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Blame for West Ham’s inexorable slide to relegation sits at the feet of David Sullivan | Jacob Steinberg
The Guardian Monday 25 May 2026
The club’s largest shareholder has ignored warning signs since 2022 and need only look at the fate of Leicester to see what what may be in storeWest Ham jumped on the relegation train in 2022. Bereft of vision at the top of the club, they failed to realise where they were heading. One internal figure was worried but his voice did not carry enough weight. There were three consecutive years of European football and there was no impending sense of doom whenWest Ham beat Fiorentinain the Conference League final in June 2023.Yet that glorious night in Prague is a distant...
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