Time for massive protests against David Sullivan!

[Barty888]

We can't simply accept his presence! We need to get him the fuck away from our club!

[El Scorchio]

Why the Brentford game? Seems picked because of the day and time.

Spurs would be a much stronger message.

Football is performance based. If our form improves and we get say 7 points out of the next 4 games I don't see it gathering the momentum it needs.


 

Presumably far more time to get the message out there to people and for press coverage, and to make the board sweat. Plus it IS a game people may be more inclined to miss- to add it's the only football that day so should be a bigger story that way than amongst stacks of other games on the same day on 13th. Although if Bruno Fernandes takes an unusually large shit, that will be a bigger story amongst most media outlets.

[wils]

Hate Brentford and their fans. Next down from Arsenal on my list. Most of them are Arsenal fans that can't get tickets for the Emirates. Or they're urban middle-class dads want to expose their sons to and edgy environment and choose Brentford because it's most like Arsenal and they can get tickets. 

Gladly fuck that one off boycott or not.

[Mad Ferret]

Why the Brentford game? Seems picked because of the day and time.

Spurs would be a much stronger message.
 

People don't want to miss our cup final.

Brentford game is an easy miss. Probably be a borefest anyway.

[dealcanvey]

Why the Brentford game? Seems picked because of the day and time.

Spurs would be a much stronger message.

Football is performance based. If our form improves and we get say 7 points out of the next 4 games I don't see it gathering the momentum it needs.

 

[Mike Oxsaw]

Boycott Brentford

Easy 

Not as easy as you think.

Some (even on this site) believe that giving Sullivan money and supporting him is the same as not  giving Sullivan money and supporting him, and that they have every right to do what they want, when they want and, especially if it involves personal sacrifice, fuck everybody else.

[yngwies Cat]

Boycott Brentford

Easy 

[Massive Attack]

No going back now with so much ground work done to set up the upcoming protests against the Board. Media are right on top of all this now and reporting it. 

[Forest Gate Ugly]

This in the Guardian today, so a bit of profile amongst the beardy sandal wearing intelligentsia. Hopefully they’ll be up for kicking the board’s collective arse. 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... club-board

[Keep dreaming]

Good good. Come on you Irons!

We now have no choice but to issue a “vote of no confidence” in relation to the Board’s management of the club.

[Massive Attack]

Keep the heat on, ladies and gents. Heartening to see.

[oioi]

Just seen this 

https://hammersunited.co.uk/fab-vote-of ... ham-board/

[oioi]

Is this happening? There's nothing on the hammers united website.

[Massive Attack]

Fucking fantastic work Hammers United/Bubbles (Paul)...  

The Athletic  

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

[Massive Attack]

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.

[muskie]

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. 

[Massive Attack]

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.

[honky cat]

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 Committe

 

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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[Barty888]

[Shropshire_Iron]

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

[Barty888]

[nychammer]

@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. 

[Massive Attack]

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.

[Gary Strodders shank]

Time has come

I'm bang up for this 

[Barty888]

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

[Barty888]

Time has come