{"id":425553,"date":"2011-05-17T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/17\/demba-ba-denies-instigating-fight-at-west-hams-end-of-season-party-claims-he-did-sign-autograph-for-fan\/"},"modified":"2011-05-17T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T13:24:00","slug":"demba-ba-denies-instigating-fight-at-west-hams-end-of-season-party-claims-he-did-sign-autograph-for-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/17\/demba-ba-denies-instigating-fight-at-west-hams-end-of-season-party-claims-he-did-sign-autograph-for-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Demba Ba denies instigating fight at West Ham&#8217;s end-of-season party &#038; claims he did sign autograph for fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Joe Doyle<\/h3>\n<h4>17 May 2011 14:24:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"80.4586466165\">\n<div readability=\"16.2444444444\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL,Demba Ba,Wigan Athletic vs West Ham United\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/131600\/131687_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>EPL,Demba Ba,Wigan Athletic vs West Ham United<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/374\/west-ham-united\">West Ham<\/a> striker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/senegal\/22082\/demba-ba\">Demba Ba<\/a> has rejected suggestions that the fracas at their end of season party was caused by him refusing to sign autographs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Senegalese international clashed with a supporter at the dinner on Monday, and it was alleged that the fan was upset because Ba claimed he was \u2018too tired\u2019 to sign an autograph.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A scuffle broke out and police were called to deal with the incident at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ba insists that he did not refuse to sign an autograph, however, saying via his personal Twitter account: \u201cI did sign the autograph. I never refuse to sign autograph to the fans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe came to me saying he is tired to watch us play and was looking for confrontation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>West Ham co-owner David Sullivan subsequently claimed that a player had been the victim of racial abuse from a drunken fan, saying on <em>Sky Sports News<\/em>: \u201cThe whole incident has been blown out of proportion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt was one individual who had too much to drink, sadly a problem in British society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cA player was racially abused by the same drunken supporter, which is not acceptable. Sadly one drunken supporter let the club down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/05\/17\/2490818\/demba-ba-denies-instigating-fight-at-west-hams-end-of-season\" title=\"Demba Ba denies instigating fight at West Ham's end-of-season party &amp; claims he did sign autograph for fan\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Demba Ba denies instigating fight at West Ham&#8217;s end-of-season party &amp; claims he did sign autograph for fan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Joe Doyle 17 May 2011 14:24:00 EPL,Demba Ba,Wigan Athletic vs West Ham United Related Links Teams Players West Ham striker Demba Ba has rejected suggestions that the fracas at their end of season party was caused by him refusing to sign autographs. The Senegalese international clashed with a supporter at the dinner on Monday, and it was alleged that the fan was upset because Ba claimed he was \u2018too tired\u2019 to sign an autograph. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-425553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Demba Ba denies instigating fight at West Ham&#039;s end-of-season party &amp; claims he did sign autograph for 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\/demba-ba-denies-instigating-fight-at-west-hams-end-of-season-party-claims-he-did-sign-autograph-for-fan\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Demba Ba denies instigating fight at West Ham&#039;s end-of-season party &amp; claims he did sign autograph for fan - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Joe Doyle 17 May 2011 14:24:00 EPL,Demba Ba,Wigan Athletic vs West Ham United Related Links Teams Players West Ham striker Demba Ba has rejected suggestions that the fracas at their end of season party was caused by him refusing to sign autographs. 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