Olympic Stadium; our day in court
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Wow, ‘very murky’ is an underestimation ... didn’t know this.guinnessaddick said:2 -
@guinnessaddick thanks for that. Such articles are great to post on our new Twitter account. Do please follow if you are on Twitter; as our old friend gavros is already doing, I notice :-)6
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This gets more fascinating and yet, more disgraceful, by the week.
Hopefully someone or ‘someones’ will pay the price for this eventually, but I fear West Ham will still get away with it. Why? Because it appears that although they have taken an immoral approach, it has not been illegal.0 -
We'll see. I agree that West Ham simply acted as a commercial operator would do, in the negotiating stage. However what they have negotiated is now causing London a financial loss that it simply cannot afford, and all of my OSC colleagues, some of them politically well wired in, are sure that Khan has no intention of gifting it to West Ham, and every intention of nailing Johnson for his role in this.stonemuse said:This gets more fascinating and yet, more disgraceful, by the week.
Hopefully someone or ‘someones’ will pay the price for this eventually, but I fear West Ham will still get away with it. Why? Because it appears that although they have taken an immoral approach, it has not been illegal.
We seem to have made some friends in City Hall, and have an audience if we come up with potential solutions to closing the financial black hole. We are working on that now. Of course our solution involves West Ham coughing up more. It's all about finding the levers to pull. In this respect, the Supporters Trust treasurer Nigel Kleinfeld, has some valuable expertise, and some interesting friends.
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Not when a certain WHU employee was also working for the Tory government at the same time surely?stonemuse said:This gets more fascinating and yet, more disgraceful, by the week.
Hopefully someone or ‘someones’ will pay the price for this eventually, but I fear West Ham will still get away with it. Why? Because it appears that although they have taken an immoral approach, it has not been illegal.0 -
Banner headline for tomorrow’s guardian has a picture of karen Brady and includes the words crisis at West Ham0
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PR piece for Brady in the Guardian today. She refuses to talk about West Ham. Seems she's preparing for her post-football career. There's something very Katrien Meire about this.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/mar/25/karren-brady-ive-never-walked-away-from-anything-and-im-not-going-to-start-now1 -
she does excel in avoiding/deferring awkward questions!The Red Robin said:PR piece for Brady in the Guardian today. She refuses to talk about West Ham. Seems she's preparing for her post-football career. There's something very Katrien Meire about this.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/mar/25/karren-brady-ive-never-walked-away-from-anything-and-im-not-going-to-start-now2 - Sponsored links:
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Blimey, the Guardian should hang its head in shame publishing this sycophantic claptrap.The Red Robin said:PR piece for Brady in the Guardian today. She refuses to talk about West Ham. Seems she's preparing for her post-football career. There's something very Katrien Meire about this.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/mar/25/karren-brady-ive-never-walked-away-from-anything-and-im-not-going-to-start-now
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There was a bit in this morning’s Times about one of the West Ham owners and a tax issue.0
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My thoughts exactly, especially this bit: 'Brady negotiated a bargain rent of £2.5m a year, but fans have complained it was not built for football.'Fortune 82nd Minute said:
Blimey, the Guardian should hang its head in shame publishing this sycophantic claptrap.The Red Robin said:PR piece for Brady in the Guardian today. She refuses to talk about West Ham. Seems she's preparing for her post-football career. There's something very Katrien Meire about this.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/mar/25/karren-brady-ive-never-walked-away-from-anything-and-im-not-going-to-start-now0 -
Brady appears to have a very selective memory and awareness. She completely denies knowing about stuff that she's commented on previously, chooses not to be aware of comments from people around her that contradict her current position or offend her 'deeply held' beliefs.
To be honest, the Grauniad piece is more of a hatchet job than a PR piece.6 -
Good article from the Guardian. Brady should expect questions about WHU and football in general because that’s where she’s spent most of her work life.
Towards the end of the article she claimed “When I left school at 18 with no qualifications” but forgot about previously stating ten her nine O-levels and four A-levels is poor.
Another quote from the article:
"One of her missions in the documentary is to teach women how to ask for a pay rise – she tells viewers she only agreed to appear on The Apprentice so long as nobody was paid more than her. It’s amazing you get paid as much as Sugar, I say, seeing as it’s basically his show. She looks embarrassed. “No, no. I think that came across completely wrong. I did point that out to the makers, actually. Alan is obviously the main person on the show. I meant the roles that are equal to mine – I wouldn’t accept being paid less.”
Another poor judgement and I do wonder if it was a bad day or just self-righteousness
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Surprised about the negative reaction to the Guardian article. I thought it showed the woman revealing her true colours bit by bit as she realised that Hattenstone was not as malleable as those she usually talks to.2
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Yes, you can expect to be subject to a price increase when you rent. Especially when the renter discovers they have massively underestimated what they should charge! Your mortgage can go up when you buy too! What a stupid analogy and with them thinking as if they have bought the stadium a worrying one!SomervilleAddick said:From the BBC Sports site
“A senior West Ham source said: "We have bought a new house but it doesn't feel like a home yet because we can't get all our stuff in it and get it the way we want it. Also, if you buy a house and agree a price, you don't expect to start getting charged more once you have moved in."
Except they haven’t bought s house, they’ve rented some rooms for few days a week. But it’s an insight into their thinking - the stadium belongs to them.1 -
Intended PR piece that backfired massively. She doesn't come out of it at well.PragueAddick said:Surprised about the negative reaction to the Guardian article. I thought it showed the woman revealing her true colours bit by bit as she realised that Hattenstone was not as malleable as those she usually talks to.
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Lets be anal here - I am renting my house for £50 a week to a tenant. I discover, I should be renting it at £750 a week. What do I do?0
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You hunt through the contracts to find any possible reason to get the tenant out as soon as possible. If the contract is totally water-tight and you've not left yourself any possible outs before the renewal date then you have to suck it up.MuttleyCAFC said:Lets be anal here - I am renting my house for £50 a week to a tenant. I discover, I should be renting it at £750 a week. What do I do?
Of course, there's nothing stopping you doing everything not prohibited by the contract and the law in order to "encourage" the tenant to leave early.1 - Sponsored links:
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Either up the rent or refer her to the first 4 words of your post.MuttleyCAFC said:Lets be anal here - I am renting my house for £50 a week to a tenant. I discover, I should be renting it at £750 a week. What do I do?
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Then someone didn't do their homework on Simon Hattenstone.The Red Robin said:
Intended PR piece that backfired massively. She doesn't come out of it at well.PragueAddick said:Surprised about the negative reaction to the Guardian article. I thought it showed the woman revealing her true colours bit by bit as she realised that Hattenstone was not as malleable as those she usually talks to.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43543273letthegoodtimesroll said:There was a bit in this morning’s Times about one of the West Ham owners and a tax issue.
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So Sullivan has committed fraud.
Will the CPS get involved once HMRC have finished with him?0 -
Brick the windows and sub let the driveway to a scaffolding firm?MuttleyCAFC said:Lets be anal here - I am renting my house for £50 a week to a tenant. I discover, I should be renting it at £750 a week. What do I do?
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This just gets better & better !
Go get'em, Richard !2 -
I see also from that that 20 fans were banned for life after the Burnley game. Keep that up and there’ll never be a need for that extension to the stadium!Addickted2TheReds said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43543273letthegoodtimesroll said:There was a bit in this morning’s Times about one of the West Ham owners and a tax issue.
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Fit and proper0
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Evenin' all.
Just passing through...0 -
Don't let us keep you.gavros said:Evenin' all.
Just passing through...7
