Someone did say Levy's Spurs through and through on the last page.
I'm not usually this argumentative, so apologies for being so angry, but the Stratford thing really, really gets me.
It really angered me at the time, that whilst there was uproar from the fans online and with songs at away games, only 200-250 came to the largest of the protests organised. People were literally preferring to have a pint before the game rather than protest, and others were going round the pub almost trying to drag them out onto the High Road. It pissed me off, and still does, that our support had become so uncaring. And now, it pisses me off that people are just sweeping the whole thing under the carpet as if it never happened. So that's why I'm reacting in this way.
At that point we may have been chosen as the preferred bidder, and the only thing that would have stopped it would have been 10,000 yids protesting at that United home game before the decision was made. As it was Levy could say (as he did) that it was a small minority opposed to it. I think you're right that the majority were probably against it, but largely people were just so insouciant and apathetic, whilst I think quite a lot of people would have secretly been OK with it because it would have been good for winning trophies.
I've seen no evidence as to this idea that Levy was using it for leverage, and no one has answered my point that were this the case, why would he have been spying on West Ham and their bid? The comparison to Vinny Tan is very apt; both men would have destroyed a part of their club's identity in the pursuit of an economic advantage.
But you and others will probably think what you like, so I'm happy to leave it.
I don't know what the next threat will be to us, possibly it won't be from Levy but from other money man. I just hope there will be more than 250 of us there to try and stop it next time.