Sorry can't seem to search otherwise I'd have resurrected one of the other Olympic Stadium threads but this story looks set to run and run.
I haven't seen the pieces from yesterday's paper but read last week that a senior empoyee of OPLC was also working for West Ham during the time the bid was being prepared and in a relationship with the person the cheeky cockney geezers had tasked with submitting the bid. Rumoured that Spurs are going to push for a rerun of the process.
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Hmm, typical spammers!
BTW I tried to search something yesterday and I don't think the facility works at all - it's going to mean quire a few new threads, methinks.
Not ideal but if you are looking for something specific.
Not that I want Spurs to move away from White Hart Lane, but there's an awful lot of money at stake here and the way it's been handled stinks to high heaven.
Why cant we just do what we told the whole world we would do when we bid for the Olympics? The Olympic stadium at the size it is was to be temporary and should be reduced to the 25,000 capacity as planned retaining its athletics legacy. If that also involves a football club to get all round use out of it then Leyton Orient are the obvious benefactors of such a deal. They are an historic and local club and it is THEIR manor. Give Essex CCC the use of it for the 20/20 game in the summer.
As much as I enjoyed our sojourn with the Premier League it is an exercise in pure greed and self interest, Why should Joe Public subsidise a self serving money making machine like THFC and give them even more of a leg up? They have their own plans for WHL and just because the local council wants them to pay over the odds for the privilege of planning permission they are squealing, well boo fuckin hoo! As for West Ham, I could quite happily see them feckers disappear off the face of the earth tbh, feck em and the dildo salesman who run em, we certainly dodged a bullet there.
Can we please for once stand up for what I thought this country is about. The Olympic Park and it's facilities should remain just that, a legacy for this country and for London and the South East in particular. FFS didn't Rogge state not too long ago that 85% of the sports that actually make up the bloody event, were either conceived, could be traced back to or were initially codified and organised on these islands of ours.
Spurs and West Ham can do one.
Go Soapy!
Yet one more reason (among many) that I'm glad myself and my family no longer pay LB Newham for the 'privilage' of living in the Olympic Borough.
The OPLC should have stuck to their guns and downgraded the stadium to an all-seater 25,000 purely for athletics after the games.
If Spurs want a new stadium then the club should finance it themselves by whatever means. I support the application for part public funding given the amount of regeneration it will give to N17 but the rest should come from the club itself by whatever means.
Likewise, the OPLC should never have given it to West Ham.
Something clearly stinks about this whole process and a full judicial review is the only way to get to the bottom of it.
Personally, I'd be more happy if Levy was out trying to sign a bloody centre-forward who can score goals than the current crock of sh*t at the club but I can understand why he is taking further action. He is taking a dangerous line but he's defending the clubs interests...and it certainly gives us more leverage for securing public funding for the NDP redevelopment.
There's an interesting article which I've read somewhere which goes into a lot more depth than what I can comment on. Will try and dig it out and will post it up here...