{"id":487455,"date":"2026-03-21T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487455\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:24:08","slug":"how-would-west-ham-or-tottenham-relegation-affect-londoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487455\/","title":{"rendered":"How would West Ham or Tottenham relegation affect Londoners?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked how off-field staff at each club will be feeling right now, Wyness said: &#8220;It&#8217;s just a very worrying time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There will be people, especially in the present financial climate, who will be very concerned, and that will translate into their job performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s so important for the leaders off the pitch in the club to be able to handle this with great humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC London asked both clubs what plans are being drawn up to prepare for the possibility of relegation but they declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wyness said: &#8220;I hope they are planning properly, and not just paying lip service to it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to be getting all your consultations ready in terms of layoffs and all that sort of thing, and I&#8217;m afraid it&#8217;s just not pretty but this is the time to focus and be professional.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With so much at stake beyond the confines of the pitch, the stars of Tottenham and West Ham will be playing for far more than professional pride over the next few weeks as they bid to keep their clubs in the Premier League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asked how off-field staff at each club will be feeling right now, Wyness said: &#8220;It&#8217;s just a very&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-487455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487455","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=487455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}