Spurs Or Hammers?

I wonder who will get the Olympic Stadium in East London, Spurs or West Ham?  I cannot believe that anyone in their right mind would let Spurs knock it down and build again - what a waste of taxpayers money!  The other problem is of course that a running track around the outside of the pitch is not really very good for football as the supporters are too far away from the action (although it would have prevented the West Ham player from getting sent off for jumping into the crowd at Everton!).  I have watched plenty of matches abroad where the stadium has an athletics track and there is just no atmosphere - the closer you are to the action, the more involved you feel...and the better the opportunity to give those lady line judges some stick!

It could be snooker supremo Barry Hearn who turns out to be the fly in the ointment.  The football league states that you cannot open a new ground with ten miles of an existing one, and with his Leyton Orient only two miles down the road there looks to be many more twists and turns still to come.

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I always enjoy reading the "My Favourites" part of the Racing Post and finding out what some of racing's personalities are really like.  Today it is Mattie Bachelor and he says that his racing hero is jockey Andrew Thornton "for doing what he is doing and for how blind he is" - maybe Andrew should ride with a white whip?!  He also says that his favourite restaurant is McDonalds - that's Mattie's not Andrew's!