One from the You Couldn’t Make It Up Department.
A £25,000 per table of ten fund raiser took place at the Grosvenor Hotel in London on Monday night for the West Ham Acadamy. Full page adverts in the event’s programme were priced at £1000. The guests were described by the Club as ‘high profile’ and included club ‘Legends’ and some of the capital’s leading rag & bone men.
John Lyle’s family probably weren’t there as Karren Brady removed the their complimentary Season Tickets last week.
The gala turned into a brawl straight out of Carry On Cowboy. Supposedly this was sparked by Demba Ba claiming he was too tired to sign a fan’s Bull Staffy puppy.
James Corden hosted along with Ben Shepard and Stacey Solomon… well she was there. There was an auction.
Prizes included World Cup tickets (£10k the pair), Be chairman for the day (£4k), a round of golf on Golds private course with him and a day at the spa for your missus(£4k), Ali signed glove(£3k), mascot for the Man Utd game (£5k, I think), a day at the racetrack with Zola (£3k), use of the pitch at Upton Park f or a matc h/tournament (£8k), be included in the official 2010/11 team photo(£3k).
Eye witnesses reported tables being overturned, glasses being smashed. A vase was ‘high kicked’ and one MC asked the raving mob to please sit on chairs, not to throw them.’
The evening concluded with a cabaret consisting of police and security guards chasing gala guests up and down stairs, in and out lifts etc.
It was a crazy situation,” according to Ba. “This guy came to me when we were sitting at the table. There were two players per table and Manuel Da Costa was with me. He came and asked for an autograph, so I gave him my autograph.
“Then he asked me nicely how I was feeling so I just said I was tired from the game and that it was a tough game. And then he just replied ‘Oh? We’re tired watching you play every weekend’.
“I was surprised and told Da Costa what the guy had said. Then the guy all of a sudden started screaming at me like crazy. I tried to calm him down but he didn’t want to. He kept on screaming.
“Then some players came. They just told me to walk away and tried to calm this guy, but he didn’t want to calm down and started smashing some tables and glasses.
“He started insulting me. So I got up to show I’m not impressed at all by him but this guy was a bit drunk.
“When my team-mates saw me, they came between us. Danny Gabbidon came and said ‘Sit down’, so I sat down and they tried to talk to him [the supporter] but he didn’t want to talk to anybody.”
Ba accused the man of aiming racist abuse at him, adding: “When he talked to me I didn’t understand everything that he said but the people next to me said he was saying racist things.
“When Gabbidon heard these words he tried to talk to him but this guy didn’t want to listen and started insulting Gabbidon as well.”
Ba added: “I did not say that I was too tired to give an autograph. I would never say this as it would be disrespectful to the fans who support me every week. It was not me who started this.
“I don’t want to go into the details of what was said but I am glad other people know about it, and you can understand why people were upset.”
This Demba fellow sounds like a real troublemaker.
Or a Baaaargain.
or a ba steward
Demba Ba. He’s so good they named him one and a half times.
I’d pay to see that!
PSB chucked a chair, but he missed the target. :wassat:
:-D :-D :-D
Wasn’t he in Birmingham, growing up and loving the club?
if I was a spammer right now,I think I would keep my head well down in the trenches.
As it seems they are doing. Not a single one has posted here today. Normally an article about their lot would be riddled with comments from the thieving so-and-so’s.
Just watched that Hulk chappie. Does running straight at the oppo then falling over holding your face play a large part in his game or was this a one-off? Falcao looks like he knows where the net is though.
Yeah very disappointed with Hulk on last nights showing. I know it was only one game but he looks like he will fit in very well with our current strikers.