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Mayor of London: “Support West Ham!”

May 13, 2026 at 11:04 am Leave a comment

Strange things are happening: The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan urges Londoners to support West Ham to prevent the City of London from losing £2,5m of stadium rent per year. The annual amount to be paid by West Ham would be reduced if the east London club was relegated from the Premier League.

After their controversial 0-1 defeat to Arsenal (with a goal in injury time ruled out by VAR) and Spurs’ 1– 1 draw with Leeds on Monday night, the Hammers are now 2 points behind Spurs with only two more games to play.

Meanwhile Hull have defeated Millwall in the semifinals of the PL promotion play-offs and will now play Southampton in the final on 23 May to decide which club will follow Coventry and Ipswich to the Premier League. Well, if the Saints aren’t expelled from the final by an independent commission which will be ruling on a member of their staff spying at their semifinal opponents Middlesbrough‘s training ground.

And also the title race in England as well as in Scotland is going to be a thriller this year with everything going down to the wire in the last round. By the way, “Hollywood owned” club Wrexham has lost out on qualifying for the play-offs with a 2-2 draw against Middlesbrough on the last day of the season and now cannot add an other promotion to their back-to-back-to-back promotions from National League to the Championship, but a seventh-place finish in their first campaign in the second tier in 43 years is the highest in their history…

Update: On Thursday, just four days prior to the play-off final, the independent commission ruled that Saints have broken multiple regulations and expelled them from the play-offs after admitting they spied on three clubs in the Championship season. They will lodge an appeal, but if an appeal decision can be reached before the following weekend remains to be seen…

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