West Ham left to fade and die with soulless football and soulless owners at a soulless stadium<\/a><\/p>\nI saw stewards confiscate anti-Brady and Sullivan banners, both at the turnstiles and inside the away end at Liverpool on Saturday, along with hundreds of \u2018red cards\u2019 used to protest against the ownership.<\/p>\n
This was reportedly under direct instruction from West Ham, on the grounds of being \u2018inflammatory\u2019 and \u2018political\u2019.<\/p>\n
I must have missed Sullivan becoming a political party in another deviation from our two-party monopoly. These personal items were binned rather than returned afterwards.<\/p>\n
Suppression of free speech is an undercurrent of British society in 2026, especially when the government arrests Palestine Action supporters and wants to ban the use of VPNs.<\/p>\n
Leaders across the world are using George Orwell\u2019s 1984 as a to-do guide, rather than as a cautionary tale.<\/p>\n
Word from ITKs on long-running West Ham forums is that the owners are using words like \u2018declaration of war\u2019 around fan protests.<\/p>\n
Not content with running the club into the ground, the owners are now salting the earth for sh*ts and giggles.<\/p>\n
The short-term thinking is staggering until you remember their track record in the transfer market, one that has reduced the club to a punchline among the wider football community.<\/p>\n
On a related note, West Ham announced pre-tax losses of \u00a3104million for the 2024\/25 season on Friday.<\/p>\n
A liquidity shortfall \u2013 being unable to pay the bills \u2013 is forecast this summer. It\u2019s common knowledge that the club will need to sell players, regardless of which division they\u2019re in.<\/p>\n
And that means waving goodbye to Jarrod Bowen, Matheus Fernandes and Crysencio Summerville, not Max Kilman.<\/p>\n
Writing in her newspaper column in 2010, Brady said: \u201cTo West Ham fans I\u2019ll make a single pledge \u2013 while we are on the board, we will hang in the Tower of London before your club again goes through the financial turmoil which so nearly brought it down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sixteen years later, several West Ham fans would volunteer to build the gallows themselves.<\/p>\n
Instead of apologising to supporters, the owners are simply stamping down on their faces with greater intensity and protecting their own fragile feelings.<\/p>\n
At least journalists from national newspapers are now calling them out, instead of swallowing lies and slandering West Ham fans as being overly demanding.<\/p>\n
Writing in yesterday\u2019s Observer, George Simms noted: \u2018You have to question what Sullivan gets out of maintaining control of West Ham: loathed by fans and unwilling to change.<\/p>\n
\u2018This is now a solely selfish pursuit, damaging a beloved club to soothe his ego.\u2019<\/p>\n
The 77-year-old is almost Trumpian, refusing to walk away in the face of all evidence. It seems to be another 2026 bug that leaders squat in positions of power despite being universally hated.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Brady continues to dispense questionable nuggets of wisdom on The Apprentice.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s galling that she remains a national figure after butchering West Ham\u2019s very essence. She is rumoured to be considering her resignation.<\/p>\n
If Sullivan and Brady expended as much time and energy into running the club as they do with fighting against supporters, West Ham would be challenging for Europe.<\/p>\n
Instead, a final reckoning is coming for the pair. It will be richly deserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Sullivan and Karren Brady might not *quite* be the worst owners in English football. But they are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[35942,25822,218,448,348,35432,101,56,54,55,25673],"class_list":{"0":"post-453946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-david-sullivan","9":"tag-f365-says","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-home-page","13":"tag-popular","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom","18":"tag-west-ham-united"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}