Martin Keown has slammed West Ham United fans after Slaven Bilic’s departure from the London Stadium.
Football’s worst kept secret looks set to be announced tomorrow, with the Mail suggesting that David Moyes is set to take over from Slaven Bilic at the London Stadium after the Croatian’s departure was confirmed on Monday.
Moyes faces a tough task trying to win many of the underwhelmed supporters over, especially as the Irons currently sit in the relegation zone in the top flight. And Keown has criticised the way the fans have behaved lately, and insisted that Moyes needs their backing during the coming months.
“Yes, the team are a disjointed mess. In fact, they don’t look like a team. But when I was listening to the radio commentary of their game with Liverpool at the London Stadium on Saturday all I could hear was the home fans booing every time Mark Noble got on the ball and passed it backwards to keep possession.
“On social media they are trying to create protests against the board! Have they not seen the league table?
“If West Ham fans want their club to stay in the Premier League, they have to get behind the team.”
In fairness to the West Ham fans, they are more than entitled to voice their frustration after the club failed to capitalise on the promise that they showed during their first year under Bilic.
Without knowing exactly what has gone on at every level of the club, their frustration has to be directed at what is going on out on the pitch as that surely provides the greatest public indication of what state the club may be in behind closed doors.
And after a stadium move that was meant to see West Ham take a step forward, and after seeing several top managers being linked with a move to the Hammers in recent months, the fans are surely entitled to be feeling frustrated by seeing Moyes arrive through the door at a time when his stock has probably not been lower in the last 15 years.
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