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Olympic Stadium; our day in court
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It was a crime against the game and a Tory stitch up by people who know all about money but nothing about football. It was also a crime against tax payers and how Johnson and Brady and her fellow soft porn peddlars got away with it points out major failings with our country. But ultimately it is not a great place to watch football and the Boleyn ground was. It will be important West Ham come straight back up if they go down as it could ultimately suck them into a whirlpool of destruction. And the sad thing is, if that happens a lot of football fans who would have been saddened by this outcome will now have a good chuckle.3
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This stadium has been a noose around their neck since they moved there, and it will only get tighter in the championship.
It's amazing how much more welcoming the West Ham fans were to us at Upton Park than the Palace fans were at the khazi.
If we need to share the valley for a couple of seasons with them, I'd be happy to do so.1 -
If we had gone there from the start instead of Selhurst and Lennie had got us promoted to the old First Division then I doubt we would have ever returned to the Valley. The numbers of us crossing the river when we did move to there were low but we were in the old division 2 and had we been a first division team then I suspect were would have been getting more commercially viable crowds. We might even have lasted a bit longer and been one of the first PL teams.3
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That understates the difference with Manchester. Up there the brief to the architect was that it would be a football stadium after the games so it only cost £20m to get it ready. Seb Coe wasnt having any of that for London, he bears some responsibility for this colossal waste of taxpayers money. The only way the stadium could have a legacy was with FAPL football, so logically West Ham, but Coe insisted that athletics must always be the primary purpose of it. Then it dawned on London that it would be a white elephant so Johnson organised the bid, Levy ran rings around him, so of course anything for his mates Gullivan and Brady to take it and ensure his “legacy”. But his legacy turned out to be £323m of taxpayers money to fit it out as GullivanBrady demanded and a contract which costs us a further £10-£15m p.a. in perpetuity.Ducktapeshoerepairs said:The fans were sold a dream, but moving into a stadium that was obviously not built for football seems crazy in hindsight. I know it was similar to Man City (but at least they have turned it more into a football stadium post commonwealth games).I’ve got no sympathy for the fans either. The only London club with no Supporters Trust ( tho the Spanners one is predictably dodgy) and those few fans who raised objections were bullied and threatened.3 -
It’s for that reason that I find it hard to dish out any negative stuff about The Hammers.Weegie Addick said:I’ll add that as a fan who experienced the era from a Charlton perspective, playing at Upton Park was a much more welcoming and acceptable alternative to The Valley than the other place (nearly said shitehole) ever could be.
The difference between the welcome and acceptance we received from them, as opposed to Smellhurst Lark, was like chalk and cheese.
I won’t forget that time at Upton Park, it felt like they were genuinely pleased to help us, whereas it was purely a financial deal with the Glaziers set up by the miserable and loathsome Ron (did you ever see him smile) Noades.3 -
I was reading about the solar panels on the London Stadium and wondered why all London clubs don't apply.
The £4.35 million London Stadium solar panel project was primarily funded by the Mayor of London's Green Finance Fund, a £500 million initiative supporting public sector decarbonization, with the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) overseeing it as the first project under this fund. This investment aims to significantly cut the stadium's carbon footprint and energy costs by generating clean power on-site.
https://youtu.be/mOSJGvrg2OY
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I guess Noades might have had a grin when he sold that pile of shit to Goldberg, but still retained the tractor at the training ground 🚜SoundAsa£ said:
It’s for that reason that I find it hard to dish out any negative stuff about The Hammers.Weegie Addick said:I’ll add that as a fan who experienced the era from a Charlton perspective, playing at Upton Park was a much more welcoming and acceptable alternative to The Valley than the other place (nearly said shitehole) ever could be.
The difference between the welcome and acceptance we received from them, as opposed to Smellhurst Lark, was like chalk and cheese.
I won’t forget that time at Upton Park, it felt like they were genuinely pleased to help us, whereas it was purely a financial deal with the Glaziers set up by the miserable and loathsome Ron (did you ever see him smile) Noades.0 -
https://x.com/eplbible/status/2009634895086108888?s=46&t=l3gVPecVjs4wU2WBKFZZywThe dream that was sold to their fans.0
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I'm sure gullivan and the Brady hag did nicely out of it, which is all that really matters.guinnessaddick said:https://x.com/eplbible/status/2009634895086108888?s=46&t=l3gVPecVjs4wU2WBKFZZywThe dream that was sold to their fans.
Feel a tiny bit sorry for the decent WHU fans, but only a tiny bit. They seemed pretty full of it at the time on the basis a massively subsidised shit stadium would free up funds for improving the team.
I'm enjoying their struggles this season.2
