Sullivan slams 2012 stadium plan

Published : 18 Mar 2010 20:27:31

West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has attacked plans to convert the Olympic Stadium into an athletics venue as an "appalling waste of public money".The £537m site is set to be reduced from 80,000 seats to 25,000 after 2012, with athletics as its primary use. But Sullivan says the only "sensible option" is to opt for a 60,000-capacity venue that West Ham could rent. "To build an 80,000-seat stadium and reduce it to 25,000 for athletics makes no sense at all," said Sullivan. "The whole concep.... read more