West Ham United owner David Sullivan was among many in football unhappy with his chief executive Karren Brady’s controversial newspaper column last weekend, in which she called for the Premier League season to be declared void.
Sullivan is understood to have had words with Brady this week, not least as the first he heard of her dramatic scheme — which would involve scrapping relegation and denying Liverpool the title — was when he read about it in a national daily.
As West Ham are only out of the relegation zone on goal difference and have played a game more than second-bottom Aston Villa, Brady has been widely accused of self-interest, with Sullivan taking the opposing view that the season must be played to a finish.