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Hearn originally described the stadium as not for for football, but as soon as West Ham got the nod he then became interested and tried to groundshare and started to kick off. However that is merely a side issue compared to the incompetent mishandling of the stadium by those responsible for...

Orient could have had the stadium in it's initially planned reduced state with a capacity of 25,000 but Hearn didn't want it. His pathetic bleating once West Ham got the stadium was just face-saving bluster.

THIS in a nutshell. Following the successful partnership between the Commonwealth games and Manchester City there was already a good example to follow. Sadly the anti-football snobbery of Lord Coe and chums got in the way and we ended up in this situation. If planned sensibly from the beginning...