Gold tells Hammers to stay strongpublished at 09:24 Greenwich Mean Time 3 February 2015
West Ham co-chairman David Gold got Hammers fans salivating in anticipation of some late deadline-day action by tweeting the following message at 10pm: "Don't go to bed.", external
But after the window shut Gold posted another message and dozy-eyed West Ham fans went to bed disappointed.
"Sorry for keeping you up late but at the last moment the main deal collapsed and the rest folded like a pack of cards. Stay strong," he tweeted. "No matter how hard you tried there are people out there that you just can't do business with."