Annony 3:32 Tue Jun 23
Barry Hearn wants OS deal made public
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Eddiebd from BBC, he just can't leave it....
secret" deal as tenants of the Olympic Stadium should be made public, says former Leyton Orient chairman Barry Hearn.
The cost of transforming the venue into a stadium ready for football has reached £272m.
West Ham will contribute £15m but the rent they will pay - reported to be £2m a year - has not been made public.
"Who is it confidential from? I can't see any reason whatsoever why it should be secret," Hearn told BBC Sport.
Hearn, chairman of Orient for nearly 20 years until selling up in 2014, wanted the club to groundshare the Olympic Stadium with West Ham and lost out in a legal battle to have the bidding process overturned.
"The actual deal West Ham has got is still confidential and our current mayor of London is refusing to reveal details," he said.
"As a taxpayer, I find that quite confusing. When people spend my money, I rather like to know what it's been spent on.
"In the absence of that information we can only speculate that it is a deal so beneficial to West Ham that it becomes questionable in its own right."
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Befnal
6:51 Wed Jun 24
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Why are people banging on about it being the fault of the Labour Party?
This had nothing to do with party politics, just the stupidity, stubbornness, ignorance & shortsightedness of individuals Livingstone, Jowell & Coe, (ex Tory MP in case anyone had forgotten), that is where the blame lies.
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Chopper Toshack
6:46 Wed Jun 24
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Bryant getting nowhere with Whittingdale.
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diehardhammer
6:27 Wed Jun 24
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Boris is putting him in place! go on son!
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diehardhammer
6:25 Wed Jun 24
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That chris Bryant is a slimey cunt you can tell
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Gavros
6:19 Wed Jun 24
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Eggy had a meeting with them and said he was prepared to put money in and have a multipurpose stadium.
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13 Brentford Rd
6:18 Wed Jun 24
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Yeh Croe my mistake it was Brown just before the Icelandics era and there was rumours that they wanted the OS too.
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Gavros
6:13 Wed Jun 24
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debate starting now
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcparliament
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Chopper Toshack
5:37 Wed Jun 24
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I've had enough of this.
We should be demanding the £15M back and the stadium given to us rent free, stating that:
- the country owes and will always owe us for bringing the World Cup to England for what looks like the only ever time
- We are therefore English football royalty
- Coe, Jowell and Livingston turned down our offer to heavily contribute to the thing if a proper football legacy stadium
- Hearn is CNUT
- Levy is a CNUT
- The gaff is on our manor and we claim would have claimed it anyway
If they're not going to digest the facts and are going to moan anyway, we might as well wind them up properly.
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Fifth Column
5:24 Wed Jun 24
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Bollocks, Labour won't slag off the stadium deal as with Jowell etc involved they are equally as culpable for the long term fuck up they created and the Tories finished (I'm v happy with the deal but it was badly thought through in the first place).
However, Labour will stick the boot in on the drop in sports participation since the Olympics.
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Buster
5:23 Wed Jun 24
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SLAVros
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Gavros
5:20 Wed Jun 24
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Coming up Parliamentary debate
Sport and the 2012 Olympics legacy
Ms Harriet Harman
Chris Bryant
Andy Burnham
Clive Efford
Luciana Berger
Ms Rosie Winterton
This House notes that the number of people participating in regular sport or physical activity has fallen significantly since the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games; fears that the Government has squandered the Olympic legacy it was bequeathed in
2010; believes that increasing participation in a wide range of sports is key to creating the next generation of elite athletes and to improving the health and wellbeing of the nation; and urges the Government to take urgent action to boost participation and support local grassroots sports clubs and associations.
Note that this is an 'Opposition Day', so subjects chosen by Labour to inflict as much political damage as possible on the Tories, so expect shit loads of spin against the deal with West Ham.
Also note that Luciana Berger is a bit of me.
Will be on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcparliament
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whufcroe
5:17 Wed Jun 24
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13 Brentford Rd 4:33 Wed Jun 24
It wasn't the Icelandics although they tried to get involved, Brown offered to a deal where West Ham would contribute a £100m towards the ground as long as it become a football stadium like Eastlands after and the athletics track would have had a 25000 home in another part of the park.
That wasn't acceptable to Labour and their minions and now the public have paid the price AGAIN for their stupidity
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Darby_
5:13 Wed Jun 24
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I don't know why anyone pays this clown any attention. We'll be in the OS whether he likes it or not and despite all his whining he failed to get a handout.
Gutted, Barry?
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Arko
4:47 Wed Jun 24
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It remains to be seen of course to see just how good this OS deal is for our club. But it is indeed amazing how the stupid decisions of the powers that be contributed to making this deal possible at all.
Coe and Jowell wanted to keep football out of any postgame OS use, no success there.
Spurs and orient (Levy and Hearn) wanted to keep West Ham out of the OS, same result.
And since West Ham were no longer allowed to buy the OS, well, that's why we are where we are and no matter how much jealous parties may complain, I doubt that the LLDC could have found another club like us, willing to keep the running track and agree to a 99 year lease as anchor concessionaire.
Also the pundits may have to get used in the future that another club like ours may just be putting a bit of pressure on their beloved Chelsea, Man City, Man U, Arsenal and Liverpool.
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13 Brentford Rd
4:33 Wed Jun 24
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It was rumoured at the time that the icelandics offered 100m towards the build originally but Coe was adamant that no football club would use it and insisted on the Athletics only legacy.
Just wish someone would confirm this and reiterate the fact that we then had our first winning bid of 40m plus proceeds of the Upton Park sale towards converstion accepted before Levy and Hearn got involved and we were then forced to re bid as tennants only.
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diehardhammer
4:32 Wed Jun 24
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I LOVE seeing all this hate. Teams are realising we are so close to becoming HUGE and they're doing whatever they can to delay it from happening.
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Arko
4:23 Wed Jun 24
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Good. i'd rather lose a few million due to transparency issues and getting a worse sponsorship deal for the OS if it means naming and shaming those who are responsible for this farce.
I cannot see how West Ham could be seen as the culprit here as we negotiated the best deal for us after winning a lengthy bidding process anyone could have entered.
Name and shame the Coes, Jowells etc. who made sure that the postgame conversion costs spiralled. Name and shame Levy and Hearn who are responsible for the fact the OS is now merely rented by West ham with the taxpayer bein resonsible for keeping the OS up and running, resulting in even more money being spent.
This is a good thing for West Ham. Go on then.
Show us the deal. But also report please HOW this deal came about and WHY West Ham are getting such a good deal under the circumstances which were caused by numerous people out there, but not West Ham.
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El Scorchio
4:17 Wed Jun 24
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The project is now over-budget by around £35m, which comes close to the total cost of converting the City of Manchester stadium after the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Presumably because the plan was to make it a football stadium afterward so it was designed with that in mind, rather than the Olympic Stadium which a FORMER LABOUR GOVERNMENT were adamant would not host a football club afterward, even though there was no other feasible plan in place. It's their own bloody fault.
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whufcroe
4:16 Wed Jun 24
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I really don't know how Labour have the fucking nerve considering it was them who fucked the whole thing up in the first place.
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Buster
4:11 Wed Jun 24
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Dan Roan @danroan 13m13 minutes ago
I understand Labour will today call for the government to make public the full details of West Ham’s secret deal for the Olympic stadium
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Gavros
4:11 Wed Jun 24
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Fucking LABOUR jumping on the bandwagon now:
Extract from a speech Chris Bryant MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport will give today in the Commons.
"The Coalition said it would ensure the development of the Olympic Park after the Games. Here there are further legacy worries. So far the cost of transforming the venue into a stadium ready for football has reached £272m, with £15m from West Ham, £1m from UK Athletics, £40m from Newham and £25 m from the Government. That means the overall spend on the venue will now top £700m for the 54,000-seater arena - a lot more expensive per spectator than the £798m lavished on the 90,000-capacity Wembley. The project is now over-budget by around £35m, which comes close to the total cost of converting the City of Manchester stadium after the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
This has the feel of a fiasco cooked up somewhere between the Mayor London’s Office, DCMS and the Treasury. Which is why, in the interests of transparency, I urge the government to publish the full details of West Ham’s secret deal as a matter of urgency."
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