Keeping up with the Jones’s!!!
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I was looking for the April fools day joke on Sky Sports News today……. I think I have found it, no, not that Alan “elbows” Shearer is going to manage the Trophy less ones until the end of the season.
No, its even funnier than that. The Spuds want a new stadium. And it’s going to hold 59,000 fans. Are they serious?
They spend £50 million pounds on players a year just to avoid relegation, yet now they want to build a £400 million pound stadium just to be like us.
How will they survive this move without a Wenger who spends under £2 million pounds a year net? They spend 10 times that on compensation for ex managers who have all failed to break into their “Holy Grail”, the top 4! Ha ha
Just to make things more interesting they are building on the site of White Hart Lane. So where are they going to play for 3 years? Maybe Wembley? I can just picture 32,000 Spuds huddling into the corner of Wembley on a cold Channel 4 Thursday night. It is going to be a sight for sore eyes. But a funny one at that!
This could be the last move made by the Spuds to join the Premiership elite because it is obvious they can’t compete on the pitch at the moment. If it all goes wrong it could spell the end of the Spuds as we know it.
gr8 post wrighty, loving the new site!
Not particularly a great post. And I don’t just say that as a Spurs supporter. Had you done any actual research into the plans for the new stadium, you might realise that they are going to build the new stadium just off of WHL, not on top of it, so that WHL will still be used whilst the new one is being built.
Also, we may spend £50million on new players, but we also sell players. And what with record profits recently (admittedly showing monies made before the ‘reacquisition’ of former players) who needs Wenger like abilities to be a miser. I readily admit I have no idea what is spent on compensation for old managers though.
It pains me to say it but Wenger is a great economist and real asset to football in general. But he, and Arsenal, have one business model that they follow, which does not necessarily mean that it is the only model. The fact that Tottenham are regularly in the top 20 richest clubs, and make decent profits, shows that you don’t have to be in the Champions league to have a big stadium, nor do you have to have an annual outlay of only £2million. Though I do find that number somewhat dubious, since I have never come across that figure before.
The terrible things about blogs is the are so often uninformed baseless opinion, when they can be so much more. This website tries to offer that, but this post is just a bit of a joke.
What I find surprising is that anyone would pay to sit watching a very poor team surrounded by equally poor supporters. The idea that 59,000 would choose to do so is mind-boggling.
Fickle supporters get the team they deserve.
I have no doubt that there are fervent Spuds, but the majority slag off their team to all and sundry. But I guess it must be painful to be the butt of all those jokes.
Leigh.. I wasn’t that interseted in spurs to do any reaseach..
Oh and you are going to build straight on top of WHL by the way, but the stadium is going to be done in a way that WHL can still be used whilst the new one is being built.
http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/uploads/assets/docstore/THS_32+4pp_Booklet_AW.pdf … page 14….
Oh and has for net spending.. in the years that the Emirates was being built Wenger has made a profit in the transfer windows..
Although I appreiciate that spurs sell players and buy more, they also buy all the players back they sold in the first place.. lol
i might be wrong here but when we play CC games we get 45000+ in just to watch the kids…
yet when spurs play in UEFA….they stuggle to get 30000…..
how on earth are they going to fill a 59000seater????
as we gooners are aware it takes time to settle into new suroundings….you need to be a stable club to cope with it…
spurs are far from stable, they change their squad and their manager every season just to be safe in mid table and a new stadium will just be like playing 38 away games for them…..they’ll go down the same season……
I think Tottenham would struggle to fill a 59,000 stadium on a regular basis.
Of course they would get it for us, Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool or maybe Nantes in the UEFA Cup but not for any other game.
Jon Jon
I am sure you are right. But with all things Spud, they will be telling us how their stadium is a vast improvement upon THOF, until the team are playing shite and we return to the ‘what is the point of paying for this shitty stadium when the team is pants. I am not paying £4 for a cream cheese bagel’ etc etc
Well, more banging on from gooners … what a suprise … go back to sarrrf london where u belong
At the moment Spurs sell out virtually every game – the need for a bigger stadium is obvious. I’d question this idea you should sell out a Stadium for every match , this only started when stadia were converted to all seater. If you think about it, if you fill the ground for the minor games the stadium is too small as you will get a much bigger gate for an attractive fixture. The costs of running a stadium are virtually the same regardless of the size of the ground so it makes sense to build a decent sized stadium. In fact the capacity will not be that much greater than the old ground before all seating came in.
The business model for rebuilding White Hart Lane is rather different to the Emirates. Arsenal are reliant on property sales to repay debt while Spurs are dealing with much lower land values (they already own most of the land). Which works better depends on the economy over the next few years.
Arsenal was in North London first.. Tottenham was in Middlesex until 1965..
Avenell, thats a ridiculous statement at best. Tottenham moved into White Hart Lane ground in 1899 and bought the freehold to the land in 1905. A new main stand was opened on September 11th 1909 for the visit of Manchester United. Arsenal, on the other hand, only moved into North London in 1913.
Curious fact of life is that the Spurs rebuilding programme has been very carefully thought-through, unlike many of the rather juvenile comments offered in a decidedly flippant way by young Mr Avenall …. easy to check this out – either download the pdf or visit the exhibition, and speak to the consultants who developed it. And our fanbase is very secure, thank you, having been developed in adversity a s well as triumphrather than being stuffed full of middle class johnny-come-latelies who neither know nor care much about football, and eat in the sweet bijou cafes of Highbury and Upper Street. Our catering will no doubt be the same as the Arse and the other sub-MacDonalds around football stadia, except we won’t have prawn sandwiches especially calibrated to ensure silence save for polite hand-clapping as you tippy-toe around deciding who dares to take a shot.Instead I hope there will be bagels and action, and our supporters will be close enough to the pitch to be in contact with it. Another good piece of news is that having supporters closer to the action will put Arse Wanker even closer when he visits – and so able to see some of the fouls he misses at the Emirates as a result of being too far away from reality …
How can you talk about our fanbase! lol pretty laughable to be honest looking at your shitty attempt at banter… fact of the matter is the best home fans in the prem are spurs and stoke, soon to be joined by wolves who also have class fans and the best away are man u and spurs. All arsenal fans i know of have never been to a game, they have seen your south london shit on sky sports news watching as a kid, and decided to support them because they won that particular match. You may well have a larger fan base, but your fans have either A. never seen arsenal play live B. are frogs who have come into england and tug over wenger or C. are foreigners who have seen arsenal highlights on EgyptianSportsChannel and decided to support you. You have very few real fans, and never will. ‘Fans’ at best, using the word supporters would be a joke.
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Avenell is absolute quality – shows himslef up for what he is – a know nothing gooner mug. We own all of the surronding lane where the new stadium is to be built, during these financial times the cost of the raw materials is lower, keeping building costs lower, we’re not banking on selling some s**t shoe box apartments on our old ground to finance the deal.
We have a long season ticket waiting list. and a very healthy fan base, a true fan base not m,ade up of little children who saw you win a few games and latched on or some dumb eurotrash who watched you on canal+
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