West Ham are to take steps in an attempt to stop a recurrence of the jeers that greeted last week's home win against Hull City by offering financial incentives to supporters who BACK rather than BOO the team.
Full details have yet to be announced but a Club source has confirmed that existing CCTV equipment, currently used to monitor offensive chanting and anti-social behaviour, would be used.The spokesman told KUMB: "We envisage reviewing the CCTV footage when we hear booing to identify the seat numbers involved.
"Then, at the end of the season we'd either refund part of the cost of the ticket or, more likely, send out some form of discount voucher for use in the club shop to those season ticket holders with the best boo-free record over the course of season.
"We'll also give fans the opportunity to earn extra 'no boo points' by using the existing hot-lines to report unnecessarily disgruntled behaviour from neighbouring seats."
It is thought that supporters will be given a number of "free boo" matches before losing any discount entitlement in order to cover the occasional off-day.
Meanwhile, no penalty would be incurred where the target of booing is an opponent or a referee – something of a necessity, one would have thought, when Frank Lampard or Howard Webb are in town.
The move follows a week in which Sam Allardyce expressed bemusement at the crowd's reaction to the Hull win and Mark Noble admitted that anxiety from the stands often affects players' performances on the pitch.
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