Posted on 16 March 2018. Tags: karren-brady, the-stadium, vice-chairman, West Ham United
• Vice-chairman wrote to Sadiq Khan blaming the stadium owner • Monday meeting followed serious crowd trouble in loss to Burnley Sadiq Khan has rebuked Karren Brady for claiming that cuts in the London Stadium’s security budget were responsible for the crowd trouble that marred West Ham United’s defeat by Burnley last Saturday. West Ham’s vice-chairman wrote to the mayor of London after an emergency meeting between stakeholders on Monday and said David Sadler, the head of…
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Posted on 11 March 2018. Tags: board-brought, guardian.co.uk, inevitable, lower, stadium, the-stadium
The board brought Saturday’s crowd trouble upon itself by refusing to acknowledge the stadium and team are substandard, says season-ticket holder Jim Kearns The question to ask about West Ham is not “How have things got this bad”, but instead “How were they ever that good”? Saturday was the inevitable corollary of having a board of directors who speak with grandiloquence about the Champions League and then behave as though they…
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Posted on 11 May 2016. Tags: Boleyn Ground, club, premier league, sport, the-stadium, verlooking-the-boleyn, will-start
Residents of a block of flats overlooking the Boleyn Ground watch West Ham play Manchester United – the club’s final game at the stadium before it is replaced by luxury flats. West Ham will start 2016-17 at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford. Continue reading…
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