West Ham face a possible re-scheduling of early season following last night’s entry into Europe.
And the first change may be the date of the prestige friendly against Juventus – the curtain raiser to life in our new home.
David Gold admitted to ClaretandHugh last night that although the club hadn’t had had time to look closely at the situation “certain readjustments may have to be made.”
With the whole club excited at the prospect of watching us take off on a European schedule he declared: “There may be one or two little issues as far as fixtures are concerned but none of them will prove insurmountable.
“We will be taking a look at things over the next few days and make whatever arrangements need to be made.”
And this morning he responded to an absurd tweet which read: “Juventus is now not the 1st game as advertised, Lots will send their tickets back, me included.”
The co-chairman said: “We made clear that the date for the opening fixture might change dependent on our qualification for Europe. dg”