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Hello fight fans.

There was a piece lurking in the shadows yesterday from our friends at Knickers Up Mrs Brady here in relation to the Levy & Co’s ‘authorised agents’ procurement of phone records.

The gall of these people. They are actually trying to put this on a par with journalists hacking mobile phones. And am I being over sensitive, but why is the fact that Dionne Knight has a 14 year old daughter living at home with her suddenly being nudged into the equation?

I knew about her daughter when I wrote my piece the other week . I didn’t include her as I didn’t see it as relevant to the facts. The daughter is from a previous relationship and if anything I didn’t like the possible idea of a cheap shot being taken at Knight for being an unmarried mother living in sin with another man. But now the child is wheeled in as if in some bizarre manner a minor was at peril whilst men in balaclavas were shinning up drain pipes, going through knicker draws and generally acting like very bad Milk Tray men.

Levy & Co employed these ‘authorised agents’ not to obtain information that would assist in selling newspapers. Not to dig up dirt on people’s private lives. They did so to confirm and as it transpired, quite rightly, that a £500M deal government deal was not conducted in a wholly open and honest manner.

The payments to Knight from West Ham were concealed from her main employers. The fact that #facelikeakickedinfridge and other senior figures at Upton Park knew Knight worked for the OPLC is neither here nor there. What is pivotal is that the bloody OPLC didn’t know she was working for West Ham!

The OPLC had by their own account ‘taken measures’ to limit what information Knight had access to on a day to day basis as she had declared she was cohabiting with Ian Tompkins, West Ham’s Bid Director. So if she had declared part, why not all?

I’m not accusing her of being corrupt. How could I possibly know? But she certainly wasn’t transparent and the outcome of a deal such as this was too important to indulge parlour games like this.

What makes matters worse is that the West Ham bid religiously adhered to the requirements of the OPLC every step of the way. Without deviation. Despite that the fact that the sanity of giving the Porn Barons the stadium was growing more questionable by the day.

Their entire business was chained with debts. And their future as a football club looked suicidal as a business model and very swiftly after they won the bid 14-nil it was confirmed as such.

Any decent players from their stock will be sold at less than their full market potential as they bail from the sinking Championship wreck. Their income streams devastated.

The government need to investigate the issue of public interest and transparency here and not be distracted by the desperate death throes of dildo salesmen.

BIOYC!





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54 comments

  • Yes make you very sick im afraid, but since they have fucked up it leaves a chink of light for Levy…

  • Catcher says:

    To many people just want this problem to disappear, so it will be swept under the mat, but it will hopefully give Levy a good bargaining chip for funding with the White Hart Lane plans.

  • cyril says:

    the issue as you say is one of transparency and perception. she might have behaved appropriately throughout re information; either not having any or not sharing what she had. but boy does it look awful, she was, apparently paid money before the bids were finished and given the nature of her consultancy, only more money would be coming if w ham won. so you have this person in that position and yet it was not disclosed to her employers? honest she might be, but i struggle to see how she could defend a stupidity charge from what i have read.

    • essexian76 says:

      Anyone neutral I’ve spoken to have said that the Spurs bid was the most viable, if watching football at the OS was the primary aim. So with that in mind, I can understand why the vote went 14-0 against us. My only issue is why did we bid in the first place as it’s clear that football wasn’t or ever was intended to be played there? levy said from the outset what we would do if we’d won, so why was he approached in the first place? Gold said pretty much the same initially, but strangely turned it around?, but 14-0!!!, Mmmm?

      • cyril says:

        i have read that spurs were asked to bid and assured the running track was not so important. clearly it was then all about perception, only one bidder wd leave the oplc subject to strong criticism. so they misled spurs about criteria, got them to bid and waste time and money and then said, oh sorry, your bid was no good because you tooka away the running track. the fix was always in, there was only ever one outcome and frankly at this stage i bet the oplc had kept quiet and allowed only one bid. their attempty at achieving the appearance of a fair bidding process is backfiring big time.

  • Sid Trotter says:

    Is hacking better than a clean slice?

  • spurstough says:

    Saw the headline via newsnow could see what the spin was gonna be and ignored it thereby avoiding getting angry. that is the bets thing to do with that smutty lot avoid any form of contact.

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