Brady slams Spurs´ stadium plans

West Ham vice-chairman Karren Brady has blasted Tottenham’s development plans for London’s Olympic stadium.

The two clubs are competing for the right to inherit the Olympic stadium in Stratford after the London 2012 Olympic Games.

While West Ham’s proposal would retain the running track around the pitch and promote the use of the stadium for other sporting events, Spurs intend to convert the arena into a football-only stadium.

The original deadline for the decision was delayed to allow more time to consider the two clubs’ proposals, but a final decision is expected this week.

And Brady has stoked the flames of the argument once more.

“It’s a corporate crime to spend 500 million pounds on a stadium and, just four weeks after the Games have finished, bring the bulldozers in,” she said.

“The Olympic Stadium was built on a promise, made in the Queen’s name, to have a legacy for athletics.”

“Through [West Ham’s] design there will be over 90 million pounds spent on reconfiguring the stadium so it sits perfectly for athletics and football and cricket and major events.”

“Once the conversion is done, with the roof and some of the seats, there won’t be a single seat within that stadium that has a worse view of the pitch than Wembley.”