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Feel for them. It’s a perfect storm: innumeracy linked with non-opposable thumbs.........

 

The net may finally be closing in.....

London Assembly demands to see accounts of London Stadium company http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaki...app&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=sharebutton

 

Says a lot that the Irish Examiner reported the story and not the Standard - who were more interested in running Rose bust-up with Poch after NLD snub headlines that Rose himself had already debunked yesterday.

 

Well, we know there are a lot of vested interests on the UK side of the Irish Sea and some influential figures who have the reach to smother the local media. Always worth having a wide portfolio of news sources!!

 

It's gonna be a big difference for E20 to deal with someone other than West Ham demanding something they have no intention of paying for...........

 

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Hi Dave. Is it true training was stopped early on Friday after several players reported a transparent fluid seeping from their skin?

top class

 

From the Newham Recorder........[no other newspaper in the country is running the story].......Even the GLA, who must be used to seeing incompetence on a scale unimaginable to most, can smell a bloody big rat. The auditors' report is 6 months late.......6 months........6 ****ING MONTHS.....Yet, the accounts that the report is based on, are unavailable to those without a vested interest in a cover up? **** off. It's all too clear that there is currently a desperate attempt to keep the **** from hitting the fan and the implication from the underlined sections is that the now, completely bloody silent on the issue, Sadiq Khan, is becoming complicit in it all............

Today, its budget and performance committee took the “rare decision” - the second time in its history - of issuing a summons notice for E20 Stadium LLP’s annual accounts after saying information was not forthcoming.

E20 Stadium LLP, a joint venture between the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) and the Newham Council-owned Newham Legacy Investments (NLI), is in huge financial difficulty with a current valuation of zero.

The £752 million stadium incurred massive costs of being converted from an athletics-only venue for the 2012 Olympics to a football ground ahead of West Ham’s move.

Committee member Keith Prince told the Recorder: “We believe there are a number of questions around the running of this organisation that we want answers to and do not seem to be getting.

“It is very sad that we have been pushed into this situation that we have had to use a power we rarely use.”

Fed-up assembly members, whose job it is to hold London mayor Sadiq Khan to account, have demanded all the necessary paperwork to be provided to them no later than two weeks from the date of the summons notice.

In a statement, committee chairman Gareth Bacon said: “This company spends vast amounts of public money, and we know that it is in financial difficulty – but we have been prevented from seeing the accounts of E20 Stadium LLP. Why?

“The assembly needs this information immediately, so we can assess whether this Mayor (Mayor of London Sadiq Khan) is making the right decisions when it comes to the London Stadium and Olympic legacy.”

Last month, outgoing LLDC boss David Goldstone was quizzed by Mr Bacon and his committee over why the conversion costs rose by £51m from £272m to £323m in 2016.

It is believed that the price of retractable seating, used to accommodate football matches and music concerts, is one of the key factors behind the cost hike.

Moore Stephens, the accountancy firm tasked with investigating the rise, is expected to issue its findings at the end of this November after months of delays.

An LLDC spokeswoman said it and Newham Council were working closely with E20 “to address the long-standing financial challenges in the best interests of the residents of Newham and Londoners”.

She said a decision will be made by Sadiq Khan after the Moore Stephens review is published.

There must have been a D Notice issued to keep this from our 'free press' that protects our interests and democracy...............or maybe not?

 

Somebody is eventually going to be slaughtered on this.

The delay is obviously behind the scenes decision making
on who the scapegoats are going to be when the details
reach the light of day.

 

Correct. And as per usual it will end up being the jobsworth who was responsible for brewing Boris Johnson's tea.

 

The whole thing was clearly bent from the start. Why would it be any different now?

 

The spammers get slaughtered every time they play there. The (ex) managers are usually the scapegoats.

 

Ah! The Hackney Wick Hammers in trouble again......

 

For some reason I saw this and thought "West Scam fan?"

 

Football weekend has started well

 

At least Everton fans put some effort into assaulting opposition players...

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Only just switched on and missed the first half of the Friday Night comedy slot..... But in time to see Ayew perform a perfect triple salco with pike despite not getting a pen or freekick then gets booked for a rather pathetic if clearly intentional double footed lunge on Grey...... Then keeps arguing....

 

Carroll sweating like a horse after a race....... Nothing else needed to be said

 

Didn't miss did he!

 

Brilliant throw to Carroll

 

The Mirror............

"Moyes Inspires Hammers Heroes"...........to a 1 - 1 home draw against Leicester? Really? Just how low are we setting their bar these days?

It had the whiff of 'dead cat bounce' to me. Face it, they're not going to do running around like that more than 5 times a season.