{"id":486288,"date":"2026-06-06T15:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/486288\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T15:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:08:09","slug":"sullivan-resigns-as-joint-chair-and-director-of-west-ham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/486288\/","title":{"rendered":"Sullivan resigns as joint-chair and director of West Ham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Sullivan has stepped down as chairman of West Ham with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>The 77-year-old is leaving his role of 16 years to defend &#8220;allegations&#8221; about his private life.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;After very careful consideration and with a heavy heart, I have decided to resign as joint-chair and director of West Ham United FC with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been an incredibly painful decision to make, but it is one made out of love, respect, and responsibility toward a football club and a fan base that deserve absolute unity and focus moving forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Sullivan has stepped down as chairman of West Ham with immediate effect. The 77-year-old is leaving his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-486288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}