Off Topic The Sullivan & Gold Comedy Corner

Didn't go the way I wanted sure. West Ham were my second team as a kid, but despite being geographical rivals I also loathe beyond measure the current management of the club. The porn kings and Brady don't like us and the feeling is mutual. There is resentment at the benefit they get from a public funded stadium - not cause we wanted to be there, but because it's an advantage over natural rivals like Stoke, West Brom, Palace etc. Is that ok with you

 

Bitter? No.
Spurs should stay in North London not go to East London so I was delighted that we did not get the stadium.
****ed off ? Yes.
That stadium was built at a cost of well over £600m and was modified at a cost of another £60m or so...

Edit...I actually got the modification cost wrong...it was £325m!!! (Cheers to @"Thanks for that Brian" for the correction )

All this was paid for by the tax payers.

Then, Sebastian Coe decided that (because he wants to be the president of the IAAF) that the Olympic Stadium had to host athletics.
By pure luck the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, agreed as did the three key West Ham share holders/owners/ people in charge (David Sullivan, David Gold and Karen Brady).
As all three parties were in agreement and all benefited from it a deal was completed.

Coe went on to say that the OS was still being used for athletics and was also being used for football...this helped secure the post of President of the IAAF (which he craved).

Boris Johnson claimed he got a geeat deal for tax payers and then quit being Mayor of London and became an MP again and got a top cabinet position.

And the West Ham trio claimed to have struck a great deal, for club and community.

Yet in reality this great deal for tax payers equates to;

1) a club paying £2.5m a season for a brand new modified stadium.
2) a club only paying £15m (an average transfer fee nowadays) up front.
3) a club not having to pay for the stewarding of matches.
4) a club not paying for corner flags.

This club also got to keep the sight of their previous ground and are the sole beneficiaries of it's development and sale.

This same club also is guaranteed £100m for EVERY season they are in the premier league in prize money.

They also get a massively increased revenue in ticket sales due to the size of their stadium.

This club also got a loan of £5m from Newham Council which is one of the poorest boroughs in Britain. This loan was not only agreed by authorities but was given at the same time that council workers were being made redundant and council services were being cut. Oh and the loan was INTEREST FREE!.

How any of this doesnt constitute state funding (illegal under UEFA rules) is beyond any one with a brain.

One thing is certain though...the fact that Coe is an ex Tory MP and a Tory Lord, that Johnson was a Tory Mayor of London and current Tory Foreign Secretary, that David Gold and David Sullivan have taken part in fund raising events for the Tory Party and Karen Brady is a Tory Lordess (or whatever the tossers are called) is NOTHING to do with it...
No sireee just a coincidence...keep on walking...no thing to see here...keep moving...people coming through.

No doubt you will call this a rant but in a time of austerity, with massive peoblems for the low paid, nhs, education etc, giving away over JUST UNDER A BILLION POUNDS to a multimillion business owed and run by billionaires and multimiliionaires is ****ing inexcusable.

 

Well said RCL! I was going to respond but you saved me the job - although in all likelihood it would have been much briefer and involve far more cussing!!

 

Ahem! The last published figure for sort of making it ready for what they claim is football, was £325m.

A note to anyone outside London. We ****ing paid for it by way of an additional surcharge on our rates, just us. Not you Wiltshire or Cornwall based United fans or Mousers from Prestatyn. For some reason you were allowed to buy tickets but like the entirety of the north of England in relation to general finances of the nation, you failed to pay your way.

Like challenging for the title and culture, this is a London thing.

 

^^^

These are all valid and meaningful points.

 

Cheers for the correction...have changed my post accordingly and am hanging my head in shame

 

RCL summed up the stadium deal well, but most Spurs fans would be happy to see West Ham relegated even without that.
I'm sure that Utd would have similar issues with a team or two, if there were more local sides in the Premier League.
Especially if any of you lived in Manchester...

 

Me - I just hate West Ham pure and simple it's a sewer of a club and has been for years

 

Michail Antonio has been ruled out of the rest of the season through injury. Tragic shame that, as he has had a decent season. Wishing him a full and speedy recovery.








LOL.

 

Harsh.
He cried once when he failed to sign for Spurs.
Can't be all bad.

I wish him well in his attempts to get to a bigger, better club.

 

Today's belter comes from the column of that Brady woman in the publication that also offers a column to Kelvin Mackenzie. I shall let her words speak for themselves.....

"We have twice tried to buy him but he wants a club playing Champions League football - and quickly. You can't dismiss his ambition but it's a shame that he regards such an admirable club as little more than a stopover."

 

West Ham are facing a string of summer pay rise demands from some of their unsettled stars. The deals given to recent signings Jose Fonte and Robert Snodgrass have frustrated some Hammers players. (Daily Mirror)

Can't wait to see Brady slag them off in her column, swiftly followed by Sullivan complaining about the club being inundated with transfer requests...

 

She's talking about Lukaku!
Why the **** would he leave Everton for West Ham?!

 

Sorted for you!!

 

Spammers doing their best to drop back into the drop area!! Sunderland may yet get something out of this!!

 

Karren Brady has a column in a paper today demanding a benefits cheat be jailed for cheating ghe tax payer. She also says she takes pride in paying her taxes.
So I guess we can look forward to her club paying back the tax payers the £800m or so still owed on the tax payers arena?
Thought not.

By the way...not defending benefit cheating but the person she wants jailed is supposed have got £22,000 from cheating the taxpayer which kind of pales into insignificance when you compare it to the
£800,000,000 the tax payer has been cheated out of from the west ham deal for the Tax Payers Arena.

 

£22,000 is a massive amount to rip off when cheating benefits, it cannot be argued otherwise. However it pales into insignificance when compared to what some get away with on tax evasion (or is it avoidance, never quite sure, both sound bad to me). I wonder if the government puts as much effort into catching tax cheats as benefit cheats. But this case has presumably been featured to suggest that it is "typical" of benefit cheating, rather than exceptional, which it what it is. It also seems to be the case that £22,000 is an amount which people can sort of relate to, whilst £800 million is so outside people's experience that people are no more shocked by it (perhaps because the media hasn't really featured it enough), rather than being more than 3,500 times worse, which it actually is.

 

TBH, the LLDC / Boris etc IMHO are the ones who have really
deceived/cost the taxpayer. The Spanners on this matter I consider
to be merely a bunch of poncing chancers who got lucky.