Sullivan complains about unfairness of fixtures

Dave Sullivan Junior, eldest son of the West Ham chairman (pictured centre) has highlighted the unfairness of playing two back to back away games within such a short period of time at opposite ends of the country.

Posting on twitter the young Sullivan said “All away teams (as far as I know) today had double away fixtures. If you look today, every away team were haemorrhaging goals. Huge advantage for the teams who had double home fixtures. West Ham had to travel to different ends of the country, not an excuse but a serious amount of travelling. I think back to back away games isn’t bad if it’s Saturday to Saturday but a 3/4 day window isn’t enough”

West Ham had an away trip to South coast on Tuesday, a round trip of 290 miles on the motorway from the Boleyn Ground to Dean Court in Bournemouth. Five days later the team travelled to St James Park a round trip of 560 miles to Newcastle. Eight hundred and fifty miles in five days!