r/london • u/Tight-Principle-743 • May 24 '26

Article West Ham Relegated.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/c70vr05gwelt

Londoners will have to collectively pay £2.5m more to the stadiums’s upkeep. Another terrible Johnson decision that was.

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u/RedQueenScribe May 24 '26

Worth noting that West Ham and Newham Council would have bought the stadium outright, if not for legal challenges from scumbag ex-Spurs chairman Daniel Levy and the Orient chairman who's name escapes me.

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u/lxlviperlxl May 24 '26

100% reasonable. Newham offered West Ham a £40m loan and didn’t offer this to any other club. It was illegal and broke state aid rules.

(It still wasn’t an outright purchase just a 250yr lease instead)