West Ham fans plan for next protest; Ollie Scarles in tears after his mistake gifts Fulham win

West Ham captain Jarrod Bowen, on what he makes of his side’s performance today: “Frustrating. I thought we had good moments, thought we got into the final third well, combined well at times and then just didn’t take our chances. I thought mine was the biggest one, I’m an honest person, I’ve got to score that to give us the lead. I’ve got to take that blame, take that responsibility. I’ve got to put that in the back of the net.”

On the mood in the dressing room: “It’s difficult. I spoke to them in there and I said there’s another game on Tuesday, nobody’s going to give it us in this league, we have to demand more from ourselves, demand more from each other and that’s it.

“The only thing I know is to stick at it and change your fortunes yourself and, like I said, we have a game Tuesday, I said recover, do the right things, come into training tomorrow well. That’s all I’ve known. That’s all I’ve ever known when things aren’t going well it’s easy to blame, easy to point fingers and ultimately it comes from inside to put it right yourself starting from me first and foremost and that starts now.

“A few people spoke in there and I think it’s good to. It’s always hard after a game when you lose in the way we did, with the chances we had conversations. It’s a really good group and I said the main thing is, as cliche as it sounds, we have to stick together as a team. There’s going to be noise, there’s going to be everything from the outside world that we can’t control. I think the most important thing is to put smiles back on the fans faces and give them something to cheer for because ultimately we haven’t done that enough this season.

“We have to stick together as a group. We have to demand more every single day and everyone agrees with that.”

West Ham manager Nuno Espirito Santo, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: “It [the goal] comes after some chances we had in the second half, we have been punished by a mistake and we lose the game.

“Everybody cares, it’s not about that but about the situation we are in. Everything bad happens to us. You can argue about the justice of the result, but the reality is we lost after what I think was an equal first half, both teams didn’t have much.

“Second half we had the momentum, created situations we should have scored from, and in the end we were punished.

“We have to react, the good part is we play another game in two days time. It’s another chance to give back to our fans.

“When you don’t scores you are never totally comfortable.”

West Ham fans plan for their next protest, and Ollie Scarles was left in tears after his mistake gifts Fulham a late win…

@_WestHamReport: Ollie Scarles is one of our own and there are full blown adults going to town on him because of his mistake. Conveniently forgetting the long list of issues that find us in this mess in the first place or is there an issue of inferiority complex within the West Ham fanbase?

@WHUFCFZ: Ollie Scarles, hold your head up lad. Put in a brilliant performance and dealt with Harry Wilson quite comfortably before the unfortunate mistake. It happens to a lot of players, it’s just one of them things.

@toptargets: West Ham fans on here digging out Ollie Scarles… Used to love that about West Ham, that they would protect their young talent but sign of the toxic times seeing him get ripped a new one. Their problem, which the fans know more than anyone, are their wanky owners and chairman💩

@ibbywhu: Anyone bashing Ollie Scarles have a fucking word with yourself. You don’t kick your own when their down that’s not West Ham is it? It’s not his fault the devil himself David Sullivan hasn’t invested into the squad enough to have adequate depth

@SimonBrewer20: Some West Ham fans need to wake up or Fuk off. If you think Ollie Scarles is the problem at our club, Fuk off and don’t come back.

@c_woodgate93: Personally feel protests inside LS are futile & diluted by the 10k’s of tourists & empty seats. Focus on causing a big stir away from home week in week out with the core support with the odd big headline, tactically selected home game for major protests like stay outs/marches etc

@matt_twitta: Stand up and turn your back to the pitch on the 16th minute in complete silence to represent the 16 years they have owned the club. Impossible not to see/notice. Boycotting the game and constant protests throughout the match won’t help the team

@Glenwhufc: All protest outside of his house on public land. We will not be breaking the law we can have banners smoke bombs and flags. He will hate it and it will gain great media attention. Hit the little dwarf where it will hurt him most

@Mark52121939: Do not attend games. Leave it empty just how that shit stadium should be. That will hit the most for them useless owners. Better for the team in the long run. Force the owners to leave and hit them where it hurts. There pockets. Will get big covers and put the pressure on them.

@MikeSalmon1402: Stay downstairs or outside the ground for 1st 10 mins of the game then go in en mass chanting Sullivan / Brady out or mass walk out at the start of the 2nd half chanting the same?

@danwestham1: honestly think it has to be something directed at the directors box or a mass walk out on a certain minute…

@Jack_Heffer02: I know people think it needs to be home games, but there’s not enough West Ham fans in that stadium and it always ends up looking underwhelming. It needs to go to the next level at away matches, disrupting the match in some way – possibly by everyone throwing tennis balls on etc. It’s time to stop protesting at that shithole and take proper protests to the away matches. 3,000 core West Ham fans will achieve far more than tens of thousands of tourists in that calamity of a football stadium.

@IRONSSSS: A coordinated ‘stroll’ to the directors box from all sides of the ground. Flags. flares, banners – Anything that will disrupt their time inside the stadium. Something that will get the game paused (Tennis balls on pitch). Blocking of gates from directors car park

Fucking cowards on and off the pitch.

Drips in the stands can’t even be arsed holding up a card for 60 seconds.

West Ham London is utter shite.

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— The Grove (@TheGroveWHU) December 27, 2025