West Ham jumped on the relegation train in 2022. Bereft of vision at the top of the club, they failed to realise where they were heading. One internal figure was worried but his voice did not carry enough weight. There were three consecutive years of European football and there was no impending sense of doom when West Ham beat Fiorentina in the Conference League final in June 2023.
Yet that glorious night in Prague is a distant memory. The Championship now awaits and, much like when West Ham went down in 2003, this is a failure that could have been avoided with better planning.
