The Premier League season is five weeks old and already our West Ham United team has its work cut out to progress up the table, with three defeats one draw and a solitary win over Crystal Palace – points have so far proved tough to come by for Julen Lopetegui’s men.
One area where the statistics are looking much more buoyant is in that of attendances – West Ham sit at the top of this league in any case- according to insideworldfootball.com.
The Irons can count themselves as ‘capacity kings’ of The Premier League, filling an impressive 99.95% of seats on match day five – which means virtually a sell-out capacity audience witnessed the 0-3 loss to Chelsea.
Over the same weekend Liverpool managed an almost as impressive 99% occupancy meaning just 364 empty seats – as a huge crowd watched the game at Anfield against Bournemouth.
Sadly Spurs achieved the highest numbers – 61,246 fans saw the home side beat Bournemouth 3-1. Even the lowest capacity % of the weekend were pretty impressive, with Southampton still selling out almost 96% of their 32,384 seats. Some impressive gates all round, certainly an indication that the Premier League is in good shape and mega-business for the largest clubs with gate money approaching £1.5 million a time at London Stadium even by my schoolboy maths.
Last data available for West Ham (2022-3) shows matchday income at £41 million including of course last years’ European matches.
At least, for the foreseeable future, there’s one league table we don’t mind looking at.
Lol, as I am forever the eternal optimist, I believe we’re only one or two games away from it all clicking together.
As many have pointed out, until we went down to 10 men against Liverpool, we were giving them a game.
In fact, Chelsea is the only game I’ve watched this season where it felt completely lost.
We’ll be around mid-table come the end of the season. I’d love more Europe, but that’s probably another season away.
By then I’m hoping some of our younger home grown talent will have good loan experience and be ready for the first team.
Young, hungry, eager and… fast!
Fast would be good.
‘Young’ .. ‘Fast’ .. ‘Hungry’ ..and ‘Eager’ – these are generally the players we SELL, not BUY at West Ham United!
What a poorly written piece. We are”top of the league” and “kings of capacity” – yet “sadly spurs had the highest numbers”??
Could you be any more confusing and misleading??? Read your stuff back to yourself in future thus made zero sense
Click on the link Martin included in his article and all will be explained.
As an aside, I often find that if I stop reading things that make me feel angry, I stop feeling angry.
This website is free, yes there’s some obvious click bait, but for the most part they’re opinion pieces.
Agree, disagree, but no need to be rude.
Couldn’t have put it better myself. Thank you. There are many sites who blow up anything into a ‘shock, horror’ headline for few clicks: this isn’t one of them. However I will still do what I can to make my articles ‘enticing’!
John, I refer you to ‘Neil Down Under’s’ comment.
Wonderful fans, so loyal against a record of little success from a woeful board & poorly run club.
Cock!