David Gold has blamed jet-lag for accidentally favouriting a tweet which indicated that he wanted to see Sam Allardyce sacked.
After travelling with the club on their pre-season tour New Zealand, Gold favourited a tweet sent to him by a supporter which read;
Is today the day we get rid of BFS?? david gold. fingers crossed.
As the papers have coyly indicated 'BFS' is a derogatory nickname that a section of the West Ham fans employ to refer to Allardyce. There's no need to go into the ins and outs of what the acronym but suffice to say it refers to Allardyce's girth.
After a 33 hour flight from New Zealand, I was in my car scanning through my tweets and it seems I accidently favourited one (1/3)
— David Gold (@davidgold) July 29, 2014
It has made some of the papers today so I should clarify that I did not and would never deliberately or... 2/3)
— David Gold (@davidgold) July 29, 2014
..intentionally endorse a tweet that questions our manager's position. Lesson: don't use twitter when you're jet lagged! (3/3) dg
— David Gold (@davidgold) July 29, 2014
