Gavros
2:59 Thu Nov 22
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Yes, that is the case.
Imagine if the RC Diocese of Brentwood came across it now and it showed the lease was down to 20 years.
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Northern Sold
2:57 Thu Nov 22
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero 1:18 Thu Nov 22
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Incidentally, we didn't own Upton Park when we moved there.
..... yup spot on... but we certainly DID own it when we sold our legacy/history... the whole bleedin' lot... but anyway crack on Surface....
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Eggbert Nobacon
1:31 Thu Nov 22
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yeah that's what I remembered I think Gav, it came out whil we were getting ready to move I think didn't it?
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
1:29 Thu Nov 22
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Thanks Eggbert. I thought the land was owned by the church for a good part of our time there, but I couldn't find the dates.
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Gavros
1:28 Thu Nov 22
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I believe there was an issue in that the church had the land on long lease from the Diocese of Brentwood who held the freehold, and West ham just got a portion of the long lease. But all the paperwork was lost so West Ham were able to claim the freehold.
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Eggbert Nobacon
1:24 Thu Nov 22
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So it was for the local Irish catholics, who wanted a church on the site that they owned, backing onto the land that they leased to the football club. With dedicated fundraising they found the money and in June 1911, the Church of Our Lady of Compassion was opened.
While the football club bought the freehold for the land from the church in 1959 – for £33,750 – the tie between the two places has been as strong as ever.
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Eggbert Nobacon
1:21 Thu Nov 22
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or indeed for most of our time there I think it came to light that the Church who we orginally leased it from still owned the land or something when we were looking to move
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
1:18 Thu Nov 22
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Incidentally, we didn't own Upton Park when we moved there.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
1:04 Thu Nov 22
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Northern Sold 11:52 Thu Nov 22
Yeah, because West Ham played at Upton Park for SOOOOO much longer than 99 years.
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Eerie Descent
12:43 Thu Nov 22
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Well, Upton Park became pretty much an away ground to you in the end, son.
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Northern Sold
11:52 Thu Nov 22
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AnotherDay_SameShit 11:49 Thu Nov 22
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Northern Sold 9:37 Wed Nov 21
Take your point, but we are the anchor tenant for 99 years so it kind of is ours...
Yeah... 'ome sweet 'ome...
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AnotherDay_SameShit
11:49 Thu Nov 22
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Northern Sold 9:37 Wed Nov 21
Take your point, but we are the anchor tenant for 99 years so it kind of is ours, which is why our name is plastered all the shithole.
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Chigwell
7:38 Wed Nov 21
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I don't mind baseball: in principle it's an entertaining game, although like pro American Football the matches are drawn out by commercial and other interruptions, and so can get quite boring.
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BulphanIron
9:44 Wed Nov 21
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swindon hammer 9:19 Tue Nov 20
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Tottenham are hosting NFL games, Man Utd host Rugby League.
So fucking what?
The fact that the cesspit we happen to rent for a few days a year can host a profrsssional baseball game says it all about its configuration...
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Bungo
9:44 Wed Nov 21
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Eggbert Nobacon 1:16 Tue Nov 20
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Cheezey Bell-End 12:39 Tue Nov 20
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Would make a decent NFL stadium as well.
why? with the smaller pitch for NFL the fans would be even further away than we are surely?
You need that space for NFL though as each team has about 200+ coaches/subs/headphone technicians/gatorade servers etc etc hanging around on the touchline.
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Northern Sold
9:37 Wed Nov 21
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Yarmouth...in your opening post you say...."So we're gonna be..."...you do know there is no we're when it comes to the London Stadium....as we don't own the fucking thing....we RENT it...
The cesspit piece of shit
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lowermarshhammer
8:55 Wed Nov 21
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https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/london-stadium-cricket-world-cup-2019-venues-stadiums-jonathan-liew-column-a8326251.html
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lowermarshhammer
8:54 Wed Nov 21
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pdbis 427
ICC were extremely keen to use it as a venue for the cricket world cup, capacity being double that of Lord's - feasibility studies were carried out, all the changes required to make it suitable for cricket would have reduced capacity massively.
Stadium infrastructure at the moment suggests an east west cricket pitch, sun glare fucks that up at dusk. Not ideal.
North South pitch setup means replay screens are in the wrong place as would be commentary boxes, a lot of the dedicated TV camera positions are wrong, the floodlights are wrong, it's a non starter for cricket.
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billywhitehorse
2:20 Wed Nov 21
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Watford had a dog track around it too. I watched quite a few games there in the late 60's and early 70's.
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Any Old Iron
1:22 Wed Nov 21
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Stoat - I do. Went up there in '66 or '67. I think we lost, but what I do remember is Sir Geoff getting sent off for the only time in his career. Some bruiser was kicking lumps out of him and he lost his rag and decked him.
Anyway, the ground was weird with the cricket pavilion nearly 200 yards away from the main stand. Reminds me a bit of somewhere.
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El Scorchio
12:49 Wed Nov 21
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Looking forward to it. Should be a cracking couple of games between arguably the two best teams in baseball.
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