The Baroness speaks..and it’s about her!
The Baroness speaks..
In a recent interview with The Daily Telegraph, Brady says securing the former Olympic Stadium for West Ham and the subsequent move there is her biggest ever professional accomplishment.
And then she goes onto claim that West Ham’s recent success under David Moyes has all stemmed from the fact she secured that move.
“Securing the Olympic Stadium as West Ham’s new home in 2013, and we moved in in 2016,” Brady said.
“When we moved in, we dreamed of European nights in front of sell-out crowds and that’s exactly what we’ve achieved.
“We’ve got a 62,500 sold-out capacity. We’re the 14th most valuable football club in the world, the seventh in the Premier League.
“We’ve got the third biggest stadium and a turnover of more than £152 million, so all of those things stemmed from securing that stadium for our future and that’s probably my proudest business achievement.”
It was an extremely bold claim and then some.
Especially considering what has happened since from in-fighting on the terraces and problems with stewards to protests and pitch invasions with discontent over the stadium move at the very heart of the ill-feeling.
One disgruntled fan was infamously tackled to the ground by former West Ham captain turned sporting director Mark Noble.
The ex skipper has recently said the stadium move was anything but the most successful stadium migration in history.
Nevertheless, there have been big improvements made in the years since, such as squaring off the stands behind the goals.
And it is now starting to feel more like home as winning a first major trophy in 43 years will certainly help with that process too.
