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MisterBadger
25 Apr 15 12:13
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I bloody knew it... he's still not getting my vote though  Angry
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Report dustybin April 25, 2015 1:24 PM BST
Tory HQ must have run it through the computer to determine that it would make the plastic one appear 'one of the people'.
Picked out a hat no doubt.

Pet project for the pr1ck
Report Muntz Street April 25, 2015 1:32 PM BST
Didn't he claim to be a Villa fan?  His uncle (Sir William Dugdale) was a former Villa chairman.

Maybe he "rememebers" he supported a team who wear claret & blue and have some connection with Birmingham, so that's West Ham and Baroness Brady.
Report MisterBadger April 25, 2015 1:41 PM BST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkbPfetpwGw
Report i_agree_with_nick April 25, 2015 1:43 PM BST
He did say he was a Villa fan
Report Ibrahima Sonko April 25, 2015 1:52 PM BST
definitely a villa fan
Report MisterBadger April 25, 2015 2:10 PM BST
yes, they cut that off the clip, he corrected himself

but the point is he's clearly not even a villa fan - if you genuinely support a team you could not possibly make a mistake like that... doubt if he could even name any of the villa players
Report brendanuk1 April 25, 2015 3:48 PM BST
fake plastic tit!

cant even remmeber his own team, ffs! Cry
Report Facts April 25, 2015 5:01 PM BST
Struggles with his own name imo.
Report Jack Bauer '24' April 25, 2015 7:55 PM BST
A totally fake, insidious tw@t.
Report spellingandgrammarchecker April 26, 2015 12:23 AM BST
^^^ He's got your card marked Facts. LaughLaugh
Report lybertyne April 26, 2015 9:56 AM BST
Weston Villham.



COME ON YOU HAMMAINS!!!!!!!
Report brendanuk1 April 26, 2015 11:01 AM BST
Unbelievable Jeff
Report TELL DEL April 26, 2015 11:26 AM BST
He does forget things and gets mixed up,  Cameron mistakenly left his eight-year-old daughter in a pub by herself when he drove off without her a few years ago. And now not sure which football team he supports, tried to claim he had a brain fade like Natalie in the Green Party !

.......hope he remembers he's supposed to be running the country !
Report Orsoncart April 26, 2015 11:35 AM BST
LOL spellingandgrandma checkerCool
Report brendanuk1 April 26, 2015 11:44 AM BST
hes just a front for those behind the scenes in the city

Told what to say, told which team to support. fake, fake fake
Report EMPIRE DAY April 26, 2015 12:36 PM BST
we all know he is a chelsea fan really
Report morpteh mackem April 26, 2015 1:38 PM BST
bit like blair claiming to be a newcastle fan saying used to sit in the leazes end in the 70s. shame it never had seats then eh tone, still you managed find weapons of mass destruction in iraq.
Report flushgordon1 April 26, 2015 1:53 PM BST
Yeah yeah he also loved the clash and had a mohican his nose pierced and a punks forever tatoo on his arse cheek whilst at eton.
Report cooperman April 26, 2015 1:58 PM BST
I am reliably informed that one cannot become a member of the Bullingdon Club unless one supports 'The Hammers'.
Report spellingandgrammarchecker April 26, 2015 4:21 PM BST
Will he change his allegiance towards Burnley next year?
Report MisterBadger April 26, 2015 4:36 PM BST
and then scunthorpe the year after  Crazy
Report The Leopard April 26, 2015 8:07 PM BST
Probably caught something nasty when he sh*gged Rebecca Brookes which is now eating into his brain.
Report orioles April 26, 2015 8:23 PM BST
We have been instructed by our client, David William Donald Cameron ... :))
Report The Leopard April 26, 2015 8:45 PM BST
Scared
Report SlippyBlue April 26, 2015 8:49 PM BST
West Ham and Villa both claret and blue. It'll be Palace next time as we have the same colours. Thing is, we don't want him.
Report brendanuk1 April 26, 2015 8:52 PM BST
really, what character of man forgets his own team?
Report SlippyBlue April 26, 2015 8:55 PM BST
He should have been asked who the current manager of West Ham was, pound to a penny he would have had no idea and would have just floundered gasping for breath.
Report MisterBadger April 26, 2015 11:06 PM BST
it seems to be kevin nolan from what I can make out  Plain
Report Dav_vin03 April 26, 2015 11:34 PM BST
I thought he was a villa fan?
Was it tony blair who was a newcastle fan?
I assume gordon brown was a rangers fan, as he also loved bad accouting, debt and calling his opponents bigots.
Report MisterBadger April 27, 2015 12:26 AM BST
dunfermline athletic iirc

thatcher - spuds

major - cambridge utd

all of them absolute dyed-in-the-wool, die hard fans, obviously
Report screaming from beneaththewaves April 27, 2015 12:41 AM BST
Michael Foot was an Argyle director and a familiar sight at Home Park.

Harold Wislon seemed to be a genuine supporter of his home town of Huddersfield.

Moscow Dynamo's owner has been a friend of Putin since the 1960s, so presumably it's also Putin's team. Would make sense, as it was originally the club of Beria's Cheka, the forerunner of the KGB.
Report lybertyne April 27, 2015 1:46 AM BST
Gordon Brown is a famous Raith Rovers fan.
Report spellingandgrammarchecker April 27, 2015 11:09 AM BST
As a non-footie fan, I have a question.

I was looking at sports news on the telly a week or so ago, pressed 'select' when I shouldn't have, and ended up on the footie pages.

My question is, where here Celtic gone?

They don't seem to be in the Premier Scottish division.

Have the BBC facked their page up, or are my eyes bad?

And after a quick scan of division tables, I noticed that in the Highland League, a team remain unbeaten, at this late stage of the season Shocked
Report brendanuk1 April 27, 2015 1:17 PM BST
Cameron, told by 2 business sponsors that his campaign lacked passion, quicker than a flash he is on soap box shouting in shirt sleeves Laugh

.
https://youtu.be/jfeiCaRJgMY?t=26
Report iamajambo April 27, 2015 1:35 PM BST
Having missed the bit of 'news' about Shameron forgetting which football team that he 'supported' I was a bit puzzled as to why Martin Rowson had depicted him wearing a claret and blue scarf in his Guardian cartoon.

Now I know.LaughLaughLaughLaughLaugh
Report Jack Bauer '24' April 27, 2015 2:51 PM BST
Nice to see him squirming here.

http://news.sky.com/story/1472043/pm-scores-own-goal-with-football-brain-fade
Report Wesdag April 27, 2015 4:25 PM BST
Extremely embarrassing.

Claims to support Villa because William does.
Report Crisp77 April 27, 2015 4:26 PM BST
Not as unlucky as alastair campbell who mixed up Burnley with Villa.
Report boxingthefox April 27, 2015 4:30 PM BST
Brain fade, new speak for fcking devious, lying Barstewart. ShockedLaugh
Report screaming from beneaththewaves April 27, 2015 4:40 PM BST
To be fair, I found myself suddenly becoming a Villa fan too when I was working in W Germany in the spring of 1982.
Report Darlo Bantam April 27, 2015 4:42 PM BST

Apr 27, 2015 -- 4:25PM, Wesdag wrote:


Extremely embarrassing.Claims to support Villa because William does.


Copying his cousin!

Report screaming from beneaththewaves April 27, 2015 4:53 PM BST
Any other fans of the Hammers find themselves reacting like this following Chelsea's win over Bayern in 2012?


[img]http://images.onesite.com/community.betfair.com/user/screaming_from_beneaththewaves/90b506bc91424e7ba4df11145505a323.jpg?v=202800[/img]
Report spellingandgrammarchecker April 27, 2015 5:09 PM BST
spellingandgrammarchecker
As a non-footie fan, I have a question.
I was looking at sports news on the telly a week or so ago, pressed 'select' when I shouldn't have, and ended up on the footie pages.
My question is, where here Celtic gone?
They don't seem to be in the Premier Scottish division.
Have the BBC facked their page up, or are my eyes bad?

And after a quick scan of division tables, I noticed that in the Highland League, a team remain unbeaten, at this late stage of the season

Thank you for the many responses. I looked for myself in the end. It seems that as I saw Rangers I thought I was reading the Premier League.

Now, a new question for you all to ignore. Why are Rangers not in the Premier League any more, are they that bad these days?

And after a quick scan of division tables, I noticed that in the Highland League, a team remain unbeaten, at this late stage of the season

That was correct.

Brora Rangers are still unbeaten after 34 matches.
Report Muntz Street April 27, 2015 6:40 PM BST
To cut a long story short  (which is code for I've forgotten some of the details) the previous version of Rangers went bust in 2012.  The new version was placed at the lowest level of the Scottish League.  They
have gained two successive promotions since then so they are now up to the second level of Scottish football.
Financial problems remain.
Report casemoney April 27, 2015 8:14 PM BST
Spot on Slippy ,wasn't long ago that he forgot he had brought his daughter to the pub with him ..
Report spellingandgrammarchecker April 28, 2015 12:58 AM BST
Thanks Muntz.

If the most joint successful team (result s wise) can go bust, how do other teams survive?
Report The Special One™ April 28, 2015 12:59 AM BST
No hes just thick priviledged toff whose a LIAR and all the thick plebs that follow him and believe him are being brinwashed by him, jesus christ unless yor a thick pleb you wont be able to see how everythng he says a lie and stage managed and scripted, everything is said in his self-ineterest as long as it makes him look good
Report spellingandgrammarchecker April 28, 2015 12:59 AM BST
Medication wearing off?
Report rogerthebutler April 28, 2015 12:46 PM BST
West Ham will be moving into the Olympic Stadium next year.

It will cost 200m + to convert it into a football stadium with 54,000 seats, including 5000 corporate seats for the Prawn Sandwich Brigade. Nearly all of this will come from the taxpayer including 40m from Newham Council who preside over one of the poorest boroughs in the UK.

West ham's contribution will be 15m plus a "rent" of 2.5m a year. They will also get to keep the proceeds of the sale of Upton Park, valued at 71m in 2013. So they get a state of the art stadium for 2.5m a year and 56m+ in their back pocket.

The lucky lottery winners then are Baroness Karren Brady of Knightsbridge CBE and her employers, Messrs. Gold and Sullivan the well known pornographer spivs.

As it happens they are big pals with a certain George Osborne, David Cameron and Boris Johnson. So he can hardly be forgiven if he's got a claret and blue-tinged wet dream happening that's at the very forefront of his mind at present.

Cutbacks? Austerity? Well, it depends who you are..............and who you know.
Report spellingandgrammarchecker April 28, 2015 1:02 PM BST
roger,

Along with plenty of others, I loathe Diane Abbott, but there is only one point on which we agree.

She was all 'Bravo, well done, jobs for thousands.' the same as Lord Smug of Coe was, for the Olympics coming to Newham, as it borders her borough of Hackney.

Since then she has continually asked 'What good did the Olympics do for the east end of London?'.

Because she can't see it.

And neither can I.
Report Crisp77 April 28, 2015 1:07 PM BST
Feck knows why they have to spend £200m converting it. I visited the Munich stadium recently and that did a decent enough job for Olympics and two football teams without any significant conversion.

Olympiastadion is a stadium located in Munich, Germany. Situated at the heart of the Olympiapark München in northern Munich, the stadium was built as the main venue for the 1972 Summer Olympics.

With an original capacity of 80,000, the stadium also hosted many major football matches including the 1974 World Cup Final and the Euro '88 Final. It hosted the European Cup Finals of 1979, 1993 and 1997. Its current capacity is 69,250.[1]

Until the construction of the Allianz Arena for the 2006 World Cup, the stadium was home to Bayern Munich and TSV 1860 Munich.
Report Crisp77 April 28, 2015 1:08 PM BST
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/oct/22/olympic-stadium-extra-36m-west-ham

Work to convert the Olympic Stadium into a permanent home for West Ham United and athletics will cost £36m more than expected, it has been confirmed, taking the total confirmed spend so far to £619m.

It emerged earlier this week that contractors Balfour Beatty had encountered difficulties installing the complex roof that will cover the athletics track and the retractable seats that will be rolled into position during the football season.

Following negotiations with the contractor, the London Legacy Development Corporation has agreed to pay Balfour Beatty an extra £35.9m on top of the £154m already agreed.

The stadium, originally designed to be reduced to a 25,000 capacity bowl after the Games, cost £429m to build in the first place. It is understood that the overall cost will rise still further because there are still a handful of smaller contracts still to be finalised.

The roof on the stadium, which West Ham will move into as primary tenants at the beginning of the 2016-17 season, is the largest of its kind in the world and requires construction techniques normally used to build oil rigs in the North Sea.

The LLDC, the body that oversees the development of the Olympic Park, is confident it can cover the additional cost of the conversion work from within its existing budget without going back to the government or City Hall for extra funds.

It has welcomed three million visitors to the park since it reopened 18 months ago and is confident that the latest hitch with the stadium will not disrupt its wider redevelopment aims.

Under the terms of the deal announced in March last year Newham council borrowed £40m towards the conversion, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport supplied £38.7m and a further £25m came from the Department for Communities and Local Government. West Ham will pay £15m and the rest will be borrowed by the LLDC.

West Ham, who will also pay £2.5m a year in rent, will not have to pay any more towards the conversion costs.

While the work is believed to be a “few weeks” behind schedule as a result of the difficulties with the roof, the LLDC is confident that it will be ready to host the London Diamond League meeting next July and five Rugby World Cup matches in September.

Work will then resume, ready for West Ham to move into the 54,000-capacity stadium at the beginning of the 2016-17 season. A stadium operator is expected to be named next month to handle bookings for concerts and other sporting events.

West Ham, who fought a bitter battle with Tottenham Hotspur for the stadium before the process had to be re-run due to legal challenges, will have “primacy” during the football season under the terms of their 99-year lease and UK Athletics is guaranteed 20 dates a year.
Report MisterBadger April 29, 2015 4:24 PM BST
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3056482/West-Ham-applauded-giving-little-fans-not-castigated.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Ever wondered how German football clubs afford cheap tickets? Easy. They do it the West Ham way. When the Allianz Arena in Munich was developed for the 2006 World Cup, the city and state incurred costs of over £150million to improve local infrastructure.

The redevelopment of the country’s Olympic Stadium came in at close to £180m — handy for the occupants, Hertha Berlin. Fortuna Dusseldorf inherited a stadium built for £200m; RB Leipzig’s arena was paid for by a combination of government and city at a cost of roughly £120m.

This, in part, is why Bundesliga tickets are affordable. The clubs have been subsidised as a by-product of events held for the public good. Germany wanted the World Cup and, subsequently, many facilities received an upgrade.

The fact that Bayern Munich did not have to wear the cost of adding extra lanes to the A9 motorway or improving Marienplatz U-Bahn station, means they can keep prices down. Yet whenever we hear about the good deals available to fans in Germany, nobody mentions this.

It is different here. Last week, West Ham announced they would be selling cheaper tickets as a result of the move to the London Olympic stadium, and it was grouse season again. The club could only do it, we were told, because the taxpayer had in part subsidised their new stadium. Indeed they had, and here was the club giving a little back.

Rival Premier League chairmen, including at Tottenham, were said to be angry at West Ham assuming the moral high ground on ticket prices. Tottenham’s bold plan for the Olympic Stadium was to level it, which would have gone down well in the wake of Super Saturday. It would be like turning up for The Beatles tour in Liverpool, to discover the original Cavern Club is now a hefty chunk of the Merseyrail underground loop.

Here is how legacy and arena planning in Britain traditionally works. The nearest Tube station to the Emirates Stadium is Holloway Road on the Piccadilly line. Did the local council and Transport for London get together to finance improvements, as happened in Munich when the Allianz Arena appeared? No. Holloway Road actually closes on matchdays to prevent overcrowding.

We blather about legacy in this country but it doesn’t interest us if it costs. And even when legacy is apparent, we are suspicious of it.

West Ham’s presence at the Olympic Stadium is legacy in action. The venue will be used, regularly, be maintained and be part of the community. And West Ham’s new ground isn’t strictly paid for by the taxpayer, as is often suggested, as we had to pay for the principal cost anyway.

We bid for the 2012 Olympics and needed a stadium. Now the Olympics are over we either let the venue stand idle, in decline, at considerable expense, or we make it fit for an anchor tenant who will help regenerate the area, as happened with the Commonwealth Games stadium to the east of Manchester.

West Ham will pay £15m, a rent of £2.5m per year, hand over the naming rights and share some of the matchday revenue. The reason West Ham did not pay for the entire renovation is because the club is a tenant, not an owner. The London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) are the landlords and those who have rented will know the landlord is responsible for the upkeep.

So West Ham weren’t about to buy a stadium with no roof, poor sight lines and an athletics track, just as a tenant wouldn’t sign on a flat with holes in the ceiling, no front door and a flood in the kitchen. He’d tell the landlord to sort it out first.

Equally, if the LLDC had driven a very hard bargain, West Ham would have walked away. What would have happened then? Well, West Ham would have returned to a popular, fit-for-purpose stadium they can fill almost every week; and the LLDC would have been left choosing between Leyton Orient, a fictional Grand Prix and an imaginary NFL franchise. Good luck selling the naming rights for that.

For this is one of the other ways West Ham will help pay back: by securing a naming rights agreement for the LLDC. If the stadium had been used for the occasional athletics meeting or pop concert, competing with Wembley and the Emirates and other London venues, what would that be worth? Well, put it like this. The Gateshead International Stadium, once home to British athletics, also boasts that it holds ‘many national and international events, including rugby and major rock and pop concerts’ and it hasn’t got a sponsor.

What West Ham will do is take the Olympic Stadium into millions of homes around the world each week through Premier League football — if the club’s present status is maintained — and that makes an immediate difference to the naming rights deal, all of which goes to the LLDC. Not that many are interested in hearing the positives. We’re too busy obsessing over the problems caused by cheap tickets, having driven the Premier League mad about offering them since the last television deal was struck.

The latest fears are being voiced by the Charlton Athletic Supporters’ Trust, who insist price cuts at the Olympic Stadium will suck their fans north through the Blackwall Tunnel. It’s nonsense of course. East London is a Charlton-free area, just as West Ham fans south of the river are scarce. There’s this club called Millwall separating them, as well as a river.

So it really is folly, this fear of subsidies and state aid and cheap tickets and usefulness. They wouldn’t distrust it in Germany. They would use it to build Yellow Walls and Red Infernos, new homes and roads and stations that work. And it couldn't happen here, as we used to say, smugly.
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