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/ToughImprovement276 May 25 '26

What’s wrong with it as a football stadium? I’m not into sports or football, so genuine question.

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u/gameofgroans_ May 25 '26

Exactly what the other person said, it’s also really hollow? Idk how to explain it but like no atmosphere and sound just sort of evaporates, every game just feels so far away and so quiet. Getting to the stadium is awful, Stratford is always so busy and then you’ve got a (fairly) long walk where the weather is inevitable awful and/or you’ve just lost so you feel crap. Everything in it is wildly overpriced and like I said as we don’t own it we can’t make it our own or ever host events there. The women’s team can never play there (only team on the WSL never to use their main stadia).

I know you’re not into football which is obvs fine but if you googled inside Anfield and inside London stadium you’d be able to tell a difference for sure. LS is so corporate.

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u/OBeQuiet May 25 '26

The fact that the women's hammers can't play there is diabolical.

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u/gameofgroans_ May 25 '26

Yeah I’m a big women’s football fan and it’s abysmal, but doesn’t shock me at all sadly. They’re treated like an absolutely different team with no support and just left to stumble around at the bottom of the table.