I’m not some tax exile living in the Bahamas, who never watches a football match, doing it for a huge, personal financial gain, as is the case with the Spurs owner.
I’m a Porn Baron who at the age of 21 made money by producing porn pictures weekly and selling sheets of photos by mail order. Those were the days, £800 on a good week.
The motive of myself and my partner David Gold is to give something back to the community we came from and are still a part of.
Me & Dave are sporting evangelists. It ain’t all about tarts waving their growlers about, not at all . We want to break the pricing cartel that monopolizes sport. It’s too expensive for ordinary people. Having made football so dire the tickets are only worth a quid, we feel athletics is the obvious next step.
The Olympic Stadium will motivate and regenerate East London and Essex. We are proud to use our money to be a part of it. It works for West Ham United and all of London.
When we say our money, of course we mean ‘we’ as in all of us, the… proud indigenous peoples of these islands. And the council’s.
Daniel Levy’s sole argument seems to be that, in his opinion, the stadium won’t work with West Ham United as the tenants. We beg to differ. What we know won’t work is having a north London club having a stadium in the Borough where we have been for over 100 years. It doesn’t feel right, as it isn’t right. Any right-minded person would agree with us.
This might be skint rush job but if we keep focusing on outdated ‘you’re on my manor’ guff hopefully nobody will notice.
If you believe in something, you will work harder and for longer to make it a success. You have to care. Lord Coe cares. He was emotional and full of sentiment when delivering the Olympic legacy promise which resulted in us winning the 2012 Games, against the odds. He cares as much as us about honouring that promise.
And we’ll latch onto anyone to make this happen. I’d happily be photographed kissing Rose West if it came to it.
Demolishing a feat of engineering and expertise that cost half-a-billion pounds and then knocking up a plain football ground in its place is about as cold and clinical as it gets. And, by the way, doesn’t make financial sense.
No, it doesn’t make sense. Because you made it up. The facts are that 80% of the original structure will remain and the other 20% being executed in a recycling exercise, with zero landfill.
‘No wonder those who propose that option want the emotion stripped away and instead are choosing to patronise the tens of thousands* of loyal Hammers fans who know a thing or two about atmosphere.
Yes no one can rival the truly unique atmosphere of Hammers fans. Ask any of the women and children who had to flee as they enjoyed a good punch up in the Birmingham City car park recently.
We will be able to answer their desire for affordable tickets and better access at a world-class stadium that is fitting for a club that produced three World Cup winners. The fact we will be staying in our Borough to do so just makes the case even more compelling.
Staying in their borough, but nailed on to moved to a different league come the end of the season.
After £90 million of conversion, we’ll have great sightlines – no seat will have a worse view of the pitch than Wembley Stadium – and a new roof designed to create intimacy. I have no doubt that this stadium will succeed.
That’s a relief. I could have sworn there wasn’t a running track at Wembley, but if you say there is, I believe you.
*made up number
Confused from Norf Landon writes.. “I really don’t know Harry”.
Excellent translation of that twat’s comments and I really believe we need to move to a bigger and better gaff, but..
I don’t know if it’s the only solution. If we lose Friday then will it really be the end of the NPD? Miracles do happen Peter Pan. Hotspur, Northumberland and Bruce Castle and all that.
“Yes no one can rival the truly unique atmosphere of Hammers fans. Ask any of the women and children who had to flee as they enjoyed a good punch up in the Birmingham City car park recently.”
Spurs fans are angels are they, never had a fight?
You know that all of your responses, just like the one I have highlighted above, are just as silly as David O’Sullivans “rant.”
You are fully aware that West Ham Fans create a great atmosphere, not even a Spurs fan could deny that- I’m pretty sure every match I’ve been too there has been a great deal of singing & chanting and that still happens when we have been p;aying badly (the last few seasons)… West Ham United’s case for the OS is just as legit as Spurs, so why lowere yourself to an article like this when usually this blog has something worth reading… silly really.
cos its funny
Yeah, thanks for that. Illuminating. Enjoy the Championship.
I will enjoy it, then enjoy getting promoted, then relegated again… that’s the life of a hammer; West Ham fans know the score, sadly for you lot, you actually believe you are ‘Champions League’ and have been for years now… you are certainly not this. You are out of your depth and won’t be playing in the champions leauge next season I’m afraid. Just because you flirt with The upper reaches of the prem, doesn’t make you the best… the other season, before Redknapp got you lot out of the dog house; you flirted with releagation- this doesn’t mean you are shit- you are simply Tottenham Hotspur, middle of the road club, who will sell Bale when the price is right & if the FA come calling, Redknapp will be running out of stratford, sorry white hart lane, to become the next England Manager faster than you can say Lasagne…
how does the spurs plan stack up financially exactly?….you have no idea about cost do you…peoples taxes have paid for the stadium, which will become an iconic building…now you want to knock it down? and build a generic football stadium…good plan…naaat
When you invade the pitch (to celebrate getting back into the EPL) mind the hurdles; oh and lets hope the eastend cats dont shit in yer sandpit
was exactly the kind of shit comment i thought you would reply with haha
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It’s a quality, tailored service we run here.
They’d all be fucked by the time they’d run the 100 metres to get to the pitch
Why dont you contribute something for us to debate?
I will even help you with it;
Can you fill the stadium?
Can you fill your current stadium?
What do you REALLY think of the running track and sandpit?
How does it stack up IF you get relegated and dont come back up straight away?
Those are real and not sarcastic question FS
toddspur you seem like top fella did you know that?? i dont support west ham (chelsea) but are west ham your second team??your obsessed!!! i hope for your sake in particular you get the staduim because you seem pretty sure of yourself dont you my little rose petal..ill be back here friday regardless of the decision an i hope you are too, regardless…but somehow i doubt that
I am a top fella, thank you
At least you got one thing right. See you Friday; what will be will be
Tom, you’re on here more than toddspur, Dutchman, Yachtsman and MysteriousStranger combined.
Who is obsessing over a team not their own?
Can we fill the stadium? If the pricing is right of course we will, 33,000 supporters turn up every week despite us playing absolute garbage…imagine if we had a decent side!
Can we fill the current stadium? The only seats that remain unsold are the ones for 52.00! ppl would pay if we was decent but we ain’y and haven’t been for a long time, but if we can generate the extra income from the OS then we could possibly become a massive club.. and that’s why Levy is shitting himself at the prospect of us getting it!
The running track and sandpit does not bother me as i was at cardiff three years in a row and was in the upper tier…the atmosphere was unbelievable!
Who cares what league we are in if we have cheaper seats we would have many more spectators ..over Upton Park it’s 42.00 quid for a ticket if that is reduced to £25…watch the stadium fill up!
You have a firm grasp of the concepts of supply and demand, something I have never complimented a spammer with. It’s a shame it is not paired with an understanding of arithmetic.
Yes, if you cut the price in half, you might be able to fill the stadium. But you wouldn’t be making any more money than you are today. In fact, you would be worse off, as the larger stadium is no doubt more expensive to maintain. As far as I know, your team has already been losing money for some time.
taxes paid for the dome as well??? spammers want the stadium and another £80m to do it up
what do we want from the taxpayer nothing because AEG will make it a music/event venue when the yids arent home
I’m still intrigued as to where west ham get there figure of 17,000 people on a season ticket waiting list, I’m 100% certain that you can get season tickets for west ham today direct from their website, not that I’d ever waste even 10p on buying anything off their website.
The OS as it will operate for the Olympic Games was always intended to be a temporary structure only. Whichever bid wins the OS will have to be restructured anyway. The main problem with leaving the athletics track around the OS after the Games is that other Olympic stadia which have done this in the past have basically become grave yards… eg Barcelona, Athens, Beijing, Sydney to name but 4. I have nothing whatsoever against WHAM and wish Spurs could stay at WHL but do not think the OS with football and athletics is sustainable. It is just not deliverable based on what other Olympic cities have experienced. The bottom line is that after the Games have gone the stadium needs to be paying money back and AEG/Spurs will do that, whereas WHAM might not. The might not element is a big risk for the OPLC to take in what are very tight financial times but we shall see. Either way I repeat that I would rather see Spurs find a way to stay at WHL or in Tottenham and I have nothing against WHAM