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Relegation the inevitable outcome of West Ham’s relentless executive failure
The Guardian Sunday 24 May 2026
Once-proud club has forgotten what it was trying to be after years of mis-management in a shopping centre annexeIf you’re going to die, die with your boots on. Belatedly and pointlessly on. But on all the same. It felt deeply fitting that West Ham should show some fight on the final day of the Premier League season, but that relegation should still be confirmed by events elsewhere, any pleasure at a3-0 defeat of Leedsrendered irrelevant byTottenham‘s win at home against Everton, as West Ham’s season flopped like an ailing dog in the mid-summer heat.There was at least some joy at...
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