Spurs new stadium | Loses NFL for 2020 but gains appearance in Gangs of London £££

[ClaytonBlackmoorLeftPeg]

Yep! It's as generic as can be, too. It hurts when I see United fans seemingly jealous when we have Old Trafford. It may be old, but I love it's unique look and the fact that it looks old adds a charm to it that not many stadiums have.

Has anyone been to Spurs' stadium here? I haven't, but my brother did when he was back in Manchester visiting from Seoul and wasn't impressed.

I think a lot of people are impressed with the stadium, and to an extent rightly so.

But much like when you see a new build house, you have to ask what personality will it have in 20 years time when the shine comes off? Newer stadia will be built that are shinier, bigger and have other fads like tennis courts or grape rooms... and it will be mediocre in a generation.

I much prefer something truly innovative or historic with personality.

 

[TheMagicFoolBus]

Serge Gnabry has now scored as many goals in Spurs' new stadium as Harry Kane

 

[SteveJ]

Cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

 

[awop]

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Got to say it looks pretty impressive from an engineering point of view. 2-7.

 

[The Firestarter]

New spurs manager goes to buy cheese at NWHL:

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[Ooh2B]

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Got to say it looks pretty impressive from an engineering point of view. 2-7.

so the other night was purely to test the scoreboard out for NFL scorelines... Or Bayern thought they were playing American footy?

 

[GlastonSpur]

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[izzydiggler]

Was at the game today. Hell of a stadium.

 

[GlastonSpur]

Good write up in the Telegraph of the 1st ever NFL game in our stadium:

"It’s 3.30pm on a Sunday afternoon and Seven Sisters Road is a procession of American Football shirts. A man in a 15-year-old Brian Urlacher Bears jersey and his friend, wearing Josh Jacobs’ brand new Raiders shirt, walk shoulder-to-shoulder past a dodgy kebab shop. A family of Patriots fans pop into a Lycamobile newsagent for some water and fizzy drinks. A British woman in a Jaguars jersey jokes about sixth-round rookie quarterback Gardner Minshew with a man who’s flown over from Chicago to watch his favourite team.

None of this is a strange sight in London anymore - the NFL has been embedded in a small corner of British culture for well over a decade. The difference is it now has a home.

Tottenham’s magnificent new stadium is the first ever to be purpose built for American Football outside of the United States.

When you look at the glistening glass exterior, emblazoned with the logos and quarterbacks of the travelling teams, with its very own NFL store and its tailgating park, you could be forgiven for thinking you’re in Atlanta or Dallas, and yet the atmosphere - and the rain which fell as the crowds made their way through the turnstiles - is still distinctly British. It feels like everything the NFL has tried to bring to the UK - both the culmination of years of hard work and the first step of a giant revolution to come.

The transformation from football; English to football; American is so complete that when you take your seat it is hard to imagine Harry Kane and Christian Eriksen trotting out of the tunnel every other week. This feels like a real NFL stadium, worthy of any of the league’s finest franchises. The field itself is ever present, just hidden by the retractable football pitch. There are separate, larger dressing rooms for American football, the big screens replay every down in vibrant detail and the atmosphere, with no disrespect to Wembley, was on another level to what we’ve experienced in this country before.
It was helped by a far more partisan crowd. While jerseys from all 32 teams were present, as always, they may have been outnumbered by Bears and Raiders shirts. Bears fans in particular - a combination of die-hard Chicagoans and British converts to one of the sport’s most storied franchises - were raucous. Derek Carr must have struggled to make his commands heard on third down, so deafening was the crowd, and the stadium reached fever pitch on one especially exhilarating play, when Bears running back Tarik Cohen exploded for a 71-yard punt return.

Bears head coach Matt Nagy was understandably prickly after the game, considering the way his team let the result slip through their fingers, but couldn’t help but glow when asked about the setting.

“Beautiful, absolutely gorgeous,” he said. “I mean, it’s the first thing you do, you walk in here and you just see it. It’s state of the art. It’s top notch. You talk about doing things the right way, I mean it blows you away. It’s absolutely phenomenal.”

A setting worthy of its very own, permanent NFL franchise? It’s hard to argue against it. Until now the London series has always felt like American Football visiting Britain. On Sunday it felt like it was truly belonged. It felt like it was home."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/america...-stadium-allows-nfl-have-home-britain-rather/

 

[Rooney in Paris]

You're weird

 

[Classical Mechanic]

The opinion of a professional egg chasing Yank is not one to be valued.

 

[Acrobat7]

We found Gla27on!

 

[adexkola]

I'd go see an NFL game in London. Know a few people here who are flying over exclusively for this.

 

[RobinLFC]

I'd go see an NFL game in London. Know a few people here who are flying over exclusively for this.

Yeah, I had friends at the game yesterday and they all said the stadium was amazing. Definitely gonna try to buy tickets for the London series next year if the games are any decent.

 

[sincher]

I'll take Pochettino's positivity over Mourinho's throwing-his-players-under-the-bus.

Oh dear.

 

[blue blue]

Oh dear.

He didn't mean it.
What he meant to say was that Mourinho's the best thing since sliced bread and the club would win silverware if they employed him.

 

[GlastonSpur]

Spurs stadium likely to host the next Anthony Joshua world title fight: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/51405514

Should be a nice additional boost to our coffers if it happens.

 

[GlastonSpur]

One other bit of news, that might interest some:

"Richard Hammond’s Big" - Episode 6, on the Discovery Channel, Feb 19th @ 9pm: Super Stadium

"Richard explores the huge Tottenham Hotspur Football Stadium in London. He explores a pitch that splits and rolls away and takes a terrifying walk on the stadium roof!"

https://www.discoveryuk.com/series/richard-hammonds-big/

 

[Random Task]

One other bit of news, that might interest some:

"Richard Hammond’s Big" - Episode 6, on the Discovery Channel, Feb 19th @ 9pm: Super Stadium

"Richard explores the huge Tottenham Hotspur Football Stadium in London. He explores a pitch that splits and rolls away and takes a terrifying walk on the stadium roof!"

https://www.discoveryuk.com/series/richard-hammonds-big/

Why is it on the Discovery channel?

Any news on the cheese room?

Finally, was it intended to make the new stadium look like a toilet bowl or a design flaw that got overlooked?

 

[Don Juan Matus]

One other bit of news, that might interest some:

"Richard Hammond’s Big" - Episode 6, on the Discovery Channel, Feb 19th @ 9pm: Super Stadium

"Richard explores the huge Tottenham Hotspur Football Stadium in London. He explores a pitch that splits and rolls away and takes a terrifying walk on the stadium roof!"

https://www.discoveryuk.com/series/richard-hammonds-big/

I seriously worry about you sometimes brother, you're the Arnold Rimmer of football forums..

 

[GlastonSpur]

On the thread's theme of "Open for business" ...

Another major music event is announced at Spurs' stadium: the Capital's Summertime Ball on Saturday 6 June 2020"

This follows on from the earlier announcement of two Guns N’ Roses concerts at the stadium on May 29th and May 30th.

 

[Adam-Utd]

On the thread's theme of "Open for business" ...

Another major music event is announced at Spurs' stadium: the Capital's Summertime Ball on Saturday 6 June 2020"

This follows on from the earlier announcement of two Guns N’ Roses concerts at the stadium on May 29th and May 30th.

Yeah but it'll never be the super league grand final will it?

 

[Offside]

Shite American-style 'arena' hosting shite American sports that nobody's interested in bar a few thousand pretentious wankers. Give me OT anyday.

 

[ClaytonBlackmoorLeftPeg]

Spurs stadium likely to host the next Anthony Joshua world title fight: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/51405514

Should be a nice additional boost to our coffers if it happens.

honestly no one cares. You only get a response because it’s east to call you out on your obsession with the stadium, and that you think it’s better than the second coming of Christ.

mind you having said all that, eating cheese and watching boxing sounds like fun.

 

[FrankDrebin]

Imagine boasting about your stadium concerning *reads post* A short Richard Hammond Documentary.

 

[GlastonSpur]

honestly no one cares. You only get a response because it’s east to call you out on your obsession with the stadium, and that you think it’s better than the second coming of Christ.

mind you having said all that, eating cheese and watching boxing sounds like fun.

They will care when the income figures from our stadium start rolling in and prove the significant financial benefits of building a multi-purpose stadium that can bring in money from a wide range of sporting and non-sporting events, week in, week out, across the entire year.

It's a trail-blazing stadium that has broken new ground that other Prem clubs will either eventually follow or wish they could.

 

[ClaytonBlackmoorLeftPeg]

They will care when the income figures from our stadium start rolling in and prove the significant financial benefits of building a multi-purpose stadium that can bring in money from a wide range of sporting and non-sporting events, week in, week out, across the entire year.

It's a trail-blazing stadium that has broken new ground that other Prem clubs will either eventually follow or wish they could.

you care. That’s clear.

no one else cares, seriously they don’t. I could go on, but I’m boring myself, like you must bore yourself. Although I suppose it’s good to have a hobby, or 2.66 hobbies.

 

[Pagh Wraith]

Maybe Glaston is a Kaggle algorithm to show the world how far machine learning has come.

 

[GlastonSpur]

"From Premier League and NFL matches to Guns N' Roses concerts and even Anthony Joshua's next fight... how Spurs' £1bn stadium has become go-to venue for sports and entertainment industry"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...dium-venue-sports-entertainment-industry.html

Again, this is for those interested in the subject of football club stadia and their future possible direction. If you're not interested in this subject, then you can always just walk on by ...

 

[redman5]

"From Premier League and NFL matches to Guns N' Roses concerts and even Anthony Joshua's next fight... how Spurs' £1bn stadium has become go-to venue for sports and entertainment industry"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...dium-venue-sports-entertainment-industry.html

Again, this is for those interested in the subject of football club stadia and their future possible direction. If you're not interested in this subject, then you can always just walk on by ...

Very impressive. Do season ticket holders get discount & priority for any of the big events or shows that take place there ?

 

[Classical Mechanic]

"From Premier League and NFL matches to Guns N' Roses concerts and even Anthony Joshua's next fight... how Spurs' £1bn stadium has become go-to venue for sports and entertainment industry"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...dium-venue-sports-entertainment-industry.html

Again, this is for those interested in the subject of football club stadia and their future possible direction. If you're not interested in this subject, then you can always just walk on by ...

Yeah, why has no club thought of hosting other events in their stadium before. I went to bloody Songs of Praise at Old Trafford in about 1993.

 

[GlastonSpur]

Very impressive. Do season ticket holders get discount & priority for any of the big events or shows that take place there ?

It's a good question, to which I don't know the answer.

 

[GlastonSpur]

Yeah, why has no club thought of hosting other events in their stadium before. I went to bloody Songs of Praise at Old Trafford in about bloody 1993. Beat that Einstein.

OK. But the main point re. Spurs' stadium - aside from the numerous peripheral facilities like excellent wifi, the large video screens and many different types of places to eat and drink - is that all of these big events can take place without damaging the football pitch ... because it's retracted to reveal a different surface underneath.

And therefore any number of these events can take place on non-match days (or even on the same day after the football match has finished).

 

[simonhch]

I was watching the highlights from the Spurs game a week ago or so and noticed how on every tier they have digital hoardings flashing up “come on you Spurs”. Ring after ring of it from the pitch to the top tiers. So fecking cringe. It’s American in the extreme. Looked like an NBA game. Next they’ll be chanting “defence! Defence!” Every time the opposition attack. Although in fairness, the longer Mourinho stays the more apt that’ll become.

And in terms of stadium use, please show me a football fan that really cares if their club can host monster truck events between matches, or has a cheese bar. Most just want a good team. The rest is just corporate noise and antithetical to the rewards of being a supporter.

 

[horsechoker]

I was watching the highlights from the Spurs game a week ago or so and noticed how on every tier they have digital hoardings flashing up “come on you Spurs”. Ring after ring of it from the pitch to the top tiers. So fecking cringe. It’s American in the extreme. Looked like an NBA game. Next they’ll be chanting “defence! Defence!” Every time the opposition attack. Although in fairness, the longer Mourinho stays the more apt that’ll become.

And in terms of stadium use, please show me a football fan that really cares if their club can host monster truck events between matches, or has a cheese bar. Most just want a good team. The rest is just corporate noise and antithetical to the rewards of being a supporter.

Moreover its nothing new, clubs have used their stadiums for other events. Even Arsenal have hosted concerts and the like, so it's not even new in North London.

It's a fantastic stadium and it's being used how it should be but what matters is what spurs do on the field.

 

[GlastonSpur]

… in terms of stadium use, please show me a football fan that really cares if their club can host monster truck events between matches, or has a cheese bar. Most just want a good team. The rest is just corporate noise and antithetical to the rewards of being a supporter.

You miss the point: it's not the hosting of "monster truck events" (or whatever) that Spurs fans care about.

What do they do care about is the extra (and significant) financial revenue - which is far more than just "corporate noise" - that all this brings into the club ... money that (we hope) can and will be invested into the playing squad.

 

[Mindhunter]

You miss the point: it's not the hosting of "monster truck events" (or whatever) that Spurs fans care about.

What do they do care about is the extra (and significant) financial revenue - which is far more that just "corporate noise" - that all this brings into the club ... money that (we hope) can and will be invested into the playing squad.

Why though? So that they can get results on the pitch. Right?

That’s what everyone else is saying here. Fair play to you trying to wave your shiny new toy in front of United fans and extolling it’s benefits. Don’t expect them to agree with you.

As others have said, the proof will be in the pudding. If Spurs lands the next superstars then fans will be purring. Else, these events will look like a distraction. Also, if you are not careful, it may also become the main event.

 

[simonhch]

You miss the point: it's not the hosting of "monster truck events" (or whatever) that Spurs fans care about.

What do they do care about is the extra (and significant) financial revenue - which is far more that just "corporate noise" - that all this brings into the club ... money that (we hope) can and will be invested into the playing squad.

It’ll be a long time before there’s any net financial gain. Debt and interest payment is significant. And while events make money, they are also expensive to put on. The dailymail article doesn’t have any quantifiable financial facts. Just lists a few events from which revenues have to be split between the club, promotors, partners, and vendors. The stadium, while very nice, is a billion pound investment. The ROI on that is very long term. It’s not funding any investment in the playing squad in the short or medium term future. In fact, if Spurs miss out on the CL, the debt obligations will restrict spending.

I’m not saying this to piss on your parade. Just, as a spurs fan, your expectations should be realistic.