West Ham have called in the Metropolitan Police after Tottenham reportedly hired a private investigator to find out information about their rivals successful bid to take over the Stadium following the Olympics and Paralympics.

The Sunday Times reported last month that Dionne Knight, the director of coporate services at the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC), had carried out consultancy work, in a potential conflict of interest, on behalf of West Ham.

Knight is the long-term partner of Ian Tompkins, who had spearheaded West Ham's move to the Olympic Stadium.

Both are now suspended by their employers.

West Ham claimed last month that an independent barrister's inquiry had found the decision to award them the Olympic Stadium after London 2012 was not compromised because of a conflict of interests.

West Ham claimed that Tottenham have acted criminally over the affair. 

"I don't like the way they are behaving," Brady wrote in her colum in The Sun.

"When a club reportedly stoops to employ private detectives to dig dirt on another, they're discrediting the game and themselves.

"I've told police my phone has either been hacked or private records acquired in what I'm sure will be a frustrated attempt to blacken my name and West Ham's.

"The delay in confirming West Ham's move to the Olympic Stadium threatens to thwart the nation's bid to host the World Athletics Champions there in 2017."

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