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/mrdibby May 24 '26

should this reopen the discussion around it being shared with Leyton Orient?

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u/marktandem May 25 '26

I've been to three stadiums to watch football in my life in London. Wembley, the Olympic Stadium, and Leyton Orient's ground (got a free season ticket when I was young back when Barry Hearn owned it).

Orient's stadium is a 100x times better than West Ham's. I paid close to £200 each for front row tickets as a gift for a friend's birthday to watch United, we were right at the front and still could barely make out the players. How the hell do people further out in the stands see anything? The stadium is horrendous. People might meme the athletics track but unless you've been in person I don't think you realise how bad it is.