0% Villa - Olympic stadium announcement postponed

[Chico Hamilton III]

Good

I'm not paying extra council tax just so that Gold, Sullivan and Brady can get their grubby hands of a fucking freebie stadium.

I'd rather knock it down than give it to them. Anyway, until Brady can demonstrate a knowledge of the offside rule , she shouldn't be allowed near a football stadium

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympic_games/london_2012/9371972.stm

[damon loves JT]

The whole thing is a mess.

[Concrete John]

I still think they'll give it to Qatar.

[Mazrim]

Yes, I'd rather not see our relay teams exchanging dildos instead of batons, please.

Well, let's not be so hasty. If we get an attractive womens 4x400 team together...

[maidstonevillain]

This is what happens when you do something on the "cheap" in the first place. Should either have built a "proper temporary" stadium for less, or spent more on stadium that could be properly adapted afterwards. Now will be left with a concrete bowl that no good for anything.

[The Left Side]

It's a shame as it is dragging on and takes up possible Villa transfer news time, get the decision made quickly and let's move on.

[damon loves JT]

The stadium was planned to have a legacy as an athletics-only venue. Now apparently it's only viable if it's a football stadium.

[UK Redsox]

Why didn't the London Olympic committee take the approach that Atlanta did ?

They decided in advance how the stadium would be used post-Olympics and designed it accordingly.

Visit "Turner Field" (as it's now called) now and you wouldn't recognise it as an Olympic venue

[pauliewalnuts]

Why didn't the London Olympic committee take the approach that Atlanta did ?

They decided in advance how the stadium would be used post-Olympics and designed it accordingly.

Visit "Turner Field" (as it's now called) now and you wouldn't recognise it as an Olympic venue

The problem with this was that our promise to retain it as an athletics venue was a key part of us getting the games. Everyone must have known how unviable that was, but we pretended we'd keep it that way.

[The Man With A Stick]

I don't want either club to get it and don't see why they should.  West Ham probably have the greater claim, what with it being their "manor" and all, but only something like 1 in 20 of their fans wants to move.  Imagine watching the Villa across a running track, no thanks.

And Spurs, well they can just piss off because they're Spurs.

[Guy M]

Why didn't the London Olympic committee take the approach that Atlanta did ?

They decided in advance how the stadium would be used post-Olympics and designed it accordingly.

Visit "Turner Field" (as it's now called) now and you wouldn't recognise it as an Olympic venue

I thought that was exactly what they did and decided on an 80,000 seater stadium of which 60,000 seats would be temporary and removed after the Olympics. Somewhere along the line those plans must have got "lost in the post".

The whole thing stinks.

[The Man With A Stick]

Oh well, at least it's going to be built on time.

[Brend'Watkins]

It makes more sense that West ham should get it but all they're interested in is somebody building them a stadium for nothing. 

I hope Spurs get it, that means Spurs fans are pissed off, the Brady bunch are really pissed off and Seb (Lord) Coe is livid.

[seanthevillan]

The original estimate for the stadium was £282m, which has now risen to at least £525m (possibly £547m), on top of that Newham council will lend West Ham another £100m to convert the stadium. I got all these amounts from the Guardian but they were widely reported.

How has that stadium cost so much?? West Ham will make a big show about paying the last bit back but if them or Spurs get it they should pay the whole lot back.

From my window now I can see the stadium (well the very top of it), and over to the left the dome - another great example of frittering away millions of taxpayers' money which took years to sort out.

[Bosco81]

We need somewhere in this country to be able to host Athletics events like, the World Championships, Europeans, World Cup, European Cup and the Commonwealth games, so we need to keep the athletics track.

I think you need a minimum of 40,000 seats to host the worlds so as long as that happens I don't care who owns it.