West Ham United co-owner David Gold has rejected claims from disgruntled supporters that their beloved Upton Park could have been redeveloped.
West Ham United’s Adrian, Dimitri Payet and team mates look dejected
A terrible start to the season, infighting amongst fans, resentment towards owners and concerns over safety have soured the Hammers’ season so far.
Slaven Bilic‘s side have lost three of their opening four Premier League matches and scraped past Bournemouth in their solitary victory.
The Hammers were also embarrassingly dumped out of the Europa League by Romanian minnows Astra Giurgiu for the second season running.
Match stewards attempt to make West Ham United fans sit down
Fans are at each other’s throats over standing at their new 60,000 seater Olympic Stadium home while Karren Brady – who spearheaded the club’s move to Stratford – was allegedly spat at by her own supporters as things turned sour in a 4-2 home defeat to Watford last time out.
A toxic atmosphere is starting to fester at West Ham and fans are beginning to question some of Bilic’s team selections and tactics on the pitch too.
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic celebrates after winning the final match at the Boleyn Ground
It is a far cry from last season when West Ham enjoyed their best ever points total of the Premier League era, recorded a first positive goal difference since 1986 and finished just four points off the Champions League places in their emotional farewell campaign at Upton Park.
And those emotions have come to the fore again in light of the ugly scenes at the new ground of late with some supporters hankering for their beloved Boleyn Ground.
Fans have been sending messages to Gold on Twitter, many of them expressing regret over leaving Upton Park and insisting plans were previously in place to redevelop the ground and increase capacity.
West Ham co chairman David Gold poses on the pitch before the match
But Gold has responded insisting that was never the case and that they will solve the problems at the Olympic Stadium.
“None of the problems at our new home are insurmountable,” Gold said on Twitter.
“We have a world class stadium which we should embrace.
“There was no planing for Upton Park to go to 42k and even if there was that would have still left us fourth (biggest stadium) in London.”
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