What West Ham have said about fan incident with German reporters during Eintracht Frankfurt game

West Ham United have begun an investigation into an incident that led to two German reporters Tim Brockmeier and Philip Hofmeister having to be relocated from their designated seats due to an alleged assault.

Both reporters were sitting in the last row of the press box, which is directly behind the West Ham fans, and after Eintracht Frankfurt opened the scoring they could not hold their emotions leading to an alleged attack from the West Ham fans behind them.

Journalist Tim Brockmeier wrote on his Twitter handle: “Multiple punches on the back of the head, in the neck, in the back, is probably not the fine English way.

“Thanks to the media employees of Eintracht and West Ham, who really had to bring us to safety during the break.”

Following the incident the West Ham media team had to immediately relocate the two journalists who worked the entire second half from the middle of the press box.

What West Ham have said about the incident

West Ham handled the situation quite impressively by making sure the two journalists were safe and carried on working from a different location in the press box.

They have also now issued a statement assuring Frankfurt that the perpetrators would be identified and banned from future games both home and away.

A club statement read: “We are aware of the incident and will work to identify the perpetrators. All details will be passed on to the police. They will receive a permanent ban and will not be allowed to enter London Stadium or travel with the club. There is no room for this behaviour.”

West Ham still alive despite 2-1 defeat at home

The game itself belonged to the German who scored early both in the first and second half to go win on the day.

The Hammers, usually so good during this sensational Europa League campaign just never found consistency of and rhythm but will feel they can produce a better performance in Germany to seal the win that will be required to reach the final.

On another night Jarrod Bowen would have scored a brace after hitting the post twice the second a beautiful acrobatic kick that came that desperately did not go in.

Said Benrahma also narrowly missed after the Algerian came in and injected some pace and urgency into the game.

The good news though is defender Kurt Zouma returned from his ankle injury and even though he could not arrest the defeat played 90 minutes and he would be much fitter for the second leg.