West Ham United legend Tony Cottee has called out the club’s ownership and the London Stadium in a recent interview with talkSPORT. 

Since West Ham moved to the London Stadium in 2016, it has been the subject of considerable criticism due to the lack of atmosphere and the distance from the pitch.

“The biggest problem the fans have got, myself included, is that the club moved to an athletics stadium,” Cottee told talkSPORT.

“I’m not saying it’s not a great stadium, because it is, it’s a wonderful stadium, but moving West Ham from a traditional ground of the Boleyn to an athletics stadium hasn’t worked for the fans.

“There’s lots of friends of mine who say they haven’t got there or they won’t go there again, and I just think there’s a real lack of enthusiasm towards the stadium and a lot of frustration as well.”

The stadium move is the main reason for the fans’ criticism of the board, which hasn’t gone away in almost a decade now. However, there are a lot of other reasons as to why the fans really have never been behind David Sullivan and Karren Brady.

Cottee explained: “Of course West Ham had the good times two years ago and we thought ‘come on let’s crack on’ but there’s only two players from that team left, the rest have left in two years.

“The frustration has come from the first three games and the fans want something to change.

“I don’t think the board or owners are going to change, but the fans are saying we’re not happy, please listen to us. I don’t feel like everyone’s swimming together at the moment, there are too many factions in the club.

“You cannot have uncertainty at a football club and my biggest problem is they don’t have a plan, what is the plan? They go from week to week, month to month, and if they do well or get relegated it’s ‘oh whatever’.

“There’s no plan and that’s where the frustration of the fans comes from.”