What does the Spurs bid for the Olympic Stadium tell us about British values?

In 1992, the Football Association decided to replace its support for all the clubs in the League all over the country with a 'Winner Takes All' approach where the lion's share of all Football receipts went to the Premier League clubs, leaving the lesser clubs to fend for themselves best as they could. This created a world-leading prestige brand for others to emulate.



Without this reform, I doubt whether Tottenham Hotspurs could have afforded their bid to replace the 2012 Olympic stadium, costing billions to the taxpayer, with a purpose-built private football stadium ten miles from Tottenham, to enable their waiting list to buy season tickets for club events, and also upgrade the little-used athletics stadium in South London .



Do the British value anyone or anything more than their Premier League footballers and their bankers?



If not, what are the consequences?What does the Spurs bid for the Olympic Stadium tell us about British values?
What it tells me is that Harry Redknapp is foreign and not English. I watched him as he snarled on about bulldozing the London Olympic Stadion down replacing it with his plastic football pitch.

It's not going to happen.

We made a promise to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that we would build an Olympic Stadion and that it would be available for with a running track beyond the Olympic Games for the people of London and the UK.

When the English (British) do a deal, they stick to their word. Redknapp looks and sounds like some kind of Cockney Spiv selling dirty post cards on the street corner outside the school.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLv_aLNlr鈥?/a>What does the Spurs bid for the Olympic Stadium tell us about British values?
I would be very suprised if Spurs won it. West Ham need a running track around their pitch in order to keep Piquionne on the pitch ;)What does the Spurs bid for the Olympic Stadium tell us about British values?
The problem with this thinking is it's short sighted. The lower league teams are the places tomorrows English 'stars' are moulded. When they cease to be so do our future prospects. The was a time when football was about two teams kicking a ball around, those days are long gone, football has succumbed to greed.

btw why should tax payers fund a stadium for Tottenham, I would prefer my billions to go to student fees, social housing, nhs, state ed, police,saving english forests, creating jobs, reducing the deficit, r%26amp;d, anything but a fecking multi million pound football team, or a bank.