Recent content by The_Captain

Word on the street is that for the test events the club vastly underestimated just how many fans would stay after the matches - certain areas were actually overcrowded (and that was at 3/4 capacity) and they sold out of a lot of the food and drink. Now I'm sure things will settle down when...

The £75m is from the first season at Wembley (I think at a cost of around £15m per season) - The final season at WHL (with a smaller capacity of 30,000 with one corner demolished) was around £45m or so - so maybe £50m adjusted if Spurs had just stayed at WHL instead of redeveloping. Another...

Technically speaking the £634m is a loan facility (extended from £400m in November) and it's not clear whether the club have spent all of that yet, or whether some of that is ear marked for future developments on the site (ie flats/hotel/extreme sports etc). Whatever is the case it's clear...

I think the main reason that Spurs fans have been emotional about returning home is down to the essence of being a football fan that attends their club week in, week out; the familiar sights, sounds and smells that instinctively conjure up memories. Like a few of you have said, you...

Thanks :) I've dug out the planning documents and it states "No more than 16 major non-association football events (greater than 10,000 visitors) shall be held per annum in the stadium of which no more than 6 shall be music concerts.". I'm guessing this is number is probably based around...

This is a more a problem with the uneven balance of money in football. The oil money has meant that it's very hard for a properly sustainable club to be able to compete. Spurs, and other clubs on the fringes like Everton were probably the big losers when Abramovich came along to rescue...

The problem with using any of the figures quoted is that they've all been massaged and tweaked for various means and ends, and the £1b figure that get's bandied around isn't necessarily as straight forward as it sounds, because it is taken to mean the whole of the Northumberland Development...

In a way you're both right - at least from memory I believe in the planning documents there was permission to stage unlimited events of up to a certain capacity, but for larger events, then, as you stay, you would need approval from the local council. I can't find it, so can't say what the...