Under those terms, the fairest decision would be to give it to Orient. It's a ridiculously poor deal and it should be scrapped.
As I have repeatedly said, you cannot fault their owners. They speculated on what would happen, and they were correct. You couldn't be more wrong if you tried. For starters the THFC bid would cost the taxpayer zero pounds.
We've explained this to you before.You don't care, why should you? Those of us who live in London have been paying an additional Council Tax levy for the Olympics for a decade now. For a government body (LLDC) to give this asset away to the detriment of those Council Tax payers is likely to be proven to be ultra vires and illegal. The perpetrators have attempted to hide their doings behind ridiculous claims of commercial sensitivity which the FOI Commissioner rejected out of hand. The fact that the players on this are all members of the Tory party and involves individuals making large political donations to that party makes it something that should end some political careers. There has been cross-party support for the publishing of this information by the elected members of the London Assembly who don't trust this deal. If your Local Authority decided to sponsor Derby with your Council Tax money, how would you feel?
While City's move to the CoM/Etihad may be just as dodgy, the maths behind it are not Cost of stadium + conversion = £160m Rent that City will pay over the course of their lease = £450m On that basis it would take 54 years for the stadium to make a profit - or to put it another way, it will be in profit come 2056 as City have played there for 14 years already, meaning they have already paid £42m in rent (for comparison it will be 17 years before the Spammers pay that much in rent, although as has been mentioned many, many times the rent they're paying will never pay off the construction and conversion costs of the White Elephant)
Suarez was diving to head the ball and I don't think he clearly did it deliberately. Hard to give a red for that in my opinion.
Why does something have to directly affect someone for that person to hold an interest in that topic?
"The Hammers will not have to pay for a range of things including policing, stewarding, goalposts, corner flags, cleaners and turnstile operators. Heating and lighting costs will also be covered by the stadium managers" They are paying approx £100k a match. Surely the stadium must barely break even - these things must cost a big chunk of that
http://www.met.police.uk/foi/pdfs/disclosure_2014/august_2014/2013030002515.pdf There you go on the likely policing costs (up to 3 seasons ago) . I averaged the values for the clubs that had four seasons in the table, and then took the geometric mean of those values. Giving an annual mean cost of 433K pa.
hi guys just to let you know we are playing Dortmund later, get on the phone to poch so he can watch how to win european games
Pochettino asked me to pass the following message on to you : Tell KyloSucky I watched the Atletico game yesterday for that very reason. I suggest he tells Klopp to do the same before KO.
Indeed there is. Fighting for La Liga title and in CL SFs, vs fighting to avoid PL mid-table mediocrity + in EL QFs.
UP THE 'ACKNEY 'AMMERS! I wonder what Alf Garnett would make of all this?......and the closure of his beloved Boleyn? Don't knock it down.They might want to move back. How will the West Ham fans get to the ex Hackney Wick Greyhound track anyway?
The overall reaction appears to be almost universal condemnation of this stadium deal. What will happen about it? Absolutely nothing.
I'm not so sure. Given the ridiculous extent of the undervalue of this arrangement, there's going to be an ongoing outcry against this. A very good article to read is from that revolutionary left wing agitator, The Daily Mail - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Stadium-deal-entirely-financed-taxpayer.html There's a number of avenues to challenge the legality of this arrangement, including EU laws on competition and government subsidy. If the Daily Mail are prepared to go hunting Tory grandees, then anything is possible.
