Afternoon boys.
A busier schedule ahead of me in one day I cannot recall. A haircut has to be bought. A rack of ribs needs to be procured and the Meat Museum closes early on a Saturday. I’m out of garlic salt for the marinade. And I need to work out the Sky box to order The Fight.
See what I did there? The point I’m making is everyday we all have to multitask. For some it’s reading a newspaper without missing their stop on the underground. For others, it’s the control dashboard on a space rocket. Most of us fall somewhere between being punctual and being a decent astronaut – on the sliding scale of multitasking.
So I’m confused as to why people think that the Chairman of a football club somehow can’t multitask. If he’s spending a few grand on barristers does it really damage our chances of being able to afford to buy The Striker Of Our Dreams™? Of course it doesn’t, it’s nonsense.
I see Levy & Co have drawn criticism for ‘wasting time’ on the OS. And the Judicial Review. It would be great if those sneering actually understood what it was they were passing comment upon.
The NDP is a minefield. And most minefields can be negotiated, but not by lurking at their edge sneering.
The news has come out that THFC have applied for public funding via the Regional Growth Fund. This could be a masterstroke. The application as far as I can see at this stage would very obviously tick a lot of boxes with the RGF and almost more importantly …swerve interfering chancers like Boris, Lord Coe and people employed at the OPLC who are also employed by West Ham Football Club.
This would be a great time for We Are N17 to announce they are disbanding. I have struggled to work out what they ever contributed to all this that was remotely positive in the first place.
Their whole mantra of it’s a sh*thole, but it’s our sh*thole alienated anyone with half a brain. We never needed a group to instigate a bed sheet being held up outside the ground by half a dozen scruffs. What we need is intelligence and guile.
If we aren’t arming ourselves in this manner then we are no better than the tubby Porn Baron who threatened civil disorder on the streets. The only black shirt I wear has a Comme de Garçons label in the back of its neck.
The NDP was only ever put on hold as it reached a point where to finance it ourselves we would, ‘overnight’ become shackled with colossal debts and defeat the whole purpose of the exercise. We would be unable to advance at all. But some real wise guys are already calling this wrong.
The insanity of pursuing the NDP as it stands would grant your average imbecilic No To Stratford/We Are N17 member their utopia. A swanky new stadium at WHL with a team largely comprised of youth players as we’d lose all our stars and be unable to afford to replace them. But it would be our white elephant!
There is case for the improvement of the area. A genuine one. But this has to be a byproduct of a sound business strategy. There are ways of helping ordinary folk advancing in life. Hand outs aren’t the way forward. The government and indeed the locals in Haringey need to embrace the long term benefits of having a stable multimillion pound business as a neighbour. Picking that neighbour’s pocket will ultimately result in the phrase, ‘There used to be a football club over there’ become a harrowing reality.
It’s time for the overwhelming majority of supporters to take in just what the Board are seeking to achieve here and for the noisy minority? Time for the sneering at Levy & Co to cease.
hmm, or we could have been being naughty – works bioth ways but we need public money for anything we are going to be build now and as long as that isnt jeopardised great.
sorry, that was sensible
Have you stopped drinking?
Sid – Why naughty? “Knowing your enemy” goes on all the time in big business and this was a big deal. The timing of it all will be interesting: When did Spurs find out about the dodgy links? When did they declare their findings? Or did someone else twig they’d been caught? Was it pre or post OPLC decision? The news/rumour says the OPLC party declared the Spammers money Thursday. It also suggests Spammers were asked about it and Brady said “its ok we know about it”. Even if these parties were not directly involved in the decision they could well have shared inside info. Lastly don’t tell me she didn’t have an interest in Spammers winning it as payment for her dual role was supposedly for post-decision project management. If they lost she didn’t get that extra work.
I wonder what that High Court judge who gave it the all clear is thinking today?
Anyone else just been perusing Bojan youtube clip…yep it’s got to that stage again..
If there has not been some wrongdoing, or at least questionable practices from West Ham I will eat my hat.
As I mentioned above, the suspended WH director has now deleted his linkedin profile to cover his ties to Newham.
“The only wrongdoing here is by those who have broken the law and obtained private information.” -Wet Spam official statement.
If that is the case, why have you suspended an employee, then? And why have the OPLC done the same? Also, why aren’t they going to sue the parties that released the infomation? That is just as illegal as ‘obtaining it’. Their case against us is simply intended to direct attention away from them. If the Sunday Mail have printed information that can not be proven, they may be in hot water. The private investigators may have overstepped in their work for us. That’s just not our problem, however. That’s exactly why people hire private detectives, so they don’t have to do the dirty work themselves.
Also, as has been pointed out before, how the hell did they win the vote UNANIMOUSLY!?! Sure, there may have been arguments for keeping them in the area. However, there were a number of criteria they were supposed to assess. It is my strong opinion that our bid was FAR better on many of these points. 14-0? You’re having a laugh.
Sullivan and Gold, porn barons, are every bit as bent as people think they are. The whole thing stinks to high heaven. The spammers may well get away with it by raising Cain and threatening to sue anyone who accuses them, Blatter-style. However, if a proper legal inquiry is ever performed I am entirely convinced that irregularities in the bidding process will be found.
Levy is no fool. There is no way Spurs would be wasting time and money on this case if they didn’t genuinely believe that there was truth to the allegations published today. And I don’t think it’s a case of sore losers convincing themselves that the spammers ‘must have cheated’ to beat us. The club think they know something, and wouldn’t think that unless they had a plausible reason to do so.
The Spammers statement is interesting. A whole page of huff and puff that basically says nothing about the accusation but with a flourish of Malaprop style faux indignation focuses entirely on the legality of how the material was gathered.
The whole thing smells of exactly the same cheap Brady perfume that was sprayed around relentlessly in the run-up to the vote. Then, it was her strumpeting on about ‘Bulldozing children’s hospitals’ and waving a flag of St George to portray Levy as the evil shylock murdering pensioners in their beds that pulled the wool over the eyes of the mainstream media & the public.
The national papers all fell for it hook line & sinker and that’s why today, I think, their focus has been much more on the West Ham ‘outrage’ as the fraudulent goings-on in the first place. I hope Levy carries on right up to the shiny shoes of Seb Coe himself, even if he has to injunct the whole bloody Olympics to do it.
hear hear :daumen:
ha ha ha i haven’t been on here for a long time but i see your all still obsessed with west ham!! whats up with you guys you do know there not even in the same league any more right?? you got people on here writing essays about them!! your nutty chairman is stalking olypic directors and moaning about them using public money then asking for a grant!! oh you guys love covering yourself in glory dont ya….
Not obsessed,laughing at