Former West Ham Ladies captain Stacey Little has revealed exactly why she decided to quit the club along with five team mates last week.



Manager Mark Nurse, who was heavily criticised by Little on this week's KUMB Podcast



Happier times: Little enjoying a birthday drink with former Ladies' boss Julian Dicks

Last Tuesday evening Little walked out of West Ham Ladies - where she had spent the last six seasons - following a team meeting with manager Mark Nurse, who recently replaced the outgoing Julian Dicks.And in a no-holds-barred exclusive interview with the Podcast's Chris Scull and James Longman, she revealed that she felt she had no option but to resign from her position having received no backing from the club's joint Chairmen, Stephen Hunt and his father, John Hunt, in her campaign to oust Nurse."To this day I don't know how Mark got the position," said Little. "There were ex-pros who wanted the job."Julian Dicks raised the profile of the club massively and we wanted to keep that going. I was really looking forward to this season as I felt we could have done really well - but for me, we appointed the wrong person."The coaching was the worst I've had since I've been at the club or any other club, for that matter. I also felt he was lacking in people skills - all points that I raised to him during our meeting on the Tuesday when we walked."I've been unhappy for pretty much the whole of this season. I tried to get it out there to the Chairman - but I was ignored."I approached the Chairman who basically said he wasn't interested and that I should go to Mark Nurse with any player issues. But the problem was with the manager - and how could I speak to the manager about himself?""I needed to go higher, but I had no-one to go to. Nobody would listen to me."I spoke to John Hunt after the Forest Green game and told him the only solution was that Mark had to go. He said it wasn't him that needed convincing as it was [his son] Steven's decision - and he's not interested at all."The whole affair came to a head last Tuesday evening when a team meeting - to which Little and vice-captain Kerry Stimson had not been invited - ended with the duo and four fellow players walking out of the club."Kerry was released after the Basildon game [last weekend] which we lost 1-0, and I was suspended," Little told Scull and Longman. "Mark sent me a text message to say I'd been suspended because after the game I'd tweeted people urging them to take action."Yet our new goalkeeper tweeted pretty much the same thing but nothing happened, so it felt like a personal vendetta."Then he sent a text to all the girls - except me and Kerry - to confirm there would be a team meeting on Tuesday. I sent him a message to say I'd been made aware there was a meeting and that I'd be coming as I was still part of this club and wanted to voice my opinion."He replied and said I wasn't welcome as I was suspended and that he was fully aware of my opinion - but I turned up anyway."Mark took a cheap shot and said the girls were slagging each other off, picking out individual players to try and cause problems between us. He lied to my face, denied saying certain things and it was very frustrating."I told him the only way this would be resolved was if he was to go, as he'd lost the changing room. I told him that if he had any respect for us or himself he'd leave. He refused, saying he wasn't going anywhere."He told us that if we didn't want to stay, we could leave. So six of us got up and walked out of the meeting - and that was that. I think they tried calling our bluff - and they lost."They then claimed we'd been released, when we'd walked. They said we were surplus to requirements, which is just the biggest insult; how can six first team players suddenly become surplus to requirements?"KUMB.com contacted West Ham Ladies in order to allow them to respond to Little's comments, but they did not reply. You may hear the full interview with Little in this week's edition of the KUMB West Ham Podcast