West Ham beat Spurs for the right to move into the London 2012 showpiece, but the north London club challenged the Olympic Park Legacy Company's (OPLC) decision in the courts and the deal fell through 10 days ago. An anonymous complaint to the European Commission about the role of Newham Council's £40million loan in West Ham's bid is understood to be part of the reason why the agreement with the Hammers collapsed, and it has been rumoured that Spurs were behind that complaint. The club hit back at those suggestions, however, with a spokeswoman saying: "It was not us and it was not (rival bidder) Leyton Orient. The reason it wasn't us was because it would be totally illogical for us to go to a European court at a time when we were engaged in a legal process in the UK." The Olympic Stadium will now go back out to tender and the winner of the new vote will rent the venue on a yearly basis. West Ham and Leyton Orient have both said that they will apply for the tenancy, but Spurs are yet to comment on whether they will submit another application by the January deadline. The north London club are also in discussions with local and national government about building a new 66,000-seater stadium on the ground adjacent to their current home, White Hart Lane. The plan, known as the Northumberland Development Project (NDP), was launched in 2008, but was scrapped due to increased costs before being revived earlier this year. London mayor Boris Johnson recently offered Spurs a "take-it-or-leave-it" £17million offer in a bid to help Tottenham pay for the NDP.
