West Ham Vice-Chairman Karren Brady says she find E20’s match day costs of up to £290,000 per West Ham game quite incredible and she doesn’t understand them.
Brady explained to London Assembly members at City Hall today that West Ham’s costs at the Boleyn Ground before the move were £51,ooo per match day including stewarding, police and electricity for the former 35,000 stadium in Green Street. She added even doubling that amount should mean a cost of £102,000 per match day which would be less than West Ham rent for the London Stadium. She says she shared those figures as part of the original tender process.
Brady insisted that West Ham’s rent was not too low at close to £3m per year but the London Stadium running costs were way too high. “I refuse to accept any criticism that our rent is too low, because that is simply not the case. Costs are too high,” Brady said.
Brady claimed she offered free help to the stadium owners 15 times but her offer of advice despite 25 years of running stadia had been refused.
