West Ham have no intention of buying broken London Stadium | Hammers home in need of serious repair 

Probably because Moyes deserves to stay. Invest in a couple of decent strikers and you'll be a top 10 team easily. You've been the better team in most games this season but you seriously lack a goal scorer.

same mate. certainly won't be going while that dinosaur moyes is in charge.

Oh yeah: Exact? Literally? What are these words doing there?

​@Lincoln Harper Ooh... I do love a man with convictions! Have you been convicted of any others?

The type of people who own football clubs don't have souls. Money is their god; you and I don't matter a jot.

agreed

💯 west ham died at Upton Park for me I'm 51 I hate what we've become

Well said Fella,we’ve been sold down the river,sold a pup or a dog with flees by Sullivan,the late Gold and Brady 😡😡😡

​@@andyarmit3284 seriously...your right. We had permission to increase the east stand but like you said, GSB sold a pup with flees just for one thing. MONEY!

The site was no longer fit for purpose. We had to move. However, moving to Stratford was built on lies. I'm not sure who was telling said lies - the stadium operators, the clubs owners or both - but lies nevertheless.

@@ForestGateLondon To expand the stadium, we would've had to apply for new planning permission. Planning permission doesn't last forever and Newham Council, especially the then-mayor Robin Wales, were eager to get West Ham into the Olympic Stadium because he thought they'd make money on the deal. However, the whole thing went tits up and the new mayor has distanced herself from all this nonsense.

was used to pay for plastic surgery enhancements on the board members, to look young and healthy forever.

Find out soon , once the poison dwarf turns his toes up

Really did you see the stampede for the Seville Lyon and Frankfurt game for tickets. My mate has a ticket agency and told me the demand for tickets was easily bigger than for arsenal Tottenham and Chelsea reaching the champions league final . It's no wonder we have such terrible boards when too many of our supporters have no ambition either.

​@@WHU973add in, realistically Upton park station needed a rebuild and the transport/ parking around Upton Park was horrible.

@@philwill0123 your right.....but it was part of the experience 'package' and worth it to be in the best atmosphere in a UK stadium and worth any hassle.

What, for a club which regularly draws 60,000 crowds?😯

@@WHU973 your mate is lying to you.

💯 agree mate,sadly 😢⚒

Don't worry you will beat Newcastle and all will be well...

They should NEVER have allowed it but fell for ridiculous BS..

I was in love with the old Upton Park (or as everyone seems to call it these days, the Boleyn Ground), when you could stand so close to the action that you might get mud-splattered on a wet day. After the Taylor Report it became all-seater and lost a lot of that intimacy.

@@gerrycollins2335 As a little 'Ammer used to Tip Toe through the North Bank, then as a teen', kindly exchange welcoming & cheerio words with the away supporters in the South Bank and I fondly remember jumping up & down in the West Side before swaying along with the others in the Chicken Run. Never did or wanted to stand up while watching a game of footie. Glad to see standing on the terracing returning (along with the atmosphere it brings) into the English big league!

@@gerrycollins2335 The lousy thing about that Taylor Report was "all-seater" was only a recommendation but ££££££££££££ took over,as always as there is more money,as you know, in seats.

Daniel Levy is a land economist he gets a lot of flack but the infrastructure of the club is top notch

The biggest ace West Ham hold is that they rent the stadium cheaply. Why would they buy the stadium with all its astronomical overheads and ongoing costs? There is no incentive to rebuild or even change anything in the stadium, it's selling out to 60k every home match. What benefit would there be?

Yes but if West Ham leave then how are they going to get a stadium bigger enough,next season to play Plymouth and Rotherham ?

Ooh ya greet beg showoff!

You're absolutely SPOT ON. It is indeed 'wishful thinking'!

Not sure where we'd put it,not much spare land in Upton Park now,even the 'old sewer bank' area has been developed😒

@@markcross125 what around north woolwich ? Wasn't east ham ground down near the docks area.......any space down that way ? Or near the old ford or near the A13/M25 junction ?

​​@@antonyjones4259 Oh NO! What a massive shame. Imagine the catchet / kudos of playing at 'The Old Sewer Bank'; it would be SO WHU! You can just hear the strap line: "We play in shit. We play like shit. We are shit" LOVING THAT! GET IN.... COYI! Oh well; another fabulous opportunity lost.... AGAIN... Back to the drawing board. Still, at least we still have our unique and uplifting song "FADE AND DIE"... How good is THAT?!

@antony jones good shout 👏

It is what it is. The whole shebang will carry on whether you go or not... If you want some REAL football entertainment, watch old editions of the Big Match with Brian Moore. Fortunately it often features WHU, Bobby Moore, Trev, Billy and all... That was my time. Proper football in the 70's. Try it, and you'll see what I mean.

@@StephenInfield football on mud......sorted the men from the boys !!! lol

@@antonyjones4259 Spot on. Much more enjoyable football IMO, without al this dull cancel-out-the-opposition stalemate shit of today.

@@antonyjones4259 and snow in the winter...The Orange Ball came out then...

Where did you emigrate to Paul,please?

Well I love the LS, as do many thousands of others, who don't blater on about it, unlike the UP Regrets Brigade. And I was a ST holder at UP. How utterly jaundiced of you to have made up your mind without even visiting.

​@@StephenInfield . Although I agree about you must go to form an opinion.I have.Giant souless bowl that's not fit for purpose full of tourists.Each to there own.

@@StephenInfield ALL you hear , almost,every week are the AWAY fans massed together as your "finest" are scattered all over the place and well away from the pitch. The old terraces at Upton Park Pre Taylor were different class with West Ham on all 4 sides close to the pitch in the heart of their traditional "manor". It's not even just tthe ground. THe Working Mans Clubs,Pie 'n Mash Shops, Green Street Market, The Barking Road and all the West Ham Pubs like THe Boleyn and all this for a Corporate rented athletics track in Stratford ! I first went when West Ham beat WBA 6/1 in March 1965 and I am MILLWALL thru and thru. Tragedy for WHU..

@@Isleofskye Away fans: Absolutely true. But that is not confined to the LS. It's the same at nearly all stadiums. Look at Arsenal; people call it a library! Ditto Spurs. Nearly all home fans at all stadiums sit there like at the cinema. It was like this at UP way before WHU moved to the LS. Apart from Chav corner, it was dead as ditch water - just like at all the other stadiums.That is what all-seater has created. Dead stadiums. But oh no; people like you don your rose-tinted glasses and come out with jaundiced crap about UP. But in away matches across the Prem, it concentrates the die-hard fans of all clubs who invariably are far, far more vocal. Indeed, with WHU away matches especially, nearly all you hear are the WHU fans. So, I blame all-seater, not the LS. To pretend otherwise is complete bollocks that people keep peddling blaming the LS because of their jaundiced pre-conceptions. Gets right on my effing nerves. The World has moved on in millions of different ways. But it is as if people blame the LS for EVERYTHING, because they miss stuff that was dying or has died a miserable death anyway. No working mens clubs any more? Well that's the LS, innit? Ha! Yeah, like shit it is! They are dying all over the country! What effing planet are you on? The pubs in Stratford are doing a roaring trade. So, the fans are using different pubs now. They are still drinking, aren't they? In pubs. Having lots of pre and post match fun. They are just in a different pubs from UP, that's all. Where's the problem? THERE ISN'T A PROBLEM. Effing get over it, ffs! It is a shame the Builders Arms in Stratford closed, because it used to serve some great pie and mash. But it demonstrates right there that if there were vasts amounts of money to be made from selling pie and mash, someone would open a new pie and mash shop. BUT they haven't PEOPLE DON'T WANT IT ANY MORE - NOT IN SUFFICIENT NUMBERS. The effing world has moved on. EFFING GET THE FUCK OVER IT! AND THE BIGGEST HYPOCRICY? This is what REALLY gets my goat: Nearly all those die-hard Eastenders don't live even there any more! The East End, as people knew, it has GONE. GONE GONE GONE. Why? Because they fucking moved. Bet YOU don't effing live there any more, do you? THIS WORLD THAT YOU WANT DOESN'T EFFING EXIST, BECAUSE YOU AND YOUR SORT LEFT IT. YET MEANWHILE YOU HYPOCRITICALLY EXPECT WHU TO REMAIN THE SAME, LIKE SOME OLD RELIC. YOU MOVED ON, but oh no, WHU are not allowed to. YOU ARE ACTUALLY THE PROBLEM. YOU YOU YOU!

@@squatterbdoss I am glad you said "nearly" because Liverpool are totally different at Home with those fans roaring them on, as they were in the first-ever MOTD when I saw them beat Arsenal 5/0. Newcastle's ground, as you know, puts the Away fans up in "The Gods" and all you hear is Geordies but YES, All Seaters Stadiums or ASS are the death knell of old atmospheres though you overlook the point that WHU no longer have massed Home singing sections like Upton Park. "Moved on" well The World has changed in millions of ways but not always ONwards and Upwards. You,also,miss the point about the aura surrounding(literally Upton Park) that was worth 15 points a season (IMO) to West Ham because as the players AND away fans appeoached you felt that you were in enemy territory and many were intimated. Read some autobiographies about the efect playing at Upton Park on that tight pitch and stadium or THe OLD Den at Milwall had. Why do you think Millwall broke the Home record for going 59 games unbeaten there while THE SAME TEAM/SQUAD lost 22 Away games during that run? Ask Arsenal fans,who have been, regularly,to Highbury where they would rather be or Sunderland, who no longer have "tHE rOKER rOAR". AWAY Players love the wide open pitches at LS and the crowd no longer influences proceedings because playing there is NOT intimidating(in a positive way) It is,at best,a Neutral,soulless,sanitised,Stadium.. WEST HAM could have goyt permission to Move ON and turned Upton Park into a moderbn stadium that you eulogise over. Fans loved coming back.Irt was a whole match day experience.. AS FOR ME??? You are right I did,reluctantly, leave the vibe and stimulus of Inner London and moved to the periphery(9th May,1983 is indeliably imprinted on me) so 40 years ago and I am not going back again until....TOMORROW: for MILLWALL V Luton. You ASSumed wrongly as I am in my 7th decade of attending MILLWALL matches in SOUTH EAST London,on the right side of the River:) It's fantastic being on the edge of London and Kent,next to 200+ Acres. It is very safe but so easy to get back to my "real" home but easy to get out to The Countryside like going to West Sussex this sunday. You are,cordially,welcome to visit The Den next year but,as always,you will escape because 8 weeks ago ,I backed Forest,Bournemouth and Southampton to go down and West Ham have a better squad than all 3 teams.

This is how I remember things too.

thought the retractable seating company went bust and that's why we ended up with what we have got - could be wrong though

Supported by broken idiots (by definition).... Well, I'm an idiot anyway...

Ooh hark at you; don't ya just love spending other people's money...

The poison dwarf and the wicked witch of the east,who’d want to work or negotiate with that pair Fella

Yeah the original plan was for West Ham to put up a good chunk of the cash & have some input into the design so it could be converted like the Etihad post Olympics. Unfortunately a combination of Coe (legacy promises) making it unsuitable for football & then Spurs trying to “hijack” the deal (or force the hand of the government re: Shite Hart Lane) resulted in this disaster of a rental agreement (for tax payers anyway).

Just about to post this, thank you Andrew.

You are wrong. It is the Forth Railway Bridge !!

@@TrueMackem1 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Exactly what levy wanted to do for spurs

"World class team in a world class stadium".......cheers Karren.

Totally agree. Any owner of WHU would be mad to own the stadium when someone else is legally obliged to pay all the running costs. There are 2 things that are embarrassing though. 1) That we are immorally (but albeit legally) benefitting, when other clubs don't. It feels utterly wrong to me. 2) Look at Arsenal and Spurs; rebuilt at vast cost, yet still remain top 6. Yet we have all that financial benefit, yet we're still shit!

@@StephenInfield I thought it was built by the taxpayer, i/e every football fan ! west ham should buy it and refund the treasury

@@drpepper4320 I strongly doubt every football fan built the LS. All taxpaying fans, though, will have had some of their taxes spent on building it. 'Should': 😄😄: You can do anything with a 'should'; stick some wings on a pig and it should fly....😄😄 So, West Ham does not need at all to refund the treasury/ Greater London Authority (GLA), who own it. And if it doesn't have to, you can bet your bottom dollar, West Ham won't. And you wouldn't either, would you? When was the last time you ever sent extra money to HMRC? Never, yeah? And neither would anyone else.... If West Ham ever DOES 'buy' the LS, you can guarantee that it will screw the very best deal possible out of the LLDC (acting on behalf of the GLA). And because the stadium is losing £20m pa (so the LLDCs bargaining position is v weak), it is quite possible that instead of refunding the GLA / London Taxpayer, they might have to pay WHU to take that albatross off their hands. And, by the way, that £20m doesn't include cost of repairs like a leaking roof.... which could turn out to be VERY expensive. And if you were renting a house, and the boiler needed to be replaced (which is legally the landlord's responsibility), you would say: 'I've kept my side of the deal by paying my rent; you have to pay for the boiler; end of. I don't give a monkeys that my rent is low, and that you're losing money already and now you have this massive cost on top. You didn't have to sign the contract in the 1st place. Your problem, not mine; FIX IT or I'll see you in court' That is what is at play here. But it is pretty uncomfortable. Blame the folly of how the stadium was conceived in the 1st place (not allowing for football afterwards but exclusively athletics. Sebastian Coe was the person responsible for that lunacy. And also Boris Johnson later.... And possibly the FA / Football League/ Prem League who maybe should boot WHU out for effectively being subsidised by the taxman, and therefore not a level 'playing field'. And, if that is the case, wouldn't they need to boot out City as well, after all, didn't they inherit a taxpayer funded stadium too?

It is really impressive Stephen, but you might as well take an hour to get out of the stadium cause the lollipop people will stop you getting to the Underground anyway.

​@@jonkernow4477 Try explaining that logic to a Hillsborough victim....

@@StephenInfield exactly my point but I can't remember how many gates it has, but at least 8 / possible 12 for every 5 minutes marker on a clock. What's probably required is a new long term roof, the sliding seats to get closer to the player's which was shelved because of the multiple use the owners were hoping for. Let's say 100miilion investment, but that all depends if they stay up ?

Yes indeed I have Clive . . .. cheers mate

plus a cheese and pickle roll and a bag of crisps

That's a Hell of a crystal ball you've got there. Does it work for lottery numbers too? 😄😄

​@@4Kmichelinstarmovies Ooh la la! You and your swanky talk again!

IMO. Tottenham were VERY clever. They pretended to want the stadium and threatened to leave their manor to get the permission to build a fabulous stadium next to the old one..

😅😅😅 That's a good one, that has me in fits😂😂

That could very well happen mate. What a mess!

Think thats exactly what is gonna happen

our owners would sue for damages....you can bet they have considered all options and clause's to cover sully & Co. The stadium owners would probably have to pay our rent for temporary accomodation until the stadium was fixed !!

It would be like the stadium at Crystal Palace Park (not Selhurst Park), abandoned with the odd event there

Well,there is a 15,000 Stadium nearby that will be ideal for Rotherham,Wigan and Plymouth next season,if that helps:)

what comes first........buying the stadium or moyes plays x2 proper strikers together ?

That's the gospel according to Artel, I presume. Full of gesture but no substance in reality 😅

Wasn't the roof a temporary structure too?

They got their money from women lying on their backs. I don't know how they passed the rules in place for proper ownership. These are shady people.

@@neilchapman9266- too right!

@@neilchapman9266 i wonder how many ladies have bought a sex toy in the past year, compared to how many ladies bought a bible ? Also i read that the owner of ann summers got a award from the queen ? When they bought the club....the biggest selling newspaper was the Sun and who did not admire page 3 ? Its just life today....neil.

Made money from selling Porn , very tacky and dodgy owner

Exactly right mate . . . it doesn't make sense.

Yes but if West Ham leave then how are they going to get a stadium bigger enough,next season to play Plymouth and Rotherham ?

sharing the valley would be like being at upton park.......a proper stadium that we could fill every match. Not the end of the world.