Fans feel the club sold us a lie on stadium and finance

Supporter Paul Turner explains the issues with Baroness Brady and West Ham’s co-owners

There is real anger and frustration among many in the West Ham United fanbase, and hundreds of fans clearly felt this weekend that they had to get that message across. That strength of feeling against the club’s board was only amplified by the team’s poor performance on the pitch, and by everything that had happened last week with a planned protest march that was eventually cancelled.

It felt as if many of these supporters had no other avenue through which they could vent their feelings, other than the game itself. And yet if West Ham had taken the lead, we would not have seen these incidents that took place in the London Stadium. That, though, does not wash away the long-standing fury that many supporters are feeling.

To put it in the broadest possible terms, a number of West Ham fans feel like we have been sold a lie. We