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This might be skint rush job but if we keep focusing on outdated ‘you’re on my manor’ guff hopefully nobody will notice.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
I like the quote:
‘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.’
No.. actually Coe doesn’t want to look like a dick for promising something which was and always will be out of his control. The olympic committee should have designed a stadium which could be converted to football stadium in the first place end of story… they cocked up. And as for brady and sullivan they’re muppets, they do not have sole entitlement to the stadium just because of location… the bidding process was opened up to anybody who could offer a viable plan of use for the site after the olympics. The Olympic Committee should be shot and that Tessa Jowell is a moron, she should never have been allowed to get involved… politics and sport should not be mixed… saying that… I hope West Spam win the bid… I wan’t to stay at the lane!!!
Spot on. Coe is as vain as they come. He’s been waltzing around, dining out on this ever since it was announced.
Did anyone actually believe he’d stand by as this monument to himself was dismantled?
He has no interest in the bloody thing. He’ll wheel in now and again and rub the security vetted and airbrushed whippersnapper on the head and an say, ‘I used to run a bit, your father might fill you in if you ask him nicely’ and then have another free meal before being driven away behind bullet proof glass.
While we get announcements from the Barons that ‘Madonna’ has had to cancel as er… they announced dates before she told them to whistle.
Pictures of nudie ladies they may no well, but they are not the type of people you’d entrust something like this to. Can you imagine any of the Royal Family wanting to be seen within 10ft of them.
Yeah, right.
have you had a bad experiance with porn or something?? you need too let that one go its getting a bit boring…your obvoiusly passionate about your club which is great so why do you dedicate so much space too west ham?? iv just been looking around on west ham blogs and they seem too be concentrating on their own issues and not obsessing with you guys…cant belive this is a tottenham website!!!
I’m a West Ham supporter and hope neither club gets the Stadium. West Ham certainly won’t fill it, especially if we are in the Championship. The only way it would work is to follow the Stade de France and have retractable seats. It seems this isn’t an option now. I might be old fashioned but I don’t think it’s right that Tottenham should get it when they are a North London club and potentially could take some future young West Ham supporters away from that area. Nice to see SOME sensible replies, but sad to see the usual moronic ones from both sets of supporters that seem to fill the websites these days. COYI
It would be interesting to know which set of fans want the OS less?
Spurs, because we would be moving out of N postcode or West Ham, because of the running track.
Dear FS.. yes peoples taxes have paid for the stadium, but the people don’t have a say do they? the olympic committee asked for bids so they don’t obviously give a monkeys what happens to the stadium do they, cos whatever happens it won’t belong to the people after the games whether spurs or west spam take it over… muppet
Hmm, self inflicted Luddism or ripping up 128 years of history….what to do, what to do?
How about a round of soggy biscuit? That should solve the problem.
Very poor article and childish comments.
I only wish neither club had the chance to get the OS. West Ham fans don’t want to watch their football from across a running track as it’s too far from the action and leaves no atmosphere and hasn’t worked in any european club that has tried it. Tottenham fans don’t want to go there as it breaks their locational traditions and is in East London.
I’d love to know when the fans will actually be listened to by the clubs and the Premier League and FA. We all get considered last in any option.
A great example is Railway engineering works. The league and FA are notified around 18 months in advance of any weekend clopsures as it requires that much planning to obtain the track equipment and train locos. The league do not consider these matters at all when they decide on the fixtures meaning that the fans who keep them in their jobs get totally overlooked.
We need to put an end to this consideration and stop this sort of thing happening at all, clubs and leagues are nothing without us all.
Ironically of course if THFC went to Hackney, your engineering work hell would be eased. Unless it was a Sunday. Sundays are always a dog no matter where you live it seems.