Good morning.
There will be a raft of brain surgeons expecting me to be beaming from ear to ear at the news that the Olympic Stadium is back on the market. They are spot on. It’s great news.
The West Ham deal has collapsed under the strain of all that was so very grubby about it. Newham council’s feet became colder than a well diggers ass and they have bailed on the Porn Barons.
Whilst it would have made my millennium to know West Ham were playing Championship football in front of twelve and a half thousand unwashed Charlies in their finest Primark garb, the grim financial nightmare that now awaits them as they remain at Upton Park will actually be far funnier.
Sports Minister Hugh Robertson has announced:
“The key point is the action we have taken today is about removing the uncertainty. The process had become bogged down in legal paralysis.
“Particularly relevant has been the anonymous complaint to the EC over ‘state aid’ and the OPLC received a letter from Newham Council yesterday saying because of the uncertainty they no longer wanted to proceed. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back and we thought it better to stop it dead in it tracks now.
“We know there is huge interest in the stadium out there from private operators and football clubs and crucially we remove any uncertainty.”
“This is not a white elephant stadium where no one wants it, we have had two big clubs (West Ham and Tottenham) fighting tooth and nail to get it.
“The new process will be more like how Manchester City took over the Commonwealth Games stadium which is regarded as a leading example of how to do it.”
What depressed me about this whole process was the brutally thick nature of many Tottenham fans. Banging on and on about the running track. At no time have THFC even remotely considered playing with a running track between the team and the fans.
Some actually bemoaned the legal challenge as it was ‘wasting time and money that could be better spent on securing the services of striker.’ Please. Grow a brain.
I was even blasted for supporting an idea that would guarantee we could genuinely compete, but the love of litter, nail & wig bars and Chick King offers pulled at the heart strings of many.
The THFC bid has always been about a zero landfill recycling of the existing site into a state of the art stadium and that is what scuppered it for the unchecked egos involved, hello Lord Sebastian Coe, I mean you. These narcissists couldn’t cope with the shrine cast in their image being casually knocked down.
They want to be remembered for their pluck, their audacious delivery of an Olympic games in the nation’s capital. Nothing showy you understand, just a small plaque unveiled by the Queen so every young athlete in the country knows for ever who to thank.
L-E-G-A-C-Y.
What is left of course is a White Elephant to beat all white elephants. A venue hopefully perfect for athletics but unfit for purpose as a top notch football stadium.
The West Ham bid was no more than a highly polished begging bowl. The Porn Barons would still agree to play there if there was a long jump pitch in the centre circle. Their operations at Upton Park were a non starter.
Beneath an ‘Under New Management’ banner borrowed from a recently shut down local restaurant they banged a jingoistic drum with sinister references to the nationality of the club and it’s supporters. Sadly their specter of Evil Johnnie foreigners pouring squillions of filthy foreign dosh into a football club suddenly looked quite attractive when compared to a pair of iffy looking Sex Industry magnates trying to flog season tickets for 99p.
Then along came the Olympic Stadium and with a member of the OPLC publicaly acknowledged as having been on the pay roll of West Ham… The bidding process was a clean sweep in favour of Gold & Sullivan. They were so happy, they actually began celebrating the night before.
And so now what? Well Tottenham are in a ridiculously excellent position. They will presumably re-enter the new process knowing that they are significantly closer to being able to pursue to NPD which is everyone’s first choice.
West Ham are left well and truly in the lurch.
The stalking horse here is Orient. I hope the O’s come out of this not only unscathed but perhaps, slightly ahead. Barry Hearn I do not know, but he strikes me as an honourable type. I wish him well.
i been the england from 1984 i do not see the elephant this not the jungle make
Mus,
Maybe I am slower to arrive at this conclusion than most, but I have come to believe that your appearances here are nothing but a sendup, an elaborate hoax of bad grammar and ever-evaporating hilarity. And here I let myself get caught up in the whimsical possibility that you were the genuine article. Fackinel indeed.
The signs were there. Classic case of “too good to be true”.
We’ll always have the memories :wub:
MUS = Made up Spur?
You need two posts in an attempt to be funny?
You failed twice. :daumen:
i do not understand this frend
Harry Enfield? Is that you????
Stavros?!?!
Wilshire,Brady,arse and finger,who’s the biggest Cnut?The women beater,The walking boardroom glory hole,Or the priest .It’s a hard call.
Our Daniel Levy = dog with a bone……
Karen Brady = dog looking for a home…
But you wouldn’t bone though…surely… I’ve just got over Anne Widdicombe’s ‘Lady Garden’ and now this.. anorexia beckons and another two weeks before Chick-King
I would rather place my manhood in an electric (oversized novelty) pencil sharpener… ^^
It a tough call..but someone’s got to do it.. Anne Widdecombe or Karen Brady…can I borrow that sharpener-please
If forced out of the 2 it would have to be Karen Brady, but she is still a double bagger!! The second bag of course being there incase the first one didn’t suffocate her!!
Only joking Kazza!!
*mangy mutt looking for a home
Wouldn’t want to offend dogs, now would you?
Duly ammended, I like dogs…
“You like dogs? What? Dogs…. Ooooh, you mean dags.”
Duly amended (so the spammers understand) I like dags…
You have to do the dag like a dawg.. have you seen the moosh on it?
I once had a nightmare that I was doing the dag like a dawg, turned out she was giving me a blow job :-( you still hungry?
Nope have yet to eat since Anne Widdicombe’s image set like cement in my minds eye-where’s Nigella’s dumplings when you need them most?
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Get yourself over to “the games gone crazy” and give it to them.sorry hh I am sure they will be back.I have stop buying porn over them cnuts for fear of them fuckpots getting some of my money.:-)
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we now,wont want it.we want to own our new home not rent and i cant see levy paying 2-3m a year for a stadium not fit for purpose.i feel that this is part of the deal/get out clause that the 17m offer makes up? will still be the spams home but not totaly paid for by the tax payer only partialy???? good shout that the orient might ground share and this should be the outcome really as it is their area and neither us nor spam should be allowed to detract from their fanbase.lastly will mike ashley make a last ditch bid to take the barcodes south and completely f+ck over every fan that they have just in case he still had any support up their??? answers on a sae to mr h hotspur