Message from a hammersfan

[Nodge70]

I thought Spurs's involvement in the stadium was purely to put pressure on Harringay council to help them fund a redevelopment programme?

They wouldn't REALLY move to Stratford.... Would they?

Nodge?

Yep. Certainly would have done so. Not to an athletics track though. On a purely commercial and sustainability basis, the Spurs/AEG bid, blew West Ham and Newham out of the water. Problem is, no-one puts Sebby in the corner.

My personal view is that Spurs were led a merry dance by Boris Johnson, OPLC and the government, enticing them to bid purely to ensure West Ham's bid would have the legacy athletics track in the contractual documentation to meet Lord Coe's completely unfeasible "legacy" commitments to the IOC. Before Spurs bid, West Ham's intention was to remove the track - Gold and Sullivan are quoted 18 months ago saying football and athletics didn't mix. Spurs bid, lo and behold, the track stays. What a co-incidence. Problem for those stakeholders is that Spurs and Orient (and a couple of casino's that were also apparently stiffed by Westfield and the London Borough of Newham) didn't go away quietly and started to ask all sorts of questions that left ministers and council officials squirming. The judicial review would have, in my personal opinion, opened up Pandora's Box or dirt and double dealing. Again, don't think the government expected Spurs and Orient to go through with the JR and was a case of "who blinks first". On this occassion the OPLC blinked.

[Ric-Roc]

Wow.

That is one messy affair.

So with regards to PL rules concerning infringing on another teams catchment area do Orient have a fair shout on this?

I get the impression they are going to be trod on by the big boys & given no support.

Hearn is no fool but legal battles like this are obviously a very expensive affair.

[MattyRangers]

Wow.

That is one messy affair.
So with regards to PL rules concerning infringing on another teams catchment area do Orient have a fair shout on this?

I get the impression they are going to be trod on by the big boys & given no support.

Hearn is no fool but legal battles like this are obviously a very expensive affair.

Your comment about Orient is bang on think; theyre too small a fish to be taken seriously. As wrong as it is, its the way of the world. They will be simply brushed aside, albeit it with a bloody goodfight being put up by Hearn I reckon.... could get interesting!

[Nodge70]

Wow.

That is one messy affair.

So with regards to PL rules concerning infringing on another teams catchment area do Orient have a fair shout on this?
I get the impression they are going to be trod on by the big boys & given no support.

Hearn is no fool but legal battles like this are obviously a very expensive affair.

Oh yes. The PL and FL are now twisting their own rules and statements around "geographic footprints" and even using rivers and roads to define borders of Club territories! You honestly couldn't make it up.

Orient initially wanted a little piece of land on the north of the site (adjacent to Eton Manor FC) to build a new stadium. If this had been accepted, or even talked about, much of this mess wouldn't have happened. It was dismissed out of hand.

It's been a disaster from start to finish and has poisoned a huge number of important relationships throughout north and east London, even between Borough's. A really sad state of affairs purely borne out of political incompetence and pure greed.

[Ric-Roc]

Shiiiiit that is a very bad state of affairs.

The PL & FL really are an incompetent bunch when it comes down to the nitty gritty.

This will end up in the highest courts in Europe without doubt.

[LoftusRoadLad]

And its the fans who are gonna get hurt...as per norm !

[rangersbitch]

This bit about geographical footprints is interesting. If it has any weight, presumably QPR could, if minded to do so, cite that in an effort to keep Chelsea out of White City...

[LoftusRoadLad]

This bit about geographical footprints is interesting. If it has any weight, presumably QPR could, if minded to do so, cite that in an effort to keep Chelsea out of White City...

they are in the same bough as us and jacko