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Topic History of: Give WEST HAM the Olympic Stadium !
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BR	Leyton Orient have a newly built ground which is big enough for their needs. Athletics does not need a big stadium in London. We only need it once every 50 years for the Olympics - so build a new one every time. The stadium will not be used if it is not occupied by a large football club. Saracens have no affinity with the East End - their base is in Herts and Barnet. Their fanbase would not travel all the way regularly to a stadium a further 15 miles away. West Ham are local - they represent the ordinary people of the area. That is why they should get the stadium. It makes total sense.
giles2008	Hammers legend Billy Bonds doesnt like the idea either.
giles2008	Boris seems to like the idea but there again that may be a vote catching ploy in the run up to the General Election. It seems that there are other contenders such as Saracens RFC and even Leyton Orient. Athletics and other sport was edged out of Wembley when that was built and i fear that will happen again if the football mafia get their hands on this stadium.
JK2006	I'm all in favour of the Sullivan takeover - good luck to the two Davids - if they have reached this level of financial acumen, thank god they even want to be involved in football. Wish we had a few similar tycoons who thought music could be profitable.
BR	Giles - you seem to forget that they took a very small club in comparison ( Brum ) and have planted them firmly in the Premier League on very small gates. West Ham have a very large fanbase in East London. They have as many fans as Arsenal and Tottenham - perhaps more local fans. They are very viable as a club representing a large area. Though the Premier Bubble looks as if it may burst in the next few years - not least because the SKY monopoly is being challenged seriously by BT and ESPN. I still think any big club will survive because debt is only relative to the size of the club. Portsmouth may have only a tenth of the debt of Man Utd - but Man Utd are 200 times bigger than Portsmouth - hence out of the two only one is in any real danger and even small clubs like Exeter survive with gates of 4,000 when millions in debt. Companies just go under and re-surface under new ownership and name. So do you think they should get the ground ?