West Ham United fans have heavily criticised Sky Sports reporter Kaveh Solhekol for defending under fire owner David Sullivan.
West Ham fans have been protesting against Sullivan, fellow co-owner David Gold and their vice-chairman Karren Brady this season.
More than 8,000 supporters attended a march against the board before the victory over Southampton on Saturday.
Hammers fans are furious with the owners for a host of reasons from a lack of progress and the the move to the London Stadium to the treatment of supporters and a lack of structure around recruitment.
Sky Sports risk wrath of fans with ‘sycophantic’ Sullivan article
Sky Sports have offered a different take on Sullivan’s West Ham tenure this week, though.
Reporter and transfer guru Solhekol offers a staunch defence of Sullivan and says if the 71-year-old was truly interested in just making money, he would have added to his vast property portfolio rather than a football club.
Solhekol does concede leaving Upton Park was a mistake. And he states that West Ham fans are entitled to make their feelings clear.
Sullivan ‘hurt’ by fan protests
But he also claims Sullivan has been ‘hurt’ by criticism from supporters. Solhekol also cites the fact the board take ‘no money out of the club except interest on loans’ as a positive while hugely overstating the club’s net spend by some £100million.
The report has not gone down well with West Ham fans.
Supporters savaged Solhekol on Twitter setting him straight on the subject.
Many believe the article is part of Sky Sports’s attempts to reconcile with the West Ham owners after they were threatened with legal action and forced to issue a grovelling apology following criticism from journalists on their Sunday Supplement show (Daily Mail).
Some West Ham fans set reporter straight
Here are some of the hundreds of negative responses to the article from some Hammers fans on Twitter.
‘His performance has been an abomination’
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