• The Fighting Cock is a forum for fans of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Here you can discuss Spurs latest matches, our squad, tactics and any transfer news surrounding the club. Registration gives you access to all our forums (including 'Off Topic' discussion) and removes most of the adverts (you can remove them all via an account upgrade). You're here now, you might as well...

    Get involved!

Thanks to the trust....

Latest Spurs videos from Sky Sports

It's a joke, should have left it on the Saturday.

Now we play twice within 48 hours. Both are important games so doubt there will be massive changes from one game to the next. Only increases the chances of players picking up injuries. :-(

TV, FA, Premier League, whomever, have totally fucked us and West Ham over with this. Shambles.
 
Carlito Brigante said:
I heard they had it moved from nye??
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Wasn’t the real reason it was moved from NYE because the task of policing a London derby on a day when the majority of their resource is required elsewhere was going to be incredibly problematic.

Think there was also some pants happening at the arena next door too. Can’t imagine it being a nice experience for thousands of families to have to put up with wankered West Ham fans
 
ArmadilloSackRace said:
Wasn’t the real reason it was moved from NYE because the task of policing a London derby on a day when the majority of their resource is required elsewhere was going to be incredibly problematic.

Think there was also some pants happening at the arena next door too. Can’t imagine it being a nice experience for thousands of families to have to put up with wankered West Ham fans
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Can understand the problems with NYE but why not play the game son NYD as we always used to?
 
Ridiculous post by the OP. Moving the game had nothing to do with the Trust.

Sometimes people can be so quick to blame them without even bothering to get any of the facts.
 
Game was originally due to be played 30th. That went tits-up for a variety of reasons - primarily there were several performances of Peter Pan at Wembley Arena which would've bought children to the area for a London derby and clogged up the transport. Early on the 30th before Peter Pan was impossible because it would then clash with the Old Firm Derby, which has to have that slot to avoid heavy drinking and rioting in Glasgow.

When the TV selections were done Sky were therefore asked to move it away from the Saturday slot, and tried for New Year's Eve. This ran into major safety problems due to a lack of police and transport availability, which we tried to get around but were told we'd have to restrict capacity to 43k (ST holders and away fans only, no members or general sale).

By the time this was clear it was too late to move the Swansea game since tickets had been sold, travel booked etc for both home and away fans. That left tonight, or next Thursday. Tonight was probably worse for all parties - shorter notice for the club and fans with tickets not being sold until the date was confirmed, Sky already having a televised game, and the team having less rest, so next Thursday it was.

The ultimate blame for this probably lies with the club. Before the fixtures are compiled every club is meant to inform the league of dates they can't do for whatever reason, as well as any other requests they want to make. We should have seen the Peter Pan bookings at Wembley Arena and requested an away fixture in this slot, but with us playing away from our normal ground this was clearly missed resulting in this fiasco.
 
Nothing to do with the trust. All about Sky. They want the game on TV, don't have slots free Saturday, Monday Tuesday or Wednesday. And the police (quite rightly) said fuck off to West Ham Vs Spurs on NYE when you've got the rest of the capital to police as normal as well as Cardiff at Millwall
 
94Spurs94 said:
Game was originally due to be played 30th. That went tits-up for a variety of reasons - primarily there were several performances of Peter Pan at Wembley Arena which would've bought children to the area for a London derby and clogged up the transport. Early on the 30th before Peter Pan was impossible because it would then clash with the Old Firm Derby, which has to have that slot to avoid heavy drinking and rioting in Glasgow.

When the TV selections were done Sky were therefore asked to move it away from the Saturday slot, and tried for New Year's Eve. This ran into major safety problems due to a lack of police and transport availability, which we tried to get around but were told we'd have to restrict capacity to 43k (ST holders and away fans only, no members or general sale).

By the time this was clear it was too late to move the Swansea game since tickets had been sold, travel booked etc for both home and away fans. That left tonight, or next Thursday. Tonight was probably worse for all parties - shorter notice for the club and fans with tickets not being sold until the date was confirmed, Sky already having a televised game, and the team having less rest, so next Thursday it was.

The ultimate blame for this probably lies with the club. Before the fixtures are compiled every club is meant to inform the league of dates they can't do for whatever reason, as well as any other requests they want to make. We should have seen the Peter Pan bookings at Wembley Arena and requested an away fixture in this slot, but with us playing away from our normal ground this was clearly missed resulting in this fiasco.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...


As originally scheduled for 3pm Saturday perhaps Wembley Arena should not have put on Peter Pan!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top