Good morning members of the jury.
You’ll recall Sunday Times a while back exposed the fact that West Ham and the OPLC were accused of shall we call it a conflict of interest. Specifically that WHFC they had commissioned the paid services of an OPLC employee to assist with their application to win the Olympic Stadium Raffle.
The Sunday Times were led to believe by the ‘investigators’ that they spoke to that payments were made into the back account of the OPLC employee, Dionne Knight. The payments came from an account operated by Naughty Knickers Of Newham Ltd T/A West Ham United Football Club.
The best bit was that the OPLC employee, Dionne Knight was in a relationship with… a Director at West Ham.
“My board were put under surveillance by Tottenham Hotspur and the chairman of Tottenham Hotspur felt confident enough to say that in the Sunday Times several months ago, that all 14 members of my board were put under surveillance. The Metropolitan Police are now conducting an investigation into that surveillance.” Baroness Ford
Now, due to old Rupe’s pesky pay wall and a poor memory I cannot cut and paste the admission by Levy & Co that Baroness Ford is insistent the article contains.
The Baroness needs to get a good solicitor. The issue of the law being broken by private eyes is likely to be pretty black and white. If bank statement information has been obtained it is vital to establish precisely how this was done. The issue of the OPLC process having been corrupted is already proved. Dionne Knight admitted the payments when doorstepped by a Sunday Time journo.
I question as to what the Baroness actually has to throw at Levy & Co. If someone had put me under surveillance I wouldn’t be delighted about it, but I would be stark raving outraged if my bank account activity was leaked or stolen. And it wasn’t the Baroness’ account remember. So she’s getting very shirty whilst we hear zip from Ms Knight.
Perhaps the Baroness has been so immersed in Birtspeak she is incapable of speaking normally anymore. If bank statements or whatever were unlawfully obtained, then why not say so? Why whine about ‘surveillance?’ This is like people who wander around decrying things as being ‘inappropriate’ what they are actually doing is masking what they really want to say.
“Our job now is to narrow, as far as we possibly can, the scope now for legitimate legal challenge in this next process. That is all that we can do. If people want then to be vexatious, frivolous and vindictive or whatever they want, they will do that.” THFC
What the hell is she on about? I thought her job was to weigh up bids and pick the best one. It seems I was wrong. It’s her job to make a fist of everything she touches and speak like a magic eight ball that was programmed by a half cut public school boy.
So what have Levy & Co to say from deep within the bowels of their volcano lair? Well they are denying involvement in any law breaking. They are quite specific saying that THFC:
“…did not undertake, instruct or engage any party to conduct surveillance on any member of the OPLC committee”
All that remains is the glaring fact that somebody blew the whistle on the West Ham manipulation of the OPLC process. And I wonder if the damning information wasn’t simply tossed into to the public domain by someone who simply couldn’t resist sitting on it any longer. Which would be ironic of course. Don’t forget that the Porn Barons suffered from a similar fit of being unable to keeping schtum when they began celebrating their success in landing the OS the night before the decision was formally announced.
Let’s hope that all the useless players and all the crooked players in this farce are removed from the field of play as swiftly as possible and common sense is given an opportunity to elbow its way into proceedings. When Baroness Birdbrain has finished clucking the entire future of the stadium needs to be reevaluated.
The vanity of Lord Coe and his cronies in wanting this ridiculous structure to be kept going after the games is breathtaking. Trying to pass off a Championship football club plus a few dozen folk running, leaping over things , jumping and chucking stuff about as a legacy is a joke and a not very funny one. Has the OPLC been guilty of collusion? Did West Ham rig the deck? Was Daniel Levy the bloke from the 1970’s Milk Tray adverts? What we do know is that so far stupidity has been the OS’ first tenant and maybe, just maybe this is a good opportunity serve it an eviction order.
wogs
Shouldn’t you be called Terry Chelsea instead??
According to the Gardian Levy never said anything about the board being under surveillance in the Times article.
I wouldn’t say that Levy was hiding either, or worried, he has made the necessary statement and doesn’t seem to have shied away at all.
I would say that Ms Ford DOES seem worried and appears to be trying to get a story in first, as doing this does seem to help when convincing the public what the truth is.
Do you have any fans that are capable of looking at things objectively? Or do you really all believe that Spurs were sent down from Heaven to deliver everything that is pure and clean to the World.
Your owners are just as much a bnh of chancers as the rest. Get over it.
Spurs were sent down from heaven….. :angel: :angel: :daumen:
Hot Shot Tottenham, we are the Super Spurs, everybody knows we are the football connoisseurs.
Obviously sent from heaven to show everyone else how to play the beautiful game.
adrian bayor is a sign from heaven,his name Emmanuel means God with us.
After the second half against the cottagers do you believe? :angel: :daumen:
Definitely from heaven… :devil:
glory glory hallelujah.
my eyes have seen the glory of the cups at white hart lane :angel:
@NY Hammer – who stole the batteries out your rabbit?
Batteries?
Come come now dear Harry, they can’t afford batteries. What were you thinking?
Definitely heaven sent.
We are a Publicly Listed Company. Our owners are the shareholders. There are thousands of them. You are saying then, that they are a chancers?
ENIC, another corporate entity, owns a majority stake in the THFC PLC. Is that who you are calling a chancer?
Joe Lewis, expatriot currency exchange billionaire, owns majority stake in ENIC. He has absolutely nothing to do with the running of our club. Is he perhaps the chancer you were referring to?
You are owned by two smut-peddling crooks who routinely make erroneous and/or false public statements to spin (dupe) public perception in favour of whatever your stinky club is up to.
There is no comparison to be made, I’m afraid. Just leave it.
And as has been pointed out, we were quite clearly sent from heaven in order to bless the world with push-and-run.
Thank you for proving my point.
Deluded bunch, but if all the pikey put downs and we’re a big club ‘now’ stuff make you feel better…fill your boots.
I thought we sat in purgatory??? :hae:
Spammers from North Yorkshire must be a new breed.
Thank you for reminding us of our provenance. Now you know why Jesus is on the board. :whistle:
the truth is the oplc are probably a dogdy lot and are worried that they were followed to somewhere. You are allowed to follow people so that is not against the law. this is not about west ham either it is sullivan and gold who were planning to sell west ham as soon as they move to stratford with naming rights (£200m) and money from sale of upton pk. With this amount of money no money should never have come from the government or council. naming rights will now belong to the althetics people whcih should pay for the costs, but n o money for west ham who have lost £200m + due to changes. it is this amount of money which encourages agents to offer fees to Ms Ford etc (hence she is nervous).
Spurs didn’t bid for the stadium alone, we had a partner…Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG).
Everybody seems sure that Spurs put someone under surveillance, but was it us? When it comes to business, our American cousins can be fairly ruthless. As the recent NOW scandal shows though, surveillance isn’t illegal.
I wouldn’t be surprised if an interested party, with less scruples than Spurs, made the complaint to the EU and instigated checks on the integrity of anybody involved in the decision making process.
After all is said and done, Ford, Coe, Johnson et al, were involved in a shoddy, badly defined, unbalanced and amateurish process, which any fool could see contravened EU competition law. That it fell apart the moment it was exposed to a little light and that not one of them has accepted that anything was wrong, speaks volumes about the whole fiasco.
If there is any blame and shame here, it lies fairly and squarely on their doorstep.
Just to advise you: You don’t have to be an interested party to complain to the EU. Anyone can do it.
Not to go down racist grounds or anything similar, for all we know, there are multiple complainants, and it might well be someone in LBN peeved that the council is offering a £40 mill unsecured loan to two of the UK’s wealthiest men while cutting off funding to an Islamic cultural centre.