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far be it from us to begrudge them that, but could they fill it?

They'll never be able to maintain an atmosphere surely? Isn't an 80,000 seater? Don't know what their average attendance is, but in a city with so many no clubs. No way.

Plus they're shit

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from 22nd Feb on the Beeb:


Legal hurdle for West Ham's 2012 stadium plan
The London 2012 Olympic Stadium
West Ham are keen for a move to the Olympic Stadium

Ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone believes West Ham co-owner David Gold's idea to move the club to the 2012 stadium faces serious legal obstacles.

Livingstone helped London win the 2012 Olympics arguing that the stadium would be an athletics venue after the Games.

"There's a legally binding contract between the Mayor and the International Olympic Committee that the stadium will be an athletics venue," he said.

The IOC would also have to approve any change in the stadium's usage.

"If we had said we were building a football stadium, we would not have won," Livingstone told BBC Radio 5 live.

However, Gold has received political support for his idea from Sir Robin Wales, the Mayor of Newham.

One other possibility is to abandon the athletic idea altogether and maybe build a small athletics stadium that can be used for ever

West Ham co-owner David Gold

The Newham Mayor said he "would like West Ham to be in there", adding it was a "sensible solution".

The Newham borough is home to the Premier League team's Upton Park ground as well as the Olympic Stadium, which will host two-thirds of the events at the 2012 Games.

Wales, who sits on the boards of the Olympic Park Legacy Company and Games organiser Locog, said: "My view is to develop the stadium as a football stadium in legacy and use the money from West Ham and the developers to then build a proper athletics offer in London.

He believes there could be "a problem with the legacy" if the club did not move into the £450m stadium.

Gold maintains that a deal for West Ham to relocate there remains a "serious possibility".

"I'm sensing an easing of the stance that it should be a legacy to athletics," the West Ham co-owner told BBC Radio 5 live.

"We have to be more pragmatic. Do we want to have a stadium like we have at Crystal Palace which just deteriorated and rotted away because it wasn't sustainable?

"We believe there is a serious possibility that we could strike a deal that would take West Ham to the Olympic Stadium.

"If that can be done, we would have a super stadium that could take the club to the next level."

Gold and co-owner David Sullivan took over the cash-strapped club last month and immediately confirmed their interest in relocating to the 80,000-capacity Olympic Stadium in Stratford as they try to improve the club finances.

Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell has insisted that keeping the stadium as a grand prix athletics venue was one of the reasons that London bid for the Games, and keeping the running track at the stadium to leave a legacy to athletics in East London remained a strong commitment.

The Olympic Park Legacy Company is to shortly invite bids from businesses that want to apply for a commercial stake in the stadium.

606: DEBATE
Hand over Upton Park as a down payment and pay a lease on the new stadium. Seems fair to me

The Ghost of Thierry Henry

Gold had also floated the idea of West Ham moving to the Olympic venue and then building a separate stadium that could be used for athletic events.

"One other possibility is to abandon the athletic idea altogether and maybe build a small athletics stadium that can be used for ever," he said.

"Not as an Olympic athletics stadium but a regional stadium with seating facility commensurate to their requirements which would be about 5,000."

However, UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner accused the Hammers co-owner of being "patronising".

"When we are told we can go to a little regional athletics stadium, I think this is another example of football rather arrogantly thinking it has all the solutions to sports problems in the UK," said Warner.

The Games are about leaving an "iconic venue for athletes of all ages and abilities to aspire to compete in", he added.

I'm with the IOC. Can't stand Davids Gold/Sullivan

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shit.

Title says Wesr not West.

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dislike them, but it seems rather daft to build an 80,000 seater stadium just for the olympics, then reduce it to 25,000 for athletics after the big event.

then again, hosting the olympics just seems retarded to me anyway.

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no it doesn't

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"i'm gonna wreck you so bad we're going to have to change church"

suppose, but if it was a commitment...



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David Gold is dildo salesman and Sullivan is brothel keeper and pornographer.

I'm surprised they haven't introduced some porno/ noveley items into the West Ham merchandise shop. I think by using the porn angle there could be a lot of mileage in the "I'm forever blowing bubbles" theme.

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this should pretty much end the idea for west ham

kind of like queen of the south playing at Hampden Park

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Aguero

The athletics association selling out for sole use by a football a club and therefore completely ending any use for it's use by athletics in major international event is ludicrous.

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KYPU

at least we had a chance of getting close to filling it

westham won't even fill the home end

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Aguero

Weren't they banging on about rock bottom ticket prices to fill it or something when they originally bought the club?

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tbf.

This being the same Gold and Sullivan that charged £42 a ticket at Birmingham?

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I could swear I saw that it would be Spuds moving in the Olympic Stadium, but no, just no. I say give it to Leyton Orient.

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