BBC learns that Olympic bosses have given their backing to West Ham to use the Stadium after 2012.

It could be the best ground in the Coca Cola Championship next season.

Im sure Leyton Orient are just as pleased as you POK

This will be the death of Orient

It's going to be bad for Orient either way when you have the like of the Arsenal, Spurs and West Ham on your doorstep.

Yeah, more people in Leyton could decide to go and watch West Ham. But it could work the other way - more West Ham fans could decide to adopt Orient as their second club when West Ham dont have a game.

Don't be daft PoK. Orient don't need 60,000 seats. This is the same as Sunderland moving in two miles from the Vic and as others have said it will be the end of Orient at least in that area.

Absolute disgrace, flogging the 'Olympic heritage' to a couple of pornographers who've decided to rip some cash out of football. Wonder how much they'll get for Upton Park in the process of driving Orient out of Leyton? The league and FA will do FA to stop it.

Fans everywhere should boycott the Olympics and West Ham should be treated like the new MK Dons.

I wasn't saying that I was pleased.

I was just making a point that West Ham could in theory get relegated and that attendances might drop when they are in the Championship.

The worst thing that West Ham could happen is that they become the new Darlington.

I didn't say that, Mr. Toulouse.

No, another poster did, but you are being daft. Here is what the Orient fans think, they sent this to the committe deciding who should get the ground. It got a polite brush off while the option of a 25,000 seater to be used for athletics and other sports but not football got ignored.

Dear Baroness Ford/Mr Altman,
I am writing to you on behalf of the Leyton Orient Fans' Trust (LOFT), which is a supporters' trust representing supporters of Leyton Orient Football Club. Supporters' Trusts are affiliated to Supporters Direct, the government-funded initiative to promote and encourage greater supporter representation at (among other sports) professional football clubs.
As you are now no doubt aware from recent media coverage and representations from the Football Supporters' Federation (FSF) - of which LOFT is an affiliate member - there is a growing wave of dissatisfaction among football supporters at the actions of both West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur in trying to obtain the Olympic Stadium for their use post-Games. Neither club has demonstrated a compelling case as to why they should be given the use of the stadium, and neither club has consulted its supporters on whether such a move is in their best interests. We fully support the FSF's actions in this regard.
Among LOFT's aims is the continued well-being in east London of Leyton Orient FC, London's second oldest League club and the oldest in east London, which has been able to survive for 130 years despite being in the shadow of larger neighbours. One of the reasons we have survived is that those larger neighbours have not been right on the club's doorstep, nor have they actively targetted the potential market for future Orient supporters by heavily subsidising tickets to schoolchildren local to Leyton. If either Spurs or West Ham are allowed to move into the Olympic Stadium, both of these become a distinct reality.
The legacy of the Olympic Games in east London was not meant to be making rich Premier League clubs even richer. Neither West Ham nor Tottenham Hotspur need the Olympic Stadium to survive, they are both looking to increase their income even more in an attempt to compete with the super-rich clubs like Manchester United and Chelsea. Both clubs have been arguing over the stadium like two animals over a piece of meat. This is not what the Olympic ideal was meant to be about, particularly when the club they are indirectly threatening is such a unique part of London sporting life and a unique part of the tapestry of English football; there is, after all, only one Orient in a sea of Citys, Uniteds and Towns.
The OPLC needs to take into account that the Premier League's and Football League's rules specifically prohibit a member club moving into the immediate vicinty of another member club, and allowing Spurs or West Ham to move to the Olympic Stadium would breach that rule.
In short, LOFT therefore supports the original plan for the future use of the Olympic Stadium; a community asset for east London sports (and particularly athletics) that don't have the millions that Premier League football has. Football neither needs nor deserves public money for the selfish aims of two big clubs.
Please note that the contents of this letter have been published on our website.
Yours faithfully,
Doug Harper
Chair
Leyton Orient Fans' Trust

The deal that has got West Ham into the Olympic Stadium is as crooked as the votes that won Russia and Qatar the world cup.

Why spend Billions building a flagship athletics stadium in the middle of one of the worlds most expensive cities, then turf it over to a second rate premier league club. Who will in turn make it a football only venue in a town that already has Wembley (The national stadium apparently), the Emirates, and a hat full of grounds more than big enough to satisfy the needs of top flight football including West Hams current home.

My personal opinion is that the stadium should have been retained as what it was built for and should have been used to bring new sports with a greater audience into the country. But as always seems to happen in these cases money and greed wins the day.

I hope Orient survive but I fear they will either go under or suffer the fate of Wimbledon and be sold to the highest bidder.

My mistake i thought you wrote


BBC learns that Olympic bosses have given their backing to West Ham to use the Stadium after 2012.

It could be the best ground in the Coca Cola Championship next season.

and i mistook that for someone who looked pleased, i apologise

Dont worry about it, Mr. Parry.

fookin brilliant !!!!

Its a foooking absolute disgrace.
Absolutely maddening.
Does these people live in the real world!!
I really hope there is a massive protest and everyone lower league fan supports Orient in their bid to have this overturned.

Unless each of those fans turns up with a brown envelope stuffed with £20s there is little chance of that happening.

Brady and the other two posioned dwarfs couldnt care less about Leyton Orient and should hang their heads in shame.

Who is the Darts / snooker fella Hurn or something who is chairman of Orient, he was on talk sport the other day saying that they could have a right to sue any football club who gets the ground as it goes against FA policy that any building or acquisition of a new stadium should not have a detremental affect to any neighbouring clubs.

It's over 2 miles away about equidistant to what Upton Park is away from Stratford, only one stop on the central line though.

I see it as a bigger risk to West Ham personally, they are hardly an established successful Premiership club they could very well go down this season. They can't fill Upton Park very often in the Premiership they are all over Talksport adverts trying to sell cut price tickets to anyone for most games. They haven't sold out games against Chelsea and Arsenal this season. Recently they were over 5,000 below capacity for a League Cup semi final. I think then are delusional moving to a 60,000 stadium when they can't fill one that holds less than 35,000. Can you imagine how many people would want to visit a 60,000 arena with a running track to watch Championship Football?

Upton Park is one of the remaining what I'd regard 'proper' football stadiums, it has character, tradition, and atmosphere. To leave it for a multi purpose athletics stadium is fooking bonkers. I think Orient would be more under threat if Tottenham got it, who already have a huge fanbase. That would be dropping a massive club onto Orients doorstep, West Ham moving a bit closer isn't that.

Barry Hearn originally stated he wanted Orient to move onto the site, he was the first football related interest to be declared so his whining now smacks of double standards given West Ham is 2.3 miles from Stratford and Orient 2.1. He'd have been moving Orient closer to West Ham had he had his way!!

In complete and utter concurrence with Mr PJ, which is why I want West Ham to get the stadium because I can't fkin stand them.

the likes of Chelsea, Spurs, West Ham and Arsehole fans are all your typical stereotype arrogant cockney waynkers.
At least with the vast number of immigrants arriving in London, hopefully in another 100 years Cockneys will have ceased to exist

Good read on here about it-http://www.twohundredpercent.net/?p=10958

And another one where David Conn who is superb at investigating football economics looks into how Brady and co might make a few quid....http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/feb/10/west-ham-olympic-stadium

I'd love it if they are relegated this season.