"Everyone at the club is shocked and appalled at what happened and we will leave no stone unturned in identifying the perpetrators, rooting them out and then taking the proper action from both the police point of view and the club's." West Ham Chief executive Scott Duxbury
Really? Because the club appears to be knowingly handing out season tickets to known hooligans already. Such as the former Inner City Firm member Cass Pennant, who claims he has a season ticket in a state-the-bleeding-obvious piece in today's Guardian.
West Ham can hardly have failed to notice Pennant's past. Not only is he in the media every two minutes, but he's written or co-written no fewer than eight books glorifying his hooligan past (including the literary classic, Want Some Aggro?) and has a website that describes himself as a "author and hooliologist".
Pennant is, of course, one of these born-again hooligans, who publicly claims to have seen the light while at the same time profiting from poorly written accounts of cracking skulls from Southend to Sunderland.
Why should the glory hunting twats who ran on to the field for their moment in the spotlight be treated any more harshly than a convicted hooligan who's making plenty of cash on the back of past violence? He's probably their role model.
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