{"id":416563,"date":"2011-05-03T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/03\/west-ham-co-owner-david-sullivan-explains-he-did-not-attend-manchester-city-game-due-to-teams-poor-away-performances\/"},"modified":"2011-05-03T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T17:47:00","slug":"west-ham-co-owner-david-sullivan-explains-he-did-not-attend-manchester-city-game-due-to-teams-poor-away-performances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/03\/west-ham-co-owner-david-sullivan-explains-he-did-not-attend-manchester-city-game-due-to-teams-poor-away-performances\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham co-owner David Sullivan explains he did not attend Manchester City game due to team&#8217;s poor away performances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Shane Farrington<\/h3>\n<h4>3 May 2011 18:47:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"72.1288450377\">\n<div readability=\"16.2787878788\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL, Manchester City v West Ham United, Demba Ba\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/130400\/130451_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>EPL, Manchester City v West Ham United, Demba Ba<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"39.3552908199\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/374\/west-ham\">West Ham<\/a> co-owner David Sullivan has attributed his relegation-battling side&#8217;s poor away form as one of the reasons for him not attending Sunday\u2019s 2-1 loss away to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/109\/man-city\">Manchester City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan, fellow West Ham owner David Gold and vice chairwoman Karren Brady all instead decided to watch the match on the television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatching our poor away performances week after week, and not having the ability to influence things, has impacted on us,\u201d Sullivan admitted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy family think I&#8217;m mad devoting so much time and money to the club and, as the match was on TV, I decided to watch it on TV.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Sullivan, who recently questioned his side&#8217;s chances of avoiding relegation, did confirm that himself, Gold and Brady would be in attendance for their team&#8217;s next away trip after donating the equivalent amount of a cost of a private plane to Manchester to charity.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan, one of Britain&#8217;s richest men with an estimated fortune of around \u00a3400 million, added: \u201cWe couldn&#8217;t influence the result, we donated the cost of private plane to a charity for terminally ill children, we thought that would do more good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad it not been on TV we would have been there. None of us draw any salary or expenses from West Ham United. We are not \u00a320k-\u00a360k-a-week footballers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe only took 1,100 supporters. Like us, the bulk of the West Ham United supporters preferred to watch it on TV. We&#8217;ll be at Wigan as will 4,500 supporters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/05\/03\/2469778\/west-ham-co-owner-david-sullivan-explains-he-did-not-attend\" title=\"West Ham co-owner David Sullivan explains he did not attend Manchester City game due to team's poor away performances\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Ham co-owner David Sullivan explains he did not attend Manchester City game due to team&#8217;s poor away performances<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Shane Farrington 3 May 2011 18:47:00 EPL, Manchester City v West Ham United, Demba Ba Related Links Teams West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has attributed his relegation-battling side&#8217;s poor away form as one of the reasons for him not attending Sunday\u2019s 2-1 loss away to Manchester City . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":416564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-416563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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