Gold’s silence speaks volumes

While Karren Brady is peddling her lines in the Sun newspaper and David Sullivan appears on Jim White’s Talksport radio, David Gold remains silent and dignified.

He has significantly reduced his output on Twitter to minimal announcements and no longer involves himself in social media spats with West Ham fans.

Gold has  the biggest connection to West Ham of all the shareholders having once lived at 442 Green Street and played for the West Ham youth team as a youngster.

Although he owns 35 per cent of the shares of West Ham, he is very much the silent partner of the shareholders and the respected elder statesman of the board.

He has continuously turned down the offer of media interviews in recent times including the Jim White believing no good could come of it.

He still cares passionately about West Ham and we think he will be around long after Sullivan and Brady eventually depart.

Maybe he should take up a role like Terry Brown with a life presidency role and a place for life in the director’s box. If an offer comes in that is good to take the club forward we think he will happily stand aside.

I think the protesters should cut the 84-year-old a little slack in their efforts to replace the trio and not tar him with the same brush.

There are those who will continue to plead he is guilty by association with the others but his silence in the current traumatic situation speaks louder than any words.