Olympic Stadium - Who should get it?

[Wycombe Fox]

Decision has been put on hold.

I guess the Olympic Park Legacy Committee have been sat around a table debating the pro's and cons of each bid and someone has suddenly realised that once the decision has been made, there's no requirement for the quango,,,sorry... OPLC anymore and therefore redundancy beckons.

This could be on hold for a while then.

[Super_horns]

You'd think they might have thought more about the post-Olympics legacy before going to the IOC telling them about how wonderful British athletics will be after 2012...

[iBleedLeicesterColours]

Save Upton Park & The Lane! Don't even want another souless ground.

[Head Honcho]

Why can't they share the stadium?

[Fosse Boy]

AFC Spurs?

‘They say it’s not a big distance to Stratford but, to me, we’d be selling our soul to the devil if we moved there,’ said Tim Framp, spokesman for the We Are N17 fans’ group, which has already staged one pre-match protest against the move before the recent Premier League match with Manchester United at White Hart Lane.

‘We’re thinking about forming a new club along the lines of what AFC Wimbledon did.’

The official decision over who will move into the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 London games was postponed yesterday after the Olympic Park Legacy Group said it needed more time to decide .

Spurs are battling it out with fellow Premier League side West Ham for the site, with a war of words breaking out in recent weeks over their differing plans for the stadium.

Tottenham’s proposals have attracted considerable criticism due to the plans to tear up the athletics track.

http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/football/853635-spurs-group-considers-breakaway-club-over-olympic-stadium-plans

[accessory]

Spurs set to abandon legal challenge

Seems like they're doing a deal to stay in Tottenham. After the recent riots there, it appears, the club is seen as an important "regeneration partner" by powers-that-be.

In practice, this means the redevelopment will receive a bigger public subsidy than would have happened previously.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

I seem to remember the original plan being to cut its capacity to 20,000 as soon as the games were finished and that it should never, under any circumstance, be used for football. I guess the building costs got the better of that. Dreading the thought of West Ham moving out of Upton Park to play at a ground where you need binoculars to see beyond the half way line.