But with Rugby World Cup fixtures, community sports days and cultural events to be held there along with Hammers matches, the 54,000-seat bowl seems unlikely to gather dust.
Gerrard won two FA Cups, two League Cups and two Community Shields between 2001 and 2006, but every final was played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
And last year, just for fun, they organized what they called the Pillow Fight World Cup at a community center in Brooklyn.
If the FFA Cup is about community and uniting the tribes, there are few better stories than that of the Rudan family.
We want to be clear: the decision to reschedule the Rugby World Cup 2015 rugby community ticket sale underlines that priority.
Though he denies a career change is in the works, DJ Albo will next be on the decks at the Sydney Reclink Community Cup in Marrickville, Sydney, on 17 August.
The Ogilvy plan includes ideas for reaching an uninsured population that speaks dozens of languages and is scattered through 11 media markets: advertising on coffee cup sleeves at community colleges to reach adult students, for example, and at professional soccer matches to reach young Hispanic men.
Having fought out a 1-1 drawiththeireir Mickleover counterparts in a 1998 Derby Community Cup match, Hodder's side were forced to endure the trauma of losing the longest and arguably most tedious shootout in football history, having been edged out 2-1 anter astonishinging 66 kicks had been taken.
"So, we have this Capcom Cup, and the community has grown incredibly but, ten years ago, when we discussed making SFIV, it wasn't part of the vision.
