Ruining a move for the Hammers to the new Olympic Stadium.

Levy can only really have done this out of sour grapes. He's got no interest in the place as the track is being kept at all costs. He cites uneven playing fields as a loan was given to The Hammers from the council. So fucking what where they get their funding. All they have managed to achieve is to reopen the bidding on a rental basis which WH are most likely to win anyway. All this plus costing the tax payers, you and me, a further £60m when at this time we can hardly afford to do it.

Gr=eat work Spurs you lonely spiteful piece of shit!

It is rather petty.

Brilliant. Also I found out the other day our failed World Cup 2018 bid cost £21m.

Spurs don't want the stadium, they're just trying any trick in the book to get the council to give them new land in the Tottenham area.

100% right XI, we'd never have had the the stadium in a million years it was always about the W/H/L site and getting more money out of the council? plus a chance of some compensation too,not a yid club for nothing......Also in hindsight it will save Newham and West ham a fortune, a yearly rental is much more appetising than buying the plot outright?
As for the 60 mill and 21 mill after what the thieving fiddling MPs/ Banks etc took this is peanuts and just the tip of the iceberg.

Doesn't make it right. Just seems a petty and tactical nasty thing to have done.

SCUM!

Yeah i think so too.......but dissagree with the scum bit ok? lol

I can deal with that.

;o)

It's not surprising really it's probably Levy's weak attempt to get some political nous should they try and build their own stadium at some point, coupled with getting one over on the dildo sellers that own West Ham.

This latest development has more to do with Barry hearne and Leyton Orient. Hearne was/is taking West ham and the Olympic committe to court over the threat of closure after the Olympic committe awarded the stadium to WHU.



In all of this it's Orient whom have been overlooked and are fighting back. Spurs, as has already been said never had any intention of wanting the Olympic stadium. Their interest was about getting public funding for the stadium they want on the current site at WHL.

Spitefull Spurs ! Bollox ! Headline grabbing thread !

Somehow I don't think Doms rant will quite make the papers!

Not what the last 2 days papers have been reporting S7eve. They been saying that Spurs have been centre plus there was a European complaint which is as far as now un named. The Orients part in this is not as bad as your clubs. At least they have a vested interest in it. Not that they could ever win a bid though and I think Hearne knows that.

Spurs involvement has been reported as being because they saw the "loan" from the council as unfair when the original bids went in. As I say though, all they have managed to do is cost the tax payers a further £60 that needn't have been so.

Boris Johnson offered Spurs £8million.

He offered that after the bid was won as far as I know. In fact the offer came shortly after the riots I think !

Barry hearne was on 5 live last W'end outlining the court action that he and Orient were taking. I believe that action was in the courts last week ? Spurs have course been made out as the bad guys in this because both the Olympic committee and West ham will lose out.

Last but not least, let's not forget West Ham wanted to remove the running track. As recently as two weeks ago they had to commit to keeping it when the Olympic committe visited the site and sought confirmation that the track would remain.

The track and football were/are not a good mix so don't be surprised that this is the reason the deal has fallen through as more and more of the facts come out.

Exactly. Who cares if it is peanuts it is still disgusting and is scummy behaviour.

that's like telling your mum it's ok that you've just pissed up the kitchen cabinets because your brother has taken a shit on the carpet

That's not right either. Brady has always said they would keep the track where it is.

I can see why Orient might want to scupper the WHU deal, but Spurs have no reason to be involved at all. Orient even stand very little chance of getting it and only want to stop WHU from getting it because they thing they will lose support in future years. Which is down to them not being a top team, not WHU being round the corner. Chelsea and Fulham sit on the same patch, as do both the Manchester Clubs. It's not like it's a new situation for clubs to be close to each other.

Keeping the running track would make it the worst football stadium ever, you'd be miles away from the pitch, if I was a West Ham fan I'd rather stay at Upton Park, I can't understand why they wouldn't be able to develop it. Having been there a few times it doesn't seem that it would cause much disruption.

Could you not have a retracting lower stand?

Then they'd all be on the same level and wouldn't be able to see properly, terraces are illegal now, they might be able to get a bit closer but it's been proven before that all purpose stadiums don't work for football. Although Highbury was notoriously quiet I liked how you were literally in touching distance of the pitch, nothing worse than being stuck up in the stands miles away from the action.

The Den, Craven Cottage, Loftus Road all examples of classic English football grounds. Upton Park is the same. It would only end up being really shit for the Hammers if they did go there. Away teams would be looking forward to playing at the olympic stadium. I doubt there's many that look forward to play at Upton Park