Some West Ham United fans have been reacting to pundit Simon Jordan’s unlikely defence of David Sullivan and David Gold.
The former football club owner has urged West Ham fans to back off his old foes in his latest column with The Sun.
A large section of West Ham fans are deeply unhappy with the way the duo – and their vice-chairman Karren Brady – have run the club over the last decade.
They have been making their feelings clear in protests before the Everton game, during the Liverpool match and will again before Saturday’s crucial home clash against Southampton.
Jordan’s unlikely defence of Sullivan and Gold
Jordan has not been shy in venting his spleen about West Ham’s owners in the past, dating back to their Birmingham City days.
But he told Hammers supporters to leave Sullivan and Gold alone in The Sun.
“Despite the Premier League’s rise as one of the best in the world, owners, management and players are now being put under levels of unreasonable abuse,” Jordan said in his column for The Sun.
“While I’m no fan of co-owners David Gold and David Sullivan at West Ham, the abuse aimed at them because the team are poor and the stadium is not what they want is wrong… let’s find some context.
‘We should expect better behaviour’
“I love football fans. I love the humour, the passion and their perseverance.
“No other business serves up garbage one week and people come and buy some more the following week. But we should expect better behaviour.
“Football is a force for good. Bill Shankly’s immortal words were ‘Football is not life and death — it’s more serious than that’ but it’s really not.”
Even Jordan saw the irony in sticking up for two of his biggest adversaries in football.
He took to Twitter to comment under his own column, saying: “Comes a times when I am actually defending West Ham owners.”
Some fans react to Jordan comments
But that did not save him from a tongue lashing from some West Ham fans on Twitter who told Jordan he just doesn’t get it.
‘It’s about emotions’
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