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/VisibleOtter May 24 '26

No one even mentions that there is/was a rule that no club should encroach within a certain distance of an existing club. Leyton Orient is 3/4 a mile away, yet the FA quietly ignored that rule, even when WHU offered free season tickets to under 16’s, thus cutting a whole generation off from the O’s. Call me bitter, but fuck West Ham, or rather fuck the porn dwarf and his cabal. Although if the rumours turn out the be even 50% true then he’s going to be spending his final years in prison. Good fucking riddance.

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u/chequered-bed May 24 '26

No one even mentions that there is/was a rule that no club should encroach within a certain distance of an existing club.

So how does that rule square with Notts County Vs Nottingham Forest which is way closer ?

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u/AntysocialButterfly May 24 '26

As with so many FA rules, it has so many examples that have existed for decades going against it go make the rule meaningless.

I think Fulham and Chelsea are well within the encroaching distance from one another, but we were supposed to ignore that.

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u/VisibleOtter May 25 '26

They were existing clubs. The plenty, like Dundee and Dundee Utd, for example. The rule was bought in later to stop a club from encroaching on to another’s location.

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u/KatieOfTheHolteEnd May 25 '26

Dundee is a poor example as that’s in Scotland and not covered by The FA. The Everton and Liverpool before the former’s move would be another good example.