Jarrod Bowen said sorry after losing his cool with a couple of fans at the end of West Ham’s defeat by Wolves in the Carabao Cup, but anyone with any sense knows the forward has no need to apologise. The malaise has nothing to do with the player who scored the winner in the Conference League final two years ago. Quite frankly, West Ham are lucky Bowen is not pushing to leave. Nobody could blame the captain were he to decide enough is enough after years of atrocious recruitment and poor appointments from the people at the top.
This slump has been a long time coming. Some fans are fuming but a lot have grown apathetic. Mass walkouts feel very particular to the London Stadium. There was another one last Friday, much of the crowd following West Ham’s lead by giving up early as Chelsea rained in the goals. Humiliations have become so commonplace in E20 that many supporters wonder whether there are better things to do than watch their bungling team get pummelled at a soulless imitation of a football ground.
