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    Hillsborough - it could have been us!!

    From the Health and Safety Executive report to the Hillsborough Independent Panel: http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/report/main-section/part-2/chapter-6/page-7/ 2.6.106 The HSE estimated that on the day of the disaster 1,576 people entered pen 3. This was approximately double the maximum...
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    Dave Mackay

    Wasn't that AFTER he signed for West Ham?
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    West Ham have won Olympic Stadium

    Paul Kelso in the Telegraph this morning: "Speaking last week, Levy told Telegraph Sport that new sites away from Haringey were an option if the Olympic Stadium bid failed, but said he would also seek new talks with the council about reducing the cost of the Northumberland Park site adjacent...
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    New Stadium Details And Discussions

    Mayor Boris, in the Guardian this morning: "This is a very significant step forward towards delivering the Olympic Park legacy and the Legacy Company has run a thoroughly professional and robust process. This milestone means we now have the prospect of a local football club and a multi-use venue...
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    New Stadium Details And Discussions

    BBC Sports Editor David Bond says our bid only met three of the five criteria; West Ham's met all five: "My understanding is that OPLC chief executive Andrew Altman makes no clear recommendation in favour of West Ham's bid in the report but it is true that the club's £95m proposal is the only...
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    What is our PR team doing??

    BBC News: John Whittingdale, Conservative chair of the Culture Select Committee, claims the Tottenham Hotspur plan "would be a disaster" when it comes to deciding what happens to the Olympic Stadium in east London after the games are over. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12381902
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    Gomes has to go..........

    Opta stats say otherwise. Top three keepers ranked on successful distribution: Howard (299), Reina (290), Gomes (277). And Gomes has played five games less than the other two.
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    New Stadium Details And Discussions

    From Matthew Beard's blog in the London Evening Standard today: Stadium poll exposes Spurs strategy Today's BBC London poll emphatically giving backing to the West Ham stadium bid shows Spurs have some way to go convincing Londoners of their plan. It also raises questions of their PR...
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    The anti-Stratford protests begin!

    This has been posted before but some people may have missed it. This is what Tessa Jowell, then the Olympics Minister, said during the official presentation to the IOC in Singapore in July 2005: "There are only two permanent venues left to develop, an indoor sports arena and the Olympic...
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    New Stadium Details And Discussions

    It won't go through on the nod from Boris or anyone else. A planning application will have to go to the local authority, the London Borough of Bromley, which has already welcomed both the THFC plan and the one from CPFC. Other possible problems? The National Sports Centre is a listed...
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    New Stadium Details And Discussions

    I haven't seen that figure before, Michaelden. What's your source?
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    New Stadium Details And Discussions

    This has just broken on the AP wire service: "Bids from Tottenham and West Ham for London's Olympic Stadium could both be rejected, with officials still able to revive the original plan of retaining a 25,000-capacity arena mainly for athletics after the 2012 Games." From their London sports...
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    The anti-Stratford protests begin!

    Spursphil, I know you didn't write it but SC could still get sued for publishing it. But maybe the mods have seen it and are happy with it?
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    The anti-Stratford protests begin!

    spursphil, I know Lammy is public enemy number one in this forum but, in my opinion, the reference to him in the fifth paragraph of your last but one post is almost certainly libellous. You might want to edit it out.
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    New Stadium Details And Discussions

    We won't own the stadium. We are bidding for a long-term lease, probably 200 years. No one has said publicly what the leasing arrangements will be.
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    New Stadium Details And Discussions

    From the Telegraph today: "The Spurs bid is also expected to promise a "significant" return to the taxpayer. When Manchester City took over the City of Manchester Stadium, they gave a proportion of ticket revenue above a certain capacity to the city council, which funded the stadium. Spurs...
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    The anti-Stratford protests begin!

    AEG expressed interest in the OS in May 2010, well before its tie-up with Spurs. http://tinyurl.com/6bh2zvb
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    New Stadium Details And Discussions

    I thought West Ham were planning to sell Upton Park for development if their bid is successful?
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    The anti-Stratford protests begin!

    The WeareN17 guys did not organise the protest outside the main entrance. They were collecting signatures for their petition outside the Bell and Hare and made it clear before the match that they were not organising a protest or march.
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    Fans say no to Olympic Stadium

    How many people voted in that poll, Andy?
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