Leeds United supporters were left in stunned silence after hearing a brutal West Ham chant that summed up the current catastrophe unfolding in east London.
Given what Leeds fans have been through in the last 20 years they could probably empathise if not quite sympathise as West Ham supporters turned their frustration into gallows humour amid another grim chapter in their worst ever start to a top flight season.
In terms of going through hard times, Leeds United have been there, done it and got the t-shirt in the last couple of decades.
The Elland Road club even dropped down to the third division at their lowest ebb.
Leeds fans stunned into silence by West Ham chant
Now they’re back in the Premier League and making a good fist of staying there this time having beaten West Ham 2-1 on Friday night to put a seven-point gap between the sides at the quarter-way stage of the season.
For West Ham, things go from bad to worse.
Stuck in the bottom three with one win in 10 games this season, the Hammers are starting to look like relegation certainties never mind candidates.
The game at Leeds offered West Ham a real opportunity to turn their season around. A win would have closed the gap to one point and breathed new life into the season.
But this Hammers team simply has nothing about it. Bar Jarrod Bowen and Tomas Soucek, it has no character, passion, pride, grit or any real talent.
The club’s owners have done such a terrible job they are being hounded out by fans.
And even the manager Nuno Espirito Santo, who impressed in his first two games, has raised major red flags with inexplicable team selections in defeats to Brentford and Leeds.
Hammers fans were already fed up and their frustration had turned to apathy.
Angry Hammers fans sum up catastrophe unfolding
But West Ham’s players had better wake up and smell the coffee soon.
Because that apathy is turning to anger towards every facet of the football club, including – at long last – the players.
For Leeds fans, that is a well-trodden path in their recent history.
But even Leeds fans were stunned into silence by a West Ham chant that sums up the catastrophe unfolding at the club.
The Hammers are threatening a Premier League record as they hurtle towards relegation.
As West Ham fell 2-0 behind after just 13 minutes at Elland Road, dark clouds gathered in the away end.
The mood turned and the usually fiercely loyal away following let their players know exactly what they thought.
Hammers fans aggressively belted out the chant ‘We’re f—— s—‘ over and over again to get their message across.
It was sung with a deep-seated anger that suggests there is a long – and perhaps no – way back for these players and this team in their eyes.
Apathy turns to outright anger at West Ham
This is the culmination of two years of rapid decline at the club.
West Ham supporters have seen enough.
Who can blame them after just 17 wins in 67 Premier League games since January 2024?
Other chants were sung about sacking the board and the usual terrace ditties.
But that self-deprecation and gallows humour was chanted with such angry passion, it is clear West Ham supporters, to a man and woman, have reached the very end of their tethers.
It looks like only a miracle can save the Hammers now.
