Why is the London Stadium's green carpet in Baku?

Got to admire the West Ham board for flogging our green carpet to the Olympic Stadium in Baku. Looking at the Europa League Final last night the stadium had an astonishing amount of vast open space covered by a dodgy green carpet. 

It made the London Stadium seem a compact hotbed of claustrophobic working class fervour. There was a gap behind one goal where you could have fitted a block of flats, and the pitch was closer to one stand than the other. Several twitter users compared it to a Subbuteo pitch. No sign of any retractable stands and a great example of how not to convert an athletics stadium for football.

But it was enjoyable seeing Robert Green do a John Terry and celebrate in full kit despite not playing a game for Chelsea this season. Though some commentators erroneously claimed that it was his first major honour, forgetting that he won the Championship Play-Off Final with West Ham in 2012 — the biggest honour in football.