West Ham were comfortably beaten 3-0 by fierce rivals Tottenham Hotspur in the first game of the post Daniel Levy era, piling pressure on David Sullivan and Karren Brady.
Next summer marks 10 years at the London Stadium for West Ham since the move from Upton Park.
The Hammers won a drawn-out “battle” with Tottenham Hotspur for the former Olympic Stadium.
How West Ham fans wish their club had rolled over and surrendered that particular battle as comfortably as they did their latest miserable game against Spurs in the soulless athletics bowl.
Hammers supporters are reminded every other week by away fans visiting the London Stadium: ‘you sold your soul for this s——-‘.
Spurs defeat piles pressure on West Ham owners
They’re right in one regard.
Except it wasn’t West Ham fans who sold their soul for the move, it was the club’s owners David Sullivan and the now passed David Gold who did the deed, with reviled vice-chair Karren Brady overseeing what she boldly stated was the ‘most successful football stadium migration ever’.
A large number of Tottenham fans have painted Daniel Levy as the worst possible person you could have heading up your football club down the years.
West Ham fans would point to the fact Levy wanted to bulldoze the London Stadium as proof he knew what he was doing.
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Levy went away and built Tottenham one of the finest football stadiums in the world.
Now he is gone, to much celebration from Spurs fans who claim he has always held them back.
West Ham fans planning to protest against Sullivan and the board hope their activism will ultimately see him and Brady follow Levy’s lead one way or another.
A protest is scheduled for next week’s home game against Crystal Palace.
Hammers fans are also rallying to boycott the Brentford game altogether.
The boycott started early, though, as the London Stadium emptied faster than a Usain Bolt race at this stadium when it was being used for the only purpose for which it is fit.
Graham Potter will deservedly take plenty of flak for West Ham’s defeat to Tottenham.
Journalist sends brutal Sullivan and Brady message to Spurs fans
Despite the clear failings elsewhere, Potter should and could be doing much better than six wins in 24 matches.
But supporters have long since made their minds up where the blame rests.
Now a top journalist has sent a brutal Sullivan and Brady message to Spurs fans after the West Ham rout.
Hammers fans were lured away from their beloved Boleyn Ground on the promise it would enable the club to compete with the elite in the transfer market.
The ultimate goal behind the move, West Ham’s board told supporters, was to push for Champions League football.
Well forget the Champions League, because West Ham United are looking increasingly likely to bring up a decade at their rented home by being in the Championship.
The Hammers have shipped eight goals in their first two home games of the new season, losing to Chelsea 5-1 and Spurs 3-0.
Those clubs are historically West Ham’s biggest rivals outside of Millwall.
You wouldn’t know it watching the performances.
The atmosphere in the London Stadium matched the apathetic nature of the performance on the pitch.
Sullivan and Brady shambles gives ungrateful Spurs perspective
You could hear a pin drop at times and it may prove to be the calm before the storm ahead of the Palace protest next weekend.
An impending sense of doom has descended on east London.
And the situation has been perfectly summed up by the Telegraph’s Matt Law.
In a scathing assessment of West Ham’s defeat to Tottenham, Law has hit the nail on the head in a message to Spurs fans.
His report titled: “West Ham fans are watching a poor team in a terrible stadium with a board they hate” is as true as it is depressing.
“If Tottenham Hotspur supporters thought they had it bad under former chairman Daniel Levy, then imagine how West Ham United fans must be feeling,” Law states.
“The post-Levy era started with a bang for Spurs, but it’s same old, same old for West Ham supporters who are stuck watching a poor team in a stadium they cannot stand with a chairman and vice-chair they want out.”