The New Stadium? (anag. 3 words)

Okay I should declare two interests: firstly as a lifelong fourth generation Hammer it's 'my club' and secondly five generations of my maternal Grandfather's family came from Stratford - in fact my Mum's Dad was born less than half a mile from the site of the new Olympic Stadium.

Putting that to one side I can't help thinking that we have become a nation of the glass is half empty rather than the glass is half full brigade. Psychology works best we focusing on what you can do not what you can't, it works well in all aspects of life yet there are times when as a nation, or at least as a nation of radio listeners and journalists we lose sense of the positive and accentuate the negatives.

Tottenham's ideas for the legacy of the Stadium were an insult to not just the taxpayers of this country, the supporters of West Ham (moving across town a rivals 'manor' was plainly stupid), but to anybody who is struggling at the moment with the impact of the recession. Football lives in a bubble but to knock down something which was supposed to symbolise so much was morally repugnant to me, and some other people I have spoken to.

Is it the right move for West Ham? Time will tell. It will be a shame to leave the Boleyn for so many reasons but the old days of the 'chicken run', North and South banks and the West stand being responsible for so much atmosphere and so much hostility to both our players and the opposition vanished when the ground was refurbished. The gap between the crowd and the touchline is only one metre different to that at the new ground, the gaps at either end are of course considerably greater.

We've heard about Juventus, Espanyol and Bayern Munich all moving out of their 'athletic track' grounds and yet the reasons for the moves have been ignored, as if somebody has pointed a finger and said, "look, athletics track, bad ground." Bayern Munich occupied the old Grundwalder Stadium from 1925 until 1972 when they moved into the new Olympic Stadium . At that point in their history Bayern had won three Bundesliga titles, when they left the Olympic Stadium for the new Allianz Arena in 2005 they had won a further seventeen titles, plus they had appeared in eight European Cup/Champions League finals - all this with 60,000 plus turning up for the home games at a ground with an athletics track. Bayern asked the state of Bavaria and the city of Munich for permission to build a new stadium for two main reasons, firstly the open bowl design meant the ground was very cold during the winter and secondly because the stands didn't cover all of the seating you got wet for your troubles when supporting the club. The distance between spectator and pitch was a long way behind and only surfaced once the architect had declared that it wasn't possible to modify the existing structure to enclose the ground.

And of course the old Wembley had a greyhound track around it and we managed to win a World Cup there and still get misty eyed over its heritage.

Oh, the answer to the opening clue is of course West Ham United.