Misleading advert has new dig at West Ham

This advert displayed on a bus stop is misleading in a number of ways. First, it suggests that West Ham own the stadium, which we don’t. We rent it for 25 days per year for £2.5m. The advert makes no mention of Athletics, Music concerts, Rugby or other events hosted there.

The figure appears to be based on the £752m total it cost to build the stadium twice and conveniently misses the small point that the first £537m was budgeted and used to host the London 2012 Olympics before it was rebuilt as a multi-use stadium.

Finally, in reality, the taxpayer’s funds to build the stadium twice came National Lottery payers and London taxpayers and not the whole country!

We seem to be the constant butt of jokes on this issue and often hear the chorus ‘We paid for the stadium’ from visiting fans.

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