The board…the protests…and the likely outcome

Fury and protests at the owners of this club are totally understandable. I get it.

I also understood the Terry Brown protests of the 90s, the Allardyce protests, the Bilic protests, the Pellegrini protests, the Moyes and return of Moyes protests.

Stay with this club for long enough and it becomes a predictable fact of Hammers life. It’s what people do when things go wrong!

I know why many want the board out. I understand all the reasons why. I also realise why numerous supporters groups are clamouring for an audience with the people who run this club but…..

…it’s happened before- very recently and very militantly –  and in the end made absolutely no difference to a train events which is leading us to the brink of the EFL.

Fans demonstrate against then chairman Terry Brown’s ill fated Bond scheme

To protest and make the point is perfectly reasonable and hold the board responsible is justified as is the view that until 2023 comes around when the club is free to sell without a 20 per cent pay off to the government it won’t happen, if then!

There’s a view among the protesters that if they place the sort of pressure on GSB as was done at Birmingham – they will achieve the same outcome. Very very unlikely!

The figures involved were much smaller at St Andrew’s. Nothing is going to change at West Ham for three years minimum because whether it’s liked or not forget the romance because football is a business; this game is about MONEY in every area and to believe differently is delusional.

I understand that when there’s a feeling of helplessness people will protest, scream, shout, holler and nobody on CandH is claiming that’s wrong.

There has been a lack of vision at the club: You can’t go through Grant, Allardyce, Bilic, Moyes, Pellegrini and back to Moyes and claim differently.

Of course they carry responsibility – they run the show.

But we do not believe anything is going to change in the near or middle future for the reasons given above and thus we see it as a distraction.

We give views when we feel it necessary and thus the reason for this piece but we are not an unofficial or official protest group.

We were set up to bring news. If people don’t like that, or where they believe it comes from OK , but that’s what we do and will continue doing to the best of our ability!

COYI