OK so WHUFC got the Olympic Stadium for £2.5m a year....and that includes the stewards, the coppers and the corner flags.

But what about us - the West ham Fans? The Founders as we are known ALL OVER the WHUFC website. This isn't Upton Park…and it ain’t Sunderland where you can get your half time pie and a pint, change from three quid ….and they’ll still chuck in a bowl of water for your whippet.

…and this isn’t the Stratford we once knew - with it’s chippys, Mooro’s pub and Mr Byrite’s. This is post-Olympics Stratford…home of Westfield, Buttercups Cake Shop, the Armani store, and a Build-a-Bear workshop!

We are taxpayers too! We’ve been ripped off just as much as the next man. How are we gonna afford our half time sustenance?

We call on someone, anyone - David Gold?, David Sullivan?, Karen Brady? the LLDC, Barry Hearn? His dog? - to dip their hands (or paws) in their pockets and make sure that in our new place, while we are enjoying the dry floor at half time we have a bottle of cold Carlsberg and a nice Ginsters without forcing our kids out to work up the road at Waitrose.

We want to be able to stand there in our new Stadium, heads held high, claret and blue scarves waving aloft and sing:

"We’ve got Pi-es, Beer and Pi-es,

I just don’t think you understand,

They cost a lot down here,

More than at Wigan Pier,

We’ve got Beer and Pi-es"



Oh....and David Cameron, when you read this bear in mind this is one of the teams you support - West Ham.....not the other one Aston Villa. We know you sometimes get a bit mixed up.

Easily done. Same colours, just a different working-class accent.