Yeah too right. His fucking tears are priceless. Now we need a fucking cunt mentality for next season. 38 wars.
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“You sold our soul for this shithole,” the home fans sang through the dappled late-afternoon sun as David Sullivan sat looking opaque in his VIP director pod – and this is exactly what has happened here, a macro-collapse, a managed alienation, a club that has forgotten what it was trying to be.
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In the event it took 43 minutes for that flame to die. It is rare to hear a genuinely new and surprising expression of emotion. But there was one of those here as news filtered through that Spurs had scored and instantly the energy just vanished from the stands, like watching a blackout engulf Los Angeles. Even the boos at half-time felt like boos by rote, as though the club had employed its own outside hype-booers just to generate some energy.
These are always creepy occasions, ghost games haunted by voices through the wall. The ground had been debilitatingly hot at kick-off, the pitch-side machines pumping out exhausted, heat-sapped bubbles, which sank instantly and expired on the running track.
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Nuno Espírito Santo was out on his touchline from start to finish, something of a relief in itself given his deeply-haunted picture above his programme notes. “There are a great many things we could say about the last few matches,” Nuno had written. “Almost none of them are good.”
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It is no mystery why this has happened. Why have West Ham been relegated? Relentless executive failure. The shameful squandering of resources. A complacent, low-quality management tier that has been completely outflanked by highly competent middleweight clubs elsewhere levelling up in every area, while West Ham have doodled around in their rented shopping-centre annexe.
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West Ham’s entire corporate structure contains nothing but slackness, no exceptional qualities from player production to managerial hiring and firing. This is a hugely mediocre organisation, one that has now expressed those qualities in the hard currency of results. The remaining dinosaurs will at least live to see their own investment value shredded.
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In the event it took 43 minutes for that flame to die. It is rare to hear a genuinely new and surprising expression of emotion. But there was one of those here as news filtered through that Spurs had scored and instantly the energy just vanished from the stands, like watching a blackout engulf Los Angeles. Even the boos at half-time felt like boos by rote, as though the club had employed its own outside hype-booers just to generate some energy.
These are always creepy occasions, ghost games haunted by voices through the wall. The ground had been debilitatingly hot at kick-off, the pitch-side machines pumping out exhausted, heat-sapped bubbles, which sank instantly and expired on the running track.
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Nuno Espírito Santo was out on his touchline from start to finish, something of a relief in itself given his deeply-haunted picture above his programme notes. “There are a great many things we could say about the last few matches,” Nuno had written. “Almost none of them are good.”
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It is no mystery why this has happened. Why have West Ham been relegated? Relentless executive failure. The shameful squandering of resources. A complacent, low-quality management tier that has been completely outflanked by highly competent middleweight clubs elsewhere levelling up in every area, while West Ham have doodled around in their rented shopping-centre annexe.
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West Ham’s entire corporate structure contains nothing but slackness, no exceptional qualities from player production to managerial hiring and firing. This is a hugely mediocre organisation, one that has now expressed those qualities in the hard currency of results. The remaining dinosaurs will at least live to see their own investment value shredded.
I’ve got two mates who are West Ham. Because we got so close to the trap door I find I just can’t take the piss
Their fans have had to endure poor ownership and years of being misled, all because the club has been turned into a commercial money making machine rather than being treated like a proper football club like they used to be.
We can relate to that in many ways ourselves, which is why we have a certain level of empathy for them.
100% agree. Of all the London clubs, the one id love to see go and would have zero sympathy is Chelsea. As much as i loathe woolwich, i wouldnt want a premier league season without the NLD. Chelsea are just a ###t club that had an anomaly period because of financial doping
I get that mate.
But after I’ve left it a week (so I don’t get battered) , I’ll be a fucker on the piss take.
They're really in trouble. Dont really have many assets to sell outside Bowen, Fernandes and Summerville. No real youth players coming through, a load of loans and freebies who will be off and they were skint before relegation. Sold their soul with the stadium as well. What a shame.
West Ham are a medium-sized club. No meed for that to be questioned.
Had we gone down the aftershock would be the resounding story for days/weeks.
Night and day difference.
Had we gone down the aftershock would be the resounding story for days/weeks.
Night and day difference.
I think their leftback Diouf is better than Udogie then theres the two you mentioned
Thank you Nuno , you finally made us proud! 
Thank you Nuno , you finally made us proud!
Hmmmmm....
Santo seems a decent bloke. He will want reassurances or he will go.
Just relieved it wasn't us.
He did a decent job there absolutely a better coach than the last two we've had just a typical negative Vitor Frade devotee Portuguese deciple like Jose inherently defensive. But on another planet to our current coach. Thank the stars.
"West Ham play in a rented athletics stadium. They lost £104.2m last year and their recent accounts forecast “a liquidity shortfall” this summer. Bowen, Fernandes and Summerville will surely leave. Nuno, who has done a poor job, may walk away and does not deserve to stay. West Ham need to raise more than £100m through sales this summer and it is unclear whether they run the risk of breaching the English Football League’s financial rules.
Whatever comes next will be grim. Trying to fill 62,000 seats when the London Stadium hosts Championship football will be quite the experience. Apathy and anger are a toxic combination. Look at Leicester’s relegation to League One. It would require staggering complacency for West Ham not to realise they could be next."
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Whatever comes next will be grim. Trying to fill 62,000 seats when the London Stadium hosts Championship football will be quite the experience. Apathy and anger are a toxic combination. Look at Leicester’s relegation to League One. It would require staggering complacency for West Ham not to realise they could be next."
Blame for West Ham’s inexorable slide to relegation sits at the feet of David Sullivan | Jacob Steinberg
The club’s largest shareholder has ignored warning signs since 2022 and need only look at the fate of Leicester to see what what may be in store
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If you looked on social media before the game it was all a love in between Leeds and west ham fans saying they wanted to roll over for them to send them down. Glad the real fans were proper!
Walking through Liverpool street before the game the west ham fans seemed a lot more cocky and confident than our lot, which seemed strange considering the odds, but I think that's just how they are