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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 ....ochlol:
Thanks that's obviously your opinion but i dont think its right
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/f...ep-Olympic-Stadium-running-track-for-good.html
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 ....
Nah the soil cannot be fixed. It's under the entire Olympic park. I can't remember exactly what's buried under there, it was in a book I read about regenerating London. It's some kind of hazardous waste that takes thousands of years to go, though. Sort of fitting! I found it funny that so future people won't accidentally dig it up they had to bury this sheet under there, though. Yeah, a plastic sheet! That'll keep the dangerous fumes out!
I think they will wait until the end of the season - they can then deduct points or not knowing how it effects the league.....i.e. they won't change who is relegated
Balotelli to the Hammers in the summer. That would be hysterical.
It's not like they haven't got previous........
Football: Hammers on the ropes after Blades' legal win
West Ham to make final payment to Sheffield United over Carlos Tevez
This mob are as corrupt as they come.
What beggars belief is the Tevez affair is hardly ever talked about, unless you are a Blade. West Ham and their supporters are every single year ban their fans for their part in racist chanting, fighting, smashing up coaches. And since their move to the Dildoofdoom they this has escalated not diminished. It's astonishing that they escape punishment via points deduction as clearly what has preceded has not worked.
Issue is the club's have far more financial power than the premier league for a legal battle, the tail is wagging the dog.
the design plans were always to remove the temporary bottom half (*i think) and have a permanent 25K Athletics track. It was changed due to "legacy" but it was never designed for a larger / football crowd. The initial decision to have no football in the design (Coe said this was the only way to win the bid) and then once this decision was made to backtrack and keep both stands are the route cause. Added to the Succubus thinking they had "won" by bending over the owners in negotiations but creating so much ill will from the owners they will be cunts to them whenever possible which has a hugely negative effect on their own fans.
I find that hard to believe, I think the PL has all the power, more than an individual club or the FA for that matter. The PL is the paymaster.
But concede that West Ham does have financial clout. They are a unique club in that they are a yo-yo club, with nothing more than 3 FA Cups and an old defunct European cup winners cup to their name, their last success was effectively 40yrs ago. Yet in terms of revenue they sit not far behind us (Leicester's PL win bumping them above last reported numbers but expect normal service to be resumed). The marketing campaigns put out by Brady, Sullivan & Gold have worked to elevate a mediocre football club into something that it's not. Chrystal Place have been far more successful in recent years on the pitch than they have for example. West Ham have been very good at putting their foot on the throats of the clubs in their manor, so Charlton, Millwall and Orient, there is also a sense of good fortune that these clubs have fucked up massively and have regressed in the last decade or so. With every year that passes, young kids from this neck of the woods who might have looked at Charlton, Orient or Millwall may feel West Ham is a more appealing option to keep it "local", especially given the bullshit marketing that spews out of the club (although reality is those kids are probably Chavs or Woolwich, at least that's what my eyes tell me jousting by the kits kids wear on a Sat morning).
But the PL is one of the Worlds largest sports brands, it has to protect that brand at currently make no mistake that West Ham are damaging that brand. Which surprises me given their history they haven't been slapped down.
Not quite ... it was the upper tiers that were to be removed ...
This stark image is what the London Olympic Stadium would look like if the original legacy promise to turn it into an athletics-only arena after the Games was seen through. This is what was put forward in Singapore when we bid for the Olympics ...
Even that moron Lord Coe realized that no football club, not even the O's, would be interested in a running track with only a 10% roof and so the whole sorry bidding saga began ...
Never fully designed for two tiers, never designed for a full roof, and for sure never designed for football ...
EDIT - Don't forget this travesty cost 500m that's more than the Emirates FFS ....
Better still Ibrahimivic
Maybe it’s the hazardous waste that’s making the atmosphere above so toxic...
He's now insisting on them saving the athletics ground in Crystal Palace as well, funny enough no one goes there and it's falling apart. How he had such a say in wasting millions of tax payers money beggars belief.
They do raise the tone several levels though...
Nah, the soil could be fixed. The old saying in engineering is anything is possible, what’s the budget? The upshot being that spam will never be able to afford it. The cost of retrofitting the Olympic into a proper football stadium are greater than the cost to build a proper football stadium - hence our bid. It’s completely fucked and Spam are on the hook for it for a century which will see them eventually fold as a club under the weight.
If they had proper ownership they’d beg out of the lease, which the LLDC would go along with to cut their losses and shutter the whole thing, embarrassingly or not. Instead they’ll continue trying to make a go of it because they’ve already knocked down their home and their owners don’t have the assets to start a new build. We’re watching the very painfully slow death of these nazi cunts. And I, for one, am relishing every moment.
It can be cleaned up .... all a question of cost, here's what they did in California, 10 times the scale of the OS
What we know about California's largest toxic cleanup: Thousands of L.A. County homes tainted with lead
What we know about California's largest toxic cleanup: Thousands of L.A. County homes tainted with lead
They must have known through their Tory links they would get the place. It was always there’s from the start. The bidding was done becuase of objections, but it meant fuck all
Sullivan said they were in talks with the council at the press conference when they took over.
Read this and also pay attention to 6th paragraph from the bottom, what Gold says. Then it seems strange they would criticise us for the same thing later on.
BBC Sport - Football - Legal hurdle for West Ham's 2012 stadium plan
The Icelandic’s looked into moving into the place but the plans were to reduce capacity to 25k under that Govt.
So they sought to build a new place down the road from where they were.
Livingstone identified a new site for them in Canning Town, but Newham Council didn’t want them to have it they wanted it to build houses.
(Which Newham have now given planning permission to another property form to do so.)
Then the new Tory Mayor and Government were in in 2010 just as the porn twins took over West Ham.
The plans then changed
Suddenly Newham wanted them to take over the OS. Also land that could have been used for housing as Newham own it. They loaned the port twins £50m of taxpayer money.
Go here and click on the attachment link.
Olympic Stadium ownership - a Freedom of Information request to London Legacy Development Corporation
The whole deal stinks.
Sullivan said they were in talks with the council at the press conference when they took over.
Read this and also pay attention to 6th paragraph from the bottom, what Gold says. Then it seems strange they would criticise us for the same thing later on.
BBC Sport - Football - Legal hurdle for West Ham's 2012 stadium plan
The Icelandic’s looked into moving into the place but the plans were to reduce capacity to 25k under that Govt.
So they sought to build a new place down the road from where they were.
Livingstone identified a new site for them in Canning Town, but Newham Council didn’t want them to have it they wanted it to build houses.
(Which Newham have now given planning permission to another property form to do so.)
Then the new Tory Mayor and Government were in in 2010 just as the porn twins took over West Ham.
The plans then changed
Suddenly Newham wanted them to take over the OS. Also land that could have been used for housing as Newham own it. They loaned the port twins £50m of taxpayer money.
Go here and click on the attachment link.
Olympic Stadium ownership - a Freedom of Information request to London Legacy Development Corporation
The whole deal stinks.
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It's amazing how much a bit of cold heartedness towards West Ham warms the old cockles, keep up the good work lads.