Declan Rice deletes a tweet of his after fuming at UEFA for banning West Ham fans from attending their away game against Rapid Vienna.
The Premier League high flyers were also issued with a £29,000 fine by Europe’s governing body due to ‘crowd disturbances’ in their Europa League trip to Genk earlier this month, yet we’ve seen worst from other clubs in the tournament who have gone on to escape punishment.
UEFA have banned the Hammers from selling tickets for their clash in Austria on the 25th of November, with the club’s fanbase slamming some of the claims that they have come out with.
Commenting on Uefa’s decision, Rice slammed the punishment as harsh and unfair while questioning why Vienna fans went unpunished for their actions at the London Stadium.
Their supporters stormed the home end after Rice had broken the deadlock, resulting in both sets of supporters throwing missiles and bottles of urine at each other.
Vienna had already been slapped with a ban by UEFA, with their fans unable to attend the clash against Croatian outfit Dinamo Zagreb on the 4th of November earlier this month.
In a now-deleted tweet, 22 year old Declan Rice wrote: “Laughable this is.
“Gutted for our fans that now won’t be able to make the trip!
“Did Rapid Vienna get fined or a ban of tickets for there (sic) ‘crowd disturbances’ at our stadium? Nope.”
After three minutes of publishing his tweet, it was quickly taken down, but not before Hammers fans took to social media to praise what he said and so they should.
West Ham provided a statement on the UEFA ban, which read: “West Ham United can confirm that we have received an email late this afternoon informing us that we are subject to sanctions from UEFA in relation to our Europa League Group H fixture against KRC Genk on Thursday 4 November.
“The Club has been fined 34,500 Euros and also informed that our supporters are unable to travel for our next Europa League away fixture.
“The Club are urgently seeking clarification from UEFA, particularly given the extremely short notice of the sanction, which will impact our supporters who have already bought tickets and made arrangements to travel to Austria our match at Rapid Vienna in just over a week.
“We are surprised to receive these sanctions and disappointed for the fans who have behaved impeccably and supported the team throughout and will now be unable to travel to the next away Europa League fixture.
“The Club has requested the full written reasons from UEFA regarding these sanctions and have asked them to expedite our request given that further delay could impact supporters once again.
“The Club fully appreciates that supporters will have booked return travel and accommodation in Austria and are stressing this in our dialogue with UEFA. We will update supporters as soon as we are able to with further information.
“Finally, we would like to assure those supporters who have already purchased one of the 1,700 tickets that sold out our allocation for this game that they will be automatically refunded by the Club should UEFA rule the sanctions stand and that they relate to next week’s match in Austria.”
Fans reacted as Declan Rice deletes his tweet after fuming at UEFA for banning West Ham fans from flying to Vienna for the Europa League game…
@Eggans2: People say there’s no characters in football anymore, the truth is that they aren’t allowed to show any character
@JJDooley3: My captain 😍
@HaighAir: Used there instead of their. I would have deleted too
@westhamwhu49: he’s west ham through and through
@tonysyoung: Expect a ban for Rice now. He may be right but people need to think before they do or say things in this oh so fcuking world we live in now
@whuR_: Sad to see he had to delete it
@Glen1540Glen: Not wrong, laughable decision
@Mwiffen123: One of our own! He knows uefa are a disgrace
@Antiguamann: West Ham simply too #Massive for @UEFA. Well done @_DeclanRice for speaking out and standing up for the fans ⚒️
@Chaz_B_Cole: That’s my captain ⚒️, tell it like it is
@mhare641: Got to love our boy Deccers saying it hoe it is before he was clearly asked to remove ❤ UEFA always have had double standards & lack the decency to officiate fairly & will equal measure. All about keeping status quo & silencing “upstarts”
@Gavlar_04: Hey @_DeclanRice i know someone at the club will probably have gotten you to delete the tweet but i just wanted to let you know that you’re bang on! @UEFA let Rapid Vienna off and do the bare minimum to stanp out racism #CorruptUefa
Bet Ajax don’t get a ban for this though……. pic.twitter.com/a7SDZmuBej
— Joe Bearman (@joe_bearman) November 16, 2021
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