If they play more than half their home games at Wembley they shouldn't play at a different venue for the rest. The stadium can sit idle until next season.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
I can't even believe this is being considered, it makes a complete mockery of the league and the rules.
In fairness, Phil Jones was an insane talent when he was coming through at Blackburn and it is perhaps difficult now to remember just how in demand he was, by every single big club. He is still only 26! Couldn't believe that last week.
Frustrating about the stadium delays but ultimately, it is for a long term (100+ years realistically) structure so a few months here and there, while annoying, isn't too significant I guess. Though I know most football fans now struggle to see beyond a 3 week period of time so patience may be difficult to understand.
The focus on the other stuff is funny but a bit misplaced. Stuff like the cheese room will be nothing to do with the majority of fans. 30k Spurs fans won't be walking around chewing on the finest brie, its a corporate thing. That is ultimately a big money spinner for any club.
The lights are being tested and the hope is to be able to host concerts and other events quite regularly once it is open. If they do it for the beginning of games (I doubt they will), it will be an annoying Americanisation of the game but ultimately, Spurs are neither pioneers or even at the forefront of that aspect of football. And regardless, only small provincial clubs use lights pre match
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Might be delayed to Feb.
Oh dear, the fact that he's saying that in November isn't a good sign.
On the plus side it means there's a decent chance their first home game would be the NLD on 2 March. Make it happen Levy!
Probably their best option in terms of damage control from the stadium opening so late.
Losing to their rivals on the opening day that will forever be in the record books would be so Spursy.
A game hyped so much like that would probably end up 0-0.
Funnily enough was just outside the ground. It definitely wont be ready for January.
Club shop is open though. Swings and roundabouts.
Club shop is open though. Swings and roundabouts.
Ia the cheese room open?
The shame would be unbearable. Realitically they'd have no choice but to take the hit and wipe the slate clean. Dismantle the stadium and start again.
Have you perhaps seen some loony outside the stadium mumbling something about United finances? It's been nearly 1 page and I'm getting worried.
Sadly not, it is exactly the sort of thing you'd need when visiting a ground, been crying out for one for years.
Tottenham high road has many loonies stalking up and down it, so possibly.
The design team and project managers have a lot to answer for.
I seen an image of the stadium back in August and my gut feeling was that it was 6 months away from being finished. If that was clear to me just from images, why was the design team and PM’s spouting out totally unrealistic deadlines.
I seen an image of the stadium back in August and my gut feeling was that it was 6 months away from being finished. If that was clear to me just from images, why was the design team and PM’s spouting out totally unrealistic deadlines.
Specifically your looking for a grown man wearing Spurs PJ's and wearing a tin foil hat.
I expect the club fully knew about the issues. However, they have chosen to drip feed the issues to the public and most importantly the PL in order to get some matches played there this season. If they came clean in Aug and said the stadium won't be ready until Feb/ Mar the PL would have told them they need to play the whole season at Wembley.
It's clear they have deceived the PL and compromised the competition - and this was their intention from before the season started.
The opening must be getting closer now:
Tottenham Hotspur
@SpursOfficial
"We are delighted to be able to give 6,000 fans the chance to visit and explore the South Stand and podium areas at #SpursNewStadium during a specially-arranged familiarisation event on Sun Dec 16 (11am - 3pm)."
Tottenham Hotspur
@SpursOfficial "We are delighted to be able to give 6,000 fans the chance to visit and explore the South Stand and podium areas at #SpursNewStadium during a specially-arranged familiarisation event on Sun Dec 16 (11am - 3pm)."
So United to be the first away team to play at the new white hart lane going by the reports?The opening must be getting closer now:
Tottenham Hotspur
"We are delighted to be able to give 6,000 fans the chance to visit and explore the South Stand and podium areas at #SpursNewStadium during a specially-arranged familiarisation event on Sun Dec 16 (11am - 3pm)."
Spurs have even bottled moving into their own new stadium...
That is just so Tottenham.
That is just so Tottenham.
You can't blame Pochettino for having a phobia. He's frightened by the cheese room.
And rightly so, because when all is said and done there are few people who can look a Cornish Kern squarely in the eye.
Could well be. I hope so.
...'and that green bit over there is called the pitch'The opening must be getting closer now:
Tottenham Hotspur
"We are delighted to be able to give 6,000 fans the chance to visit and explore the South Stand and podium areas at #SpursNewStadium during a specially-arranged familiarisation event on Sun Dec 16 (11am - 3pm)."
I see how this panning out, if we get beaten in our first game “the new stadium will be cursed and the Club is doomed” if we win “we are cheating bastards”.
Which means it will end in a draw
Technically you should be allowed to play there from next season. Its not fair for those who are yet to play you at your 'home'
Actually I can see why other clubs are pissed off, and I don’t know how or why the FA allowed us... but honestly I don’t really care.
Yeah I don't see why any Spurs fan would care
Shame the sparks haven't been paid.The opening must be getting closer now:
Tottenham Hotspur
"We are delighted to be able to give 6,000 fans the chance to visit and explore the South Stand and podium areas at #SpursNewStadium during a specially-arranged familiarisation event on Sun Dec 16 (11am - 3pm)."
It was choice between them and extending the range of cheeses. No contest. Burrata doesn't come cheap.
Plus, Pochettino finds this particular variety more reassuring.
Soz mate, just had a text from an Arsenal supporting friend offering a few rounds on him after the massive bottle job you pulled yet again earlier today!
Should be a good one - enjoy your night
Spurs pulling a Trump and not paying contractors?
We're a club who win trophies, during our 'slide' we've won an FA Cup, Europa League and League Cup - that's more than you've won in 25 years, that's why you're famous as a 'bottling club'.
You feck things up when it matters most, you go from positions of apparent dominance to comical failure.
Your hilarious PL campaign the year when Foxes won it, for example - and your position of leading at Arse to where it ended up.
We finished above you, so you bottled it more? Not sure I follow.
This has been mentioned many times before, but Spurs were never closer than 5 points to Leicester, it was theirs to lose and they didn't. To bottle something you actually have to under-perform due to pressure and lose something that looked like a certain win. It was never ours to lose.
Sure, trophies would be nice, and I would love to win the FA cup or the league cup. But for me the EL is worth as much as the trophy you get for winning the championship, its a competition without all the best teams, how can anyone claim that it's a major trophy? May as well give the team that finish 7th in the league a trophy.
Ask Sevilla and Atletico Madrid how important the Europa League title is to them. It's a European trophy with the winner of the competition playing the Champions League winner in the UEFA Super Cup. Silverware is silverware.
Hilarious really. Zero piece of silverware since eternity and people still have the audacity to downplay winning a European trophy. The season we won it, Spurs were in the competition too. They got knocked out by genk or something but but the competition is for 'smaller' teams.
The difference is, we acknowledge when we are shit.
Some of you lot live in this Spurs Echo Chamber where everything is amazing and Spurs are “on the march!”.
You’ve been on about it for years yet you’ve won feck all. These aren’t exactly years you’ll remember forever, are they?
We’ve had those nights in Barcelona, Moscow, even the Europa League win v Ajax, numerous cup wins and of course all of them league titles to tell our kids about. Even when we’re shit, we win trophies.
What are you going to tell your kids about? That incredible cheese board at the new Spurs stadium?!
Get some perspective.
If they gave a trophy for seventh, Spurs would have a bigger trophy cabinet than United.
No need to put words in my mouth. I don't see much of this spurs echo chamber here.
I'm enjoying watching my team play. Just like Huddersfield fans or Bournemouth fans are enjoying watching their team play without winning any trophies.
I was giving my view on the EL. Feel free to disagree with my argument without bring in cheese, or what I would tell possible kids.
Just like getting knocked out of the CL gives a bigger chance of a trophy than qualifying for the knock out. I don't like it one bit. That's my point.
The arrogance is unbelievable
Just win anything, take your pick, you will then start to understand what it really means to fans, players, staff, club, city.Spurs v United confirmed to take place at Wembley.