Forever Blowing Olympic Bubbles

A few weeks ago I commented here of my anger at Tottenham Hotspur's bid for the Olympic Stadium after the Games finish next year.

Thankfully, the Olympic Park Legacy Company have yesterday unanimously selected West Ham United as their preferred choice to move into the Olympic Stadium.

That preference still has to be confirmed by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson and by the Government but those confirmations should be assured within the coming days.


An artists' impression of a West Ham occupied
Olympic Stadium

 This is the right decision. West Ham promised to preserve the Olympic legacy by keeping the running track whilst Spurs offered to buldoze the stadium and build it again without the track. Such an incredibly tactless and divisive plan has rightly been overwhelmingly turned down.

West Ham is an East London club, not Spurs, and they have looked to honour the principles that were laid down by the British Olympic bid when the IOC gave us the Games back in 2005 whilst Spurs sought to trash them.

Good luck to West Ham United. If they'll forever be blowing bubbles, then what better place to do so than in the Olympic Stadium?