It’s going to be called The Sosueme.
Good morning fight fans and welcome to another installment of Two Dirty Old Men & A Brady.
So West Ham are to take time out from a busy schedule of selling season tickets to street urchins at £90 a pop and embark upon a course of legal action against The Sunday Times and Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.
Lord Sugar must be laughing so hard right now that the task for Wednesday night will be to design & market him a ventilator. ‘And remember teams, none of that Amstrad rubbish. This must be robust.’
Robust is the buzz word. West Ham’s official statement is adamant that their bid was robust. I’m always fascinated by the the use and frequent corruption of language. And I’m not just talking about my typos.
Robust. Webster’s tells us this means vigorous. Sturdy. Exhibiting strength.
Not words I would have immediately associated with a relegated outfit of chancers soon to be stripped of their best players whilst staring down the barrel of a stadium they are never going to fill unless they replace their entire back four with Take That. And this from within the quicksand like depths of the Championship.
Lord Sugar called it right. They are indeed blowing more than bleedin’ bubbles now. And even sooner than even the most sceptical of us might have imagined.
In a ‘Club Statement’ West Ham say,
“We are so confident in the probity of our actions that we will take the strongest action possible against any suggestion of wrongdoing on the part of West Ham United or its officers, as well as involve the police and the data protection registrar in regard to the accessing of private information by illegal means.”
That sounds quite bullish; like they may just be onto something. But then if you let a few facts get in the way, let a few pivotal pieces of information through all the bluster you get a very different picture.
A soon to be relegated football club, that cannot sell out in it’s existing ground, up to it’s crotchless frillies in debt, manages to convince their local council in a time of austerity to rustle up £40million in used notes and back their application to become tenants of an Olympic Stadium.
Then it transpires that the West Ham Bidding Director is shacked up with the Corporate Director of the Olympic Park Legacy Company.
This only turns out to be half the tale. The missing piece of this puzzle which incidentally a chimpanzee with a saucepan stuck on it’s head could solve is that this Corporate Director at the Olympic Park Legacy Company, who’s shacked up with the West Ham Bidding Director turns out to have been on the payroll of West Ham as a consultant, wait for it… in relation to West Ham’s bid for the Olympic Stadium.
If that’s robust, then everyone one Facebook actually knows every single one of their friends. It’s not been in the public interest to disclose this information I’ll eat my hat.
The funniest element (aside from the West Ham statement in full, which is available in HERE) is that West Ham suing The Sunday Times has to raise the question in Rupert Murdoch’s mind, ‘How happy am I signing cheques in favour of a person who works for an organization that’s taking a legal action against me?’ Karren #facelikeakickedinfridge will probably decry getting binned by Rupe as a sexist outrage.
BIOYC!
Looks to me as if the stadium is falling from their grasp. I do get the feeling that they have acted desperately, the 40 million from Newham indicates that, they obviously had to find the rest of the money quick…
And lets face it, that £40m is rapidly going to turn into £60m, then £70m, then £80m… The tax payer has been royally done up the Jacksie again. Coe should be bloody horsewhipped up and down Lea Bridge Rd for not having the foresight to at least have a reputable bidder lined up for the stadium BEFORE it was built.
I love Levy. I didn’t want to move to the OS, but could see the business sense in doing so. I know that there was more polarised opinion on both sides of the fence, however hopefully all Spurs fans can now see why Levy was like a dog with a bone over the appeals. Suralix was right when he said Levy was different. He’s world class.
nice one hh. you are doin a good job keeping me amused in the off season :-p
It’s highly unlikely, but if this goes to court and the process was deemed to be compromised, it’s possible the decision could be reversed, held again and won by Levy/AEG. How do you like them apples?
The other possible alternative is that the government buy Levy’s silence by making the NDP ‘viable’. For that to happen, there needs to be a lot more dirt than that which has already been leaked.
The more likely outcome is that all this will be brushed under the carpet, and Levy will struggle to find any friends in the Government willing to help.
not now that Sunday times and RUPERT MURDOCH are to be sued
This Olympic lark is reallygetting on my tits now… :angry:
It’s about time the gamesn became a permanent fixture in the GREEK sporting life They really need it …We need it like an ole in the ead, wake up El Greko’s,claim your birthright FFS