Gold: OS ticketing rumour is ‘complete nonsense’

Love him or hate him, you have to hold your hands up to David Gold for using Twitter to face-up to the ‘Good, Bad and Ugly’ questions regularly thrown at him.

The West Ham co-chairman’s continual presence on the social network is treated with respect by the vast majority – while to others it seems like a red rag to a bull, and an opportunity of attempting to make a cheap name for themselves!

Gold’s latest reaction to an Olympic Stadium inquiry demonstrates again that an enormous amount of patience is needed when unprompted tweets fly at us from all directions.

The latest intrusion contained both a question and a judgement before the inquiry has been answered – something that’s a pretty common occurrence on Twitter.

ClaretandHugh is intervening in an attempt to clear up, once and for all, one of the many scurrilous stories that is running around about the Olympic Stadium in relation to ticketing arrangements.

One follower wrote: “Being told best seats being reserved for ticket agencies for tourist if true a disgrace.”

The response from Gold was swift and to the point. He replied: “This is complete nonsense.”

His retort follows hot on the heels of being questioned about transport arrangements into the new stadium to which he responded: “For pete’s sake, I’m the chairman of West Ham football club not the minister for transport.”