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Bullet 12:15 Thu Mar 22
Olympic Stadium latest (don't shoot the messenger)

21 Mar 2012
Deadlines for bids to rent the stadium close on Friday and it is thought West Ham and Leyton Orient will be the most prominent names among those interested in occupying the site after the Games.
It is thought that entertainment companies Live Nation and AEG, owner-operators of the O2 arena, have also expressed interest in operating contracts for the stadium.
West Ham’s involvement is crucial to the Olympic Park Legacy Company’s prospects of delivering a viable self-financing future for the stadium, although the quango insist it will be possible to fund the stadium without a football club.
Without genuine competition from a comparable winter tenant however West Ham’s bargaining position will be strengthened, and they are likely to demand a number of concessions and financial breaks during negotiations.
Orient will argue that they offer a genuine alternative, and will say their proximity to the Olympic Park should make them a viable candidate. They are also likely to object to any request by West Ham to move from Upton Park.

West Ham were selected as preferred bidder over Tottenham in the original bidding process, but that deal collapsed late last year amid legal challenges from Spurs and Orient.
The Olympic Park Legacy Company launched a new process, this time seeking tenants to rent the stadium rather than own and run it, but West Ham’s involvement has not been certain.
The rental offer changed the proposition radically for the Upton Park club, who would be expected to give up their historic home in favour of a 99-year lease on the stadium, and a commitment to retain the running track.
The club has made its frustration with the new process clear, and only determined to definitely proceed with a bid relatively recently.
West Ham can be expected to try and drive a hard bargain when negotiations begin in earnest, while the OPLC will argue that it can make the £500 million stadium pay its own way with a schedule of concerts and one-off events.
One major issue West Ham can be expected to raise is the question of who controls stadium operations and the commercial opportunities.
The OPLC is considering appointing a company to manage the stadium and arrange concerts and other events, a role that will interest Live Nation and AEG.
West Ham, however, will want complete control, and specifically control of the ticketing and box office operations, and commercial opportunities arising from it such as ownership of databases.
They will also raise questions about the roof of the stadium, which will need significant work if it is to cover temporary seats they will consider installing on the track.
The OPLC is also working to ensure that Newham Council proceed with plans to inject £40m into the stadium for part-ownership of the project.
In the initial process Newham were partners with West Ham, but their involvement led directly to the collapse of the original deal. Newham were providing a £40m loan to help pay for conversion costs, but that proposal was challenged on the grounds that it breached EU state aid laws.
Newham are now proposing injecting the £40m directly to the OPLC in exchange for a guaranteed return, and will seek final council approval for that deal next week.
The OPLC is deeply wary of leaving itself open to legal challenge again and has run the initial stage of the new process entirely through lawyers. So sensitive has it been to avoiding future challenges that even the timing of press releases has been influenced by legal advice.

british is best 9:01 Wed Mar 28
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There were 6 000 empty seats at white hart lane last night for an fa cup quarter final yet bazza thinks the filth would have sold out the os without discounting tickets absolute cunt of a man .

Befnal 7:49 Wed Mar 28
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So the stadium is 750 yards from where Leyton Orient play is it? Since when did they play in The Prussia on Stratford Broadway? Why does everyone in the media seem to accept all this cunt says as fact, never once challenging him? He may have some valid points re the stadium, but seeing as he was happy to see Tottenham get it he has given up any right he may have to complain about us moving in.

For the record I was totally in favour of a move, but now I think we should tell them to shove it then, once it becomes the White Elephant we all know it will without us, take it off their hands for a song, knock the bastard down & put up a football stadium!

swindon hammer 7:36 Wed Mar 28
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Yeah nice one Barry lets have Spurs move in to the stadium and then you can have 3 clubs in East London fighting over future support. That's going to help you isn't it? Duh!!!

Eddie B 7:26 Wed Mar 28
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How DARE West Ham move within their own borough.

The Limey 6:59 Wed Mar 28
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Yep, the man is a fucking spastic. In the same interview...

"You’re going to rebuild the stadium by knocking it down, which was a good idea by Tottenham and what should have happened."

..then..

"I will object to having a major club right on my doorstep threatening to put me out of business. You must expect me to fight my corner."

Absolute cunt of man.

SDKFZ 222 2:33 Wed Mar 28
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“West Ham can do whatever West Ham want to do, I will object to having a major club right on my doorstep threatening to put me out of business. You must expect me to fight my corner."

Unless that major club's name happens to be Tottenham Hotspur - he will then send them a letter congratulating them on their bid instead!

fordstar 8:32 Tue Mar 27
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So thats why the cunt Hearn is hanging around because he knows the OPLC will have to bend over backwards to accomodate us as we are the only VIABLE solution.

When the OPLC admit the stadium will have to be rebuilt for football, thats when Hearn will rare up even more like the absolute CUNT that he is.


I really hope us and the OPLC put together something that will have him having a heart attack over.

cOOL cOL 7:28 Tue Mar 27
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Personlly, I think they should say "hey, lets put a big friendly on and all Hammers fans can go for free to see just what it is really like" before the bid happens. That way, if it's shit, they'll know but I have to say, after being for it in the beginning under the old terms I am now very dead against it in every way........even though I won't get there much.

kylay 6:23 Tue Mar 27
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So it's the world athletics championships that averages less than 30k people for the event for one week 5 years from now, whereas football would likely draw in excess of that amount on a weekly basis indefinitely. Is London ashamed of the fact that it's a footballing city? I still don't understand.

Gweddy 6:10 Tue Mar 27
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Same old sound bite lies. Talkshite even had it as their main news item. If the Olympic stadium is 750 yards from brisbane road, I'll eat my own testicles - and I'm a vegetarian.

Texas Iron 6:08 Tue Mar 27
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There's onlky the seats in the centre down the sides that you get a decent enough view of what's happening to be able to see who scored...without the aid of the Big Screens...

A Joke of a Football stadium...

Coe & The Legacy Boys & Girls...have definitely creatred a Legacy Stadium...

A Legacy of Rubbish Design & Sustainability...WHITE Elephant it will be...!!!

FEel sorry for all you Tax Payers wot got lumbered with it...!!!

Bullet 6:03 Tue Mar 27
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From talkshite

This statement shows he is scared that we might get a decent stadium. Don't see how it can be in breach of anything?

"I understand from them that they have a whole list of requirements that they want before they move in".
“That’s in breach of the bid document [because you’re effectively] asking them to rebuild it internally.

c&p
Barry Hearn claims the government’s decision to maintain athletics at the Olympic Stadium will leave the venue a ‘white elephant’.

Leyton Orient were one of the clubs interested in taking over the ground when the original tender was offered, along with West Ham and Tottenham.
But having heard the demands of the Olympic Park Legacy Company, mainly that an athletics track must remain at the east London site, the Os have decided against submitting an application for tenancy of the arena.
Now Orient chairman Hearn has told talkSPORT that no football club has a realistic chance of moving into the ground, claiming: “The Olympic stadium is not fit for football. Someone has to say it. I’ve been there, I’ve had consultants [look at it], I want it because it’s 750 yards away from our [Leyton Orient] ground.
“The fact is, though, when you look at the design, it’s a magnificent athletics stadium but you can’t play football there.
“West Ham can do whatever West Ham want to do, I will object to having a major club right on my doorstep threatening to put me out of business. You must expect me to fight my corner.
The Olympic stadium is not fit for football
— Barry Hearn
“My confusion, though, is how to do you play football at a stadium where the first row of seats are at ground level? The angle going back on the seats is so gradual that if there’s someone tall in front of you, you can’t see what’s going on. The seats are 40-50 yards away from pitch. If that’s football, then I’m out.
“You’re going to rebuild the stadium by knocking it down, which was a good idea by Tottenham and what should have happened, but the government aren’t brave enough to bite the bullet [and make that decision].
“Now we have to wait to and see whether West Ham go into there. I understand from them that they have a whole list of requirements that they want before they move in.
“That’s in breach of the bid document [because you’re effectively] asking them to rebuild it internally. West Ham are not filling up Upton Park, why do you want to go to a 60,000 seater stadium for?
“This stadium is a very good athletics stadium. If you want athletics in there you won’t find many better stadiums in the world. We’ve won the 2017 World Athletics Championships, but we have to wait five years for 10 days of athletic competition.
“The government have made it a condition that the athletics track has to stay for 99 years, and that is a long time for a stadium to stand a white elephant. I think they’re going to have a problem.”

CHICKEN RUN MANIAC 6:02 Tue Mar 27
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Someone needs to ram a fork into Barry Hearn's eye socket, although I suspect there's not much of a brain behind there. I am sick of hearing this pathetic whinging cunt deride our club.

goose 3:00 Tue Mar 27
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keep seeing pictures of the OS everywhere and it always fills me with anger that its such a fuck up.

personally i hope we fuck it off and let orient have it or let it go empty.

cant believe that none of the papers have jumped on this yet. its just another massive waste of public money.

kylay 2:50 Tue Mar 27
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Why does london (or whoever it is that's responsible) care so much about a running track?

I hear talk about the olympic legacy, but being from Atlanta, we have no less of a legacy having removed the running track and it's still a fantastic venue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Olympic_Stadium

Eddie B 2:17 Tue Mar 27
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Moaning about us moving there, he was happy for the yid cunts to though. WANKER.

Shrek 2:15 Tue Mar 27
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Thanks, a media whore Hearn, just after a bribe to pipe down, can't see him getting anything, most must be fed up listening to his pathetic rants of no substance.

13 Brentford Rd 1:58 Tue Mar 27
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So he doesn't bid for it, again, but is still mouthing off about it, absolute WANKER!

Takashi Miike 1:58 Tue Mar 27
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he was just on Talksport saying that he didn't really want Tottenham at the Olympic Stadium either but that would be bearable as they're a bigger club with more fans

the man is a massive cunt

Shrek 1:56 Tue Mar 27
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What is he saying ,can't get a link or find this.

Takashi Miike 1:40 Tue Mar 27
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the CUNT that is Hearn is on Talksport now spouting his shit. not got to us yet but any minute the dull platitudes will start

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