New Stadium

[John Thomas]

Absolutely no fucking way we're not in before October.

If I'd posted on here last May, when everyone started eagerly shelling out on therir new season tickets, that we'd still be at Wembley 9 months later, you'd have said exactly the same thing.

 

[Fattynomates]

If I'd posted on here last May, when everyone started eagerly shelling out on therir new season tickets, that we'd still be at Wembley 9 months later, you'd have said exactly the same thing.

I guarantee we will be in before October, unfortunately I’m just not sure what year it will be!

 

[acripaul]

Money-wise, something tells me that critical safety systems are the thing to specialise on in the forthcoming years.

Or to be precise, retrospective repair of faulty or badly installed critical safety systems.

In football stadia.

In north London.

In 2019.

 

[pjohn5]

 

[mouse]

If I'd posted on here last May, when everyone started eagerly shelling out on therir new season tickets, that we'd still be at Wembley 9 months later, you'd have said exactly the same thing.

 

[Wolf]

Big shout out to these guys , fuck knows how they blagged tickets for this.

 

[ElTel]

Can I just say, appreciate there maybe some superficial similarities, but Berlin airport is entirely different and a totally unfair comparison.

Berlin is widely considered to be the worst major project in recent history, having failed on virtually every metric and for pretty much every stakeholder involved.

The progress at Spurs stadium has been rapid, as anyone in the construction and engineering game will tell you. When I went to visit the site last summer the PM team were already talking February even through the club was still talking about October publicly. There are all sorts of reasons for not being open and honest on big public projects, it rarely does you any favours.

The safety system issue is a real one and has added a bit of time, its true. Otherwise however, to develop a building of that complexity in a constrained site at such speed has been pretty impressive. Not perfect, but far from being a disaster,and a million times better than Berlin.

Yes it's a superficial comparison. My point was that our stadium in most respects looks ready to open and has done for a while but it cannot because of the safety systems. Berlin airport was finished, gleaming and ready to open in 2012 but that had ho be called off initially because of the safety systems and since then all sorts of other issues have been discovered and just look at how much time has passed. It's not normal

Our stadium has been built in very quickly and that is to be applauded, but as yet we don't know what other issues may appear before the club are given the ok to officially open. Health and safety may find other things they are not happy with. Because the stadium has been built so quickly how do we know builders and installers didn't make other mistakes. Maybe even deliberately because fans of rival clubs were working on the project.

The fact that now someone is daring to say that we may not be in till October is remarkable. As remarkable as it was back in September last year when people were saying we wouldn't be in for the whole of this season and yet here we are heading towards the end of January still no nearer to knowing when we are moving in.

 

[Steed_Train]

Bored of looking at pictures of it now.

Just want this debacle over

 

[sammyspurs]

If I'd posted on here last May, when everyone started eagerly shelling out on therir new season tickets, that we'd still be at Wembley 9 months later, you'd have said exactly the same thing.

What if you posted in May 2013 that it was a hoax though

 

[BernardMatthews]

Big shout out to these guys , fuck knows how they blagged tickets for this.

Just open to box holders I believe.

 

[John Thomas]

What if you posted in May 2013 that it was a hoax though

 

[Arthur Wensleydale]

I've seen enough fucking photos, get me in there.

 

[Thin Lilywhite Duke]

Big shout out to these guys , fuck knows how they blagged tickets for this.

Why does no-one hold their phone in the FUCKING LANDSCAPE MODE?


Had a flick through. They shout chants occasionally and the echo sounded very promising in terms of holding sound inside the ground.

 

[gaz]

 

[Thin Lilywhite Duke]

 

[Spursidol]

 

[CroSpurs]

 

[ArtyB]

Blue and Yellow!!!! So that's what he meant!!!!

 

[MemphisWill]

Blue and Yellow!!!! So that's what he meant!!!!

The apologies line is gonna be friggin massive

 

[SouthStand Billy]

Blue and Yellow!!!! So that's what he meant!!!!

It means the stadium won’t be ready until 2021 and Poch is going to Man Utd and taking Kane, Dele and Eriksen with him..

This being a football journalist malarkey is a piece of piss.