Birmingham City ban David Gold from St Andrew's
David Gold was today sensationally told by Birmingham City: you’re barred.
They have decided to refuse Gold access to the WHOLE of St Andrew’s when his West Ham United side visit on Saturday.
Initially Blues opted to deny him a directors’ box seat and entrance to the boardroom.
But after a re-think, a total ban was placed on Gold, for safety reasons.
Blues were concerned that Gold would still turn up and either watch from an executive box or sit with away fans.
The move came in direct response to Gold’s comments in The Daily Telegraph about the club he jointly owned between 1993-2009, and particularly Peter Pannu.
Gold described Pannu as ‘disgusting’ in relation to when the 73-year-old was denied the chairmanship in the aftermath of the sale to Carson Yeung.
Gold said insinuations from Pannu were that he had lost his mind.
Pannu and Blues have always stated that it was never guaranteed Gold would stay on as chairman - Vico Hui was appointed - and he rejected a vice-president position.
And Blues opted to maintain a diplomatic silence on the whole issue of Gold and David Sullivan’s return for the first time since the £81.5 million takeover - until now.
