Cut what exactly?

Putting 50k into a stadium does not make it good. Clubs are not driving by the weekly attendance of the average punter anymore!

Thats kund of true, except, coincidently the most successful affairs have the bigger stadiums. Newcastle and Sunderland attract so many theybare able to,pay above average wages and that helps when a club isn't too successful. That's my point.

Wouldn't mind if the 'ammers were relegated ... Except their rent would then be cut under the terms of their deal and I guess the cost to the taxpayer would then increase?

Did any of you sign the hoc petition?

They're breaching EU law with competitive advantage of this nature.

The mistakes belonged to Khan’s Labour predecessor Ken Livingstone and the Blair government. Signing off on a stadium fit only for athletics was a massive 'Faux pas'. The only option for Boris Johnson was conversion to a multi-use venue. If Sadiq Khan wants to try and blame someone he should blame his Labour chums and the old Labour Mayor for their catastrophic planning failures.

Anyhow this is all getting very political and moving away from the subject matter of the current stadium as a football venue.

Edited by Willo (05 Feb 2018 12.11am)

Sorry - this is nonsense.
The original plan was great. To take the top level off and create a community athletics stadium on the site. Suitable for national championships and such like. Boris complained that this would be a white elephant and would cost £1m per year to maintain. So he instead spent £300m on coverting it to a multi use stadium. You do the maths......
This was a Tory stitch up to help out Baroness Brady. They pay £3m a year. Got all the income from selling their old ground for development. They will have their rent reduced if they get relegated - and are therefore protected from financial risk by the taxpayer. They receive some of the income from the retail at the venue. Pay very little of the running costs.
This was a giant Boris f$*k up to go with the Emirates airline, the garden bridge, Fire and police stations sold off to his developer friends, the orbit Slide, Boris island airport, The rubbish and expensive new routemasters, caving in to developers on the proportion of affordable housing as part of mixed developments.
Sadly the man loved a vanity project and it usually ended up costing us millions.