West Ham will seek legal action again against E20 if honours board are not restored at the London Stadium. A deadline set by Karren Brady to restore the honours boards passed yesterday without change to the deadlock which means further ligation is now inevitable.
The club has told the Football London Website “West Ham are disappointed that a public body should try to mislead taxpayers. There are no unpaid bills. E20 have, on a number of occasions, sought payments from West Ham United that are not part of our tenancy agreement.
“We have taken successful legal action against E20 on a number of similar disputes and will do so again if necessary.”
Earlier this week the London Legacy Development Corporation told the Football London website: “There are some unpaid bills which need to be settled before we will enter into a new deal for the 2018/19 season. The club already has a very good deal to use the London Stadium and it is only right and fair that it should pay to use additional assets in the venue.”
The owners of the London Stadium have set aside nearly £2 million to cover future legal costs of its disputes with West Ham United on top of over £4m already spent on legal costs relating to the stadium.
A bit controversial perhaps and although this is a point of principal, why not remove all the honours boards and all traces of past glories, it is a new era, we have no history other than a general lack of success at the OS why not remove the weight of expectation or burden of history and start afresh ?
I said it earlier in the week, as a NY Mets fan here in the States I am prone to distrust ownership and question their decisions. But in this situation I am with the board — E20 / LLDC don’t like the legally executed contract, and are trying to either force more money from the club or make the situation so inhospitable that they try to find another home stadium. The contract is what the contract is — either live with the terms, or invite West Ham’s ownership to a good faith renegotiation.
@32, I can see what you are driving at. But in this case even though they have a new stadium it is still the same club, the same lineage going back to the beginning. What you describe reminds me more of teams like the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens, who left their history as the Cleveland Browns behind when they left that city and treated the relocation as the beginning of a fresh new franchise. And then when a new Cleveland Browns franchise was created a few years later, they inherited the history and records of the original version of the team. West Ham’s relocation is not quite as drastic, would you agree?