Gold claims 70 per cent OS backing

Co-Chairman David Gold has claimed that 70 per cent of West Ham United fans back the club's proposed move to Stratford - despite the latest KUMB.com poll showing just one in five support the move.

Our latest poll (our fourth since the current board announced their intentions to move to the Olympic Stadium), conducted in February and March, resulted in just 21 PER CENT of voters backing the move to Stratford - with a whopping 61 PER CENT voting against the board's plans to move West Ham to the £500million stadium.

Indeed, the highest backing received in any of our four polls was 57 per cent in our January 2011 poll - 13 per cent less than the figure claimed by Gold, speaking in an interview with LBC last night.

"Most of the surveys have shown that 70 per cent of our fan base want to move to the Olympic Stadium," he claimed. "But it's the 30 per cent I want to persuade - and if I could, I know I could. I know I could change that 70 per cent to 95 per cent if I were allowed to share with them all the things that we are aware of.

"All my memories are at Upton Park so there's no way that I wanted to go to the Olympic Stadium. But as I saw the way the stadium was being developed and all the things that I am aware of now [I know that] this will be an iconic stadium, a World-class football stadium.

"You're never going to persuade everybody but I've become a great fan and I now want to go to the Olympic Stadium, despite all the memories I have of Upton Park. I'm sure that will be the case [for all fans] once we can reveal the details."