Amidst West Ham United’s inner turmoil, for months, if not years the wider world seemed oblivious to fans’ complaints and actually took great delight in the clubs post-Moyes failures with their endless ‘be careful what you wished for’ mantra showing how little they understood the inner workings of the stricken football club.

How times have changed. Finally it seems the penny has dropped, belatedly, that West Ham’s supporters – be they Hammers United with their official protests or just less militant fans on chat sites and radio programmes might actually have a point.

Gaining traction amongst a wider audience – Fan protest

The dreadful financial losses now made public have catapulted the club’s mismanagement onto a world wide stage: Non partisan news sites it seems have finally woken up to the realities of the Sullivan – Brady era as traction grows for change. Football365.com – which nobody can ever accused of being ‘partisan’ – have absolutely eviscerated the Chairman and Vice Chairman this morning:

“David Sullivan and Karren Brady might not *quite* be the worst owners in English football. But they are almost certainly the most charmless..Sullivan and Brady have systematically stripped the club of its...