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There’s No Place Like
Home
By
Adam Ellis

For many of us, our local grounds are like a second home; they bring comfort and
a familiarity, and if you’re lucky a comfy seat with a choice of cold or hot beverage.
Which is a nice thought for me to imagine when I travel on the train to NLP towers
on an uncomfortable chair and without the option of a beverage. Last weekend on
the journey to the office the train was filled with West Ham United fans on their way
to the top flight match against Bournemouth. By chance, I got speaking to a chap sat
opposite who had an Irons jacket on and he began talking about how he is a season
ticket holder at West Ham but also goes to watch Dagenham & Redbridge ‘four or
five times a season’.
Two teams with a proud tradition and standing in their community, but a case of David
and Goliath. “The bigger they are the harder they fall.” Well, not exactly in this case.
Ever since the city of London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympics I have followed
the story of what the government and the Greater London Authority planned to do
with the stadium in Stratford long after Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis had graced it.
After the 16 days of sporting excellence were showcased to the world, focus
switched to whether Jeremy Hunt, sport minister at the time, and Mayor
Boris Johnson could get the right deal for the taxpayer by finding a tenant

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