Normal service is about to be resumed at the London Stadium. And if you think that means West Ham’s supporters will be happy that they’ve finally got a home match next Monday against Huddersfield Town after three miserable away defeats, you don’t really understand the most persistently troubled of London’s biggest four clubs.

Protests are planned against the owners, David Sullivan and David Gold, at the game.

Subscriptions are being raised for the purchase of #BoardOut banners. The manager, Slaven Bilic is on the brink and many fans have lost faith in their cult hero. Social media is on fire with abuse and anger.

This is a startling and rapid turn-around from merely a month ago when, rightly, the directors were being hailed for a productive transfer summer which landed Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez, Marko Arnautovic, Pablo Zabaletta and Joe Hart.

But it's an apt and familiar illustration of what is meant by normal service at West Ham.

Here’s the root cause of the endlessly poisonous mood surrounding the club; 13 months after they moved in, the big, awkward and sterile Olympic bowl in Stratford is still, to my mind, at the core of the anger and resentment seething once again among many supporters.

The ground breeds unhappiness, dissatisfaction and cynicism – no matter how hard the fans have tried to adapt.

So setbacks and dissappointments become magnified. A bitter world weariness sets in too quickly because big promises have been made at the new place.

They were offered in exchange for the wrench of leaving Upton Park.

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But far from being the gift from the taxpayers some purported the stadium to be, it is becoming a burden which could cost Bilic his job and blight the club's future.

This sense of rootlessness and abandonment of tradition explains – partly - why the wind has turned so fiercely and suddenly against the owners.

It is exacerbated by the high-speed turnover of opinion and belief promoted by Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, where the encouraging events of four weeks ago might as well be ancient history as they’ve now been obliterated by the failure to land William Carvalho on deadline day.

Frankly, it's unfair. The summer signings could yet turn out to be excellent business.

Yet conversely, despite the fans unhappiness with Bilic, there is also a swell of ill-feeling toward Sullivan because many fans believe he has too much to say in public about the manager’s position – and much of it, they feel, undermines him.

This makes for an unhappy relationship. It makes supporters wary and suspicious of the board’s motives.

That suspicion has increased following the extended saga of whether or not the Hammers actually tried to sign Sporting Lisbon’s midfielder, William Carvalho.

The fall-out prompted that furious outburst from the Portuguese club’s communications director, Nuno Saraiva.

Whoever is right, it’s the timing that counts. It's chimed perfectly with the increasingly acrimonious mood among many West Ham supporters.

And all this against a broader background of discontent about the move from Upton Park best summed up by the wording of a flag some supporters are planning to parade at away matches.

It says: “Formed by the working class. Ruined by the rich. Sold a dream built on lies. Brady, Sullivan, Gold and Co, Enough is Enough. Time To go.”

They are sentiments which could be echoed at many clubs where the fans feel marooned by the changing nature of modern football. And they are haunting West Ham and Bilic to a debilitating and intensified level.

The immediate concern, however, after a three-match “road trip,” enforced by the reconfiguration of the arena following those athletics championships, is that the team have conceded 10 goals while scoring only two.

The return doesn’t inspire much hope of a revival. West Ham were last seen there surrendering meekly in a risible 4-0 defeat by Liverpool last May. That was after two drubbings by Manchester City and a 5-1 thrashing by Arsenal.

There have been two nights when things clicked in the new ground – the defeat of Chelsea in the League Cup and the hard-won victory against Spurs.

Bilic will require a similar intensity against Huddersfield and it's likely this will emerge once any pre-match protests subside.

It's an irony that the board say they back him while a serious contingent of fans think his time should be up.

Yet it's certain that those same supporters who doubt him so profoundly now will still get behind him at the critical point on Monday.

There’s a kind of football exorcism required at the London Stadium. It’s taken far too long for West Ham to feel at home.