twit

Just in case you couldn’t detect it from reading this tripe, Calvin is a Millwall fan….Shock

The 2017 Workd Championships are secure with or without West Ham. An athletics-only stadium holding 60,000 cannot sustain itself and will need many more millions of public money to remain fit for purpose.

Expert opinion? What’s “expert” about anything you’ve written?

Incredibly well said, Michael. Since the Gold-Sullivan-Brady alliance, West Ham have become the footballing equivalent of their televisual friends in the East End. This is a club whose vice chairperson floated the idea – again, in her newspaper column – of rebranding the club ‘West Ham Olympic’ to tie in with the stadium move.

Is that really the type of legacy we want London 2012 to leave?

doesn’t seem to make any alternatives and he’s a Millwall man(where did he learn to write). Leyton Orient a family club? May be so but they have about 7 fans total. The end of the day football may take a bashing after the spectacle of the olympics but at the end of the day football is still the premier sport in this country those who dislike football are a minority. If a football club fail to move in these anti football peoples can watch the world championships for athletics then observe it to rot in Stratford.

Terrible article full of spite Mike, I think you are afraid by the Team West Ham would become with such a large capacity stadium. The GOVT needs to find a use for the stadium to fund the running costs of it, a few athletics events a year could not do it. The govt was going to give the stadium away to someone who could promise a lasting aethletics legacy. We won the original bidding process by a near unanimous vote, our bid included local cricket and involving schemes for sport for children from the surrounding areas. The stadium sits in the borough of Newham and we had the councils full backing and were even prepared to loan is money to rebuild the roof because they were excited about what West Ham could do for the local community. People like yourself who derailed the bid and so we had to go through it again. So Mike why not write an article with your solution for what should be done with the Olympic Stadium? it would be a white elephant without Westham

Talk about a blinkered pig headed bit of journalism. West Ham are the ONLY option to having a viable stadium at Stratford. Deal with it !!.

Illogical garbage from start to finish. Quite how is athletics supposed to support the use of this stadium other than for major world events years apart? How is it to be maintained in the meantime? From the public purse presumably? How else, other than via West ham’s tenancy, would this national asset not be squandered?
Lazy, crap journalism.

Cheap rubbish from Calvin again, why the hell does anyone employ this moron, your not a journalist, your a cheap coward, like most Millwall supporters.

What an arrogant single minded article! West Ham were born and bred in the area and have produced many of England’s finest players and manager, with a history of tradition and developing the local kids.
Would you rather the stadium remained empty all year round until the next athletics championships?????

I find this very poor journalism. What would be your alternative Mike? Oh and why do you suggest Leyton Orient have a greater sense of community? This article is pathetic and is just a snipe at the only realistic potential tennants. The issue is that it was never designed for purpose in the first place.

Jealous Millwall mug

Calvin was given unprecedented access to every aspect of the activities of Millwall FC throughout their 2009/2010 playoff winning season. He reported for pre-season training, and was on the substitutes’ bench at Wembley 333 days later. So a journo with strong links to Millwall dislikes something good happening to West Ham, not much of a shock that.

Mike, get off your backside and go and visit the “ghost stadiums” that were also thought to be iconic. The Olympic Stadium will come alive again with West Ham and the Queen Elizabeth park will be regularly visited by people in their thousands. Wise up!!!

If from the very beginning they had taken West Hams offer to take over the stadium post Olympics seriously instead of being so singleminded that it was going to remain an Athletics only stadium, maybe we wouldn’t find ourselves in this situation.

This man beggars belief…….what would be your solution then??….follow mike calvin on twitter !!!!!..you must be joking

WH

As said by others… pointless tripe. West Ham are the only football club in the same borough as the stadium, the only sensible, year-round use and you fail to even hint at a possible alternative let alone propose a viable one.
As for Orient… I am very curious to know how many West Ham fans used to occasionally go to Orient when West Ham were away, but will never again step foot in Brisbane Road until Hearn is out.

I’m sorry but that is very poor journalism and the Wall connection obviously takes precedence over common sense.Shocking!

I don’t know what is worse the nonsense you come out with or the lousy football Millwall play? Stick to what you know mate which is naff all based on this article!!!!! Always will be in West Ham’s shadows get used to it and move on tabloid scumbag!!!!!!

Orient – a greater sense of community? Possibly amongst the 150 people that turn up each week…
Whats your suggestion the? Kep it empty until 2017, possibly host an athletics event and then watch it rot?

you just sound like a vicious queen with an axe to grind. I find YOU uniquely depressing.

West Ham were all set to fund the £95m conversion costs until the original deal collapsed due to legal challenges by the People’s Champion Barry Hearn and the Spurs moneybags Levy/Louis axis. Did you forget that? Are you also aware that the 2017 Athletics Championship is confirmed – not just a prospect.
Would you rather the stadium sits there collecting dust until 2017?
Appalling article.

to be qiute honest i don,t think you know what you are talking about for a start west ham are in there own manor there in the borough of newham now and they will still be in the borough of newham if and when they move to the o.s so i can,t see what the problem is there and as far as the 10m rent, its better than staying empty and getting nothing

And you got paid how much for saying that? As like the idiot who posted this load of tripe to wind up us Hammers, what alternatives do you give? None, so sit down and shut up you mug!!!!!

I’m not even a West Ham fan but this ‘Mike’ bloke is football’s equivalent to a pub team! He isn’t paid for this ‘article’, surely???? What would you do with the stadium you idiot?

How are fools like Mike Calvin allowed to write such vitriolic rubbish? By all means have a healthy debate about the future of the stadium but as I recall, we were already offered the tenancy of the stadium and would finance most, if not all the remedial work to convert the stadium for football use. Outside influences including a certain north London football team scuppered that and the result is a) West Ham will probably still become tenants and b) the public will now foot the bill for the conversion.
Whats the alternative Mike? Leave it empty apart from 3-4 athletic meets per year?
Why don’t you submit proper grown up writing that people can debate?
It is normally football supporters that are blamed for local rivalries that get out of hand. The reality is that journos like Mike Calvin are all to willing to pour petrol on flames to stir up the rivalry between local teams just to get a story.

You’re a complete spanner. With a head like a cabbage.

I agree that this is very poor journalism with little research in to previous stadiums that are now left to pasture after the olympics have passed through, West Ham are a local club, that have promised to ensure that the Olympic legacy will live on. he mentions how much money has been put into that stadium, but with little or no thought of what to do with it afterwards, if they had of done the stadium could of been designed with a post Olympic life, but it wasnt, so who is to blame for that? Spurs wantd to knock it down and to hell with Legacy, Leyton Orient? 60,000 seat staduim? the only real solution is for west ham to move in, ensure that that part of London doesnt become a ghost town, or global joke like the millenium dome is. Mike Calvin, should maybe do some research and look at this from a non biased view…..isnt that what a good journalist does?

I loved the article. I’m a West Ham fan and it will give me an even greater sense of pleasure when sat at the venue watching performing well in the premier league (with AC up top beating defenses into submission) and, at the same time, knowing how upset you will be. Thanks!

Utterly Ridiculous report…. You have given no thought to the alternative Mike..! Come up with a better alternative and people might take you seriously. I’m a west Ham Fan and I’m still 50/50 about it… but the stadium can’t go to ruin as it will if left for lengthy periods without use. West Ham will renovate and keep the running track, they are geared up to put on other events as well as athletics and the Stadium will have plenty of exposure for hosting other events. Have a good think about it Mike….I’m sure you will realise there is not much of a better alternative out there my friend. And who knows… If Millwall ever get promoted your fans will have the option to come along and cause havoc / vandalise and dismantle this beautiful and iconic structure that is so close to your heart…!!!!

“Leyton Orient, a club with a greater sense of community” Somebody obviously hasn’t read many Barry Hearn interviews! Read this article from KUMB.

“At the end of the day if someone is misguided enough to think I’m
going to risk my personal fortune for a football club then they should
be in a funny farm. I’m going to put enough in to keep it going and
hopefully to have some fun myself. It’s quite selfish. I’m doing this
for Barry Hearn. I’m not doing it for the fans. The number of chairmen
who say ‘I’m doing it for the community’ – to be honest that’s a load of
b******s. I’m doing this for me and I think that’s the fans’ best hope.
I’m never going to fall out of love with me.”
Read more at http://www.kumb.com/article.php?id=3073#TRsdbzFkJyQDtMOE.99

Oh what do we have here… a Milwall sympathiser! Oh so bitter!

You need to get your facts straight before you make such accusations. West Ham put more money into the community than Millwall and Orient COMBINED.

Now run along little Mr Bitter. Nothing else needs to be said here.

The caption at the top reads “The BT football website for big interviews, expert pundits and blogs from the UK’s top writers”…Mike Calvin = Top writer = Oxymoron!
Never has a word in the English language been more appropriate….

I find it depressing that most of the comments on the article resort to common abuse. Debate is not something the football world understands, it seems. Mind you I ought not to be surprised given the regular exhibitions of thuggery by both fans and players of ‘the beautiful game’

It seems that after the last few weeks of truly heoic achievment we are to be treated to an undignified squabble over the physical assets of the Games.

Barry Hearn? Community! HAHAHAHAHA

“At the end of the day if someone is misguided enough to think I’m
going to risk my personal fortune for a football club then they should
be in a funny farm. I’m going to put enough in to keep it going and
hopefully to have some fun myself. It’s quite selfish. I’m doing this
for Barry Hearn. I’m not doing it for the fans. The number of chairmen
who say ‘I’m doing it for the community’ – to be honest that’s a load of
b******s. I’m doing this for me and I think that’s the fans’ best hope.
I’m never going to fall out of love with me.”

Taken from KUMB.

Just another disgruntled Millwall fan…

please please retire now, you are awful at your job

Looking for a response – this is not journalism, its a personal attack. Don’t rise to him. Hang your heads BT

To think of the east end in terms of football is west ham, who gives u the rite to slag us off and to look down on what the board are trying to achieve, u wana talk about the little man well we are the little man trying to make a go at things with the big boys, look on both sides before u start snipping and running your mouth off cause we have been held down long enough and now its our turn, west ham all the way, u don’t like it then stay the other side of the river where its safe, I jus think your scared of living in a even bigger shadow cast by us

Perhaps Mr. Calvin should concentrate on his Millwall team, and leave the top table alone.

Atrocious article full of mistakes, and pure vitriol, you silly man.

Was 50/50 about the move, but now as someone has already said all for it for the pee off factor for people like you.

What a waste of time reading that pointless article!! Why don’t we just let Orient have it for 10 grand a month and get 500 fans in there, waste even more public money! There is only one conceivable option and we all know that’s West Ham. They will get 50,000 fans in every other week, no other local commodity compete with that! I think there are just a few jealous people who wish they had a similar opportunity!!

You are a disgusting peice of work and have no rite to say any of this, enjoy living in our shadow mug

stick your olympic stadium we dont want or need it let the athletics keep it and then see how much taxpayers cash it swallows

Very poor journalism. I find YOU uniquely depressing !!!

With White Elephants going to rack and ruin after past Olympics , this the 1st to make a profit …..and this poor excuse of a journalist who crosses my path from time to time again shows what a miserable outlook he has….hang up your quill….because you inkwell has run dry…

where was this attitude when Man City got their stadium? We all liked the Olympics but lets face it none of us will watch it again until the world championships and most of us wont until the next Olympics and that includes you Mike. What should we do leave the stadium dormant for 5 years? Or maybe you have a realistic and fair alternative for the stadium? If so do tell.

Very poor journalism. I find YOU uniquely depressing !!!

absolute rubbish, i suppose the author would prefer our olympic stadium to stand empty and become a constant drain on the public purse instead of using it for the greater good of London. Maintenance costs alone would be very expensive. And why mention one of our lesser known players, Andy Carroll ring a bell. Give this man the sack, his opinions are nothing but bitterness and jealousy.

It’s obvious Mike Calvin doesn’t like West Ham, but he’s right that the Olympic Stadium and West are a bad fit. I’m a lifelong Irons’ supporter and season ticket holder and hate how Gold, Sullivan and Brady are brainwashing us into thinking this is a great move. Tenants of a stadium with no West Ham history, with a running track and stuck in a park. We’re about Green St market and the Boleyn pub. We’re Upton Park where Hurst, Moore and Peters played and where the FA Cup came back to. That’s us, not a soul-less athletics stadium. And to imagine getting a 60k seater stadium will suddenly make us a huge club and world brand like a Man United is ludicrous.

Despite their sense of community I seem to recall that Barry Hearn was considering a move out in to a new stadium in Essex at one point!!

Yet more anti-West Ham garbage spouted by Calvin. How the hell you have mugged off Fleet Street editors for years is beyond me. You are a no mark hack who’s petty jealousies infest just about everything you write. I am so glad this article has earned you the opprobrium you thoroughly deserve.

The alternative is to accept your limitations – be happy you have Upton Park, a stadium with character and history. Just because of the club’s owners dictate that you should move to Stratford doesn’t mean you have to fall in line.

Your punchline of “sit down and shut up you mug!!!!!” was typically Green Street, Football Factory and whatever other Mockney films you have been watching during the school holidays. “Innit?”

Ronnie Barker you know nothing about football!

WHAT A SNIDE ARTICLE!

Did you know Hurst and peters have given there backing for up to move to the stadium?

This article is a load of horse doo doo

this is a shocking piece of journalism…orient has a GREATER SENSE OF COMMUNITY…yes because there are 50 supporters there you idiot. ..surprised you have a job writing this rubbish!!!

Another silly opinion piece that swans around claiming to be journalism
but is, in reality, a vanity slot for yet another in the “Clarkson-lite”
conveyor belt of “say anything as long as it’s contentious” egos on a
stick.

Full of bile and affronted sensitivity for us unwashed multitude, this
has nothing to do with protecting our interests, and everything to do
with enhancing the notoriety of its author.

Drop the faux outrage and instead use the time to explain your
alternative plans. Like most of these “angry from Wapping” writers, you
are long on criticism and very short on alternatives. Retaining it as an
Athletics venue only, with the running costs being met by the Public
Purse? Yeah, and you’d be one of the first to be spitting venom at the
government for spending “your” hard earned cash on such an under
utilised project.

The kind of journalism that you’d expect from someone who wants their photo on the article.

Yeah, I did know. Even West Ham legends can be wrong.

When our country decided to host the Games, we knew that there would be a cost. Its the same for Brazil in 4 years – they’ll be looking for tenants for their stadia and strike the best deal available in pragmatic fashion.

If your point is that West Ham (or any other tenant) should pay more – why, when they haven’t been consulted on the building’s design? Because that is what they would have got if they were paying for it from scratch. They would also have had the chance to keep the costs down, rather than just being presented with a bill.

It’s a second hand building and that is reflected in the price. The likely outcome of the Hammers moving in is a triumph of pragmatism. Not just for those who have spent a long time wondering why fortune is always hiding but also for the community that lives nearby. Have you seen what’s happened to the Birds’ Nest in Beijing?

Lastly, it’s puzzling that you think of it as the “workplace of George McCartney”. Leaving the inappropriate sneering to one side (since George had no say in the matter) isn’t it more accurate to state that the stadium will be the workplace of ALL the players in the Premier League? So even for those who hate West Ham, if your own side is good enough to play in the Premier League, you’ll be able to see them at the fantastic landmark Olympic Stadium. Who can argue with that?

Come on You Irons!

Shall we use it for athletics twice a year then? That won’t become depressing at all will it? Get real – West Ham are the only serious option, especially during the winter months – Athletics, NFL if you like, Concerts and Large Events the rest of the year. Your article is weak lazy journalism at best, disrespectful to the Wonderful history and glorious future fuelled Hammers at worst – shame on you Calvin.

Oh right, you’re millwall – now i get it. Jog on loser, no-one cares what you think

what a short sighted and bigoted opinion

Your article is ”Expert Opinion” ? what made you an expert..In negative and bitter journalism i think.You should consult Karen Brady and West ham and Orient and other parties interested in the stadium. Then with all the facts before you write an article which would form the basis of your Opinion and not just something you come because you think that’s what it should be.West ham didn’t build the stadium they are trying to use it,there is no one better is there?
Get off your back side and actually leave your computer room and Go see the interested parties and then come back and tell us what you found.that’s real journalism……..!!!!

Self-appointed “expert” spouts ill-researched bigoted rubbish….again

Bit out of you’re depth here aren’t you Mike, the last line about George McCartney suggesting West Ham aren’t fit to occupy the Olympic Stadium, Leyton Orient are a better alternative? You would rather see a club that have spent one year in top flight football occupy the Olympic Stadium, West Ham have produced some great English players and always average a good attendance which could clearly be expanded on now their back in the Premiership. West Ham are the best option for the stadium and I’m a Tottenham fan, a lesson on being non-biased is needed I think Mike.

what an idiot. so the alternative i guess is to give it to a football team from another borough that doesn’t even half fill its 9k ground now for a rent a fraction of what West Ham would pay, thus making sure that its a home for the likes of Ben Chorley (obviously less depressing?) and costing the taxpayer millions extra per year in upkeep, all because Mike Calvin has deemed Orient to have more of a ‘sense of community’ than West Ham?

Oh, by the way, Mike, Orient’s bid is based on West Ham being main tenants, because they know they cant afford it themselves. I didn’t expect you to know that, seeing as your research on the subject amounts to reading what looks like an equally crap and probably wrong piece in today’s Mail.

Utter rubbish. What should happen with it Mike, athletics, 1 or twice a year ? Orient, with 5000 supporters, or Spurs, pull it down and re-build. Your dislike for West Ham is apparant, and it suprises me, that as a journalist, you get away with your biased nonsense. How is the “new den” these days, still 1/2 empty ?

sad/small nobbed millwall tosser,

Not difficult to see why Calvin was shown the door by the Sunday Mirror and replaced by Andy Dunn. His reputation as a chancer who employs slap-dash research is perfectly illustrated in this poorly argued, sloppily written article.
The core of any argument would have to centre on: Who would maintain and pay for the stadium over the next 20 years? Clearly, neither Orient nor athletics could sustain the burden. That leaves only Premier League football. With West Ham residing in the borough of Newham only a fool (or Calvin) would submit that it is not a perfect fit.
Stay out of the pub, Mike and spend more than five munutes researching, planning or crafting your articles.

Mate you need a new profession. What garbage! A 10 year old could write this tripe.

what a mug, i hope somebody hasn’t paid him to write this? hopefully hammers move in and mike calvin gets so depressed he has to top himself. Does he come up with a better idea? no, of course not, nor has anyone else and that is why WHU has the backing of UK athletics amongst the many. lifesabitch, please sack this dildo so no-one has to read his tripe.

What a deluded and ignorant loser you are Mike! West Ham
United Football Club is one of the most prestigious and historical clubs in
English football. Not only that, it has consistently produced some of the most
talented and respected footballers in British history. It’s roots it’s the east
end of London run a lot deeper than many of the other so called “working men’s football
clubs” and it has a following of thousands of people of over East London, Essex
and the home counties. For you to write a piece of such short-sighted drivel,
only emphasises the fact you know absolutely sod all about football or the
communities that it brings together. Toss*r!

Really depressing article by what appears to be a bitter old school guy, an exciting marriage of a local well supported football club combined with the residual Olympic spirit is the only way of avoiding a crumbling white elephant.

Expert opinion ? Expert at what exactly? Who says Leyton Orient are more community minded? All they or their owners have done is to seek to cash in, not for the good of the O’s supporters, but to stop West Ham. They even supported Tottenhams bid to move to Stratford but now argue that they couldn’t be near neighbours to West Ham (which they are already) as they would lose support! Oh no, that was last month, they now want to share the ground with us! I wonder whether this has more to do with how much Brisbane Rd would make Mr Hearn if he could sell it?

Is this for real? You want a team that would struggle to fill a phone box to play in a 60k seater stadium? No fan of West Ham but surely they are the only realistic option to stop the stadium being a white elephant and eventually being demolished. This is probably one of the most poorly researched or thought about, so called articles that I have read in many years. Pathetic!

Millwall fan pretending to be a journalist

Typical effectively racist rant against eastenders not being deserving of anything decent. As for Leyton Orient being a btter community club this clown is having a laugh considering its run bu a guy only interested in property development of the ground and of cours are late comers to the area compared to WHU who’s home borough it is and who hail from a site closer than Leyton orient to the Stadium for anyone who wants to do the measurements. A club with a proud history and who’s area has produced more quality talent than almost anywhere else in the country. Yes why would anyone with a reality distortion field think WHU deserve this stadium which of course we all will have to pay a lot more for should they not get it, a little matter that he fails to comment upon, but then he knows only one eyed fools would appreciate his dribble so why bother to talk sense over prejudice. Clearly a hit whore.

Jeeeeez Please tell Calvin does not earn a salary for this type of tripe, I do not want the stadium like most Hammers, however I could at least make some points as to why, this guy has made no point at all ( Biased drivel )

Seriously I have never read such a poor / embarrassingly biased report in all my years as a football fan

what do you suggest?
we leave it empty till 2017

Hahaha I really hope Calvin reads these comments, I don’t think i’ve ever seen an article before where every single comment agrees with each other. What a biased mug. I’m not particularly keen on west ham moving into the stadium, but there is literally no viable alternative.

Another expert who’s not fit to clean Georges boots

Sounds like youv’e got an axe to grind with your poorly formed lazy journalistic veiws calvin.

Mike Calvin you complete twat

Grow up and stop being such a silly boy.

The best way to describe this article is that it has been written by a very bitter and twisted individual.

jealous twat! really dont know much do you?maybe had a few mins spare so thought you’d write some nonsense? get some facts 1st…

You miserable toe-rag, what has George McCartney done to deserve you’re ridicule? I’d much rather watch GM every week at the Olympic stadium than read your arrogant moanings, or watch the stadium fall into disuse for that matter. The Olympics was a moment in time, but its now over, and the fact that it is only every four years we can watch UB, MF, ets etc makes it all the more appealing. If we were able to watch these guys every week, that would be great, but less of a” once in a lifetime event”. Football manages to produce an exciting watchable event every week, come in GM and colleagues, and that is what we now have to address. The worst case scenario is that this now “iconic” stadium we have come to love this summer, is allowed to founder, and good old George McCartney is much better placed to make sure this doesn’t happen, than you are, chum.

Whether you think that West Ham should become tenants as the Olympic Stadium or not (I’m not too sure myself), please don’t congratulate this remarkably biased and poorly researched nonsense. If West Ham don’t move to Stratford there will be no Olympic Legacy. It will have to be funded by taxpayers ad infinitum. The article is just a windup.

Even as a neutral, I find this to be a poor piece of journalism. No useful suggestions over what to do with the stadium (and no, Orient is not a useful suggestion or even a working one), it appears petty jealousness or some sort of personal grudge is behind this piece.

pillock ! insane stupid moronic pillock!!!!

Poor journalism from a poor ‘journalist’ who looks remarkably like Churchill the dog, sort those jowels out Calvin

Ive been in the stadium and its very good, but its no good for football

Very,very poor quality stuff spewed out by a bitter failure of a hack.
Not a mention of an alternative plan except a scrawl about ’2017 World Championships’. I think the befuddled fool means the 2017 World Athletic Championships which is, as far as I know, catered for in the WHUFC bid.
P.S. SQUATTERS DON’T PAY RENT.

What an absolute bellend Mike Calvin is

When I was a kid of 10 I grew up in Sidcup (quite near the Den). There were hundreds of obnoxious Millwall fans living in my town with views very similiar to the author of this article. It was their ugly attitudes that led me to learn there was a team “north of the water” that were Millwall’s rivals. I became a West Ham supporter that day. Reading this garbage written by Calvin explains why I have never regretted my choice.

George McCartney is not only better at football than you, he could write a better article than you too. Back to grade school!

You’re an absolute mug Mike Calvin. I have no doubt that you live by the word “depressing”. Your picture says it all.

A bilious article, written by a Millwall fan, with no agenda other than to snipe at the local rival he despises.

One word and it sounds like Anchor

What a spank you are Mike. On the 15th Aug he claimed WHU would be one of the relegated teams! Yeh right mate! You really have no clue about football. How could you say that. How could you have the audacity to make those claims. West Ham United is one of London’s famous clubs with a rich history, a large fan base and we have produced some of the finest players to play the game with little resources. Time to get a new job mike!

Where is the “Expert Opinion” then?

The 95m of tax payers money is to correct the stadium after the short sighted locog didn’t allow for a tenant post games, so why don’t you target them with your vitriol rather than displaying (again!!) your obvious bias. Very very poor reporting. Apparently this man can make a living from journalism?!?!

Most of the comments resort to abuse because that is exactly what is in the article. The article does nothing to promote debate.

what an easy job this bloke has got, sitting on his a**se, spewing garbage and throwing his toys out the pram like a spoilt brat, you havent got a sensible arggument in you, you should be ashamed to pick up your wages writing this crap

West Ham’s Olympic Stadium tenancy IS a depressing thought for Millw*ll supporters.

Expert Opinion hahahahahahah!

I’m a Chelsea fan and this is another shocking article from this mug. West Ham are a bigger club than Millwall will ever be. Mike you are a very poor jerno.

Your a Millwall fan, that just shows where your opinion is coming from. Your saying that Athletics should exercise its moral right to make the most of 2017? If you actually paid attention, you would know that West Ham have said that Athletics will continue at the stadium. West Ham are trying to take the stadium so that not only will we benefit, but the local community as a whole will benefit. Why should Barry Hearn have support in suing the Premier League and the Football League? If you recall, it was his objections and Tottenhams dirty tactics that prevented West Ham from owning the Stadium. And Barry Hearn said he doesnt want us there, then goes back and claims he would love a ground share? Thats just a person trying to get attention and trying to make a quick quid. Your just jealous because, simply put, Millwall will never be able to compete with West Ham. And how is Karren Brady arrogant when talking about Coventry? Its true that theyre finances are crippled from the lack of revenue from Matchday Tickets. She was making an observation from a professional who has been in the business for years. The only “Depressing” thing about West Ham possibly moving to the Olympic Stadium, is that it just means we’ve jumped even higher up the standings and you wont be able to compare to us. I mean, The Den has what, 20000 seats? Even Upton Park now has 35000 seats and with the OS 60000 seats, you wont be anywhere near capable of competing with us. Enjoy life lingering around the Championship and League One. We’ll be moving onto bigger and better things.

Shit article

Interesting that so many WHU fans ridicule Mike Calvin for a poorly researched piece, whilst in the same breath claiming he is a Millwall fan. He is not. He supports Watford, he simply wrote a book about Millwall.

The alternative would of course be not to lease it to a football club on a permanent basis, but to use it for temporary public purposes: friendlies, concerts etc.There’s no reason whatsoever to give away huge amounts of public money to a private company.

As a Spurs fan I must say it will be fun playing the Spammers in the Olympic Stadium, All 250 of their fans can spread out and listen to the echo. I hope they don’t drop back this year or they might lose some of that crowd .. If they do manage to stay up we could be at the other end .. laughing and pointing.

Barry Hearn the little man, now that did give me a laugh, oh and that sense of community, has this comedy writer seen what this property developer has done to Orient’s home? So football is a corrupting element yet somehow Orient and Hearn of all people apparently aren’t, some laughable twisted logic there. But don’t worry boys let’s exclude the local premiership club despite them offering twice as much for less than the World’s richest club pays for its stadium. Despite them bending over backwards to fit in with the plans despite being the biggest contributors to the upkeep. Yes let’s pay out less to exclude them and every year after that first decade pay out more to keep this wonderful relic in relative mothballs. But hey that’s for another government to worry about and let’s be honest we got away with it with pensions and leaving our infrastructure to rot didn’t we. It’s the British way after all, at least when we allow short sighted idiots to set the agenda.

Putting this horrendous article to one side. If West Ham were to move into the Olympic Stadium it would be an absolute farce.They are an extremely average team who not so long ago were rambling around the Championship, oh, and their fans are racists (as was proven during the Tottenham match two weeks ago). Okay, geographically it makes sense for them to move in compared to the likes of Spurs, but really. Do we want one of the most prestigious grounds in the country to be inhabited by the likes of West Ham?

I’d much rather the government utilize the facility for the development of Athletics and Sport for British sportsmen and women. Instead of offloading a valuable asset to an undeserving, underachieving, football club.

What a load of rubbish by a obvious very jealous and scared writer. Good luck

What utter drivel. West ham are only realistic tennants and will be paying nearly a billion in rent and other costs over the 99yr lease period as a minimum. Keyton orient wouldnt be able to afford even half of that….swallowing up even more money.

I would have thought that most of the comments here are from Arrogant West Ham Fans. I for one agree with every word, its a shabby deal that sums up Brady and Johnson to a tee.
To see a small club like Leyton Orient disappear because of this is awful.

I’m an Orient supporter with a (highly suppressed) liking for things Claret and Blue as well. I just can’t understand why West Ham supporters would want their team to play there. Upton Park feels like a proper ground – I’m guessing that there are reasons why that can’t be developed?

What sort of crowds did ickle Orient get when they were based in Clapton?They have always been badly supported and should either share a ground with Dagenham & Redbridge or merge with them or both.Why don’t they contact Waltham Borough council and see if they can help increase the numbers through the gate,but Hearn is the man to blame for the sorry state they find themselevs in not anyone else.

The only down side to the move for us is that Millwall don’t play at Brisbon Rd.

Is it just coincidence that this chubby millwall muppet resembles the chubby spurs muppet Danny Kelly who has spoken out against us moving to the OS?