor scar on our legacy of our club......until then ⚒COYI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5CGlAfyjm8

A message for West Ham fans: "one day you'll get your club back"
Posted by Roy Bentham, Spirit of Shankly 13th March 2018

http://fsf.org.uk/blog/view/Message-for-West-Ham-fans-One-day-you-will-get-your-club-back

'No confidence in the board'
By Simon Stone BBC Sport 31 Mar 2018.

Just after noon, at the end of a two-hour meeting in a cafe-bar close to London Stadium, the West Ham United Independent Supporters Association decided upon a course of action.

"We were promised a world-class team in a world-class stadium," said a statement. "Today the members of the WHUISA that were present voted unanimously in a vote of no confidence in the current board of West Ham United to deliver this.

"We will therefore launch a concerted 'UNITED Campaign for Change' and will announce further details shortly.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43606646

CaptainBlueAndClaret 4:06 Mon Apr 2
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West Ham News @WHUFC_News 1 Sep 2017
Cundy: "WH are now a franchise, they have left their spiritual ground, they have no identity. The owners are there purely to make money."

mallard 7:04 Sat Mar 10
Re: ⚽ West Ham v Burnley - Official Match Thread
George Galloway on Twitter - not everyone's cup of tea, but bang on here -
@georgegalloway

“It’s high time for the Tory porn barons to depart from #WestHam They have driven a great London institution, central to working class life to the point of destruction. All in the pursuit of profit”

Karren Brady The G2 interview: ‘I’ve never walked away from anything – and I’m not going to start now’

The embattled West Ham CEO and Apprentice star says she is a champion of women’s rights. So why is she happy to work with men who are notorious for undermining them?
Simon Hattenstone
Sun 25 Mar 2018 14.00 BST

Readers Comments (PART TWO)

brisjo
An unremarkable woman who seems to be totally out of her depth. Just another daddy's girl who has milked his contacts, and now the chickens are coming home to roost. She will be forgotten within 3 years, deservedly cast back into obscurity

georgeat4
“The embattled West Ham CEO and Apprentice star says she is a champion of women’s rights”
I think Karren actually said she is a 'champion of a woman's rights', the woman in question being herself.

Aquarius9
Good interviewer, who rightly got under 'madam's' self-important skin. If Brady, doesn't know her chairman is a member of the President's Club then her business skills / knowledge is crap. She is a nasty female, who can't be trusted.

elevengoalposts
She gets by through avoiding direct questions which will reveal her to be an uninformed, disingenuous, vacuous, shallow person with little real talent other than her focusing entirely on self-promotion

ThePhantomMensch
I can't find the bit where the staunch feminist (and Sun columnist) goes to work for the Sunday Sport anywhere - she just goes to work for David Sullivan
If the writer wants to contact me directly I could help out -
David Sullivan owned a lot of businesses that no true staunch feminist (Sun columnist) would really go to work for - I have seen evidence

FatFreddy72
It doesn't matter you wanted to stay and not quit, the fans don't want you, Sullivan and Gold at West Ham. Seriously though, to be in this situation exactly the same 10 years ago at Birmingham City, you and Sullivan and Gold haven't learned.

Dee Emsey
Nasty person, with little or no discernible talent.
Gender doesn't come into it.

Mark Breen
Because she will do pretty much anything for money?

Mattkennington
If only the walls of the Birmingham City boardroom could talk!

Uncle Monty
She should have resigned from West Ham after the way she handled the events leading up to the recent fan protests.

bunnyla
Part of the system, beholden to the Man. But keep on trying to convince yourself that you’re challenging the process Ms Brady.

Scattitude
"I’ve never walked away from anything – and I’m not going to start now"
Classic unwanted limpet statement. Make it sound like you're doing your duty when really the gesture is entirely self serving.
Knowing when to walk away is a valuable skill, one Brady and David's perhaps lack.

Lardons
Of course she won’t walk away. She’s not leaving until she’s made tens of millions flogging West Ham. That’s a long way off..

ConfuciusHeSay
... Yes, she’s a champion of women’s rights in the same way I advocate passionately animal welfare as I tuck into my intensively farmed pork ...

rjrobinson198
'I’ve never walked away from anything – and I’m not going to start now' - as dumb a motto as 'just do it'.

guv111 replying to rjrobinson198
I bet her Facebook page is packed with equally trite and hypocritical memes.

h1ghlander
Karen Brady: "I've never walked away from anything" - unless of course it's from a serious question to which she has no answer.

JackdawChoir
She seems to enjoy defending the indefensible ...
She is repellent .

frameboy
Champion of women's rights?
Garbage.
Actions speak louder than words, and she owes her career to two pornographers and have a job to a guy who threatened to slap a female reporter.
No, she really shouldn't be given the oxygen of publicity.

cacaMBa
Reminds me of Trump. "Never run away from anything..." presumably means I've run from lots of things but I lie about it. The sexy-but-tough businesswoman is a schtick as worn out as.... a proverbially worn-out thing.

Ray Hepburn replying to cacaMBa
A champion of women's rights, whose early career make her head coach for the England hypocrisy team.

YmaOHyd1990
A truly odious character.

afccobden
It can be a sign of strength to walk away at the right time. It can be quite destructive and narcissistic to remove any possibility of not.

jockeylad
Poor little rich girl parlays Daddy's business contacts into a position that shows her where all the bodies are buried - which in turn leads to a "flame-haired Bekka" situation where she knows too much to be pushed out into the cruel world. One imagines that there are tens of little girls out there inspired by that tale of beating the patriarchy. Meanwhile, down here at the peasant's end of things, in 35 years in welding/fabricating if a female had the same skills set as myself she got payed the same rate. We need to push equality relentlessly across gender, race, class, religious beliefs, personal wealth - Ms. Brady is a very poor choice to make the case.
Sleep well in the ("Who the hell wants to get to 48 and think: I only nearly destroyed ONE football club. You don’t really do much in life unless you take risks, push yourself and find your passion. Mine is destroying football clubs") fire.

Ithryn_Luin
Out of her depth in football. Always has been!

TheSentinel
not sure where to start with this odious woman but the article did a pretty good job in highlighting how she has made her money, by basically doing the opposite of what she preaches.

TimeTravelAgents replying to TheSentinel
Bang on. She constantly mouths the F€mini$t line but was happy to be paid millions from Gold Publications, which had a line of hard-core pornographic magazines.

ID0735025
Enemy of the disabled.

guv111
When the millions keep flooding into your various bank accounts, for barely doing anything, why would you walk away?

FAULTY
“Her Irish father Terry was a self-made, Rolls-Royce driving millionaire.”
Hmmm...

MentallyStableGenius replying to FAULTY
..wore Pringle around the clock, and would hold court at the 19th hole at the golf club, telling anyone who would listen that Thatcher was a God and the miners were scum.

Jizzer
Dreadful human being.

FunkBrother69 replying to Jizzer
Human being is a bit strong !

HarveyPell
“last July, she became chair of Philip Green’s Taveta retail empire; her position as a Tory peer in the House of Lords; an outspoken column for the Sun.”
She wants to mind the company she keeps

StoneSlabs replying to HarveyPell
Yeah, that is not a good roll call.

TimeTravelAgents replying to HarveyPell
She was an executive at Gold Publications which had a string of hard-core pornographic magazines, yet rants about glass ceiling smashing sisterhood at every opportunity.

rcourt130864 repling to TimeTravelAgents
Presumably she thought the women appearing in the porn mags were empowering themselves.

fishandart
However hard anyone tries to justify the continuation of the House of Lords their case is lost by Brady's presence in the place just as Knighthoods have ceased to have any meaning since Philip Green was given his. No one who takes a hard look at London can credibly point the finger of corruption at anywhere else on the planet!

Dubidu
She reminds of a more attractive version of someone in my firm whose career can only be explained by aligning herself with the right "sponsors". Will never see a client, will never bring money in (you know, actual business activity that contributes to profit) but somehow she has managed to get all the way up the management chain despite being nothing more than a "cost". She is also of the "lean in" (but not if you threaten my fragile ego) gender equality variety; hollow words that mean nothing to any of the more intelligent females around her.

YinxxXing
‘I’ve never walked away from anything – and I’m not going to start now’ said Karen Brady before WALKING AWAY

ClockworkDemon
For West Hams sake she should break a habit then, what happened to Upton Park? Probabably built on like all the ex London Speedway tracks,.

Patrick Ryan
I don't know why so many people are saying such nasty things about Karren Brady...
The girl done well.

Ludwidina replying to Patrick Ryan
Yeah, she done good.
I can't thank her enough for sentancing West Ham fans to visit that shit stadium for the next 100 years.
It's too perfect.

blairsnemesis replying to Patrick Ryan
She has done well in what way? She's made a fortune but produce nothing of value to society. She's a quick-buck money-grubber. She's a shining example of what's so wrong with this country.

JohnWiseman
Wish she could walk away and never be heard of again.

Ludwidina
Philip Green and David Sullivan, the company you keep....

ClockworkDemon replying to Ludwidina
What a sample.!

rcourt130864
Ms Brady, you have consistently lied to the West Ham supporters to the extent that the relationship between the supporters and the board has broken down, irreparably.
She really should walk away this time.

StoneSlabs replying to rcourt130864
Sorry you've got these mugs running your club. Why can't they find something else to feed their egos/bank balances?
They're a pain in the arse.

rcourt130864
I’m reminded of the line ( repeated) in an Elvis Costello & the Attractions song,’ You must see it’s time that you went’

StoneSlabs
So very evasive when it comes down to brass tacks.
She may well have made loads of money, but I don't see people such as her as being ''successful.'' Being a success means contributing something of value to society.

samaras9
A stolen publicly paid for stadium by a trio of Tory Cronies. Brady, Coe and Johnson. A public scandal.

ID215250
I thought selling mucky mags does not constitute a business Empire which qualifies a person to run a footie club - apparently it does though

notinamillion
She’s a proper wrong thing. Everyone knows that.

loun
It seems as if she talks the talk but her actions (or lack of) do not reflect what she says. I note that her initial big success was due to Sullivan being a client of her father's...interesting.

Lee Byrnes
She walked away from the rags, sorry Birmingham City when the council wouldn't build them a new stadium for free, and her and her paymasters dumped them on the first clown showing cash, so she appears to be, as the youth say round our way, 'chattin' shit'.

concerndium
Voted for tax credit cuts to further impoverish people on the minimum wage.

concerndium
Voted for tax credit cuts to further impoverish people on the minimum wage.

blairsnemesis
Has she ever done anything useful? I see nothing here. Just another money-grubber.

MarkNoBull
Faced with a choice of
(a) West Ham being in League 2, without Brady, Sullivan and Gold, and
(b) our carrying on with these self-serving footballing amateurs,
Set the controls for the heart of Barnet!

Trundler MarkNoBull
Better hurry up, Barnet are on the way out

SHANKS1953
Karen Brady, David Sullivan & David Gold saw a Golden opportunity When West Ham came into View for Sale, " Just Look at BCFC " & where they are Now, At a Q & A session BEFORE The move to the Olympic Stadium the 3 of the fended off genuine concerns from WHUFC Fans regatding the move with half truths & Lies IE when asked by fans why the boleyn ground couldnt be extended at the East Stand ?? the answer came "convincingly" that it was impossible because of 2 main reasons, Firstly that Newham Council would not allow the height needed for the stand because it would block light to Neighboring properties & that the nearby Bus Station made the deepening of the stand / Road impossible, Both of these "FACTS" were False, The Flats that are as we speak being built are at present Higher than the Height of the New Stand would have been & the Bus Station is Now being OR has been CLOSED, Just 2 of the falsehoods gien by Brady, Gold & Sullivan . WE Were Promised a World Class Stadium Fit For Top Quality Football & a Much Better Class of Top Players to get to the top 8 of the Premier League, WE HAVE NEITHER. Empty Promises whilst My Beloved Club Lurches from one Crisis to Another, Karen Brady is NOT the Only Reason all this has happened BUT She MUST Accept her part in the Debacle & Lasts weeks So Called Apology in the SUN Was two faced & Weasel words WHICH is her Style, Without Genuine Honesty & True Commitment the Terrible Trio SGB will Twiddle their fingers While WHUFC Burns , May I Add NOT LITERALLY, Stop Talking Like Politicians & Start Talking Like Decent, Honest People before its to Late......COYI.

Richkane
She doesn't want to talk about West Ham - yet uses her lofty position enables her to make these throwaway documentaries no one cares about. Well done Karen for being a woman - you've proven you are just as useless as the men currently running the club. That's equal rights of some sort I guess.

thesuperscouser
“Whatever ...” she mutters
Karren Brady in a nutshell

Onthebackfoot
She is not known as "the first lady of football".
Stupid excuse for journalism. I didn't read further but I'm reasonably sure I didn't miss much.

Topcat1977
Her words,even in this article, show that she either tries to repaint history to suit her own purpose.
She flew in from a a tax haven to vote for a tax credit reduction.
She has made her career through nepotism and in industries that go against gender equality, yet trumpets the exact opposite.
And recently, as this paper reported, she met with hooligans to get them threaten violence on a protest match against her board’s running of the club. Which was a Leading reason for the trouble in ground the other week.
A repugnant person and I fail to see what persons could class her as a role model, despite what a puff piece documentary on channel 5 will try to portray.

desgenerals
Worked with her cabinet buddies and Boris the liar, to procure the London stadium for no money, that will be maintained by the tax payer. I am delighted that in this case corruption isn’t working out for a senior Tory. I loved Upton Park and it’s chicken shack, it was a ‘orrible’ place to go for a result.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/mar/25/karren-brady-ive-never-walked-away-from-anything-and-im-not-going-to-start-now

Comical Sulli: “I can assure you there are no lies coming out of the London Stadium”

https://www.redbubble.com/people/thamesironworks/works/30932809-comical-sulli?c=869187-iron-dreams

Resistance is not futile - HOPE

https://www.redbubble.com/people/thamesironworks/works/30930594-original-flagman?c=869187-iron-dreams

David Gold Interview . . . . THE TRUTH
Hammers Chat Forum Channel
Published on Mar 9, 2018
Nigel Kahn takes a look at David Gold's masterful performance in the West Ham Way radio show, but is it all as it seems?

AVITHAMMER (You Tube)
Better than Panorama ... nice job

Alice Fox (You Tube)
It is a World Class Stadium...for athletics. It just doesn't work for football. Did anyone ever doubt it.?

MyShowbizName (You Tube)
These interviews will never tell us anything new. They'll apologise for the frilly bits that could have been better, but they'll never admit to outright lying about the stadium plans/transfer funds/debts etc.

Great video. It's nice to see the facts laid out for lazy people like me. Obviously I suspected a lot of economical answers, but it's great to see the evidence to highlight just how political his responses were. I believe David Gold is a fan, but I think he's a fan of money more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKFEBlqwcKE

Sullivan Brady & Gold PLEASE announce a 'sale date' for West Ham United ASAP!
Hammer and Talk
Published on Mar 12, 2018

David Sullivan, Karren Brady and David Gold please set a 'sale date' for West Ham United. That's Hammerand Talks message to the board. What do you think, please leave all your thoughts in the comments section below the video.

Revman (You Tube)
Spot on mate.......big up !........West Ham will never die, even the efforts of these owners cannot undo the testimony of time and tradition, one day we will re-emerge with our old badge and a NEW board and rediscover our way.........until then we must endure this nightmarish saga, which will in the fullness of time will be just be a minor scar on our legacy of our club......until then ⚒COYI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5CGlAfyjm8

A message for West Ham fans: "one day you'll get your club back"
Posted by Roy Bentham, Spirit of Shankly 13th March 2018

http://fsf.org.uk/blog/view/Message-for-West-Ham-fans-One-day-you-will-get-your-club-back

CaptainBlueAndClaret 11:26 Fri Mar 30
Re: Someone save our Football Club.

West Ham News @WHUFC_News 1 Sep 2017
Cundy: "WH are now a franchise, they have left their spiritual ground, they have no identity. The owners are there purely to make money."

mallard 7:04 Sat Mar 10
Re: ⚽ West Ham v Burnley - Official Match Thread
George Galloway on Twitter - not everyone's cup of tea, but bang on here -
@georgegalloway

“It’s high time for the Tory porn barons to depart from #WestHam They have driven a great London institution, central to working class life to the point of destruction. All in the pursuit of profit”

Karren Brady The G2 interview: ‘I’ve never walked away from anything – and I’m not going to start now’

The embattled West Ham CEO and Apprentice star says she is a champion of women’s rights. So why is she happy to work with men who are notorious for undermining them?
Simon Hattenstone
Sun 25 Mar 2018 14.00 BST

Readers Comments (PART ONE)

carbonblacktest
‘I’ve never walked away from anything – but I’m going to start now and take those two other fucking idiots with me’
There we go. Fixed it for all the West Ham fans

FatSamurai
Nice article. Selective memory and unreliable statements from West Ham's CEO? Who'd have thought it? Liked the final question on her mayoral ambitions. There's definitely a lot of tension with Sadiq Khan over the London Stadium fiasco. That could run and run.

Andygleicester1
Going down, going down, going down.
Pay your taxes, get some moral fibre and start playing football.

attila9000
Please stay Karen, I’m looking forward to the continued implosion of taxpayers united. Without you and the other two, it might actually not happen.

airmonkey1001 replying to attila9000
Tax payers united, regularly invited to Question Time = rich people who want to pay even less tax than a tax haven.

Tiresius replying to attila9000
No no , please run away Karen , and take the Dildo Bros with you. I wouldn’t think less of you honestly , I believe you are a great champion of women’s rights and all that sort of stuff and the history of your employer’s as the publishers of Readers Wives etc is entirely beside the point. But please could you just sell West Ham to someone else ?

DaveSmith2016
Perhaps you should think about the club rather than yourself. The best way you and the dildo brothers can help the club is by selling it.

RichardWilder
“What makes her career so fascinating is that, at the same time as championing women’s rights, she has been associated most closely with some of industry’s great unreconstructed dinosaurs...”

By " fascinating", did you actually mean 'selfishly expedient'?
Also, The Apprentice is an absolutely deplorable programme, giving airtime to yet more people with serious personality disorders and, as this newspaper has reported, many of its deals are set-up by researchers prior to being filmed; they are essentially fake!
It's nothing like the vast majority of hard-working small businesses I know and anybody associated with it should be ashamed of themselves.

godlikechomsky replying to RichardWilder
"The embattled West Ham CEO and Apprentice star says she is a champion of women’s rights. So why is she happy to work with men who are notorious for undermining them?"
Because shes an avaristic nihilist using feminism as a smokescreen.

HoserinLondon replying to RichardWilder
Not to mention it was spun off from a version led by the creature who may destroy civilization as we know it!

texanfootyfan
Well this was a surprise.
It turns out that a woman who is willing and able to do all the things necessary to become a CEO / Board member exhibits very similar traits to a man who is also willing and able to do those things.
Who’d have thought it?

Ironborn123
Laughable spin. I do even wonder if she knows she's doing it. 90% of season tickets have renewed is someone presented as a ringing endorsement of the move to that ridiculous athletics bowl. No Karren, 90% of people don't want to give up the habit of a lifetime often through generations, and tolerate that monstrosity in the middle of nowhere that you've put us in. I have met very few people who like the ground I'd put it as no higher than 5%. And that's nothing to do with nostalgia for Upton Park, or the team not winning; its a soulless, enormous bowl intrinsically unsuited for football. That will never change. You sold us a pup, knowingly.

wutheringshite
Money, and the greed for it, is what motivates Brady. There isn't any mystery about her passion at all.

bobthebuilder234
I love the sense of me me me coming from this. Failure seems to be perennially rewarded for some whilst the rest of us hard working plebs get stiffed. From the Trump school of business. And no, I won’t be watching her faux shock reactions on TV any time soon.

The_Sentinel
“She joined Saatchi & Saatchi at 18, then went to work for LBC, where she targeted her father’s client, David Sullivan, to advertise with the radio station.
He placed £2m worth of advertising with LBC. Before long, Sullivan headhunted her, bought Birmingham City at her instigation, and, when she was 23, made her CEO”
I wonder how her life would have panned out had it not been for this crucial connection. Seems to be a perfect case study for "it's not what you know, it's who you know...".

QuodScripsiScripsi
Birmingham City FC is now owned by Chinese owners.
Football is simply used as another money-making venture for people like Brady. But she’s made a pig’s ear of West Ham and it will rebound on her and the other two.

Natasha Drew
On this season of the apprentice one of the female candidates suggested the more visually appealing females led the public sales effort. Brady immediately attacked her and asked her to justify such a sexist stance.
That’s Karen Brady, career financed by a pornography empire, attacking another woman for suggesting a pretty face helps sales.

Wugazi
I think when you reach the level of self serving arse-holery that she has, it matters little whether you're male, female or anywhere in between. You can't be a feminist if you don't give a fuck about anyone else.

NickSimonsBarcelona
Simple. Leave our club.

przychodnia
Why would someone like her walk away from a tax funded gravy train? Why would any pig take its nose out of a trough?

Guimard
I genuinely believe the move we made to the stadium is the right one.
Well it was like winning the lottery without even entering it so from a commercial point of view ,which is the only one she has , then they are right.
You cannot blame the owners , following the Olympics it was very clear the stadium was a serious not so much white elephant but a heard of them . No other use could have been found that would even get close to making sense . But the club really got the deal of the century , which like her or not , certainly has something to do with her.

carbonblacktest replying to Guimard
“I genuinely believe the move we made to the stadium is the right one.
Well it was like winning the lottery without even entering it so from a commercial point of view ,which is the only one she has , then they are right.”
All that goes to show is that things that might be right from a commercial point of view, are not necessarily right, all things considered.
West Ham's identity was tied to Upton Park.

Ironborn123 replying to Guimard
Deal of the century? It's a terrible deal for WHU fans because it's intrinsically unfit for purpose. It's like getting the deal of the century on a boat, when you actually need a car.
Its the deal of the century if you don't give a flying fuck about West Ham fans and wish to maximise the sale value of the club. Like most fanbases WHU is a largely captive audience. It takes zero business acumen to exploit that situation. What you do need, however, is an utterly cynical disregard for those same people.

Wugazi replying to Guimard
Karen, is that you?

villain57
Working for a convicted pimp and s pornographer. Very empowering.
West Ham are screwed

rigger67
Seems to me like Brady is principled to the point where they get in the way of a business deal or career move, then they go out the window.
The writer politely used the term "selective memory", but I prefer the word hypocrisy ..

cheechandchong
This woman voted to make poor children poorer. Despicable.

q321gg8cla replying to cheechandchong
Thankyou,report out yesterday from Kings College London re food poverty,shows 7 out of 10 households who receive food bank support have children.

BroomOfTrigger
So the daughter of a millionaire who got a job through connections no doubt; and did a big deal with her father’s mate...
The Tory pornographer’s moll.
Really inspirational. It’s unbelievable how arrogant people who have had no end of help and opportunities become towards other people who have, in their eyes; “not achieved as much as they have”
It’s laughable.

ID071763
Just to make a point re: factual accuracy regarding Karren Brady having gone on to study for ‘A’ levels at a formerly all-boys school. When she was there, the number of girls in the sixth form were around 30 not six. The reason I know this for a fact is that I was two years ahead of her and when I was there we numbered around 15 total in both years of the sixth form. The next year’s intake of girls - the year below mine - (and the following year’s) grew in number exponentially. It’s a small point but it does reflect on Karren Brady not necessarily being as pioneering as a female as she may wish to present herself.

TheJoyOfEssex
I'll never forgive her and Birmingham City for poaching Barry Fry when Southend had a real shot at the premier league.
It was no real consolation when BCFC were relegated the same season.

HollywoodPass replying to TheJoyOfEssex
But it was a very good indication of her unerring ability to profit from any form of success while simultaneously cheapening and ultimately destroying it.
She has achieved nothing, built nothing.

TyroneBlack
Didn't she fly back from a holiday or something to vote in favour of benefit cuts?

attila9000 replying to TyroneBlack
Yes, vile person that she is.

ObiWanKenobiForce
If only 'success' to her was defined as making the Hammers a 'next level' club.

Ironborn123 replying to ObiWanKenobiForce
In fairness the Championship could be construed as the next level. These people managed to relegate Birmingham three times; that's how good they are at running football clubs from a sporting perspective.

Tom Price
Lady Muck. Going down.

Hubert O'Hearn
The Ivanka Trump of Britain.

Frank Formby
A personification of empty hype.

radical
David Sullivan...David Sullivan...sorry did the article mention exactly how he made his money, what sort of business he was in and where Karren Brady fitted in? Aghast at the President's Club and the goings on, pull the other one.

nickmannion
Didnt she start off working in softish porn industry/publications....so a real champion of womens rights then?
And voting for welfare cuts...that always is a big help to vulnerable women Kags.....
Sit on the cognitive dissonance clowns benches do you? And thats just in the West Ham directors box eh?
Horrible woman....

radical replying to Mark_S49910
Quite right remarkable how Karren stepped in to run Sullivan's porn empire when he was banged up in the Scrubs for living off immoral earnings, all credit to her.

HollywoodPass
Please don’t walk away, Brady.
Please stay and complete the job you’ve started so well.
Keep talking delusional bullshit about a “world class stadium” and a “brilliant experience.”
Keep screwing the club by loaning it money so that you and the Dildo Bros making millions in interest.
Keep bringing your cheapskate quick-fix mindset to the club’s transfer and management issues.
Keep talking out of your rump about the Champions League and how you’ve got one over Spurs, you clown.
Keep bringing your “business savvy” and “marketing expertise” to bear — the same skill set you brought to Birmingham City (and where are they these days?).
No, please don’t walk away until you’ve finished the job you’ve so clearly started: the relegation, impoverishment and utter humiliation of West Ham United.
Because only then will you cut your losses, sell up, and let the fans begin to crawl from the smouldering wreckage — and think about rebuilding what they’ve so clearly lost.

Brightersideoflife
Having had the misfortune of working for Ms Brady a long time ago I can honestly say she is one of the most vile people I have ever had the lack of pleasure of meeting. Condescending, shouty, self absorbed & completely looked down on those that worked for her including being sworn at. I have since spoken to other people that have come in to contact with her in other environments and none of these had anything nice to say about her either.

2miners replying to Brightersideoflife
And the men ?
Tell us a bit more - are you still there no need for a name

Brightersideoflife replying to 2miners
Was told to F off out of “her” boardroom when I was getting it ready for her & her cronies as I was a mere mortal. This won’t go down well with some, but the Gold brothers were pleasant & actually quite nice to the staff, Brady & O’sullivan were a breed apart.

UrinalShuvinsky
‘I’ve never walked away from anything – and I’m not going to start now’
Perhaps you should think seriously about whether this attitude is for the greater good. It's not all about you, at least it shouldn't be.

haringey1955
Lets face it , you are way out of your depth . You have demonstrated a complete lack of integrity on many occasion . The fact you fail to understand the subtleties and complexities of the challenges faced by a premier football club director has nothing to do with your sexuality . You lack real ability , and your ego has taken you into a world where your failings are being exposed to 58,000 fans and the rest of the football world.

cmca200
So she's an inveterate liar with a conveniently tenuous grip on her memory, a blatant two faced hypocrite and secured her role as CEO of Birmingham City at the age of 23 through the direct or indirect nepotism and influence of her father who was a close business associate of the owner David Sullivan - sound about right?

MyRandomThoughts
She is no feminist she is a hypocrite she's an abuser who earns a living off the backs of less fortunate women, a madam at best who will kiss the ass of whoever is paying her most.

Janelaverack replying to MyRandomThoughts
Correct.

Persianwar
So by the time she left Birmingham 75 per cent of senior management were women.
Just like to check, is that a good or bad thing? If fewer than 50per cent are women then that’s bad, but 75 per cent women is presented as ‘good’. Why is this exactly?

MFC_Lion
Will she be attending the match v Southampton as Gold and Sullivan are reported to be?
I’m worried that their presence will insense the fans leading to further crowd trouble and West Ham playing 1 or more home games behind closed doors.
The lack of a hostile fan base baying for blood could have a seriously positive effect on the West Ham players and jeopardize what had looked like nailed on relegation.

MyRandomThoughts
Considering her age she looks dreadful, I mean like she has really been living it up, but I guess that's the norm in the depraved circles she orchestrates and frequents, I mean seriously, she's not far off the female Shane McGowan.
And he would be offended by that, she's no wolf in sheep's clothing she's not even a milf in drag.
She's made a career of making money out of how women look, she deserves no quarter.

haringey1955
By the way Karen , Spurs are doing it the right way . The chairman has a very good brain . Perhaps you should rent the stadium out to the circus . You could be chief clown

BobinDay
She's never walked away from a good pay day that's for sure.
She is a parasite on society, a talentless hypocrite who ruins people's lives...apart from that , lovely woman.

AVerati95
You'll be running away anytime soon, I'm sure of that...

Hostilius
It's not what you know, it's who you know...
Keep following the money (and fame) Karren. You're a man in a mans world.

JohnAldridgesUSARant
“I don’t want to talk about West Ham,” says Brady.
That's because she knows, and we all know, that even that pitch invading, corner flag wielding wazzock, who proudly held said corner flag above his head like a triumphant medieval knight, could do a better job at running West Ham United London than Brady, Sullivan and Gold ever could.

Ironborn123 replying to JohnAldridgesUSARant
The point of that flag planting gesture was that it reflected West Ham fan's protests against the Bond Scheme in 1992 (essentially being asked to stump up £100's for the right to buy a season ticket). At the height of that a guy got out of the crowd, uprooted the corner flag, stuck it in the centre circle sat down and refused to move. Cue hundreds joining him. For older West Ham fans what the guy did against Burnley was immediately recognised as being symbolic.
He's been going to West Ham for 49 years if he's to be believed in interviews, and had no illusions that he would receive a life ban for what he did (duly confirmed by the wonderful Brady). People like him are the club, not this ersatz wannabee Thatcher.
I'm genuinely surprised you lend yourself to such a cringing puff piece, right down to the photo staring determinedly into the distance, all steely eyed resolve. The business acumen required to exploit a fanbase is broadly similar to that of a drug dealer who exploits the dependencies of others. In any other industry the treatment of 'customers' in the way WHU fans have been treated would see your business evaporate overnight.

JohnAldridgesUSARant replying to Ironborn123
I agree with you, and I know the corner flag thing was a reference to the anti-Bond scheme sentiment which the West Ham fans rightly protested. That was a dark time for the club and I remember club legend Billy Bonds, who spoke out against the (unfortunately named, for him) Bond scheme was treated pretty shoddily by the club thereafter from what I remember. I have a lot of sympathy for West Ham fans who have been sold a pack of lies by these 3 charlatans. But the corner flag wielding was still quite funny.

attila9000 replying to Ironborn123
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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/mar/25/karren-brady-ive-never-walked-away-from-anything-and-im-not-going-to-start-now

Comical Sulli: “I can assure you there are no lies coming out of the London Stadium”

https://www.redbubble.com/people/thamesironworks/works/30932809-comical-sulli?c=869187-iron-dreams

Resistance is not futile - HOPE

https://www.redbubble.com/people/thamesironworks/works/30930594-original-flagman?c=869187-iron-dreams

David Gold Interview . . . . THE TRUTH
Hammers Chat Forum Channel
Published on Mar 9, 2018
Nigel Kahn takes a look at David Gold's masterful performance in the West Ham Way radio show, but is it all as it seems?

AVITHAMMER (You Tube)
Better than Panorama ... nice job

Alice Fox (You Tube)
It is a World Class Stadium...for athletics. It just doesn't work for football. Did anyone ever doubt it.?

MyShowbizName (You Tube)
These interviews will never tell us anything new. They'll apologise for the frilly bits that could have been better, but they'll never admit to outright lying about the stadium plans/transfer funds/debts etc.

Great video. It's nice to see the facts laid out for lazy people like me. Obviously I suspected a lot of economical answers, but it's great to see the evidence to highlight just how political his responses were. I believe David Gold is a fan, but I think he's a fan of money more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKFEBlqwcKE

Sullivan Brady & Gold PLEASE announce a 'sale date' for West Ham United ASAP!
Hammer and Talk
Published on Mar 12, 2018

David Sullivan, Karren Brady and David Gold please set a 'sale date' for West Ham United. That's Hammerand Talks message to the board. What do you think, please leave all your thoughts in the comments section below the video.

Revman (You Tube)
Spot on mate.......big up !........West Ham will never die, even the efforts of these owners cannot undo the testimony of time and tradition, one day we will re-emerge with our old badge and a NEW board and rediscover our way.........until then we must endure this nightmarish saga, which will in the fullness of time will be just be a minor scar on our legacy of our club......until then ⚒COYI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5CGlAfyjm8

A message for West Ham fans: "one day you'll get your club back"
Posted by Roy Bentham, Spirit of Shankly 13th March 2018

http://fsf.org.uk/blog/view/Message-for-West-Ham-fans-One-day-you-will-get-your-club-back

CaptainBlueAndClaret 12:06 Fri Mar 30
Re: Someone save our Football Club.

CaptainBlueAndClaret 1:26 Thu Mar 29
Re: Someone save our Football Club.

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