Hammers to get Olympic Stadium

I'd hope there's a way where they could use temporary seating over the track during the games. Talk about weird watching an EPL game with a track around the field.

 

I am sure it will be filled for all the games in the Championship they have coming up.

 

even i laughed

 

The official announcement from the Olympic Park Legacy Company has been delayed from 6am eastern to 7:15 eastern. Word is 'Arry was seen sneaking into the board room and had his wheeling and dealing hat on.

 

West Ham confirmed as the OPLC's recommended bidders to take over the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Games

 

lol jews

 

Interesting move, I think public pressure was just too much for Tottenham to get away with demolishing the whole thing and starting over.

 

Yeah I was looking at google maps earlier and it makes a lot more sense for West Ham than Tottenham.

 

I'm sure Leyton Orient is pissed too but who gives a fuck about what a League One team wants?

 

Brighton Hove and Albion has a track around their stadium

 

Leyton Orient to contest Olympic Stadium ruling

Yesssss I knew it was coming. League One will not back down.

 

So how big does Leyton want the stadium to be? They can't possibly want it for more then 20,000 right?

 

I'm out of the loop, what exactly do they want?

 

I fucking hate soccer stadiums with tracks. Would rather see the crowd right on top of the pitch.

 

Interesting, sounds stupid.

 

Them trying to get paid. I understand it, but West Ham isn't going to ruin Leyton.

 

Deal is dead.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15251893

 

West Ham's Olympic Stadium deal collapses
Published 08:09 11/10/11 By MirrorFootball (3) Recommend

Sports minister Hugh Robertson today confirmed the Olympic Stadium deal with West Ham and Newham Council has collapsed.

Legal challenges by Tottenham and Leyton Orient, plus an anonymous complaint to the European Commission, have led to fears that court action could drag on for years while the stadium remains empty.

The stadium will now remain in public ownership and leased out to an anchor tenant following a new tender process by the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC).

West Ham vice-chairman Karren Brady today confirmed the club will bid again to become tenants at the stadium.


Robertson told Press Association Sport: "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."

Some £35million already earmarked under the Olympic Budget will be used to transform the stadium after the Games. Prospective tenants will then be asked to bid for the stadium with the running track remaining in place.

Robertson added: "This is not a white elephant stadium where no one wants it, we have had two big clubs 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."

The tenants would pay an annual rent to the OPLC which should actually prove to be less costly for the likes of West Ham.

The move will also remove uncertainty over the stadium ahead of London's bid for the 2017 world athletics championships, although that was not a major consideration in the decision to abandon the current deal.

The Government, the London Mayor's office and the OPLC have moved to scrap the current deal as there were fears the legal challenges could take years to come to a conclusion.

It is understood that no contract has been signed with West Ham, allowing the move to a fresh tender process, but the club will be encouraged to bid again.

A joint statement by Brady and Kim Bromley-Derry, Newham chief executive, said they welcomed the move.

The statement said: "Uncertainty caused by the anonymous complaint to the European Commission and ongoing legal challenges have put the Olympic legacy at risk and certainly a stadium, as we envisioned it, may not be in place by 2014 due as a direct result of the legal delay.

"Therefore we would welcome a move by OPLC and government to end that uncertainty and allow a football and athletics stadium to be in place by 2014 under a new process. If the speculation is true, West Ham will look to become a tenant of the stadium while Newham will aim to help deliver the legacy."

Uk Athletics chairman Ed Warner welcomed the move.

"It's fantastic for UK Athletics and it is a bold and decisive move by the legacy company," Warner told BBC Radio Five Live.

Warner also predicted that the decision would help London's bid for the 2017 World Athletics Championships.

"We had a meeting with the IAAF inspectors last week and we gave Government guarantees that the athletics track will stay in place.

"The move you see today is simply confirmation of what we told the IAAF.

"The IAAF were concerned when they arrived but when they left they told us that the issue was completely resolved. We laid out the legal options and they went away happy.

"I'm very hopeful that we will get the nod for 2017."

 

Mixed feelings on this one as Upton Park is a dump and Olympic Stadium looks like a beautiful venue. But I hate multi-use stadiums. Overall, I think I agree with Harry

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...-all-need-binoculars-says-Harry-Redknapp.html

 

Olympic stadiums are awful.