StephenH
David Ginola
I just read it taked 8m to take down and then re erect the temporary seating. How the fudge can it cost so much to erect a bit of scaffolding.
I thought it was £8m each way? £16m total.
I just read it taked 8m to take down and then re erect the temporary seating. How the fudge can it cost so much to erect a bit of scaffolding.
I wonder how we will be in Wembley next season and then our new stadium after that.
Glass houses and throwing stones comes to mind here.
Wembley will be horrendous - maybe 50,000 for big league game, 20,000 for europa - how will that feel|??
I don't think they'll rip a €750m stadium down any time soon. They'll tweak and fudge their way along for a 10 years or so and then move out.
I don't think they'll rip a €750m stadium down any time soon. They'll tweak and fudge their way along for a 10 years or so and then move out.
Newham Council 35% owners of stadium. Are £40m deep in loans towards the conversion cost. BUT also the entity that legally certifies if the stadium is safe or not.
Conflict of interest, meh thinks
There's been some huge regeneration in that area over the last few years. The West Ham part of the deal might not make much of a difference, but local residents are far better of with the project than without.Newham Council have the biggest loan debt (over £500m) of any local authority in Britain. This how Britain works borrow money you have no chance of ever paying off, the local residents get little benefit from this project but bankers, contractors and "entrepreneurs" fill their boots.
For retractable are we really meaning removable.........i dont see a whole lot of retracting going on. If they could just be rolled back into the side gaps (like other stadiums) surely £8m each way would be a ridiculously high quote.
When certain people are involved in projects.....a clusterf*ck ensues.
The whole place is a white elephant as predicted before the event, mutliple arenas built for specific sports yet the British Athletic meetings next year are either in Birmingham or Sheffield, Swimming it's Sheffield, Cycling at Manchester and Gymnastics in Liverpool. As usual the whole fiasco was an exercise in misleading the British public to pay for an event which help promote certain public figures and line the pockets of their friends. Everyone got excited and wrapped themselves in the Union Jack now we've got years to keep bailing it out. I still think we should have built the monorail Lyle Lanley was pitching!!!
I think the government will want to get rid of this whole shambles and will simply sell the stadium/land to the spammers which will enable them to knock it down and build a football stadium in its place.
This will happen after the World athletics champs due to be held next summer at the current stadium.
The spammers will invite some Chinese billionaire to invest in the club which will pump hundreds of millions into the whole plan.
No-one will care about an athletics legacy, everyone is just sick of the whole mess so there will be little opposition.
Actually I wouldn't be surprised if this was what Brady and the porn barons expected and wanted all along. All the trouble, negative publicity, the impression that something drastic has to happen to solve the problems.
done by a company called Dildo Logistics apparently
I went on a tour of the Olympic park the year before the Olympics as part of the open house weekend, we got told on the tour that even with all the work they did readying the ground, due to it's location the stadium would last no more then 20 years. I do not know if they managed to sort that out, but as we went inside the stadium, the interior had not been fitted out I can not believe they managed to sort the problems with the foundations. The chap leading the tour did seem the sort to get his information wrong.