Olympic farce. Morning [almost ] folkks from Holland. question. why should any football team profit from taxpayers money, IE a free stadium. Spurs and West ham, are fighting for OUR TAXPAYERS venue, why not keep it as a center of excellence, to promote our amateur track and field, our aspiring footballers, rugby players, cricketers, an alternative venue for raising awareness, and revenue for our up and coming youth.Aussie/South africa has em, why not us, a legacy that will maintain the fact that we hosted ,what I hope will be a great olympics, of the track,,,,, and indoors, promotion of karate, boxing. aikedo, judo, gymnastics, fencing,etc etc, could one day make our small island proud again. could also be used as a music venue, to help make it self sustaining, a little help from national lottery [ my money again ]and a little bit of that shadowy group SPORT ENGLAND........................WTF ARE THEY. Got no answers myself. dont want to see another dome fiasco, where the taxpayer got stuffed, and private enterprise got richer.
Bill,how are either going to profit? Spurs will buy the thing outright if they get it,thus,no more future expense to the taxpayer. If WHU get it,they will be paying the rent and running costs as well as athletics and other sports still being able to use it. As for your proposal,it won't work. Athletics cannot sustain the running costs by having 2 major meetings a year. Crystal Palace is their home and its falling to pieces because UKA does'nt generate enough money for its upkeep,so what would happen to the OS ? It will go the same way,but also costing taxpayers more money.
Understand eyetie, asked a question, how will the taxpayer get thier dosh back, no easy answer, we had to relocate our ground, at our expense, I might be wrong but I think we may be the only premier club, who wholly owns their ground as in land, stadium etc etc,
Bill,the taxpayer will get some dosh back from the rent we will be paying,but more importantly,they won't have to keep shelling out for a white elephant if its remains just an athletics venue. BTW, i am against WHU moving there,and even more against those tossers from north london taking it on our manor.
Don't like the idea of the pitch so far away from the fans with the daft track. Why can't you stay or them up norf even?
