{"id":360392,"date":"2011-04-02T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/02\/west-ham-co-chairman-david-sullivan-claims-manchester-united-are-not-as-daunting-away-from-home\/"},"modified":"2011-04-02T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T09:46:00","slug":"west-ham-co-chairman-david-sullivan-claims-manchester-united-are-not-as-daunting-away-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/02\/west-ham-co-chairman-david-sullivan-claims-manchester-united-are-not-as-daunting-away-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan claims Manchester United are not as daunting away from home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Jake Watson<\/h3>\n<h4>2 Apr 2011 10:46:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"72.867054827754\">\n<div readability=\"12.173913043478\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Sullivan (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/d714e9c986632_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>David Sullivan (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"44.872068230277\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/374\/west-ham-united\">West Ham United<\/a> co-chairman David Sullivan has claimed that current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\">Premier League<\/a> leaders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/manchester-united\">Manchester United<\/a> are not as strong away from home.<\/p>\n<p>The Hammers host United today in what is a key game for both teams as they fight for points at opposite ends of the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManchester United play Chelsea in the Champions League next week, so they have two very tough games in London within the next five days,\u201d Sullivan told <em>The<\/em> <em>Telegraph<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are far less daunting on our ground than at Old Trafford, where they are almost unbeatable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our players are very fired up for Saturday and I\u2019m sure after 90 minutes the United players will know they have been in a match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>West Ham currently sit just one place above the relegation places on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are playing for three vital points,\u201d Sullivan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery game is like a cup final for us now &#8211; in fact more important than a cup final. The matches are incredibly stressful to watch, after every game I feel mentally and physically shattered. We are paying the price of only winning two of our first 18 games. It seems like every game is life or death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>West Ham manager Avram Grant has added to Sullivan\u2019s comments, claiming that despite believing United are not the same force away from home, their success is more down to the management of Sir Alex Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe strength of Sir Alex is that he can keep the team going even when they are not so good,\u201d Grant said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey started the season not so well and still took points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They started the season not playing good football, now they are, but you never heard any stories. They believed in themselves even when they were not making four or five passes like they used to. This is why they are in first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/d714e9c986632_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/04\/02\/2422428\/west-ham-co-chairman-david-sullivan-claims-manchester-united-are-\" title=\"West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan claims Manchester United are not as daunting away from home\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan claims Manchester United are not as daunting away from home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Jake Watson 2 Apr 2011 10:46:00 David Sullivan (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players West Ham United co-chairman David Sullivan has claimed that current Premier League leaders Manchester United are not as strong away from home. The Hammers host United today in what is a key game for both teams as they fight for points at opposite ends of the table. \u201cManchester United play Chelsea in the Champions League next week, so they have two very tough games in London within the next five days,\u201d Sullivan told The Telegraph . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan claims Manchester United are not as daunting away from home - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/02\/west-ham-co-chairman-david-sullivan-claims-manchester-united-are-not-as-daunting-away-from-home\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan claims Manchester United are not as daunting away from home - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Jake Watson 2 Apr 2011 10:46:00 David Sullivan (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players West Ham United co-chairman David Sullivan has claimed that current Premier League leaders Manchester United are not as strong away from home. 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