David Gold questions West Ham fans over decision to stage protest march

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West Ham United fans are planning a protest march next month.

West Ham have endured another turbulent season and despite turning a corner under David Moyes they are not quite out of the woods just yet.

The Hammers beat Watford 2-0 last time out to move onto 30 points, a remarkable turnaround given the East Londoners sat in the relegation zone with just nine points when Moyes took over in November.

But a second season of disappointments on and off the pitch has taken its toll on West Ham’s loyal supporters, 52,000 of whom purchased season tickets at their new London Stadium home for a second season running – behind only Manchester United.

In fact supporters have grown so fed up of broken promises from co-owners David Sullivan, David Gold and vice-chairman Karren Brady that they have come together to arrange a protest march ahead of the Burnley game on March 10th calling for change.

Thousands are expected to turn out for the march with flags and banners.

As a result the owners pledged to meet with supporter groups to discuss their concerns, as revealed on the club’s official website.

And Gold seemed to make his views on the march abundantly clear when he endorsed a number of tweets questioning the validity of the protest.

A series of tweets opposing the protest march being arranged by the Real West Ham Fans group have been retweeted by Gold to his near 200,000 following.

One tweet reads: “We have gone from a debt ridden, joke to an actual club with ambition attracting top talent, in a top draw stadium. It’s not the board fault the fans aren’t getting behind it #LongLiveTheBoard.”

Another says: “West Ham was going bankruptcy and in the 11th hour the two Davids help save the club or we would of been the next Leeds…all this crap with the board we should give them 1-2 more season. I will get my hard hat.”

Another tweet questioning the validity of the march and asking why fans did not march under the ownership of Terence Brown or the Icelandic regime – which has since been deleted – was also retweeted by Gold.

A string of other messages in support of the board have also been retweeted by the co-owner.

A meeting was held between the club and supporter groups on Monday night and according to many who attended Karren Brady was present but neither Sullivan nor Gold were.