Leyton Orient release statement re: Olympic Stadium

[lloydie]

It's Spurs job to take care of the ones they do own, and they haven't. What makes you think anyone but Spurs should pay to make it easier for predominately Spurs fans to get to WHL?

MCC premised their bid for the C/W games on having City as tenants, it made economic sense for Manchester, at no point was the benefit of Manchester City Football Club a motivation for the decision.
If it made economic sense for Haringay to subsidise THFC's plans they would, clearly the benefit to Haringay as a whole does not. As for MCC being a friendly bunch but you don't like Haringay, it's a bit pathetic tbh. If you feel strongly enough stand against them and in favour of what you believe will benefit the borough.
I repeat, THFC is a commercial enterprise and should be treated as such. If it's unable to progress it's plans without public subsidy then tough.

That's untrue it hasn't taken care of any buildings. If Spurs are going to pump money into the local economy then surely the local council should help?

As I said some of the stats on the area show it's one of the worst in England, it's the worst place in London.

I don't blame Spurs for wanting out now, it will be cheaper than staying.

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English Heritage have been cited by proponents of Spurs plans as having set unreasonable demands to preserve the red house, however, Arsenal had to preserve much of Highbury, Spurs should do the same.
Spurs are not pumping money into the area, they are spending money for the betterment of THFC, no one else as their pitch for the Olympic sites demonstrates.
Once again, Spurs should not be treated differently from any other commercial entity.

On a side note, why are you embarrassed to state your allegiances clearly and why do need to refer to Spurs as a third party as it implies that you are a disinterested observer when you're obviously not?

 

[levets]

do you want this new stadium though?

Spurs desperately need a new 60,000 seat stadium if we are to maintain our place as one of Europe's top clubs.

Spurs desperately need a new 60,000 seat stadium if we are to maintain our place as one of Europe's top clubs.
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LOL... Maintain?

 

[THFC6061]

Spurs desperately need a new 60,000 seat stadium if we are to maintain our place as one of Europe's top clubs.

Spurs desperately need a new 60,000 seat stadium if we are to maintain our place as one of Europe's top clubs.
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LOL... Maintain?

Well... yes.

We're currently one of only eight European clubs who have won their respective UEFA Champions League group.

And we'd very much like to maintain that.

In addition, Spurs are regularly listed as one of the top dozen or so clubs in the world, according to gross revenues, and we're one of the very few clubs who actually make a decent profit almost every year on our football business.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Spurs desperately need a new 60,000 seat stadium if we are to maintain our place as one of Europe's top clubs.

Spurs desperately need a new 60,000 seat stadium if we are to maintain our place as one of Europe's top clubs.
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LOL... Maintain?

Well... yes.

We're currently one of only eight European clubs who have won their respective UEFA Champions League group.

And we'd very much like to maintain that.

In addition, Spurs are regularly listed as one of the top dozen or so clubs in the world, according to gross revenues, and we're one of the very few clubs who actually make a decent profit almost every year on our football business.

For the sake of balance I'm going to exclude City from this list:

Arsenal
Chelsea
scum
Liverpool
Rangers
Celtic
Lyon
PSG
Marseilles
Barca
Real Madrid
Bayern Munich
Brussia Dortmund
Hamburg
Hertha Berlin
AC Milan
Inter
Roma
Juventus
Ajax

are all bigger clubs than spurs. And that is off the top of my head

 

[Challenger1978]

Spurs should only be allowed the Olympic stadium if they pay to convert it. They sure as hell shouldn't be allowed to flatten the dam thing after all the money the tax payer has spent on it.

 

[da4137]

Why wasn't this planned for though?

An Olympic stadium was converted into a multi purpose venue that can be used for both football and oval sports 12 years prior... surely in this time a stadium could have been designed that could be converted at will?

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And besides all this, London already has a stadium with a huge capacity. Why couldn't Wembley have been used?

Maybe the athletics (and educational) legacy stuff was included in hopes of winning votes from IOC members.

 

[Maintainin]

Leyton Orient will probz end up in that Hockey stadium on the Olympic village aided by West Ham in ground devolopment or by whatever spare change that Barry Hearn bloke decides to bung in the pot from selling Brisbane Road and thus making lil ol orient more prosperous and sellable to a future sugar daddy.

Seems Hearns in it for Hearn tho Orient fans given the choice of gettin exiled to essex or moving whithin a mile should still have reasons to be cheerful.

Reckon Orient could end up doin pretty well for emselves if they play their cards right and up their on pitch performances !

-- Sun Feb 20, 2011 11:38 am --

...that Barry Hearn fella on the radio a minute ago reiterating part of me above post.

Seems an alrite bloke, anyone else hear him ?