Barty 5:27 Wed Apr 25
Sullivan and Gold are the worst West Ham owners in the premierleague era
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Top ten a pipe dream under current regime?
West Ham United's record under the club's current administration is the worst in the Premier League era.
Since the old Division One disappeared in 1992, following the formation of the Premier League in a breakaway from the Football League, West Ham have had three majority owners - Terry Brown (1992-2006), Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson/Straumur (2006-2010) and David Sullivan & David Gold (since 2010).
And whilst teams on the much-maligned Brown's watch averaged a 14th-place finish, and under the Icelandics' far-shorter-lived reign an even more impressive 11th, performances under the Sullivan/Gold banner have resulted in an average finish of just 15th - the lowest of all three majority owners.
The shy Brown, who was eventually hounded out of the club following a storm of protests and negative publicity in the first half of the noughties saw the club achieve seven top ten finishes on his watch (14 seasons in total), including United's second-highest top-flight finish of 5th under Harry Redknapp in 1998/99.
And whilst West Ham also finished in the top half of the table twice in the Icelandics three seasons (under Alan Curbishley and Gianfranco Zola), they have managed it just once since Sullivan and Gold arrived at the club eight years ago - in the final, emotional season at The Boleyn Ground (Slaven Bilic).
In terms of Cup competitions, the Brown era resulted in the club reaching five quarter finals and one final (the 2006 FA Cup Final) whilst there was just the one quarter final during Gudmundsson's three-year tenure.
However since Sullivan and Gold arrived at the club there have been four quarter final appearances and two semi finals - both in the League Cup - although two were in the duo's first season (an FA Cup quarter final and a League Cup semi) under Avram Grant, which also resulted in relegation to the Championship.
Brown & Cearns
Seasons: 2nd* (92/93); 13th (93/94); 14th (94/95); 10th (95/96); 14th (96/97); 8th (97/98); 5th (98/99); 9th (99/00); 15th (00/01); 7th (01/02); 18th (02/03); 4th* (03/04); 6th* (04/05); 9th (05/06)
Average position: 14th
Top ten finishes: 7/14 (50%)
Relegations: 1 (2002/03)
Gudmundsson & Magnusson
Seasons: 15th (06/07); 10th (07/08); 9th (08/09)
Average position: 11th
Top ten finishes: 2/3 (67%)
Relegations: 0
Sullivan & Gold
Seasons: 17th (09/10); 20th (10/11); 3rd* (11/12); 10th (12/13); 13th (13/14); 12th (14/15); 7th (15/16); 11th (16/17); 15th (17/18)
Average position: 15th
Top ten finishes: 1/9 (11%)
Relegations: 1 (2010/11)
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Barty
7:09 Thu May 3
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jakehammer 5:19 Sat Apr 28
Well said
Some good posts on this thread
And the title alone deserves a bump!
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Northern Sold
12:14 Mon Apr 30
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Paul from Hertfordshire loves them
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Russ of the BML
12:11 Mon Apr 30
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afan 12:38 Sat Apr 28
It was though. Had it been done properly.
It hasn't been hence where we are.
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cartis
12:43 Sat Apr 28
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the conniving pornstars are something else altogether.
they have sucked out the money and the lifeblood from our club and have lied and decieved us right from the beginning, for which i will never forgive them.
they have stolen our heritage and our home, selling it off to their cronies and have starved the club of funding to improve the squad and will continue to do so untill they sell up or die, which for me cant come soon enough.
Jake you are so right.
It would have made my day today to have woken up to the news that both of them cunts had dropped dead.
Never ever be forgiven for what they have done and are continuing to do.
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afan
12:38 Sat Apr 28
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Druids they called us
The move is the future ...couple years back
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Far East Hammer
10:06 Sat Apr 28
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jakehammer 5:19 Sat Apr 28
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Alfie
5:44 Sat Apr 28
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Its beem long enough nòw that you should all know for fuck sake.
We alll know the going west ham is a pure business transaction now. A going to watch a football match consuming the product. It used to be going to watch west ham at the football with our pals and our family. Thats gone. Now its going up the product, getting served up into the area where the output is served up, coraĺled in herds into the entertainment,.pushed into the ritual that suddenly means nothing.
We get served into the gaff like convicts. We stand on big open windy conrete seated observor spots like a right pack of homeless characterless cunts. Feeling awkward and unbelonging but trying to be west ham.
Every one of us fèels embarrased and nowhere but wont say it.
Everyone feels its gone but cant say it. Everyone goes somewhere they dont know out of loyalty. What weve lost is tooo big to fucking talk about and undetstand. A different life time we havent let go of
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jakehammer
5:19 Sat Apr 28
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i'm with Arsegrapes. i agree that the Icelandics had their hearts in the right place. the tragedy was their banking crash. they made mistakes like everyone does, but without going bust at the time and with experience i think that they would have taken us "to the next level"
I think Eggy did have a sort of love for our club and was genuinely liked by the supporters, which goes a long way in football.
Brown /cearns were lighweights who only loved the kudos of owning a football club without really investing for the future.
the conniving pornstars are something else altogether.
they have sucked out the money and the lifeblood from our club and have lied and decieved us right from the beginning, for which i will never forgive them.
they have stolen our heritage and our home, selling it off to their cronies and have starved the club of funding to improve the squad and will continue to do so untill they sell up or die, which for me cant come soon enough.
so to answer the question, these 3 arseholes are by far the worst owners in the history of West Ham Utd.
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geoffpikey
7:49 Fri Apr 27
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Fact is, they be top of just about ANY worst list in football.
Actual owners
Corporate PR
Marketing
Negotiating
Embarrassing media appearances
Lying / contradiction
Appearance of dubious accounting
Skinflintery
Nepotism
"Dirty laundry"
Abuse of competitors
Dress sense
Bad parking (I may have made that up, but fuck it.)
They are fucking SHIT(s). (And I gave them the tiniest benefit of my big doubt for a long, long time.)
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cartis
7:36 Fri Apr 27
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Toe Rag 6:35 Fri Apr 27
EXACTLY.
These two cunts are the absolute worst.
Personally I think Gold is every bit as bad as Sullivan.
All this old bollocks he gives about being a lifelong fan, that old cunt cares about money far more than he does about the club.
Greedy, lying , fuckers.
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Toe Rag
6:35 Fri Apr 27
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“Asserting stripping the club of its ground of more than 100 years and moving us to an athletics bowl miles from the pitch for cheap rent is the worst thing that any owners could have done to the club. Nothing any previous owners has done even comes close.“
This X 1’000’000
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Russ of the BML
6:22 Fri Apr 27
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This is embarrassing for them. Promised next level. Failed to deliver. And now this.
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LeroysBoots
3:51 Fri Apr 27
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Sponsoring awards ?
Do they really need the few pennies these bring in ?
Utter classless wankers
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Swiss.
2:06 Fri Apr 27
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As arsegrapes says.
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One McAvennieeeeee
10:24 Fri Apr 27
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arsegrapes 3:33 Fri Apr 27
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Great post. Fingers crossed Sunday gets like the Burnley game.
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arsegrapes
3:49 Fri Apr 27
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Don't underestimate yourselves Norm. Always read your posts which have a certain style.
I could bark on all day and night about the current bastards running the club, but to no avail. I just pray they upset the wrong person sometime soon and both end up with cement boots swimming with the fishes.
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normannomates
3:38 Fri Apr 27
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arsegrapes
well said mate...and told better than i ever could
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arsegrapes
3:33 Fri Apr 27
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Cearns were old school no ambition. The Icelandics had their heart in the right place, would have done well if not for the banking collapse.
Brown refused to sell his majority stake in the club to G&S even though they were shareholders at the time as he thought they and the way they had made their money was immoral and they invested in Birmingham.
There was good reason for that. He knew their history more than most.
Brown was another useless owner, but he was just an accountant running his main caravan site business with limited means to run the club. Out of his depth really.
G&S have approx combined wealth of £1.5bn, they can't compete with the top six, but there is no excuse for their non existent level of net transfer spend during the years they have owned the club.
Asserting stripping the club of its ground of more than 100 years and moving us to an athletics bowl miles from the pitch for cheap rent is the worst thing that any owners could have done to the club. Nothing any previous owners has done even comes close.
One day someone may buy the club and develop the stadium into a proper football stadium, but there is no guarantee and G&S don't give a shit because when they cash in after no real investment the move will have made them many hundreds of millions each. They have only ever been interested in ROI from day one.
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normannomates
3:04 Fri Apr 27
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why limit to the premier league era...
Sullivan is the worst thing that has ever happened to this once great club.
my heart sank when he finally got his grubby little hands on it...which he wanted for yts.
Brown has nothing on this little scrot
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ChesterRd
1:46 Fri Apr 27
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How crass can you get to add a sponsors name to the Dylan Tombides award.
A few years ago, under these shitcunt owners one of their main award sponsors were a bunch of investment fraud crooks. GSB will take money from anyone. Greedy seedy scum.
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penners28
12:45 Thu Apr 26
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But they saved us? And we’d have died as a club if we’d have stayed at the BG?
That’s what the vast majority of WHO told us anyway...
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