West Ham’s co-chairman David Gold has died at the age of 86 following a short illness, the Premier League club announced .
Gold was a lifelong Hammer, having grown up opposite the club’s former Boleyn Ground Upton home in east London before playing for West Ham’s boys’ team as a teenager.
In January 2010 , he fulfilled a dream by becoming co-chairman of West Ham.
West Ham are set to be away to Leeds later today, with tributes to Gold expected during the course of the match.
