David Sullivan hit by coin claims Brooking
“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.”