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scott_d 3:48 Thu May 17
Media backlash against the West Ham board

Not like Sean Whetstone to back the owners is it!?



Media backlash against the West Ham board

Posted by Sean Whetstone on May 17, 2018 in News, Whispers

West Ham is again at the centre of bashing by media – an occupation which appears to have become football’s favourite pastime.

Despite poll upon poll showing that David Moyes was barely the flavour of this or any other month, his departure has been seized on as a a big mistake by journalists – normally of course among the most disliked people in the country!

ITV and BBC Sports presenter and journalist Jacqui Oatley is one of a number media people to weigh in with the Women in Football ambassador said: “Everything I hear from people who work at West Ham (or have left) is that it’s “carnage”. Referring to the way the club is run and the mixed messages from upstairs”

It might help if some names were given or a description of the carnage she is discussing were revealed – it’s called putting flesh on the bones of a story.

Meanwhile, Daily Telegraph journalist Matt Law added to the criticism by saying: “Rafa Benitez would have to be absolutely insane to go to West Ham – in fact anyone would with the current ownership.”

Not sure Rafa needs any help in making his career choices by a reporter but there you go.

BT sports commentator Darren Fletcher said yesterday “I feel for the West Ham fans again today – what chance has the club got with this mob in charge. So dysfunctional.

Yes they’ll get another manager who may well be successful but it won’t paper over the genuine cracks (or valleys) that exist between owners & fans”

Former Hammer and Sky Sports pundit Tony Cottee once again joined the outcry of which he has been a long term member by telling Talksport: “There is not one person on that board who has got any football experience or any knowledge about football. They haven’t got a Trevor Brooking anymore to advise the board, who is making the decision on who’s going to be the next manager?

I’m reading they want a manager to take them to the next level; well the next level is to have some stability at the club, surely?

I just don’t understand it, I really don’t understand what is going on at my football club. And before anyone says anything about me just being a media pundit, I’ve got two season tickets, I pay a lot of money, I go to watch the team – I’ve got as much right as the average fan to give an opinion on it.

I’m so fed up of what is going on at my club; it’s getting on my nerves now.”

We understand that there are deep rooted issues at the club which have to be sorted but we also need to remember that the media has a vested interest in creating as much drama as possible in order to help themselves thrive on the “running story of the moment.”

http://www.claretandhugh.info/media-backlash-against-the-west-ham-board/

muskie 3:55 Thu May 17
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I make the media right Sean you sycophantic cocksucking sack of shit.

El Scorchio 4:01 Thu May 17
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What's completely missing from Whetstone's argument is the only reason the media has seized upon this story of West Ham being a shambles is because enough of our fans were sick enough of how things were being run that they had to resort to:

A) forming action groups
B) forcing the board to meet them (and when that failed to get them anywhere)
C) organising a march
D) Storming the pitch and director's box after the march was sabotaged, very likely by club ownership.

Convenient that none of that is mentioned. That's what lead to the media 'backlash'.They are only saying what us supporters have been saying for the last 18 months.

So this article is an absolute load of old self serving, agenda driven defensive rubbish. If you're really a fan Mr Whetstone, then you should utterly hang your head in shame and get out of the board's pocket.

Robson 4:26 Thu May 17
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Well said Scorchio.

"The Media" is only responding to the very real and completely justified mood of discontent from the fans, who are also fed up of what's going on at their club.

As for naming names, it’s not called "putting flesh on the bones of a story", it's called "dropping people in the shit".

Takashi Miike 4:29 Thu May 17
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whetstone loves spinning for the cunts

Alwaysaniron 4:56 Thu May 17
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This goes deeper than just a media backlash.

We don't need to be told constantly by outside forces that our owners are muppets (we all know that). But they're our fucking muppets right now!

There are all sorts jumping on the bandwagon of 'who the fuck do little old West Ham' think they are with their managerial expectations. (Fergurson of Everton being that latest one).

Those clubs in the top tier don't like the fact that perhaps (and it's a big perhaps) they might be challenged by another club.

There are members of the media associated with those 'bigger' clubs who are wary of what we might one day be and simply dont like it!

dicksie3 5:06 Thu May 17
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I fucking hate that cunt. Absolute LAPDOG cunt.

The man who's petrified of going to Spurs Away - despite our fans regularly taking the piss there and smashing their pubs out of business.

muskie 5:14 Thu May 17
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Alwaysaniron = Sean Whetstone

Alwaysaniron 5:28 Thu May 17
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Muskie

Your knuckles chaffing son? They seem to be dragging behind you a bit!
'

franksfat&slow&wank 5:30 Thu May 17
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west ham is a complete fuck up

the only way these cunts can start gaining any respect is to appointment Rafa and give him the tools he wants

get things right on the pitch and everything else will fall into place

LeroysBoots 5:31 Thu May 17
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I stand by my very firm belief that Brady will leave in the summer

Alwaysaniron 5:33 Thu May 17
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LeroysBoots 5:31 Thu May 17

Let's hope you're right and she goes to Sugars beloved team!

madeeasy 5:36 Thu May 17
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I had dinner the other night with an ex-league club owner.

He didn't have a lot of good to say about his dealings with the three musketeers and his only comments are "they prove to everyone in football how much they are non footballing people"

Said it is wrong the interest they have charged and what they say in the media and way the talk and the way they act.

He said, it is very simple. They can say what they like but all they are is money people.

LeroysBoots 5:37 Thu May 17
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I just think she has bigger fish to fry in both the political and media world

She will move on, we will appoint a more attuned business / football administrator that has a very low profile.

The writing is on the wall for her, especially after the board have "urged" her to withdraw from writing her Sun column

Darby_ 5:37 Thu May 17
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Nobody's "bashing West Ham." They're bashing the board.

Lertie Button 5:53 Thu May 17
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If they appoint one of the short list then they will be forced into shelling out some serious money and shutting the fuck up, which is why they won't.
Hope I'm wrong but experience tells me otherwise

Sven Roeder 7:01 Thu May 17
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The owners are no-good incompetent cunts who couldn’t run a bath and have no understand of football or any intelligence.

And people outside the club are finally noticing what we have known for years.
Until they go we are on a one way journey to SHITSVILLE.
End of story

afan 7:29 Thu May 17
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Talksport Danny Kelly is a weird mofo
Calm down ffs

pdbis 4:41 Fri May 18
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Everyone is ripping into not only the board, the club in general which is no surprise with those 3 in charge we are a circus.

jimbo2. 5:02 Fri May 18
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Sven, I get the impression that you probably don't like them much haha!

cartis 9:59 Sun May 20
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Havent seen it yet but they were getting it again on the Sunday supplement apparently this morning

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