Arthur Bach 1:32 Sun Sep 25
Upton Park Development
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The East Stand extension was agreed years ago by Newham Council. The stand would've incorporated a tunnel to accommodate the bus garage. West Ham had this permssion years ago.
David Gold is talking shit.
Absolute shit.
Upton Park capacity would've been 42k.
It was all agreed.
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overbyyer
2:46 Sun Sep 25
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goose wrote...
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The only owners we've had that were serious about investing in the club got fucked by the banking crisis.
I agree, I remember Eggy coming out on the pitch holding his grandson and I think they were genuine about their intentions to develop the club, but they couldn't have picked a worse time to do it.
As I recall, the West Stand was redeveloped further towards Green St so that the pitch could be brought across to leave more space for the East Stand redevelopment.
Would have been 42,00 proper seats as well, not fucking picnic seats that feel like your watching The Horse Of The Year show jumping at Olympia.
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tnb
1:47 Sun Sep 25
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Crassus,
Would that have been the North Bank ending up alongside Green Street, or alongside Priory Road? I know this is all academic now as others have said but I still find it quite interesting to imagine how it could have been.
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theaxeman
1:24 Sun Sep 25
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Shame upton park wasn't redeveloped property by Brown & co but thats gone now. We've sleep walked with the aid of misleading statements and modern marketing techniques in to the Olympic stadium. We should have been more vociferous 2 years ago when it mattered. All this bullshit of not being viable from the board is nonsense after all Tottenham have managed to rebuild their dung heap in a similarly urban residential area.
I truly believe gold and Sullivan saw the os a great investment opportunity and not the long term benefit of our club
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Florin
1:09 Sun Sep 25
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Both the Boby More and Trevor Brooking stands were built with footings ready to support a third tier, no idea what that could have looked like though. Just remember being told that at the time by someone working on it.
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ted fenton
1:05 Sun Sep 25
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goose 12:23 Sun Sep 25
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The only owners we've had that were serious about investing in the club got fucked by the banking crisis.
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flyingV
12:50 Sun Sep 25
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Gavros 12:44 Sun Sep 25
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Any truth in the rumour that the upper tier is still closer to the pitch than at the OS?
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harold
12:45 Sun Sep 25
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Crassus,
That would have been a good time to have done it (if they were bold enough)! Would have been a lot cheaper then, instead of wasting money tarting up all 4 sides. I remember the Chicken Run being rebuilt; I used to stand in the West Enclosure.
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Gavros
12:44 Sun Sep 25
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i have a plan for a sub orbital upton park with a capacity of 100 million.
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Tomshardware
12:42 Sun Sep 25
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Muggy Bonehead III 1:56 Sun Sep 25
haha
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icwhs
12:41 Sun Sep 25
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Why don't we think about things that we can change?
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Sven Roeder
12:35 Sun Sep 25
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Think they were doing their own fucking .... the puffin botherers.
Said at the time when they were boasting that their bank was worth a billion that they should sell it and invest in footballers.
Obviously they foolishly didn't listen.
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Crassus
12:33 Sun Sep 25
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Harold
It most certainly was an option, fact
But it was when the Run was rebuilt, 68 I think
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harold
12:32 Sun Sep 25
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Before them even: when the West Stand was rebuilt. Money was in place for the East Stand, but we got relegated!!
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goose
12:23 Sun Sep 25
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The only owners we've had that were serious about investing in the club got fucked by the banking crisis.
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harold
12:21 Sun Sep 25
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I'm talking about before their time.
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goose
12:19 Sun Sep 25
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No chance Harold, that would have cost money. The Berks aren't interested in that.
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harold
12:18 Sun Sep 25
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I wonder if rotating the ground through 90ยบ, and shifting towards Green Street was considered, or was even an option.
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goose
12:16 Sun Sep 25
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I wish Beardy would stop all this bullshit about how we have to move to compete. We did fine last season, and as said below we could keep all naming rights etc.
Newcastle have a big ground, so do Leeds. I'm assuming they're in the champions league this league?
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Crassus
12:05 Sun Sep 25
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Penners
Yep, afraid so
The maths would be interesting too
66k cheap seats against 42k expensive seats - what with us taking all the revenue from pies and naming rights
As said though, water under the sad old bridge
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penners28
12:00 Sun Sep 25
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As thats what its all about isnt it. Having thr biggest ground. Fuck the fact there are loads of empty seats, and some seats with supporters of other teams in them.
Some people are so far up the owners arse its unreal
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11MDE
11:46 Sun Sep 25
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Yeah, I'd really have enjoyed having one of the smallest PL grounds in London.
Great idea.
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