West Ham United co-chairman David Gold insists that he is fully behind current Hammers boss Sam Allardyce.
Allardyce is out of contract at the end of the season and with Paolo Di Canio's exit from Swindon, speculation has been growing that that Gold and his partner David Sullivan want to bring in the Hammers icon in to replace Big Sam at the end of the season.
Newcastle United are expected to bid again for Andy Carroll, even if the release clause in Demba
Ba's contract is not activated by Tuesday's deadline.
lan Pardew's side have not yet followed up their initial offer of a season's loan with a view to a
permanent move in a year's time.
But Goal.
The following is an amalgam of a couple of related articles liberated from the Times paywall
dungeon when the sentinels averted their gaze a few weeks ago...
The vice-chairman of West Ham is trying to be nice, and she needs to be, because the last time she
met Times journalist Andrew Davidson it all ended badly, with her promising that he would never
work in journalism again.
West Ham owner, "Dirty" David Sullivan (not to be confused with the other West Ham owner, "Dirty"
David Gold), has been spilling some interesting beans of gossip on Demba Ba's Newcastle United
contract to the West Ham fan site "West Ham Till I Die." Sullivan, who of course is one of the
owners of Ba's [.
Career change A Czech porn star is set to make the move to football by starting her own football
club. Klarisa Leone, aged 32, implausibly intends to name the new team Inter Prague in honour of
her favourite club (as indicated by the image above). She told The Sun: "I've loved my career in
porn [...]
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Big Sam strolled to the dug-out for West Ham's pre-season friendly at Dagenham & Redbridge last
week like Dean Martin walking on to a stage in Las Vegas – only with a better suit. He
acknowledged the cheers with a breezy wave, joked with his coaching staff and was happy to pose for
pictures with supporters and sign autographs after a 1-0 win.
West Ham boss Sam Allardyce is preparing an ambitious bid to sign Liverpool pair Joe Cole and Paul
Konchesky as the new Upton Park boss looks to improve his squad ahead of the coming battle to
secure and instant promotion back to the Premier League.
The Hammers boss has already snapped up Newcastle United captain Kevin Nolan and has now set his
sights on two Anfield players who appear to be surplus to requirements at the Merseyside club.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the
greatest innovator.
William D. Leahy said the bomb wouldn't go off; Lord Kelvin thought that heavier-than-air flying
machines were impossible; Charlie Chaplin was convinced cinema was little more than a fad; Neville
Chamberlain promised it would be peace in our time and Bill Gates insisted 640K ought to be enough
for anybody.
Shopping centre giant Westfield could contribute around £20m to help West Ham United transform the
Olympic Stadium into a football ground, according to reports surfacing today. The Construction
Enquirer understands that Westfield has held preliminary discussions with the club about sponsoring
the stadium when West Ham move in after the 2012 Games.
Tony Attwood on London clubs in the Premier League. WHU down, QPR up, farewell pornography, hello
F1. David Sullivan and David Gold said when they took over WHU that they budgeted for failure that
is to say relegation. Whether that is true or not we will find out now the club has gone down [...]
Sam Allardyce had been West Ham United's manager for precisely eight hours when
first notice of the funhouse he has taken over was served. While he was speaking live on Sky
Sports, news broke that Tony Fernandes, the Malaysian businessman who is team principle of Formula
One's Team Lotus, had tweeted to claim he had offered to buy the club from David Sullivan and David
Gold.
I saw her wince, I saw her cry,
I saw the glory in her eye.
Myself I long for love and light,
But must it come so cruel, and oh so bright?
Sam Allardyce could be confirmed as the new manager of West Ham United as early as tonight, reports
Jason Burt, as the Hammers board successfully changed the 56-year old's mind about turning his back
on English football management.
Rumours are circulating this evening that West Ham co-owners
David Gold and David Sullivan have officially offered the vacant
manager's job to an interested applicant. At a meeting of the club's ‘Supporter Advisory Board'
tonight, the typically garrulous Sullivan is thought to have revealed to those in attendance that
he and Gold made the proposal and expect a definitive answer tomorrow.
Dave Jones has emerged as West Ham's preferred choice to lead them out of the Championship, writes
Sami Mokbel in today's Mail. Jones – whose future as Cardiff manager is under review following
the Bluebirds' failure to win promotion to the Premier League – has been linked with the post in
the past and the odds on him taking the job were dramatically slashed last night.
David Gold has insisted no stone will be left unturned as West Ham strive to
ensure they appoint the right manager as Avram Grant's successor. Gold and
co-owner David Sullivan are looking to bring in a replacement as quickly as
possible so that the new man has time to start preparing for next season.
Dignity is a by-word at Upton Park, co-chairman David Sullivan is a one man quote machine while
Karen Brady is on a mission to undo all the good work for equality that would have Emmeline
Pankhurst spinning in her grave. Only this morning in, joy of joys, the first lady of football's
™, Sun Football Diary she made comments that were more harmful than good.
Neil Warnock has said he has the backing of Queens Park Rangers to "plan for next season" after a
meeting with the board. According to today's Guardian, their support appears to rule him out of the
running to replace Avram Grant as West Ham United's manager, a possibility that
was understood to have appealed to co-owners David Gold and David
Sullivan.
In an August 2009 Radio 5 Live programme on the Premier League's financial troubles,
Supporters Direct Chief Executive Dave Boyle addressed the issue of the "chasm" between
Premier League and Football League finances. "Once upon a time," he said to a gathering of football
people including the then-Birmingham chairman David Gold, who wasn't ‘sitting comfortably',
"relegation meant you'd not had a good season.
Avram Grant should have gone four months ago. That is the conventional wisdom and a fairly safe
one at that. But the problem was no one was willing to take over for him. Grant reveals that there
were six candidates including Martin O'Neill, Steve McLaren, and Sam Allardyce who were sought out
in January but they would not do it because " they knew the situation there.
One by one they walked off, the golden generation. Jermain Defoe shirtless; Joe Cole man of a match
he would never wish to remember; Paolo Di Canio staring straight ahead, perhaps contemplating his
pledge to commit suicide if West Ham were relegated.
The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree
I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed.
I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
Avram Grant was sacked as manager of West Ham United on Sunday night. He was
informed by chairman David Sullivan, who left his seat in the directors' box early
to wait for Grant in the tunnel as he left the pitch amid chaotic scenes at the DW Stadium, after
West Ham's dramatic 3-2 defeat to Wigan Athletic.
As West Ham United's relegation from the Premier League was confirmed this afternoon with a
match still to spare, supporters of the club may well be left wondering what the future holds for
their club. After a chaotic season, punctuated by the decision to award the post-games use of the
Olympic Stadium in Stratford to them, Avram Grant was reportedly sacked in the tunnel after this
afternoon's defeat at Wigan Athletic.
The fight itself towards the summits suffices to fill a heart of
man; it is necessary to imagine Sisyphus happy...
Avram Grant will refuse to walk away from West Ham
United even if they are relegated this season, leaving the club with a compensation bill of around
£3.
There are certain natures, purely contemplative and altogether unfit for action, which nonetheless,
impelled by a mysterious and unknown motive, act at times with rapidity of which they would have
believed themselves incapable. Thus, Baudelaire introduces us to Le Mauvais vitrier; the exemplar
of what Poe coined The Imp of the Perverse, and as exemplified by David Gold's unpropitious
comments in this morning's papers.
How many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind
Manchester City's supporters celebrated with "the Poznan" and, for very different reasons, West
Ham's followers must have been tempted to turn their backs to the pitch, too.
Newcastle are expected to return with an improved offer to take Liverpool's Andy Carroll on a
season-long loan with a view to a permanent deal in future.
Liverpool dismissed Newcastle's first offer on Sunday night, but the Anfield club will consider a
better deal.
Newcastle initially only offered to pay part of Carroll's £80,000-a-week wages.
Brendan Rodgers has cast further doubt on Andy Carroll's Liverpool future, after the boss
admitting that he would consider letting striker Andy Carroll go out on loan
"It's something I would have to look at, I have to be honest," Reds boss Rodgers said when asked
if Carroll could be heading for the exit door.
Ever the opportunist, West Ham United co-owner David Gold said that he would bankroll the move
to bring Andy Carroll to Upton Park.
Manager Sam Allardyce wants to make a marquee signing ahead of his club's return to the Premier
League and West Ham are prepared to break their budget for the Liverpool No 9.
The lead story this morning was going to be that West Ham United is interested in a loan deal for
Andy Carroll, but West Ham co-owner David Gold has denied that the club has made any contact. Oh
well, that ...
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It was 12.24am, local time, when Alessandro Diamanti walked forward for the final, decisive kick
and, when it was all done, sparked the match that would exsiccate English Euro dreams to ashes.
Little did the Italian know that 1300 miles away he was also about to reignite a domestic feud that
has been quietly smouldering for two years.
West Ham manager Sam Allardyce is hoping that he will be able to persuade Joe Cole to make an
emotional return to the club after securing promotion to the Premier League at the first time of
asking.
Cole left the Hammers in 2003 to join Chelsea but is still a firm fan favourite after coming
through the academy at the east London club and going on to become a regular England player while
still with West Ham.
The speed of Kenny Dalglish's Liverpool revolution appears to have taken the club's
merchandising arm by surprise. Fans were delighted this week to receive their new catalogue of
official club gear but less pleased that two of the main models featured were the departed Raul
Meireles and David Ngog.
According to Pete O'Rourke at Sky Sports News, West Ham United are prepared to
sell their top players if they end up being relegated at the end of the season. Co-owner
David Gold said,
"It's unfair to tell a player to forego your potential England career to come down and play in
the Championship .
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his
defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above
all, accept these things.
Robert Green has agreed to join Queens Park Rangers on a two-year deal after rejecting an improved
West Ham United contract offer.
This article titled "Football transfer rumours: Robert Green to Tottenham?" was written by Simon
Burnton, for guardian.co.uk on Monday 4th June 2012 09.37 UTC
It's not just the families of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Theo Walcott who are planning to give
Poland and the Ukraine a wide berth this summer: the England squad's wives and girlfriends are no
more keen on Kiev, warm on Warsaw or devoted to Donetsk.
West Ham co-chairman David Gold has played down suggestions Joe Cole could make a 'romantic' return
to Upton Park this summer.
Liverpool midfielder Cole's future looks set to be discussed again this summer following the end of
a season-long loan at French club Lille.
The 30-year-old insists he has unfinished business at Anfield amid speculation linking him with a
second spell at the recently-promoted Hammers.
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Moi, je t'offrirai
Des perles de pluie
Venues de pays
Où il ne pleut pas
David Sullivan admits he prefers to watch West Ham on TV than travel to away games. The club's
joint-chairman came clean following fierce criticism that not one Hammers director travelled to
watch the Premier League's bottom team lose 2-1 at Manchester City on Sunday.
A lot of column centimetres have been devoted to Huddersfield Town striker Jordan Rhodes in recent
weeks and to have kept his head while others around him have been placing it upon the financial
guillotine has been admirable – yes, that's you David Gold. Three excellent articles in The
Seventy Two have explored the appeal of the man while our own blogger Ben profiled him in these
pages as 2012 drew to its conclusion.
