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We can't simply accept his presence! We need to get him the fuck away from our club!
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Is this happening? There's nothing on the hammers united website.
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Fucking fantastic work Hammers United/Bubbles (Paul)... 👏 

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A West Ham United supporters group has called on the club’s fanbase to boycott the Premier League match against Brentford in October to protest the club’s ownership. 

A statement from fan group Hammers United, who are affiliated with the Football Supporters Association, said that West Ham were dying under the stewardship of majority owner David Sullivan and vice-chair Karren Brady, and called for the pair to leave their positions of influence at the east London club. 

The campaign has now called on fans to not attend their London derby against Brentford on October 20, which will be broadcast live on Sky Sports in the UK, and to protest against the ownership ahead of their home league match against Crystal Palace on September 20.  

West Ham fan group call for boycott of Brentford game over ownership: ‘Our club is going to die’ 

Colin Millar and Roshane Thomas 11 Sept. 2, 2025 Updated 10:47 pm GMT+1 

A West Ham United supporters group has called on the club’s fanbase to boycott the Premier League match against Brentford in October to protest the club’s ownership. 

A statement from fan group Hammers United, who are affiliated with the Football Supporters Association (FSA), said that West Ham were dying under the stewardship of majority owner David Sullivan and vice-chair Karren Brady, and called for the pair to leave their positions of influence at the east London club. 

The campaign has now called on fans to not attend their London derby against Brentford on October 20, which will be broadcast live on Sky Sports in the UK, and to protest against the ownership ahead of their home league match against Crystal Palace on September 20. 

West Ham won 3-0 at Nottingham Forest on Sunday, having lost their opening two Premier League matches of the season — 3-0 at Sunderland and 5-1 at home to Chelsea, having recorded a 14th-place finish last term. They were also knocked out of the Carabao Cup by Wolves. 

“With Brady and Sullivan at the helm our club is going to die,” said Hammers United chairman Paul Colborne. “It is in serious decline and dying a slow death as we speak, with thousands of long term, time served fans walking away, another relegation fight beckoning, and another early cup exit. We cannot allow this to happen on our watch."

“They sold off the Boleyn Ground and moved us to an athletics stadium, voted by many as the worst football ground in the country, which we don’t even own. We rent it! “We are all for progress but not at the expense of our identity. We all want a stadium we can be proud to call our home. We were promised a ‘World Class Stadium for a World Class Team’ when we left our beloved Boleyn Ground and 10 years later we have neither; something which is now finally being picked up by many commentators and pundits.” 

Last month, Hammers United said they would contact London’s Metropolitan Police as they planned protests against the club’s ownership. Separately, a petition set up by disgruntled fans in May to force Sullivan and Brady out of the club has attracted just under 14,000 signatures. 

West Ham have said that Hammers United are represented on their Fan Advisory Board, who met with the club, including Brady, in the build-up to the current season commencing. The club say that no planned protest was referenced in that meeting. 

Sullivan and Brady assumed their roles at West Ham in 2010, having previously held similar positions at Birmingham City. In 2021, Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky bought a 27 per cent stake in the club, making him the second biggest shareholder after Sullivan. 

West Ham became anchor tenants in the London Stadium, which previously hosted the 2012 Olympic Games, in 2016 after leaving their long-term home at the Boleyn Ground, which was also known as Upton Park. UK Athletics are also tenants in the east-London stadium. 

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6592923/?source=fbuk
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muskie wrote: 31 Aug 2025, 16:39 After todays result, if we beat spurs the protests might as well be called off. That's how shallow everyone is. 8000 protest when the form is bad, 400 when the form is good. 
We now have to prove we still mean it and I'm hopeful we won't stop now we got the ball rolling. The March must go ahead.
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After todays result, if we beat spurs the protests might as well be called off. That's how shallow everyone is. 8000 protest when the form is bad, 400 when the form is good. 
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Barty888 wrote: 27 Aug 2025, 18:34
This was the absolute bollocks. Anything like this again, it'll be worth the effort. Bubbles singing was a lovely moment an all en route.
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Barty888 wrote: 27 Aug 2025, 17:44 No More BS!

Under Brady and Sullivan’s stewardship, West Ham United is dying.

They sold off the Boleyn Ground and moved us to an athletics stadium, voted by many as the worst football ground in the country, which we don’t even own. We rent it!

They put “London” on our badge, cast aside our heritage, and told us “history starts today.”

They called us "customers", not fans, made promises that were never kept, and accepted no responsibility for anything.

They’ve hired and fired a succession of managers, none of whom stood a chance of delivering the “world class team” we were promised with those two running the show.

They’ve sold our best players for less than their worth and thrown away too much of our Club’s money on ageing journeymen looking for a payday, and cheap no-hopers who couldn’t cut it in the Premier League.

Our training facilities might be embarrassing, but not as embarrassing as the series of PR disasters Brady and Sullivan have walked into head first, humiliating themselves and our Club.

Sullivan’s reputation for making ludicrous bids on quality players, resulting in deal after deal falling through, saw him christened as one half of the “Dildo Brothers”.

Brady became known as “Brady The Child Ticket Snatcher” following the cynical attack on our youngest, oldest and disabled fans who found themselves on the verge of having their concession tickets taken away. And for what? To raise about half of what “Brady The Child Ticket Snatcher” earns as a bonus.

Any sense of humility from either of these two? Not a bit of it. And why would there be?

They’ve created the worst matchday experience in the Premier League, and turned the LS into a neutral ground where we’ve suffered heavy defeats the likes of which were rarely seen at the Boleyn Ground.

As for the “world class stadium”, instead of the retractable seating we were promised, we got a carpet and a wall.

They shrugged their shoulders as thousands of loyal, long term fans walked away in disgust, but still they allow our fans to be treated like 2nd class citizens by incompetent stewards.

We have away fans causing trouble in our “home ends”, while our own fans are subjected to bans, prosecutions and criminal records for “offences” as trivial as throwing a serviette.

They’ve cited PSR as a reason for not upgrading a squad that narrowly avoided the drop, and yet in the published accounts for the financial year ending 31st May 2024 the board stated ‘the Group is likely to require further funding within the next twelve months either from third parties or from shareholders'.

Has that additional funding been secured? And if not, why have shareholders not put the required funding in to keep the club competitive?
Whatever the reasons, we’re now odds on for our 2nd relegation under Brady and Sullivan.

No last minute player signings or empty promises of brighter times ahead are going to work anymore. We’ve been down this road with Brady and Sullivan too many times before, and now it has to stop!

We will always support the team, but the regime has had its day!

It’s not just Hammers United’s members that are demanding an end to Brady and Sullivan’s stewardship of our great Club. Across the board, West Ham fans are demanding action.

As the largest independent West Ham supporters’ group, Hammers United intends to work with fans’ groups, podcasters, writers, bloggers, journalists, viewers, readers, and of course West Ham fans, to deliver a grass roots campaign aimed at bringing the Brady and Sullivan era to an end.

We are calling on Brady and Sullivan to resign from their executive positions, to have no more involvement in the running of West Ham United, and for the remaining board of directors to appoint competent and professional replacements who will work in the best interests of West Ham United and the fans.

Until this happens, we will be running the NO MORE BS! campaign

Hammers United will be meeting with the Metropolitan Police to organise an initial demonstration, which will be followed by a series of demonstrations and marches, until Brady and Sullivan resign.

In addition to these, we will be working with our West Ham friends on a series of other initiatives designed to make Brady and Sullivan’s positions untenable for both them and the current board of directors.

Details of our first protest, and other activities, will be published across all of our channels on Friday 29 August.

Any West Ham fans who want to help with our campaign can contact us at:

https://hammersunited.co.uk/contact/

Long Live West Ham
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what a load of waffle, no wonder nothing ever changes. I couldn't be bothered to read it let alone turn up.

should be
Are you sick of west hams owners? . . . Meet up at the carpenters for a march
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Think we all know why the last one stopped all of a sudden and it will happen again if it ever got to that scale, which it won't but it's a shame that was the last time we truly felt "West Ham" to me was the last time I went near the London stadium aswell made the 4.5 hour drive worth it just for the day out
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@Barty I love and whole heartedly agree with the sentiment of your post, but Sullivan won’t “resign”. He has to sell and that requires an investor who is either a fan come good or a billionaire prepared to be in it for the long term and has the immense wealth it’s going to require to reverse our fortunes. They will have to meet sullivans valuation, which is in all likelihood miles more than the true worth of his shares. I live in hope but I fear we have dark times ahead for now. 
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A ballache for me to attend but I'll go if it becomes clear the numbers will be significant for it to be worthwhile. Could make it a WHO Division attending as an excuse for a beer an a good cunting in the bastard for Sullivan.
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Barty888 wrote: 27 Aug 2025, 17:33 Time has come

I'm bang up for this 
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No More BS!

Under Brady and Sullivan’s stewardship, West Ham United is dying.

They sold off the Boleyn Ground and moved us to an athletics stadium, voted by many as the worst football ground in the country, which we don’t even own. We rent it!

They put “London” on our badge, cast aside our heritage, and told us “history starts today.”

They called us "customers", not fans, made promises that were never kept, and accepted no responsibility for anything.

They’ve hired and fired a succession of managers, none of whom stood a chance of delivering the “world class team” we were promised with those two running the show.

They’ve sold our best players for less than their worth and thrown away too much of our Club’s money on ageing journeymen looking for a payday, and cheap no-hopers who couldn’t cut it in the Premier League.

Our training facilities might be embarrassing, but not as embarrassing as the series of PR disasters Brady and Sullivan have walked into head first, humiliating themselves and our Club.

Sullivan’s reputation for making ludicrous bids on quality players, resulting in deal after deal falling through, saw him christened as one half of the “Dildo Brothers”.

Brady became known as “Brady The Child Ticket Snatcher” following the cynical attack on our youngest, oldest and disabled fans who found themselves on the verge of having their concession tickets taken away. And for what? To raise about half of what “Brady The Child Ticket Snatcher” earns as a bonus.

Any sense of humility from either of these two? Not a bit of it. And why would there be?

They’ve created the worst matchday experience in the Premier League, and turned the LS into a neutral ground where we’ve suffered heavy defeats the likes of which were rarely seen at the Boleyn Ground.

As for the “world class stadium”, instead of the retractable seating we were promised, we got a carpet and a wall.

They shrugged their shoulders as thousands of loyal, long term fans walked away in disgust, but still they allow our fans to be treated like 2nd class citizens by incompetent stewards.

We have away fans causing trouble in our “home ends”, while our own fans are subjected to bans, prosecutions and criminal records for “offences” as trivial as throwing a serviette.

They’ve cited PSR as a reason for not upgrading a squad that narrowly avoided the drop, and yet in the published accounts for the financial year ending 31st May 2024 the board stated ‘the Group is likely to require further funding within the next twelve months either from third parties or from shareholders'.

Has that additional funding been secured? And if not, why have shareholders not put the required funding in to keep the club competitive?
Whatever the reasons, we’re now odds on for our 2nd relegation under Brady and Sullivan.

No last minute player signings or empty promises of brighter times ahead are going to work anymore. We’ve been down this road with Brady and Sullivan too many times before, and now it has to stop!

We will always support the team, but the regime has had its day!

It’s not just Hammers United’s members that are demanding an end to Brady and Sullivan’s stewardship of our great Club. Across the board, West Ham fans are demanding action.

As the largest independent West Ham supporters’ group, Hammers United intends to work with fans’ groups, podcasters, writers, bloggers, journalists, viewers, readers, and of course West Ham fans, to deliver a grass roots campaign aimed at bringing the Brady and Sullivan era to an end.

We are calling on Brady and Sullivan to resign from their executive positions, to have no more involvement in the running of West Ham United, and for the remaining board of directors to appoint competent and professional replacements who will work in the best interests of West Ham United and the fans.

Until this happens, we will be running the NO MORE BS! campaign

Hammers United will be meeting with the Metropolitan Police to organise an initial demonstration, which will be followed by a series of demonstrations and marches, until Brady and Sullivan resign.

In addition to these, we will be working with our West Ham friends on a series of other initiatives designed to make Brady and Sullivan’s positions untenable for both them and the current board of directors.

Details of our first protest, and other activities, will be published across all of our channels on Friday 29 August.

Any West Ham fans who want to help with our campaign can contact us at:

https://hammersunited.co.uk/contact/

Long Live West Ham
Hammers United Committee
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Keep dreaming" wrote: 23 Aug 2025, 18:48 Fans out
Tits Out


(Still about Sullivan and Brady)
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Massive Attack" wrote: 23 Aug 2025, 20:26
Mex Martillo" wrote: 23 Aug 2025, 20:12 I remember Sir Tev stayed put, clearly didn't feel at all threatened and had a rye smile on his face
Massive Attack" wrote: 23 Aug 2025, 19:03 Trip down memory lane.. 🥰


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43267238

Loved him even more for that, if such a thing was possible with Sir Trev. He understood. 👌
The other person who stayed put, which i found quite amusing was bradys husband Peschisolido. Another wry smile as she went scampering off to safety.
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Mex Martillo" wrote: 23 Aug 2025, 20:12 I remember Sir Tev stayed put, clearly didn't feel at all threatened and had a rye smile on his face
Massive Attack" wrote: 23 Aug 2025, 19:03 Trip down memory lane.. 🥰


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43267238

Loved him even more for that, if such a thing was possible with Sir Trev. He understood. 👌
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I remember Sir Tev stayed put, clearly didn't feel at all threatened and had a rye smile on his face
Massive Attack" wrote: 23 Aug 2025, 19:03 Trip down memory lane.. 🥰


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43267238
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Pub Bigot" wrote: 23 Aug 2025, 18:47
Massive Attack" wrote: 23 Aug 2025, 17:23 It's the only way. Maybe the compromise is do it when we concede the 1st goal then gun for them but either way protesting all around that Directors Box need to happen.

And if it did, it has to be targeted at Sullivan, not the Board in general as Kretinsky still might be the answer so don't wanna rope him in with Sully chants.
Bubbles doesn’t post here anymore, and Hammers United wouldn’t sanction this, is how do we get this off the ground?

Doesn't/didn't need them. It was an impromptu thing that happened after the 2nd Burnley goal went in. I and a few others from the BML (before the reconfigure) could see people begin to turn round and gather beneath the Box so we thought fuck it let's go give them stick as well. The concourses and access was much easier with less stewards about ans when we got there fans were piling in from all angles. So none of it was planned. Ans as soon as we congregated, the crowd was too big to usher away and we were there till the bitter end of the game. They eventually had to get up and fuck off inside it got that uncomfortable for them. I think that prick Peschesalido stood defiantly at the top thinking he was the bollocks fronting us up but he just looked pathetic.
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Massive Attack" wrote: 23 Aug 2025, 17:23 It's the only way. Maybe the compromise is do it when we concede the 1st goal then gun for them but either way protesting all around that Directors Box need to happen.

And if it did, it has to be targeted at Sullivan, not the Board in general as Kretinsky still might be the answer so don't wanna rope him in with Sully chants.
Bubbles doesn’t post here anymore, and Hammers United wouldn’t sanction this, is how do we get this off the ground?
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Drag that potless pervert. out by all ends possible anything else is failure . 
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It's the only way. Maybe the compromise is do it when we concede the 1st goal then gun for them but either way protesting all around that Directors Box need to happen.

And if it did, it has to be targeted at Sullivan, not the Board in general as Kretinsky still might be the answer so don't wanna rope him in with Sully chants.
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Massive Attack" wrote: 23 Aug 2025, 16:57 It's more straightforward than we think and we've seen the blueprint perfectly executed before, just that too many are too shit scared to attempt it again.

That entire concourse directly below the Directors Box is still the best vantage point to turn around and give both barrels to the cunts. The Cameras would all quickly pick up on it and zoom right in to those chanting. 

Obviously don't chuck em any spare change this time but that's honestly the best way to go protesting visibly inside the Stadium. 

I think it's had a bit of a re-jig to not make it as easy with access but I reckon en masse Fans can overwhelm stewards etc and enough people doing it will get the desired effect. Next Home game on the Telly it needs to be done 1st half. Forfeit the game (the players have already!) whilst it's still early days so the fans can finally give them hell without it being nowhere near the business end of the season. 

It had the potential for those attending to do it yesterday against Chelsea but people bottled going that far when it was the perfect opportunity to be honest.

Burnley Directors Box Protest is the blueprint. 👌
Protests from behind too, above them. 

I have circumnavigated the ground several times, because stewards are incompetent and don't care, so people from all over the LS could surrounded the directors box and peacefully tell them to fuck off. 
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