West Ham United co-owner David Gold may have put his foot in it yet again on Twitter.
A section of West Ham fans have turned on the club’s board this season.
A torrid start to the season, lack of investment and issues with the move to the London Stadium have driven a wedge between some supporters and co-owners David Gold, David Sullivan and their vice-chairman Karren Brady.
Things have been turning around on the pitch under David Moyes with the Hammers giving themselves a real chance of survival after taking seven points from games against Chelsea, Arsenal and Stoke City.
That has seen supporters lay off the owners for the time being with renewed hope on the pitch.
But now Gold, who has a habit of upsetting fans on social networking site Twitter, has suggested West Ham fans are ungrateful by retweeting a post from a Hammers supporter suggesting as much.
The tweet said: “They’ll (West Ham fans) never get it… The board get abuse when we lose, everyone else gets praise when we win. Our owners are far from perfect but far too many are keen to jump on them when they make a mistake but too proud to offer praise when they do good things.”
Gold retweeted the message to his near 200,000 Twitter following, the majority of whom are West Ham fans, suggesting he endorsed the comments.
And that won’t go down well with fans who have showed intense loyalty to the club over a long and unsuccessful period of time with their last major trophy coming nearly 40 years ago back in 1980.
More than 7,000 made the trip to Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium in midweek for the 1-0 defeat in the Carabao Cup quarter-final but did not witness a single shot on target in the 90 minutes.
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