“There weren’t sufficient stewards and they couldn’t really cope” Sir Trevor Brooking told BBC Radio 5 Live’s Sportsweek programme this morning.

“The club are obviously going to have to look at things with the local police and make sure that trained stewards and police are in place — you’re almost looking at it and saying: ‘This is out of control.’ A lot of the stewards who are on duty on matchdays are not West Ham people — they’re actually stadium people and sometimes, until they get a job there, haven’t had any experience dealing with football crowds. They were quite young and couldn’t deal with the aggression they were faced with.”

“I think a coin did hit David Sullivan, his glasses,” said Brooking. “I didn’t see it myself but I did have that confirmed, which was part of the reason why the people in the directors’ box had to go inside, to save any more problems like that.”