West Ham co-chairman David Gold has blamed jet-lag for a social media mistake that suggested he wanted to see Sam Allardyce leave his role as the club’s manager.

Having travelled with the club on their pre-season tour of New Zealand, Gold favourited a tweet sent to him by a supporter which called for Allardyce to be sacked.

“Is today the day we get rid of BFS?? @davidgold fingers crossed,” it read.

Allardyce remains under pressure having survived calls last season for him to be replaced, with “BFS” a derogatory nickname bestowed upon him by unhappy supporters who are not pleased with the style of football adopted by the former Bolton and Newcastle boss.

Gold, along with co-chairman David Sullivan, stood by the 59-year-old after a series of post-season meetings but uncertainty still surrounds Allardyce’s future following two poor performances which ended in defeat on their tour.

With club record-signing Andy Carroll once again sidelined for some time through injury, Allardyce will be happy that Enner Valencia was awarded a work permit to complete a move to Upton Park and Gold used Twitter to again publicly support the current manager.

“After a 33-hour flight from New Zealand, I was in my car scanning through my tweets and it seems I accidently favourited one,” he wrote.

“It has made some of the papers today so I should clarify that I did not and would never deliberately or intentionally endorse a tweet that questions our manager’s position. Lesson: don’t use Twitter when you’re jet lagged.”

West Ham start the season at home to rivals Tottenham.