The level of investment in football by West Ham owners David Sullivan and David Gold was in the spotlight on Monday night as the fallout from their incredible row with Sky rumbled on.
Claims made on the pair’s behalf on Sky’s Sunday Supplement programme last Sunday about their spending at Birmingham were incomplete. Much of the money for the redevelopment of St Andrew’s came, in fact, from other sources. Attributing to the duo an award the stadium received four years after they sold the club was also inaccurate.
During the 90-second apology which Sky made to West Ham for ‘factual inaccuracies’ on the programme the previous Sunday, stand-in presenter Geoff Shreeves noted Sullivan and Gold’s investment in St Andrew’s when they owned Birmingham between 1993 and 2009.