Spurs to share with Hammers?
OLYMPIC STADIUM owners are still open to tottenham sharing the Stratford venue in 2017-18 with long-term tenants West Ham, with Spurs needing to move out of White Hart Lane while their new ground is built.
Spurs are understood to have held provisional talks with the London Legacy development Company 18 months ago about the possibility of a one-year tenancy, despite the fuss they caused threatening judicial reviews when West Ham were made the preferred bidder to rent a stadium that tottenham wanted to knock down and rebuild.
But a season at the Olympic Stadium looks the most sensible option for tottenham now that the Fa are set to prefer Chelsea’s threeyear relocation to Wembley from 2017-18.
and Spurs still have a strong case — with tax- payers’ money funding the Olympic Stadium build — to be given the same discounted rental agreement West Ham enjoy.
any of the 100,000-plus fans who attended the two Rugby World Cup games at the stadium over the last two nights can vouch for the cavernous Olympic site, with its huge footprint easily able to accommodate two Premier League clubs on a short-term basis.
West Ham are said to have no veto as the primary tenants but do have fixture-list priority, which Spurs could work around. the Premier League board would also have to sanction any potential groundshare.
a Spurs spokesman said: ‘We are looking at all options but Wembley is our preference.’
CHELSEA insiders expect the club to settle with estranged doctor Eva Carneiro (right) before any wrongful dismissal case reaches court. The club are so keen that no dirty linen is washed in public that even middlemanagement commercial staff have confidentiality clauses in their pay-offs. PELE, the world’s greatest ever footballer, certainly gave guests at London’s Halcyon Gallery value for their lunch ticket yesterday.
the 75- year- old Brazil icon, remarkably becoming more lucid the older he gets, said about being introduced to pop artist andy Warhol in New York: ‘I was thinking what position he played.’ and about his advertising of Viagra, he stressed: ‘I just did the commercials, I never used it.’
the Halcyon, where an exhibition is being held in Pele’s honour, are secretive about how much any of the eight Warhol silk- screen ink- oncanvas portraits of the icon fetch on the open market but the last one to change hands is understood to have cost more than £650,000.
ACRIMONY at the Solheim Cup between Europe and the USA — after Norway’s Suzann Pettersen claimed a hole when Alison Lee picked up her ball, believing the putt had been conceded — was forgotten during a far more friendly golf encounter between injured servicemen from the US and GB. The Brits, featuring seven limbless veterans, triumphed 9½-8½ in the Simpson Cup at Royal St George’s. ‘The spirit of endeavour and camaraderie shone through during the event,’ said a spokesman.