West Ham are set to warn the fans of the consequences of causing trouble at Monday's Premier League match at home to Tottenham. When the two sides met at White Hart Lane earlier in the season, a minority of Irons fans let themselves and the club down and chanted anti-Semitic songs at the Spurs fans and gave Nazi salutes. Now, the club want to avoid a repeat of that- especially after Tottenham fans were attacked in a bar by anti-Semitic Lyon supporters at their Europa League game on Wednesday night (the second time this has happened to Spurs fans this season after a similar incident occurred against Lazio in Rome earlier this season); and according to the Daily Mirror, the fear at the club is that the same morons will seek to make light of the incident and goad the Spurs supporters about it. The club will put a message in the match programme warning fans about their behaviour at the match and a statement on the website is expected later as well.
It's good to hear that the club are on the case with this; but realistically, they're only acting now because the behaviour of our fans at the game earlier in the season put the club in a bad light on a national scale. West Ham fans have been singing anti-Semitic songs to Tottenham fans for as long as I've been going to watch West Ham-Tottenham games and nothing's ever been done about it; occasionally a couple of fans get caught and banned but the problem hasn't been stamped out. Fair play to David Gold and David Sullivan if they're on the case with it and do something about it.
By Alex Shilling, News Editor
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