**It’s no secret that West Ham are currently in serious trouble and that David Sullivan is largely to blame.**
The Hammers sit 18th in the Premier League and have not been this close to relegation to the Championship since the 2010/11 season, when they faced the drop under Avram Grant.
The Hammers have experienced quite the fall from grace over the last two years. After a turbulent start to the decade, when they narrowly escaped relegation during lockdown, David Moyes’s Irons went on a generational run in domestic and European competition.
West Ham secured sixth and seventh-place finishes in back-to-back league campaigns and won the UEFA Conference League in 2023. The club spent three consecutive seasons playing European football, and even when league form was poor, there was always something to look forward to.
However, since 2024 that hasn’t been the case, as the Irons have most frequently found themselves on the wrong end of scorelines, playing torrid football and sleepwalking towards relegation.
It has been a truly dismal couple of years, but as poor as West Ham have been, things could always be worse — as has been seen with Leicester City recently.
The Foxes experienced a golden period from 2015 to 2022, winning the Premier League and the FA Cup, while also competing in Europe on several occasions. Like West Ham, the East Midlands side enjoyed great success at the start of the 2020s, experiencing exciting European campaigns and FA Cup glory in 2021.
However, after relegations in 2023 and 2025, Leicester now find themselves far from Premier League football — in fact, they are now closer to League One than the top flight.
The Foxes currently sit in the relegation zone of the Championship, two points from safety following a six-point deduction for PSR breaches. As woeful as the situation at London Stadium is, there is still hope that the Hammers could maintain their Premier League status come May — but Leicester could face back-to-back relegations.
Of course, this is not a defence of Sullivan, Karren Brady or the West Ham board, who have failed miserably to manage the club in a way that feels sustainable and transparent.
But it does highlight how quickly a club can fall from the dizzying heights of domestic and European success to the concerning lower echelons of the Football League. If anything, Leicester’s current predicament should serve as a warning sign to the West Ham board.
Because if the Hammers are relegated this season, what’s to say the Irons couldn’t find themselves in a similar position come February 2027?