Milwall is on fire at the moment. How funny would it be if they won the playoff and went up passing the Spammers on the way down.
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yeah. but in their half witted minds, if its not covered,due to lane markers, their "best fans in london" support will realise there is a running track and no retractable seats
(and i bet there is something in the contract insisting on a cover, as not to damage the athletics surface)
Surely as renters of a venue, Dildos and Baroness should be responsible for providing the catering for their events?
West Ham in £6m legal row with London Stadium owners http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43488055
It’s like hiring a hall for a wedding reception and then supplying all the food and drink costs. Unless the LLDC as owners of the stadium provide all catering and get to keep all the proceeds of it?
West Ham in £6m legal row with London Stadium owners http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43488055
It’s like hiring a hall for a wedding reception and then supplying all the food and drink costs. Unless the LLDC as owners of the stadium provide all catering and get to keep all the proceeds of it?
just up the road from me - if I won the lottery, the first thing I would do is move - not a very nice area - I'm probably the classiest person living here
just up the road from me - if I won the lottery, the first thing I would do is move - not a very nice area - I'm probably the classiest person living here
I thought that was common knowledge?
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No probably about itjust up the road from me - if I won the lottery, the first thing I would do is move - not a very nice area - I'm probably the classiest person living here
Mrs Perryman
London Stadium seating design ‘a costly mistake’
Senior officials responsible for the development of the London Stadium have admitted that they “got it wrong” over the design of the retractable seats that have become one of the biggest contributors to the venue’s financial woes.
The £8 million cost of removing and reinstating the retractable seats each summer has caused a “big issue” and could have been avoided, the London Assembly’s budget monitoring committee was told yesterday.
David Edmonds, the former London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) chairman, told the assembly committee that the retractable seats were one of “three big issues” facing the stadium along with the failure to secure a naming rights partner and being unable to attract more events to the venue.
“The big issue is the impact of the seating decision on the ongoing cost of the stadium,” Edmonds said. “In hindsight the advice we had turned out not to be right. There is no suggestion we were negligent . . . but in retrospect clearly we did get it wrong.”
Edmonds, who refused last year to speak to the Greater London Authority-commissioned inquiry into the conversion of the Olympic Stadium, added: “The first decision on the seats was taken on the basis of going to market for seats you can run forward [for football] and then wrap back for athletics. The contractor who won that deal was unable to do that and went bust. Many of the problems which led to what appears to be quite a weighty cost followed that initial decision and maybe it was a mistake, maybe we were not thorough enough and had not thought it through enough at the time.”
Edmonds also admitted that the LLDC was forced to give in to West Ham United’s demands during negotiations on the deal for the club to rent the stadium, as they were the only bid left after Tottenham Hotspur’s proposal was rejected. “West Ham were very hard, very tough negotiators,” he said. “If you have just one person to take the deal or not, you tend to make compromises.”
As The Times revealed yesterday, West Ham are involved in a series of fresh legal disputes with the LLDC over issues such as who should pay for the installation of beer pumps and for hostesses to serve corporate hospitality guests.
Edmonds, who said that he did not speak to the Moore Stephens inquiry — which in December predicted a £140 million loss for the stadium over the next ten years — because he felt it was “not the right way to look at the issues”, admitted that there had been “too much detail” in the contract signed with West Ham. This gave the club opportunities to claim that the LLDC were not fulfilling the terms of the deal such as giving the stadium the “look and feel” of their former Upton Park ground.
Neale Coleman, the LLDC’s former vice-chairman, told the committee that it might have been better to copy the model of Manchester City’s stadium after the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
It has also been revealed that Baroness Brady, the West Ham vice-chairman, accused the stadium operator, E20, of being “vindictive” with its request for the club to pay more for showing Sky and BT Sport in the stadium and over the replacement of the running track cover for a claret-coloured one that displayed the West Ham crest on it.
A Freedom of Information request has revealed that she wrote to Sadiq Khan, the London mayor, saying: “It does seem odd to me that E20 are quite so uncooperative on such matters as showing Sky/BT sports TV in the hospitality areas or allowing West Ham to pay for a new and much improved running track cover.
“One can well see why you would not wish to incur additional expense on some issues, but sometimes E20’s refusal to act in such a way as would apparently benefit both sides or would not cause E20 any prejudice has the appearance of being vindictive.”
The LLDC says it believes that West Ham are claiming rights under the contract that are not theirs.
South Stand Billy probably drooling over this photo going
Phwoarrrr
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Only kidding mate!
You can just smell their end game, blame LLDC for everything, put loads of pressure on them to stump up loads of cash to put things right and when they refuse, back them in to a corner and make a cheap bid to buy it for fuck all on the basis they're doing the tax payer a favour.
I fucking hate them and their chancing, cheapskate board and really hope they disappear into the championship - good luck with negotiating from there!
they will end up taking it off the taxpayers hands for nothing, then removing the running track permanently.
serve that c**t coe right.
Johnson should be prosecuted - and anyone else who had a hand in it.
how many lords and baronesses got dirt on their grubby hands
Even if f they did remove the running track the views will still be fucked from the furthest stand at the back. The whole thing need knocking down and rebuilding if it’s to be a football stadium. Levy had the right idea for it, just that it was in the wrong place. Thank fuck we never entered a serious tender for that place.
Agreed. Everything about that stadium is sour. Athletics events attract an average of 5000-15000 people, were not holding the olympics again for 50+ years and the worlds and commonwealth....use Manchester and Birmingham ffs why does everything need to be in London.
If it was a single corporation in charge of it they’d knock it down as you say, it’s a busted flush, a classic example of trying to please everyone and pleasing no one.
Instead, it’s a slow-motion car crash that will put our tax £ until either govt or West Ham fold....and of course the govt will cave in first. Whole thing is pathetic
This wouldn't work. They can't dig down to turn it into a football ground like with Man City's stadium as the soil below is contaminated. The entire site has an orange plastic sheet buried under it to prevent the ground from being disturbed by redevelopment.
I agree it's Coe's fault. His insistence that it had to be an athletics stadium, with no plan for converting it to football - even though that is the only sport in this country that requires places this large, was just idiotic. The Olympic park is a really eerie place, I hate walking through it.
Whilst I agree with the complete and utter fuck up they made of this, I think I’m right in saying that ensuring the stadium remained fit for athletics was one of the conditions/promises made that actually ensured London won the bid for the Olympics in the first place. So he’s just been desperate to not be a bare-face liar to the IOC.
Still, think of all the fun we’d have missed out on if it had been like the City stadium and they moved into that.
Didn't Levy get them to put a clause in the deal with Spam that they couldn't buy it and knock it down. Something to do with the Legacy and why we didn't get it etc.
Nope .... he had no part in the final negotiations .... he would probably have a case to sue for all our costs if WHU are allowed to take the actions that deemed our bid unacceptable ... but why bother ....
Contaminated soil, Legacy (just look how many past OS's are not used for athletics today) Planning .... all these issues can be fixed ... but it will cost WHU the same as it just cost us, and GSB don't have the resources or the competence to manage that .... without a new owner they're truly fecked ....
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