Mass march planned against West Ham owners before Burnley. West Ham badge change demand confirmed.

[CaptainBlueAndClaret]

Hammers United have confirmed timings and the route on its official website and is calling on supporters to add their names to the 16,000 who have signed the petition against the ownership.

The group is also calling for the board to change the club’s badge back to just ‘West Ham United’, losing the controversial ‘London’ wording added by Brady when they moved from Upton Park to the London Stadium.

“Now For the good of the Club, the fans, the players, and everyone associated with West Ham United, the BS has to end,” Hammers United said in a statement.

“The No More BS campaign calls for BS to resign from their executive roles at West Ham United. It is within the gift of BS to do this. And it is incumbent of the remaining board of directors to appoint competent, professional replacements.

“Failure to act is not an option.
“On Saturday 8th November, thousands and thousands of West Ham fans, young and old alike, will come together as one to march from Stratford Station to the London Stadium where we will hand in the West Ham Fans’ petition calling for Brady and Sullivan to go.

“Saturday 8th November is the day that we, the Claret ‘n Blue Army, the voice and heartbeat of our Club, the loyal and long suffering fans who for decades have supported the team through thick and thin, take our greatest step on the journey to getting back what has always been ours: West Ham United Football Club.

“You’ll notice there’s no London in this name. We are West Ham United, and that’s what we want on our badge!“

Ahead of the march, we want as many West Ham fans as possible to sign the petition.”

 https://www.hammers.news/news/west-ham- ... confirmed/  

West Ham Fans to March on London Stadium in Protest Against Sullivan and Brady
Gonzo | 15:30 05/11/25

Hammers United have announced the official route for their planned protest march ahead of Saturday’s game against Burnley.

The march will begin outside Stratford Station at 12:30pm sharp, finishing 45 minutes later at the Directors’ Entrance on Marshgate Lane.

While emotions are expected to run high, Hammers United have stressed that supporters remain fully behind Nuno Espirito Santo and the team, promising passionate vocal support once the game kicks off. 

“This Is About Getting Our Club Back”

HU co-founder Paul ‘Bubbles’ Colborne said:

“This is about getting our club back. We want David Sullivan and Karren Brady to resign their executive positions and put competent football people in place to run the club.”

The protest will be fully marshalled and has received official permission from the Metropolitan Police.

Bubbles added:“We need all the help we can get. This is a fight for the very survival of the club — and we might not get another chance.” 

https://www.claretandhugh.info/west-ham ... and-brady/

[eusebiovic]

Under the thick claret and blue paint? What about to sticky shit on the floors?
Is the Queens still there, that had proper claret and blue decoration.

The sticky carpet to end all sticky carpets...at least I think that's what was under all the shit

I always enjoyed all the faded Shoot! posters with the tatty frames in The Queen's as well 

[Mex Martillo]

Under the thick claret and blue paint? What about to sticky shit on the floors?
Is the Queens still there, that had proper claret and blue decoration.

[eusebiovic]

A shithole is generally a place which has no redeeming features whatsoever.

Some of the best vegetarian curries in London are in the vicinity of our old ground plus the spectacular all singing all dancing refurbishment of The Boleyn.

I think a fair few of us suspected something special was hiding underneath all those layers of claret and blue gloss paint but we didn't have to think too deeply about it at the time!

2 things off the top of my head.
 

[Massive Attack]

No issue with trying to oust the owners.

Just time to move on from mourning over a shithole area which we all hated travelling to every other week.

Nope, I used to love the journey on the District/Hammersmith and City lines in anticipation of arriving at Upton Park. 1 stop after another you would be joined more and more by fellow Hammers that helped build an exciting atmosphere, then once you got out the Station the excitement of it all would build once more. Those old Boozers were fucking great fun to be in both before and after matches en route to the Boleyn which made it all magical as the ultimate Football experience. Then being in the Ground itself would top the whole experience off and none of that has come close to being matched since moving.

My memories of sharing all that with my pals and old man will live with me forever and won't stop harking back to it. Unlike GSB I will never move on and accept that new polished shithole of a Stadium. 

[Mad Ferret]

No issue with trying to oust the owners.

Just time to move on from mourning over a shithole area which we all hated travelling to every other week.

[Massive Attack]

So you preferred the South Asian infested Green St?

Yes, I'd cut off my right bollock to go back. 

Time to move on fella.

Nah, we don't want to. Keep the pressure up.

[Mad Ferret]

I went to the first march and saw the location of the O/S for the first and last time. It's no comparison to Upton Park . I understand the frustrations of those who attend games week in and week out with season tickets. The media don't understand the betrayal by the board, the lies and the empty promises.

So you preferred the South Asian infested Green St?

Yes, I'd cut off my right bollock to go back. 

Time to move on fella.

[Dick Shaftsbury]

I went to the first march and saw the location of the O/S for the first and last time. It's no comparison to Upton Park . I understand the frustrations of those who attend games week in and week out with season tickets. The media don't understand the betrayal by the board, the lies and the empty promises.

So you preferred the South Asian infested Green St?

Yes, I'd cut off my right bollock to go back. 

[Mad Ferret]

So you preferred the South Asian infested Green St?

As opposed to the gang infested stabby Stratford?

It's a toughy, if I'm honest.

Ok, so go to the ground through Hackney Wick or Bow.

[Lee Trundle]

So you preferred the South Asian infested Green St?

As opposed to the gang infested stabby Stratford?

It's a toughy, if I'm honest.

[Massive Attack]

1 million percent preferred it how it was. Would go back in a heartbeat if I could. 

[Mad Ferret]

I went to the first march and saw the location of the O/S for the first and last time. It's no comparison to Upton Park . I understand the frustrations of those who attend games week in and week out with season tickets. The media don't understand the betrayal by the board, the lies and the empty promises.

So you preferred the South Asian infested Green St?

You could always walk though the Carpenters Estate if you wanted a more ‘working-class’ walk to the ground.

The location isn’t the issue. An actual football stadium in that location would be perfect.

[Westham67]

I went to the first march and saw the location of the O/S for the first and last time. It's no comparison to Upton Park . I understand the frustrations of those who attend games week in and week out with season tickets. The media don't understand the betrayal by the board, the lies and the empty promises.

[Pub Bigot]

All I know about Mark Wright is that his bird is a sort. Other than that, in his interview he came across as a right cսnt, so from here on I’ll make him down as one. 

I wonder how many times the Essex sycophant has let midget balls slip Michelle Keegan one?

[El Scorchio]

The TOWIE guy is giving an alternative view ( which is not qualified or recognising the nuances of the 15 year ownership) and most probably ( almost certainly), presented to Sky etc to do Sullivan’s bidding as Sully himself does not have the courage, integrity or a case, to face up to interviewers himself. It is the behaviour of a coward imo.  

If results had been better over the last few years in the league then yes the protests may not have been organised. Imo protests were only delayed by the Conf Cup win in the same way it masked the league form which was on a 2 season downward trajectory ( Moyes had 18 months of good consistent results).  Then there’s  the stadium, fans gave it time initially I think, despite it not being as promised, but then realised the club were not going to address sight lines, travel issues and the whole match day experience.  It will take a sizeable investment to build a new stadium or greatly improve that bowl ( IIRC a club in Europe did something to a similar shape stadium by squaring off 2 sides and /or completely reconfiguring seating but at a huge cost). West Ham owners dont want to spend a penny on it and worse still Sullivan has tefused to partner with LLDC or even try to? Because it will involve spending some money.  

This ridiculous TOWIE geezer? Why is he an authority on West Ham? He says Sullivan has done some good things for or at West Ham? What are they? He needed to explain them.   In the interest of balance I can concede that Sullivan has made money available for squad investment especially by making the additional European  revenues available for recruitment.  But thats about it?  On the negative side of the ledger, there is the awful  spending of that money, lack of long term planning, appalling managerial and exec appointments which at best look disjointed and are knee jerk reactions designed to correct mistakes but each time just add to the problems. Everything aimed at short term survival in the PL.  

And then there things like the changing of the badge and club name and the ticketing policy. These things are a  big part of the protests since its the traditional fan base that is taking action. There appears to have been an attempt to change the fan demographic.  Sadly it has worked to some extent with many of the traditional fan base giving up season tickets.  A complete disregard for what supporting a football club is about and solely aimed at garnering maximum financial reward for the owners ( tourist fans spend more etc).  

Its this loss of identity that hurts the most?. A working class club, that emanated from a works team, that many fans parents, grand parents and great grand parents and their relations supported. That was ignored or simply disregarded.   But its that lineage and the experiences passed down, that is at the heart of the emotional attachment and passion for most fans of football clubs. Completely ignored by Brady and Sullivan who just have pound notes in their eyes. 

And promises and expectation setting just to convince us to move. They lied its as simple as that. And they made commitments they have not delivered on ( world class team / stadium). Trying to claim a 3rd tier Euro cup win, that many English teams will win as time goes on, is not a “world class team”.    

All the above, which spans the last 10 - 15 years, equates to abject failure and the inability of the owner, and his part time CEO, to run the club with any semblence of what be termed “competence”.  

We are still a club that flirts with relegation most seasons but now in a ground not fit for purpose we dont own, all fixed assets mortgaged to the hilt and no way to bridge the revenue gap to 7 or 8 other clubs because the rented stadium naming rights can never be ours.  

A 15 year journey that has delivered nothing aside from a 3rd tier Euro cup win that is at best a level above the Intertoto we won years back. The only benefit has been to the asset value in the owners portfolio and ironically even that could be about to implode should we get relegated.  

Sullivan at least needs to sack Brady and step down from the day to day running of the club and bring in professionals ( CEO , DOF ) with a track record of success running a football club over the long term. But there’s the catch 22, Sullivan is incapable of appointing the right people so imo has have to sell up.  BS out !!

'Good things for the club' undoubtedly means 'Good things for me because wants to try and schmooze with Z listers like me in the lounge at the stadium because he thinks it makes him a celebrity by proxy so gives me the best tickets in the house for free whenever I want them and keeps me sweet so I'll speak up for him'

The bloke is just a paid mouthpiece to try and cut off some of the horrendous publicity. He'll happily take freebies to make himself feel important and ignore what's been going on in the stands and on the pitch for years. Absolute out of touch freeloader.

I also noticed on Saturday Sullivan and Brady hid behind Sir Trev, who laid the club's wreath alongside Burnley's owner and will never ever get a bad reception. Fucking cowards too afraid to face the fans because they know exactly what reception they'd get. Only bit of common sense that could have been behind it is that it would have absolutely overshadowed the laying of the wreath with no doubt a very hostile reaction.

[El Scorchio]

I don't know why you're even bothering to engage with that rancid bait. We all know he's purposely talking out of his arse just to get some attention and we all know we'd have exactly the same problems, maybe even worse, if Moyes was still at the club. His style of squad management and transfer policy combined with Sullivan's horrible mismanagement and even worse gatekeeping of transfer policy both completely focused on the short term (can't fully blame Moyes for that as he knew he wasn't sticking around at least 12 months prior to leaving, but I will fully blame Sullivan) had us in an unsustainable position and a slow death spiral.

Lop and Potter just both made it worse in their own ways and fucking the squad even more, forcing Sullivan to finally grudgingly pony up for the midfielder we desperately needed for over 18 months when it was clear if he didn't we were going down- again a day late to the party when we could have gotten far better value had he acted sooner. Players like Fernandes have been staring Sullivan in the fucking face for years and time and again he's always bottled it and gone for a 'safe' option of a player in their late 20s. Well we'd make our money back on Fernandes if we sold him in January and probably more at the end of the season despite the cost because there's so much potential and he's so young. Compare that to the shitshow money drain of JWP or Kilman.

He's got fucking lucky again that Nuno looks like he's got enough about him and just enough quality where it counts to drag this team high enough up the table to stay in the premier league. We might get 1 or 2 decent players in January as we won't be out of the woods, if we stay up then it'll be back to silly buggers in the summer and doing things on the cheap, trying to 'win' against selling teams and thinking he knows better than his manager regarding transfers like the barrow boy he is, and we'll just stay in this holding pattern until he fucks off. Nuno might just tell him to go and fuck himself as well and walk. We need him more than he needs us at this point. If he keeps us up I am sure he wouldn't be short of decent job offers.

[Dick Shaftsbury]

Well done Danny boy on calling out the arselicking ponce..  




 

It shows how out of touch they are to ask that clown to defend them

Imagine thinking "I need to get people in the media talking favourably about me, who can I ask? I know, the TOWIE lot, the West Ham fans love TOWIE" 

[Sir Alf]

The TOWIE guy is giving an alternative view ( which is not qualified or recognising the nuances of the 15 year ownership) and most probably ( almost certainly), presented to Sky etc to do Sullivan’s bidding as Sully himself does not have the courage, integrity or a case, to face up to interviewers himself. It is the behaviour of a coward imo.  

If results had been better over the last few years in the league then yes the protests may not have been organised. Imo protests were only delayed by the Conf Cup win in the same way it masked the league form which was on a 2 season downward trajectory ( Moyes had 18 months of good consistent results).  Then there’s  the stadium, fans gave it time initially I think, despite it not being as promised, but then realised the club were not going to address sight lines, travel issues and the whole match day experience.  It will take a sizeable investment to build a new stadium or greatly improve that bowl ( IIRC a club in Europe did something to a similar shape stadium by squaring off 2 sides and /or completely reconfiguring seating but at a huge cost). West Ham owners dont want to spend a penny on it and worse still Sullivan has tefused to partner with LLDC or even try to? Because it will involve spending some money.  

This ridiculous TOWIE geezer? Why is he an authority on West Ham? He says Sullivan has done some good things for or at West Ham? What are they? He needed to explain them.   In the interest of balance I can concede that Sullivan has made money available for squad investment especially by making the additional European  revenues available for recruitment.  But thats about it?  On the negative side of the ledger, there is the awful  spending of that money, lack of long term planning, appalling managerial and exec appointments which at best look disjointed and are knee jerk reactions designed to correct mistakes but each time just add to the problems. Everything aimed at short term survival in the PL.  

And then there things like the changing of the badge and club name and the ticketing policy. These things are a  big part of the protests since its the traditional fan base that is taking action. There appears to have been an attempt to change the fan demographic.  Sadly it has worked to some extent with many of the traditional fan base giving up season tickets.  A complete disregard for what supporting a football club is about and solely aimed at garnering maximum financial reward for the owners ( tourist fans spend more etc).  

Its this loss of identity that hurts the most?. A working class club, that emanated from a works team, that many fans parents, grand parents and great grand parents and their relations supported. That was ignored or simply disregarded.   But its that lineage and the experiences passed down, that is at the heart of the emotional attachment and passion for most fans of football clubs. Completely ignored by Brady and Sullivan who just have pound notes in their eyes. 

And promises and expectation setting just to convince us to move. They lied its as simple as that. And they made commitments they have not delivered on ( world class team / stadium). Trying to claim a 3rd tier Euro cup win, that many English teams will win as time goes on, is not a “world class team”.    

All the above, which spans the last 10 - 15 years, equates to abject failure and the inability of the owner, and his part time CEO, to run the club with any semblence of what be termed “competence”.  

We are still a club that flirts with relegation most seasons but now in a ground not fit for purpose we dont own, all fixed assets mortgaged to the hilt and no way to bridge the revenue gap to 7 or 8 other clubs because the rented stadium naming rights can never be ours.  

A 15 year journey that has delivered nothing aside from a 3rd tier Euro cup win that is at best a level above the Intertoto we won years back. The only benefit has been to the asset value in the owners portfolio and ironically even that could be about to implode should we get relegated.  

Sullivan at least needs to sack Brady and step down from the day to day running of the club and bring in professionals ( CEO , DOF ) with a track record of success running a football club over the long term. But there’s the catch 22, Sullivan is incapable of appointing the right people so imo has have to sell up.  BS out !!

[Mike Oxsaw]

The issue was sacking Moyes.

There would be no protests now if Moyes was still in charge. There may well be some grumbles about the style of play etc, but that's it.

Two disastrous appointments later, hopefully Sullivan has stumbled into a good appointment in Nuno.

where was you during the cսnt's final two seasons in charge when we lost twenty league games, then conceded 74 league goals parking the bus every fucking week?

Like I said, there would be some grumbles.

But not the mass hysteria that we are currently seeing. 

There is absolutely zero "mass hysteria" here.

What there is, is more and more people now vocalising and actioning what they've always felt - the shenanigans at the club are crossing more and more peoples personal lines of acceptability, hence the protests.

[Mad Ferret]

Well, there's Sullivan's chance to stop the protests then. Deliver a team that "goes well".

The issue was sacking Moyes.

There would be no protests now if Moyes was still in charge. There may well be some grumbles about the style of play etc, but that's it.

Two disastrous appointments later, hopefully Sullivan has stumbled into a good appointment in Nuno.

where was you during the cսnt's final two seasons in charge when we lost twenty league games, then conceded 74 league goals parking the bus every fucking week?

Like I said, there would be some grumbles.

But not the mass hysteria that we are currently seeing. 

[Takashi Miike]

I don't have much time for the TOWIE lot, but must say Mark makes a good point regarding the fans not protesting when things are going well.

Well, there's Sullivan's chance to stop the protests then. Deliver a team that "goes well".

The issue was sacking Moyes.

There would be no protests now if Moyes was still in charge. There may well be some grumbles about the style of play etc, but that's it.

Two disastrous appointments later, hopefully Sullivan has stumbled into a good appointment in Nuno.

where was you during the cսnt's final two seasons in charge when we lost twenty league games, then conceded 74 league goals parking the bus every fucking week?

[Far Cough UKunt]

Gary, agreed it also applies to that boycott game with Brentford, a lot of people relisted their seats, I mean that is so fucking pointless.

[Gary Strodders shank]

Was that cardboard cutout celeb speaking independently or was he being worked by his old man and his mates like a ventriloquists dummy ?

On another point people on these protests just don't seem to get it ?

A woman marching in front of us on Saturday was laden down with shopping bags from the club shop 

There was others too and how about all those sitting in the week before from the Brewdog bar ?

If you feel strongly about the owners and the way the club is being run then stop feeding all their income streams otherwise you are defeating the object.

As for the West Ham London thing I have never purchased anything with that wording on.

I even refused to buy a West Ham poppy badge because of it 

There are plenty of other retailers out there doing decent clobber if you want to show your colours and I just bought a decent West ham legends mug off of Etsy.

Shop around and give your money to the little man (,not Sullivan) rather than lining the coffers of those we are protesting against.



 

[Mad Ferret]

I don't have much time for the TOWIE lot, but must say Mark makes a good point regarding the fans not protesting when things are going well.

Well, there's Sullivan's chance to stop the protests then. Deliver a team that "goes well".

The issue was sacking Moyes.

There would be no protests now if Moyes was still in charge. There may well be some grumbles about the style of play etc, but that's it.

Two disastrous appointments later, hopefully Sullivan has stumbled into a good appointment in Nuno.

[Mike Oxsaw]

I don't have much time for the TOWIE lot, but must say Mark makes a good point regarding the fans not protesting when things are going well.

Well, there's Sullivan's chance to stop the protests then. Deliver a team that "goes well".