{"id":416577,"date":"2025-09-11T19:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416577\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T19:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:37:11","slug":"west-ham-ban-half-and-half-scarves-for-london-derby-against-tottenham-west-ham-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416577\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham ban half-and-half scarves for London derby against Tottenham | West Ham United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">West Ham have taken the unusual step of banning half-and-half scarves for the London derby against Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The move is among a number of increased security measures aimed at preventing away supporters from getting into the home sections at the London Stadium for a potentially volatile match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The return of Mohammed Kudus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/jul\/09\/spurs-agree-deal-buy-mohammed-kudus-west-ham\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed by Spurs for \u00a354.5m in the summer<\/a>, is expected to be among a number of anticipated flashpoints West Ham are seeking to counter with extra security measures for the late afternoon kick-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Ghana international\u2019s comments in the wake of West Ham\u2019s controversial sale to Spurs \u2013 the first player to be transferred between the two clubs since January 2011 \u2013 have gone down badly with sections of the home support. A clip posted by Tottenham on their X social media has Kudus saying: \u201cI only wanted Spurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A clip posted by Tottenham on their X social media has Mohammed Kudus saying: \u201cI only wanted Spurs.\u201d  Photograph: Paul Currie\/Tottenham Hotspur FC\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Saturday\u2019s 5.30pm Premier League fixture against Tottenham is being broadcast by Sky Sports and there are reports that some supporters are planning protests against David Sullivan and the rest of West Ham\u2019s owners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The east London club said on its website: \u201cWest Ham United would like to make supporters aware that enhanced security measures will be in place for Saturday\u2019s match against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/tottenham-hotspur\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a>. This includes additional checks at turnstiles, restrictions on half-and-half scarves or items illustrating the colours\/crests of both clubs and steps to ensure home areas remain for West Ham United fans only.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe would like to kindly ask all supporters for patience when entering the stadium to allow our staff to perform these checks, especially during the busiest times in the 45 minutes ahead of kick-off.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham have taken the unusual step of banning half-and-half scarves for the London derby against Tottenham. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-416577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115187354578059116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}