- Aug 13, 2005
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As someone that knows Stratford and the surrounding area pretty well I would say that the gloss has already gone from the whole Westfield and olympic park development already, the locals bringing it down pretty quickly - I wouldn't boast about it too loudly if I was that West Ham poster. 25000 West Ham supporters strolling around there every two weeks will only bring it down further. As they say you can't polish a turd.
I've always thought that mixing the Westfield shopping crowd on a Saturday suddenly with 50,000 odd people is a recipe for disaster. People are going to be pretty put off going to the shopping centre after a while with a load of West Ham fans turning up every other week, let alone the pissed up travelling fans.