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'O Zio

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We can only hope the whole carbuncle be sold to the highest bidder and it won't be WHUL.

Then they can get evicted and disappear up their own arseholes.

The problems is they've got this 99-year lease so I'm not sure we'd be able to sell to someone else as presumably West Ham would have to agree to terminate their own tenancy.
 

TheChosenOne

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Dec 13, 2005
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The whole thing is dodgy, the rental agreement is laughable and its all gearing towards West Ham 'Saving' the taxpayers money but taking this white elephant off their hands.... absolutely criminal considering the other options that got shut down.

West Ham should be made to pay a fair amount for the stadium rental, PLUS provide their own Stewards, catering, cleaners and pay for the police, like every other club has to do.

that stadium should be turning profit for both west ham and E20.

West Ham aren't even trying to make a profit from the stadium, they have the PL/TV money which makes them
the 17th richest football club in the world.

They give away match tickets and sometimes even sell them for a pound.
 

Insomnia

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Jan 18, 2006
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West Ham aren't even trying to make a profit from the stadium, they have the PL/TV money which makes them
the 17th richest football club in the world.

They give away match tickets and sometimes even sell them for a pound.

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Lilbaz

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Apr 1, 2005
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To be honest at this stage I don't think anyone really gives a fuck what Levy and the powers that be at Spurs think. It's just a black hole for taxpayers' money so the sooner we're rid of it the better IMO. What difference does it make if Levy doesn't think it's fair?

The nonsense "Olympic Legacy" is part of the reason the stadium is so useless in the first place to be honest, it should've always just been designed to be temporary for the games and then torn down. No disrespect to athletics meant here, but if we're brutally honest, outside of the Olympics and at a stretch world championships, virtually nobody gives athletics a moment's thought so given that the big headline events like Olympics/World Champs etc. only come to town once every few decades, it's idiotic that we've got this massive 60k+ stadium for it. And yes, I know it's "multipurpose" and used for other things e.g. concerts, but we've already got 3 or 4 massive stadiums in London for that plus indoor arenas too so there's really not that much demand for another venue like the OS to be honest.

I'm not saying selling to West Ham for a cut price is ideal, but having already wasted so much public money on the bloody thing, given that it's continuing to just haemorage money we either need to either:
  • Renegotiate the deal so that West Ham pay more, at least enough to cover the running costs so we're not losing even more money
  • Find a way to void the contract and kick West Ham out, sell the land off and recoup as much public money as possible
  • Sell to West Ham so it's their problem not the taxpayers' any more
One of these three things has to happen IMO and unfortunately two of those three options require somehow getting out of the tenancy agreement with West Ham, which I don't know how we'd do. Therefore that leaves us with the option to sell to them and cut our losses, or to just carry on as we are which is clearly not a satisfactory solution for anyone concerned.

It was designed to be taken apart leaving a 25k athletics stadium. Would have cost a few mil a year to run but they could have mitigated it with summer concerts and naming rights. But coe and boris wanted a legacy and now you have this mess.
 
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Edited as original tweet now gone.


Mark Noble was bang on when he said we'd had similar starts to the season.

Both West Ham and Tottenham have now won 1 Premier League game at the OS.




:ROFLMAO:
 
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beats1

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Feb 22, 2010
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The whole thing is dodgy, the rental agreement is laughable and its all gearing towards West Ham 'Saving' the taxpayers money but taking this white elephant off their hands.... absolutely criminal considering the other options that got shut down.

West Ham should be made to pay a fair amount for the stadium rental, PLUS provide their own Stewards, catering, cleaners and pay for the police, like every other club has to do.

that stadium should be turning profit for both west ham and E20.
White elephant?

Explain to me how a 35k seater is a white elephant. Who refers to Crystal Palace as a white elephant?
 
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