Stand Up For The Orient
The Arsenal match has been well reported so I’ve decided to use this space for a more pressing concern, which is having a club to support at all in five, ten or twenty years’ time. As many people will know, West Ham are looking likely to move into the Olympic Stadium when the games are over, in direct contradiction to the regulations of the Premier and Football Leagues, not to mention the original “legacy” promises.
To put it simply, the rules of the two leagues forbid a big club moving into the catchment area of a smaller team, but this has been forgotten in the rush to find a use for this white elephant arena. The original bid specified that the capacity would be cut to 25,000 – West Ham are apparently to be allowed to make it 60,000 – which they will fill by flooding the market with cheap tickets, to our detriment.
There are three things you can do to help the fight against this – join the Leyton Orient Fans Trust (Google it), write to your MP (or Boris), or most simply, join our email petition with a short message of support to standupfortheorient(at)brisbaneroad.com
Thanks and up the O’s!
