West Ham co-chairman David Gold has hit out after Spurs entered the running for the Olympic Stadium post-2012.
Gold and co-chairman David Sullivan expressed their interest in moving into the stadium in Stratford when they took over at Upton Park earlier this year.
The club's joint bid for the stadium with Newham Council was handed in to 10 Downing Street on Thursday by Scott Parker, Carlton Cole and Mark Noble after it was formally presented to the Olympic Park Legacy Company.
But Spurs have thrown a potential spanner in the works by registering their own interest in occupying the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Games.
This comes despite the club having their planning application for a new 56,250-seat stadium - dubbed the Northumberland Park Development Project - approved by Haringey Council on Thursday night.
Gold has now hit out at their interest in the Olympic Stadium in Stratford - which is likely to have 60,000 seats for football purposes.
He told the Daily Star: "Is it a ludicrous idea? It sounds like it to me.
"They have just got planning permission to build a new stadium. So what are they going to do, have one stadium for when it's sunny and another for when it's raining?"
Gold and co-chairman David Sullivan expressed their interest in moving into the stadium in Stratford when they took over at Upton Park earlier this year.
The club's joint bid for the stadium with Newham Council was handed in to 10 Downing Street on Thursday by Scott Parker, Carlton Cole and Mark Noble after it was formally presented to the Olympic Park Legacy Company.
But Spurs have thrown a potential spanner in the works by registering their own interest in occupying the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Games.
This comes despite the club having their planning application for a new 56,250-seat stadium - dubbed the Northumberland Park Development Project - approved by Haringey Council on Thursday night.
Gold has now hit out at their interest in the Olympic Stadium in Stratford - which is likely to have 60,000 seats for football purposes.
He told the Daily Star: "Is it a ludicrous idea? It sounds like it to me.
"They have just got planning permission to build a new stadium. So what are they going to do, have one stadium for when it's sunny and another for when it's raining?"
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