Political blame game unfair on West Ham

A London Assembly committee heard that it is unfair to blame West Ham for the London Stadium disputes and losses.

London Assembly Budget Committee chairman Gareth Bacon said earlier this week that West Ham is constantly being portrayed as the big bad wolf who has caused the problem and the taxpayer has been overly generous to West Ham. Former LLDC chairman Neale Colemen was asked whether he thought that was fair?

Edmunds told the budget committee  “I don’t think it is fair to West Ham, they did take a substantial risk in doing this, I think for any football club to uproot itself from its home and do something else is a big big deal. It ought to be possible to get this deal and the arrangments back into a place where it works for West Ham and the public sector. It ought to be possible to address the issues around the seats, around the other events, around stewarding, all these issues ” 

Watch a special ten minutes edit of the committee meeting below: