Gold solves Fergie’s ‘West Ham Way’ problem

Gracious David Gold could have chosen to tear into Sir Alex Ferguson after the former Manchester United manager ‘s “What is the West Ham Way ” outburst …but quite simply he has too much class for such nonsense

Ferguson has spent a lot of time dissing the West Ham Way and the club’s playing style down the years in his updated biography drawing waves of contempt from Irons fans.

Ferguson had snarled: ‘I hope that before I die someone can explain the “West Ham way.” What is it? They last won a trophy in 1980, the FA Cup.

‘I never played against any West Ham team that played football I was afraid of. They were always surviving, or lucky as hell against us.’

Typically Ferguson! Storms and teacups are the words that come to mind but the Irons co chairman – born across the road from the Boleyn in Green Street – and a supporter all his life, refused to get into a major war of words.

Instead, in a one liner to put Ferguson out of business – and speaking exclusively to ClaretandHugh – he said: “Sir Alex, playing the West Ham Way is as much about what’s in the heart as it is on the eye.”