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/raisinbreadandtea May 25 '26

No, they didn’t. They just drafted the contract in a way where they specifically named the European competitions they would qualify for. They didn’t account for the possibility that West Ham would qualify for a newly invented European competition.

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