Brady, appointed by the Premier League club's new owners David Gold and David Sullivan, is set to lead discussions with the Government and London Mayor Boris Johnson over West Ham taking over the Stadium at the end of the Olympics and Paralympics.

The arena is currently due to be reduced from its 80,000-capacity to a 25,000-seat athletics stadium but Brady wants West Ham to move there from its current home at Upton Park.

She said: "The target I find most bracing is to move the club away from the Boleyn, which does no more than serve a purpose, and take it to - where else? - the 2012 Olympic Stadium only a couple of miles away.

"Yes, I know all sorts of barriers have been erected against it but, as the old advert used to say, 'You know it makes sense'.

"It does so in so many positive ways that I think opponents of the move must be blind or a bit crazy.

"To have the guaranteed future use of a 55,000-capacity stadium by occupants who will regularly fill it must be the ideal answer for those who, rightly, demand a sporting legacy from the 2012 Games.

"Maybe our way is a short-cut to a new West Ham headquarters but to disqualify the stadium's only viable future that I know of is to make a bonfire of the dreams of thousands and thousands of people in our under-privileged area."

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