Fans of West Ham United have slammed footage released by the club of the Hammers’ Rush Green Training Ground ahead of their clash with Liverpool.
On Tuesday night, the London club posted footage of the training ground and the players training (as per West Ham) which infuriated supporters.
Today's training ahead of #WHULIV ? pic.twitter.com/nvl6KIhYaD
— West Ham United (@WestHam) January 28, 2020
Waste of time fellas
— chris (@whuchr) January 28, 2020
Hahahaha did David Sullivan deliberately instruct you to take shots of the training site ????
— John (@jrd_1999) January 28, 2020
The irony that West Ham manage to make a training ground related video and miss out the porta cabins that seemingly make up the majority of it. Even the club are embarrassed to highlight the fact we are a PL football club, for now, and have the worst training facilities in league
— Josh Verrills (@WestHamJoshV) January 28, 2020
Do West Ham need to invest in a new training ground?Yes, the current one is terrible
No, the current one will do |
The club’s training ground game under fire late last week when the Telegraph’s Matt Law gave a scathing review of the facilities that the Hammers have at their disposal (via FourFourTwo).
With the video posted by the club following Law’s quotes on Sunday Supplement by just a couple of day, many fans felt that it was an ‘obvious’ move.
Hahaha so obvious… Training ground gets criticised and suddenly a video appears starting with decent shots of the training ground
— James (@j_hoey) January 28, 2020
Take lots of shots of the training ground
Yes Mr Sullivan
Do we include the porter cabins?
No
— Willow (@benparry26) January 28, 2020
Amazing how the media team make Rush Green look like a Premier League Training Ground…
— ?????? ? ????????? ? (@PW57WHU) January 28, 2020
Yeh we’re getting slapped
— zanderlamby (@zanderlamby) January 28, 2020
Your training facilities are an embarrassment! pic.twitter.com/c0mbHGyNzW
— Vic #GSBOUT Singh ???????? (@vicsinghb) January 28, 2020
What do we think?
It does seem a little bit fishy that the club was so keen to post a video of the training ground just days after it had come under fire on Sunday Supplement (via FourFourTwo).
If another thing is clear, it is that supporters are deeply frustrated with their club and judging from responses, will not be quick to back the Hammers up at the moment.