Morton's Fork dilemna for fans

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Morton's Fork dilemna for fans

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Just come across the phrase 'Morton's Fork' which apparently means a choice between two equally unpleasant alternatives.

In some ways this describes our dilemna viz the Olympic Stadium.

Although I don't want to move there, the worst outcome would be for Sp*rs to move there.

So, in some ways, was it an act of genius Machiaevellian Gullivans to behind-the-scenes get Sp*rs interested in the site - or fluke?

Anyway, I'm struggling to find a word or phrase which describes our situation - as we are now seemingly accepting one bad alternative to avoid an even worse alternative - but it's arriving at a choice, an option, an outcome that we wouldn't have wanted in the first place.

So, it's a bit of an Hobson's Choice - i.e. no real choice at all - but it's not that syndrome either.

Any suggestions for a word or term describing the dilemna we face?
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But literally 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' means "Atoning for educability through delicate beauty".

Yet our situation seems the opposite of this. Could saying it backwards like Mary Poppins did in the film - 'dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus' - be more appropriate?
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Morton's Fork is similar to Hobson's Choice.

For me, the OS result was a Phyrric victory.
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Seems like getting Spurs involved in the bidding process might have been a cunning idea by the OPLC to give West Ham less bargaining power and to also get more West Ham fans behind the idea of a move.
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