“WE DON’T WANT SPURS AT OS AND THAT’S THAT”

West Ham have made it clear to the London Legacy Development Corporation they don’t want Spurs as ground share “partners” at the Olympic Stadium in their first season at the new ‘showpiece’ Hammers home.

London’s mayor Boris Johnson ducked and dived under constant questioning in a video shown on this site yesterday hiding behind Premier League rules and suggesting Hammers approval would be required.

The Irons today made it clear to ClaretandHugh today the club has no intention of giving its approval and had made that clear to the LLDC.

That may explain why Johnson regularly argued that it would be very difficult for the owners of the stadium to agree to a Spurs ground share without the Hammers approval and his regular dismissal of the propostion as a “hypothesis.”

A well placed Hammers source told ClaretandHugh: We do not want Spurs in our stadium during the first year or any other year and have made our position clear.

“This is coming up with monotonous regularity but the truth is there has been no approach from Spurs and we are not expecting one.

“They would far sooner go to Wembley but our understanding is they are likely to end up at Milton Keynes!”