Yeah, just goes to show the hypocrisy of it all! It was when he held up a Tottenham shirt and said that, I couldn't believe it! Gooners had a field day!
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Yeah, just goes to show the hypocrisy of it all! It was when he held up a Tottenham shirt and said that, I couldn't believe it! Gooners had a field day!
Did I just read that people believe that levy had no intention of moving to the Olympic Stadium?
I'm all for both sides of the arguement but that just plain daft .
Of course he wanted to go there if he could.
I'm all for both sides of the arguement but that just plain daft .
Of course he wanted to go there if he could.
Have you even been inside the OS ? "State of the art Stadium" stop talking bollocks. It is the most expensive prefab on the planet. It was built with one purpose in mind, to house an athletics tournament, then to be reduced in size to do the same thing again albeit on a much smaller scale.
Just because it cost £700+ million doesn't make it fit for purpose.
You can't polish a turd !
As for your Lottery win scenario, they will always be a council tenant in an estate where all the other residents are "Home Owners". They can't possibly compete. Once the initial curiosity factor subsides West Sham will pale into insignificance. They have set themselves up for commercial and on the field failure.
Gold, Sullivan and Brady have played a blinder. They have successfully asset stripped and Arse Fucked a relatively high profile Football Club right underneath everyone's noses. I have no doubt they will do very nicely, the club and its fanbase will not.
You are right on one thing Greaves, Levy hasn't fucked West Sham over directly, he is far too clever. He has used a 3 horse race (if you include the Orient) to lean on Haringey and the Mayors office to get his way (mostly). If anything we have potentially won the lottery by staying where we are and getting what we want, A purpose built Arena with the options of other non football based commercial activity that THFC will benefit from. Do you really think anyone will want to invest heavily and over a long term in a Athletics Stadium that is hired out to a Football Club approximately 20 ish times a season.
Short term thinking-long term failure.
Aaahhhh bless, you haven't been involved in the latest design plans? Mate I wouldn't stand for that. I mean, after all, you (and most of our fans) should be consulted with design options first so we can vote on whether we'd prefer a hot dog stand or coffee machine in block 42, right?
What sort of fanbase expects to be informed of every minor fucking detail in what is probably the most difficult and complicated stadium build in this country to date, given the land acquired, the opposition from council and certain businesses etc
It'd be 2050 before building started if they had a press release every time a decision needed making.
Seriously, I realise some transparency and communication is expected, but do we genuinely have fans that expect to be informed immediately of design changes?
I'd love to know another club/sports team that has done that.
This was awarded back in October - I don't know if anything has changed though.
http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2014/10/02/spurs-award-first-contract-on-400m-stadium/
Had we built a new stadium on the OS, as was the plan, (the plan wasn't to use the current stadium as at least one poster seems to think), I think it would have been cheaper, built quicker, and we would have benefited from the location, with both its infrastructure and nearness to the City, good for corporate hospitality I would imagine.
My guess would be it would have been worth between £200-400m for us, and for ENIC that would decided them, they would have chased the money. (As indeed they made it clear they were going for the OS option) And as an added bonus that would have fucked West Ham over, big-time.
Instead West Ham won, we lost, and it could be a turning point in the respective fortunes of our two clubs. West Ham were never to a threat to us at the Boleyn, they might now become one.
As for us, the stadium is still nowhere near built, we have the prospect of moving to Milton Keynes for a season or two, at some time in the future.
Have we raised sufficient finance for our new stadium yet, I don't know. Will the huge stadium cost impact on our spending on players, I don't know.
ENIC have been talking about the need to increase capacity/build a new stadium for well over ten years now, and still there is no definite completion date. Furthermore is Levy chasing NFL football now, and will that further delay matters with talk of 'retractable pitches' and the like. Whereas West Ham know pretty much for sure when they're moving in, and they're having a stadium built for them by the taxpayer. Nice work if you can get it.
My guess would be it would have been worth between £200-400m for us, and for ENIC that would decided them, they would have chased the money. (As indeed they made it clear they were going for the OS option) And as an added bonus that would have fucked West Ham over, big-time.
Instead West Ham won, we lost, and it could be a turning point in the respective fortunes of our two clubs. West Ham were never to a threat to us at the Boleyn, they might now become one.
As for us, the stadium is still nowhere near built, we have the prospect of moving to Milton Keynes for a season or two, at some time in the future.
Have we raised sufficient finance for our new stadium yet, I don't know. Will the huge stadium cost impact on our spending on players, I don't know.
ENIC have been talking about the need to increase capacity/build a new stadium for well over ten years now, and still there is no definite completion date. Furthermore is Levy chasing NFL football now, and will that further delay matters with talk of 'retractable pitches' and the like. Whereas West Ham know pretty much for sure when they're moving in, and they're having a stadium built for them by the taxpayer. Nice work if you can get it.
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More to the point though, why do us, as football fans, give a fuck who the building contracts are given to?
Am I missing something?
I just don't get it.
I'm a football fan, not an architectural enthusiast. WHO BUILT LILYWHITE HOUSE I NEED TO KNOW NOWWWWWW
Exactly.
Who built WHL? F**ked if I know
Fucked if I care.
If Spurs email me advising when the contract has been confirmed, I wouldn't even read it. Spam. Fuck off. Sign some players. That's what I care about.
Though I would draw the line at having the blokes from Auf wiedersehen pet building it.Or petrocelli for that matter..Did he ever finish his house?*
*One for us oldies
Well I suppose the awarding of contracts means that something is happening. That's not the same as giving a fuck about who gets them.
thing is, you cant do that until you know whats going to happen long term. archway might have been given leave to appeal again. they might have been able to tie the whole thing up for another 5-10 years. you cant award a main build contract until you get the permission to build. so it will most likely go to tender once the final designs are approved
Absolutely, I was just trying to point to something that indicated some forward thinking.
I think you may be missing something, yes.. This thread is about the NEW STADIUM and that does come squarely under Architecture. Plenty of Architects, Contractors, Plumbers, Ground workers are Spurs fans and ARE interested in this thread.
There are plenty of other threads on player transfers, paper gossip etc..........
Hasn't it been like that for 3-4 years already?
No mate it hasn't.
Okay. Got it now.
