Olympic stadium is a distraction from the job in hand

The club yesterday made a statement explaining their intentions to push on with a further  appeal over the process by which the right to play in the Olympic Stadium was awarded to West Ham.

The statement read:

"The Club has today (Wednesday) applied to the High Court to renew its application for permission to bring a claim against the London Borough of Newham and the Olympic Park Legacy Company, the Mayor of London and Government Ministers for judicial review of their decisions underlying the bid process for the conversion of the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Games. Under this process the Club now has the opportunity to present its case at an oral hearing at the High Court."

I'll be honest, I don't care. This whole stadium issue is not only tedious and a clear dead end but it indicates that the club is not totally focused on the top priority, which is developing our squad for next season. 

We have six weeks to negotiate enough outgoing deals to fund some big improvements to the squad and to convince Luka Modric and Gareth Bale not to ply their trade elsewhere. Right now, there is no evidence of anything happening.

Yes, the club needs a bigger stadium, supporters are on season ticket waiting lists for years on end and regular folk can't get into a home game for love nor money (well, they can get in for money, but most people don't have enough of it to afford the few seats that do go on general sale). But is there really any point in having a 60,000 seater stadium full of pissed-off, embittered football fans all discussing what went wrong in the summer of 2011?

Daniel Levy is undoubtedly going to leave a long-standing legacy at Tottenham but it remains to be seen whether it will be a successful team that we can all be proud to support or whether it will be a stadium debacle that cost us our seat at the top table.