{"id":425465,"date":"2011-05-17T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/17\/west-ham-united-co-owner-david-sullivan-a-player-was-racially-abused-by-a-drunken-fan\/"},"modified":"2011-05-17T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T10:52:00","slug":"west-ham-united-co-owner-david-sullivan-a-player-was-racially-abused-by-a-drunken-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/17\/west-ham-united-co-owner-david-sullivan-a-player-was-racially-abused-by-a-drunken-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham United co-owner David Sullivan: &#8216;A player was racially abused&#8217; by a drunken fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Adithya Ananth<\/h3>\n<h4>17 May 2011 11:52:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"62.1410845588\">\n<div readability=\"13.1506849315\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Sullivan (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/86600\/86632_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>David Sullivan (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"8.74860335196\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/374\/west-ham-united\">West Ham United<\/a> co-owner David Sullivan has criticised an unnamed supporter who he claimed racially abused a player during the club&#8217;s end-of-season party.<\/p>\n<p>It has been reported that police had to be called to the scene when fans clashed with players at the party <span>in central London, following the Hammers&#8217; relegation to the Championship. Their 3-2 defeat at Wigan on Sunday means West Ham will finish bottom of the Premier League.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sullivan also maintained that the fan had &#8220;let the club down&#8221; due to the incident, and told <em>Sky Sports News<\/em>: &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><\/span>The whole incident has been blown out of all proportion. It was one individual who had too much to drink, sadly a problem in British society.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A player was racially abused by the same drunken supporter, which is not acceptable. Sadly one drunken supporter let the club down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>See original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/05\/17\/2490515\/west-ham-united-co-owner-david-sullivan-a-player-was\" title=\"West Ham United co-owner David Sullivan: 'A player was racially abused' by a drunken fan\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Ham United co-owner David Sullivan: &#8216;A player was racially abused&#8217; by a drunken fan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Adithya Ananth 17 May 2011 11:52:00 David Sullivan (Getty Images) Related Links Teams West Ham United co-owner David Sullivan has criticised an unnamed supporter who he claimed racially abused a player during the club&#8217;s end-of-season party. It has been reported that police had to be called to the scene when fans clashed with players at the party in central London, following the Hammers&#8217; relegation to the Championship. Their 3-2 defeat at Wigan on Sunday means West Ham will finish bottom of the Premier League<\/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-425465","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 United co-owner David Sullivan: &#039;A player was racially abused&#039; by a drunken fan - 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\/05\/17\/west-ham-united-co-owner-david-sullivan-a-player-was-racially-abused-by-a-drunken-fan\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"West Ham United co-owner David Sullivan: &#039;A player was racially abused&#039; by a drunken fan - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Adithya Ananth 17 May 2011 11:52:00 David Sullivan (Getty Images) Related Links Teams West Ham United co-owner David Sullivan has criticised an unnamed supporter who he claimed racially abused a player during the club&#039;s end-of-season party. 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