{"id":262832,"date":"2025-11-04T21:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/262832\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T21:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:33:14","slug":"report-suggests-bleak-outcome-to-supporter-disquiet-at-west-ham-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/262832\/","title":{"rendered":"Report suggests bleak outcome to supporter disquiet at West Ham United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting-in for half an hour after the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/west-ham-3-1-newcastle-united-player-ratings-as-nuno-claims-huge-victory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Newcastle United<\/a> game offered a stark contrast to the previous two home performances which had seen 20,000 fans boycott the Brentford game and thousands stream away early against Crystal Palace following painful losses: It was rare to see the ground almost full come the final whistle.<\/p>\n<p>The fan protest \u2013 planned in Graham Potter\u2019s era \u2013 seemed almost ungrateful after the teams\u2019 performance but of course, it was aimed at the board not the team. A further protest is planned for next Saturday\u2019s crucial \u2018six pointer\u2019 Burnley fixture.<\/p>\n<p>No end in sight to fan protests at West Ham \u2018United\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>However it seems as though the supporters and board conflict could easily fester on and become a chronic condition: As the <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.co.uk\/news\/sport\/article\/west-ham-premier-league-protest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">observer.co.uk<\/a> puts it today:<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6unkm\">\u201cThis isn\u2019t a feud you look at and see easy exit routes. With a 99-year lease signed in 2013 on the London Stadium, new owners would find it hard to extricate their new possession. And where would they go? The cost of building another new ground in this part of London would be astronomical, and potentially take decades.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"52tbp\">The disquiet therefore is of the circular, gnawing kind. The owners sit on their \u2018investment,\u2019 which exploited the impasse over the London 2012 stadium\u2019s future use, and the team stays locked in survival mode while the fans experience a kind of existential dread\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And so it goes on like some kind of never ending, football-themed Groundhog Day conflict between supporters, eyes fixed firmly in the rear view mirror and occasionally with rose \u2013 tinted glasses reminiscing of the \u2018old days\u2019, and a board that doesn\u2019t really care about their fanbase experience or coming good on their promise of a world-class anything, merely running the club like it is still 1975.<\/p>\n<p>Where will it end? Providing the club doesn\u2019t get relegated, supporters are a notoriously fickle bunch and if Nuno guides the Hammers up the table four or five places, chances are enough of the supporters will \u2018settle\u2019 for that. Until the next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sitting-in for half an hour after the Newcastle United game offered a stark contrast to the previous two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-262832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}