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geoffpikey 8:07 Fri Feb 7
David Gold : headline interview on BBC football homepage

Long. Probably deserves its own thread, even if same old... Fill your boots.

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Threats and violent protests 'cannot be tolerated', says West Ham co-chairman David Gold
By Simon Stone

BBC Sport

Threats and violent fan protests against football executives "cannot be tolerated", says West Ham co-chairman David Gold.

It comes after the home of Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward was attacked by a group chanting that he was "going to die".

Gold has previously been targeted by fan protests.

"I know exactly what Ed's experienced. I've experienced it four or five times myself," he said.

"What you've got to understand is that it is by a minute percentage, a couple of hundred people."

Gold added: "In my mind you've got a couple of hundred belligerents who want to, metaphorically, burn your house down. And those 200 will gather people who are listening, or walking by and wonder what it is all about."

On Thursday it was announced that fans who behave in an "unacceptable" manner towards players, supporters, club employees or referees will face a Premier League-wide ban.

The Premier League said anyone banned by a single club will be banned by all 20 clubs.

"The league will come together as a unit to protect the likes of Ed and punish those perpetrators. It cannot be tolerated," said Gold.

"Manchester United are a big club, Ed Woodward is a big figure in the game. He cannot be worried about his wife and children."

During the disturbances at West Ham's game against Burnley at the London Stadium in March 2018, for which the club was fined £100,000, Gold said his 10-year-old granddaughter asked him whether he was a liar.

He said: "The Burnley game was dreadful. My 10-year-old granddaughter said: 'Grandpa, what do they mean? You're not a liar, are you grandpa?' I mean, what do you say to a 10-year-old?"

West Ham are bracing themselves for more fan protests in coming games.

There is an atmosphere of mistrust between many fans and the board, particularly Gold, Sullivan and vice-chair Baroness Karren Brady, who they accuse of betraying promises made when the club moved into the London Stadium in 2016.

With the club now in the relegation zone before Sunday's trip to Manchester City - the start of a tough run of fixtures that includes visits to Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham, plus home games against Wolves and Chelsea - the Hammers' top-flight future under new boss David Moyes is precarious.

"The story is that we are liars. That we have taken all the money. That is wrong," said Gold.

"We are not liars. We have made mistakes. David Sullivan is not a bad person. He wants the club to be successful. Karren Brady works her socks off for the football club. And then you read these terrible things."

Gold says criticism of West Ham's controversial move from Upton Park is misplaced, that the reason behind it - to move the club forward - remains the goal and that owning the club was "a dream come true".

"Do I look like I'm in it for profit?" he said. "I'm the kid who grew up in a life of poverty and used to bunk into West Ham.

"I have not received a penny in salary or expenses from West Ham in 10 years. I know of owners or chief executives that are earning £3m a year.

"All my young life, the club was in the old Second Division. We are in the Premier League now. OK, we've got a few problems but overall we're moving upwards. There have been a few difficulties with the stadium but the one we have now holds 60,000.

"I spoke to a cab driver on Wednesday who spent half an hour saying how he was thrilled with the stadium and how his kids love it. But is he on the television? Is he in the paper? No. All that's in the paper is the guy that wants to kill me or burn my house down. That's the problem."

Sven Roeder 8:12 Fri Feb 7
Re: David Gold : headline interview on BBC football homepage

You’re not a liar are you, grandpa?*

Do I look like I’m in it for profit?*


You almost have to laugh at the old goat.
The whole campaign needs to be cranked up as it’s obviously getting under his skin.

* The answers are obviously YES & YES

goose 8:24 Fri Feb 7
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have not received a penny in salary or expenses from West Ham in 10 years. I know of owners or chief executives that are earning £3m a year.

Does he think we’re stupid? Completely ignores the millions taken in interest payments every year.

Oh and yes you are a proven liar.

WHU(Exeter) 8:34 Fri Feb 7
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So it's all about money that they have taken out of the club?

Nice deflection.

I think it's more to do with the 101 ways that they are ruining the club.

diehardhammer 8:39 Fri Feb 7
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Everytime these cunts give interviews they make it worse for themselves

goose 8:41 Fri Feb 7
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Classic Gold defence again:

I’m a defenceless old man
My poor family
I’m a fan like you
People tell me all the time they love the stadium
I don’t take a penny from the club

WHU(Exeter) 8:44 Fri Feb 7
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Why is he referring back to the 1950s and then the fact that we are now a Premiership club with the ridiculous implication that it's them that enabled the club to make that leap?

"Slowly we're moving upwards"?

Well that's strange, because those horrible little things called facts actually show that when they took over 10 years ago we weren't in the bottom 3.

Mr Kenzo 8:44 Fri Feb 7
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Oh we are speaking to the press and media again now are we ?

That didn't take long....CUNTS

WHU(Exeter) 8:48 Fri Feb 7
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Do be fair to two of them I don't think for one second they are in for it primarily for the profit.

It's egos first, THEN profit.

Anything and everything else a very very distant third.

Takashi Miike 8:51 Fri Feb 7
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why's he introducing the word 'violent' in to the subject, hammers united have behaved very peaceful. shit stirring, poisonous old twat

Rossal 9:01 Fri Feb 7
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Every day they make it worse for themselves

Gold is as bad as the other two. The clueless lying fist fuck off out of our club.

WHU(Exeter) 9:14 Fri Feb 7
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I just love the implication that it's just 200 people (belligerents) shit stirring, whilst other presumably easily led people wonder what it's all about and then join in.

Rather than the appalling way in which the club has been ran over the last decade coupled with the detestable nature of the three people who are responsible for it, that is clearly evident to a very sizeable percentage of the fan base.

Mr Kenzo 9:15 Fri Feb 7
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They are on the back foot and they know it, we have the media's ear and for the first time during the tenure, I think the fans are holding the cards

Stevethehammer 9:20 Fri Feb 7
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A man who is driven everywhere in his rolls royce just decided one day to get in a taxi, and the driver just happened to be a west ham fan, and a west ham fan happy with the goings on right now.

BULLSHIT

Lily Hammer 9:29 Fri Feb 7
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Lily Hammer 9:25 Fri Feb 7
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"I spoke to a cab driver on Wednesday who spent half an hour saying how he was thrilled with the stadium and how his kids love it. But is he on the television? Is he in the paper? No. All that's in the paper is the guy that wants to kill me or burn my house down. That's the problem."


Who’s been on TV or in the paper saying they want to kill him or burn his house down?

simon.s 9:35 Fri Feb 7
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He heard it from the cab driver, Lily.

WHU(Exeter) 9:48 Fri Feb 7
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We need to find that cab driver, get him on the box to do a half hour special about how him and his kids love the new stadium.

It'll make for compulsive viewing for sure and make a refreshing change from back to back programmes featuring people who want to burn down David Gold's house.

WHU(Exeter) 9:51 Fri Feb 7
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Celebrity people who want to burn down football Directors houses on ice.

The weather presented by Derek, who once threatened Ken Bates

stewie griffin 9:52 Fri Feb 7
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Grandpa, what do they mean? You're not a liar, are you grandpa?' I mean, what do you say to a 10-year-old?"



As a guess, and knowing you, you lie to them?

Dan M 9:53 Fri Feb 7
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It could work well with the Masked Singer format.
"Who's that behind the threats?"

WHU(Exeter) 9:59 Fri Feb 7
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Through the keyhole could make a dramatic comeback?

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