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.
help mate fackinel is glasses look. Fiend mine goes blind look at players mate. Big up stadium want but tiny team look mate.
They wont strogling make rip off telescops at £19.99 each.
Funny, almost poetic meter. HH will have to do a Mus-speak only blog one day, preferably when an infestation of Goon or Pikeys are imminent?
I was thinking that very thing earlier Essexian, that would be a wicked blog to do one day!!
Sounds like a plan!
It won’t sound anything like a plan that’s for sure ;-) , after I master Musglish, I’m gonna rack it up to Davspeech, but that’s bloody hard, it’ll take for ever, then who knows? maybe texting Gooners..nah, way out of my league.. I’m dreaming again, ain’t I?
Davspeech is easy, just talk about all the northern teams taking drugs and how you have to raise awareness for about 15 minutes completely repeating yourself as many times as you can without using the same word twice and never, ever, ever use a comma or full stop or capital letter…. :shifty:
And don’t forget to then answer your own post in complete agreement under another name…that’s very important!
Marvellous!
Think iv’e got the gist of it.
Nice one Hartley
You Northern Lads eh?,I’ve got to hand it to you, you make it all sound so easy, Sorry got to go, I’ve a Musglish lesson in half an hour, feckinel make
Let me remind you…..North is the brain, etc…etc…etc… :-)
Hammer : I am glad you gave up at Tea Time, you wus gettin` such a pasting make, probably tucked up in bed now it`s after 8pm, you did give us a larf though and that post at 12:59 was priceless giving us an insight into the psyche of a Spammer, your ambition runs hand in hand with that of your beloved club. Your tenacity is admirable, Scotty Parker would applaud it.
No problem mate.
I would ask for your insight into being a Spud, but it would probably be no more than a sentence.
It’s ‘make’ not ‘mate’. Get it right please!!
Apologies.
Someone coined it on an earlier post; Musglish, that’s got to rival Esperanto or rhyming slang any day.
A sentence is a lifetime of supporting West Ham make, supporting Spurs is an absolute pleasure, feckinel make, difference you dont get?
Supporting West Ham is a nightmare.
It’s almost (almost) torture.
Would I change it?
Nope.
In all sincerity, my skull-cap is doffed to you, and yes, of course you’re right about loyalty. For the record, I was one of the many who chaired Stevie P off the field V Leicester in 1977 after we’d been relegated. No recriminations or cat-calls for the managers head, just hope that we’d be back up there, and I love the games v Hammers as much as I do the Goons, they’ve always given me the best buzz, because it matters more-respect make
Hammer seems sensible. Apart from the “almost” bit. Good luck mate!
And that’s the thing that makes us different from the bulk of the Sky4 fans. We have both known the pain of mediocrity and stuck with our teams through thick and thin.
We didn’t follow them because it was fashionable to link ourselves with winners. We followed them because they were our local team or part of our family heritage.
If we had come from Rochdale, and our dads had taken us to Spotland, we would have been Rochdale for life, because we really are the true fans!
Fairs fair, I can sort of sympathise with City fans, they’ve been through some crap, but my reservations are they’ve won the lottery and not got their success from diligence and fan power. When the Icelandic’s bought West Ham, do we recall them gloating about becoming another Chelsea?, I certainly do, but it’s the games themselves I miss mostly and that’s surely what the point of all is.
I cant find any reason to be sympathetic with City. Unlike us, they were already a well resourced club and an analogy might be that every season, we were giving them a six metre start in a hundred metre race and were still beating them most years.
Then they took a 10 metre start and we still beat them, then 12, and now 20.
If the rules were you could only have a 36,000 seat stadium, and had to live off your earned income, we would probably be champions of Europe every other year. I can’t feel sorry for teams like Citeh and Barcodes because when you compare their resources to our resources, they should be finishing ahead of us most seasons anyway. It’s like feeling sorry for an alcoholic who has drank his fortune.
Just to add to my last comment: If the day ever comes again when we are in the Championship, and Wet Sham are in the PL, they will be entitled to say exactly the same about us.
Really, it’s no disgrace for Wet Sham to be consistently below us when we compare resources, but it is for teams like Bindippers and Barcodes and Everton
It’s exactly those you’ve mentioned who really get my goat. Everton fans are constantly bleating about investment, Newcastle fans moan about Ashley, but our board have consistently defied the odds,not through donkey’s years of EuroWonga or the benevolence of an Oil sheik, but through innovation and clever business practice, yet the press and some of our fans see Levy in particular as a demonic figure instead of using him as an example of how to beat the odds without jeopardising our future-if there’s a blueprint to follow perhaps Everton, Villa and clubs of a similar statue should look at us and not hope for a lottery windfall. Liverpool I hope, have blown it with their recent acquisitions and faith in a manager who’s bailed out when the goings got tough or got the sack, so things at the Lane aren’t as bad as many think!
Can we have some more hammer baiting tomorrow H? Please can we, can we please, oh go please. It was fun. :freu
In fairness we were blessed by some good sports today so well done to the Primark Posse, we’ll give you another shout very soon!
Agreed about the good sports, at least as far as Hammer was concerned.
He even talked sense at times. Long time since I was able to say that about a WH fan.
I genuinely mean it when I say, nice to have scrapped with you Hammer. It reminds me of the good old days when their used to be banter rather than hatred.
Likewise.
Oh bloody hell. We have peace in our time.
Triffic!
Oh dear.
Sad to report that Dagenham Dave has left the building. Clearly some West Ham fans can’t last the course of blogging banter.
References to reproductive fluids can be funny but not like that. Dave, we know Dagenham is a toilet but your potty mouth :blush: … tsk tsk