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Let's make the place feel like our home for the next 18 months. Surely it'll work to our benefit having the larger pitch to play on and get us used to the New Lane stadium size.
Why bother with this now, it's our first season back in the Champions League, let's not start talking negatively about us playing in front of 85,000 yids. We want to create an atmosphere for our team and intimidate whoever we play there.
Lineker has turned into a bellend, how about being a bit happy for us... Sorry I forget he only supports Leicester again, until they start playing like dog turd again.
Playing at Wembley could hinder Tottenham – Lineker
Date published: Tuesday 13th September 2016 8:28
Gary Lineker fears playing at Wembley could hurt Tottenham’s Champions League chances this season.
Spurs will host their home European games at the national stadium while White Hart Lane is being redeveloped, starting against Monaco on Wednesday night.
But north London rivals Woolwich struggled when they briefly relocated to Wembley in the late 1990s, winning just two and losing three of their six European fixtures, and former Spurs striker Lineker feels switching grounds will not help his old side.
“It will be interesting to see how the Wembley thing goes,” BT Sport presenter Lineker said. “I hear they have sold a lot of tickets which will be great.
“It’s big, of course it is, but a football pitch is a football pitch.
“It’s a hard one because it’s always been quite difficult to explain why home advantage is so important. It’s familiarity I suppose, and you do lose some familiarity when you play your own home games at a place where you don’t normally play.
“I don’t imagine it will help them, particularly, it will be interesting to see whether it harms them.
“It’s different because it’s not your home ground. Your home ground gives you comforts. You get in the dressing room, which you know, and you’re comfortable, and psychologically or subconsciously all these things add up.
“You walk out onto a pitch you’ve played on and you know where people are sitting and all those things added together give you that slight advantage.
“In terms of statistics it’s proved that it’s better to play at home than away. So if you are playing your home games kind of half away, you would suspect it might be a disadvantage.”
Lets see after the game where we are. Lineker is right in his views although he is talking for talking sake. He has to remember, we had home advantage when we lost our first ever home fixture, in Europe and he was up front. So it all depends on the night and how well we perform - its down to the players.
I feel we have lost home advantage 'as we know it' and Monaco will see it as a neutral venue. Lets not forget, they could rise to the occasion, playing at Wembley. They have started very well so it would be difficult where ever we play them. We need to worry about our game and get it tactically, spot on.
Yes lets.
Oh, we did.
We could have moved to the MK stadium and that would be so much bette- oh wait. No, that would still be away from home and we'd have about 50k less fans watching the team, but uhm....
Yeah. I'm not really sure what point Gary is trying to make here, and I'm not much of a fan of him at the best of times. "Playing at Wembley is like playing away from home", no shit, congrats.
He's just writing stuff to get £ , it's a nothing article in my eyes .
This is the way to deal with any criticism, negativity or biases against us. Win the games ahead, the seize mentality needs to kick in. We showed signs last season against Chavs when we rally as a gang and kicked them silly and we lost together and missed top spot. If we perform to our best, we will win-simple.
Maybe we could organise a riot outside with the locals, so the odd game could be postponed ?
We seem to perform better away from home. Teams who sit deep and compact on our small pitch frustrate us.
It's how it is though Wembley.
A few of our players are familiar with Wembley and we have been training there for a while. I would think the players are also studying reference points around the pitch.
Also, a bigger pitch maybe means we have more space to close down, but then our players also have more space and we can play our game better.
Anyway, Wembley is a different ground to what it was. It had a track around it when Woolwich played there, ST holders were upset with their views etc.
Oh, and out of curiosity
Did Stoke actually extend their pitch to the maximum this year like they said they were doing last season?
It's how it is though Wembley.
A few of our players are familiar with Wembley and we have been training there for a while. I would think the players are also studying reference points around the pitch.
Also, a bigger pitch maybe means we have more space to close down, but then our players also have more space and we can play our game better.
Anyway, Wembley is a different ground to what it was. It had a track around it when Woolwich played there, ST holders were upset with their views etc.
Oh, and out of curiosity
Did Stoke actually extend their pitch to the maximum this year like they said they were doing last season?
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They will do well. Counter football, crap in the PL, all efforts in the CL. They will meet thier objective which will be qualifying from the group.
Redknapp said the same thing that being at Wembley might be detrimental, he said the atmosphere at WHL was a positive and we'd miss that. But with the majority of Wembley being yids I can't see the atmosphere being an issue. He also said West Ham would play better at their new athletics ground.. and he's definitely got it wrong about them.
Roll on tomorrow evening.
Roll on tomorrow evening.
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Get 'em while they're hot... or until another 2000 tickets are released for GS!
EDIT: pairs of tickets are popping up all over the place now... returns, obviously, but I can't keep up.
I don't think we're gonna ever know if we've sold out before we get there tomorrow night!
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Who cares if playing at Wembley will be a disadvantage - to Dare is to Do !
The pitch dimensions 105x68 m is the same as the new stadium, and next years PL home games will probably be played there, so we might as well begin adapting ASAP - remember that the new stadium will also be "new" and different from "home" for the first number of games.
The pitch dimensions 105x68 m is the same as the new stadium, and next years PL home games will probably be played there, so we might as well begin adapting ASAP - remember that the new stadium will also be "new" and different from "home" for the first number of games.
“It’s big, of course it is, but a football pitch is a football pitch."
You can see why he gets the big bucks.
Really?
Why because he doesn't slavishly support the club he did a couple of seasons with - rather than his boyhood team that he played for - for 6-7 seasons?
Most of the points he made were logical and possibly relevant. Is he supposed to keep his opinions to himself to appease Spurs fans, or do what he gets paid to do?