Stadium Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

[Brian Fantana]

Get rid of VAR and I bet the stadium improves. Can’t celebrate goals properly. Have no idea if any decisions the refs make are final or correct. The product on the pitch is shit partly for this reason.

If we had the stadium open 5 or 10 years before we did I suspect it would be a vastly different place than now.

 

[CJJ]

Get rid of VAR and I bet the stadium improves. Can’t celebrate goals properly. Have no idea if any decisions the refs make are final or correct. The product on the pitch is shit partly for this reason.

If we had the stadium open 5 or 10 years before we did I suspect it would be a vastly different place than now.

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as thing seems to always be against us, COVID and lack of crowds landed at the exact right time it needed to to stop us (to a lesser extent, heysel bans were similar). people blame the stadium for ruining our progress at that time, but it was a perfect storm to neutralise both the momentum and the financial injection we needed at that exact moment in time.

"spurs have a new way to make money comparable to top 4 clubs? Let's prevent that model from generating money" said the universe.

 

[Perryman]

I’m guessing by your username the stadium has no real impact on the way you watch football?

I think when friends and family get priced out and it becomes clear the owners are showing more interest in real estate than the football team it’s normal to have a bit of nostalgia. And not be that happy with the experience of watching football at the new stadium.

WHL was falling apart and needed to be replaced.
Going to the new stadium is a different experience.

It’s just a shame all the promises abut the new stadium being a game changer could end up meaning the big change was us playing in the Championship.

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We are by no means the only ones doing this . Liverpool put an extra tier on the Anfield road end. 7k seats and only 1k went to season tickets. 6k corporate . They already have a large section of one of the main stands given to corporate , it’s the lower part of the stand which the cameras look straight at. Always half empty when the second half kicks off , still eating their food and drinking.
Similar capacity now to us. We have 42k season tickets , they have 26k. We are in London which is full of tourists, they are in a working class city as in Liverpool . I think we have 9k corporate seats.
Owners will argue, how can they pay ridiculous money for players combined with even more ridiculous wages ,
The money has to come from somewhere and more often than not it will be the supporters. Even City, with all their billions, are cracking down on season ticket attendance at games.
The cost of attending anything has gone stupid.
Last Ryder cup in Europe it was £200 plus for just an ordinary ticket to get on the course.
Next year in Ireland it is in euros but the equivalent is £434. Yes it’s a full day but that’s over the top

 

[AberdeenYid]

Get rid of VAR and I bet the stadium improves. Can’t celebrate goals properly. Have no idea if any decisions the refs make are final or correct. The product on the pitch is shit partly for this reason.

If we had the stadium open 5 or 10 years before we did I suspect it would be a vastly different place than now.

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Always a weird one for me. Any time we score, I cheer. Can’t help it. Always have done.

VAR now has just replaced the linesman’s flag, in that you were never really sure if a goal was a goal. I’d say a lot more goals get disallowed now, but can’t be sure. Even if so, I can never see a time where I’ll not cheers when the ball hits the net. My mind doesn’t work quickly enough to consider a VAR intervention.

 

[Sir Alfred Conn]

I loved the old stadium, it was home, especially on The Shelf but things did need to change.
The new stadium is amazing in every respect.
The issue to me is twofold.
1. Increasing the capacity has meant more tourists/ non die hard yids.
2. The stadium is being used for non football events.
The latter point takes me back to my main gripe. We are no longer a football club, we are an entertainment business.

 

[McCOYS]

We don’t rent our own stadium, no.

It’s just that the idiot you are responding to doesn’t understand what an anchor tenant is in this example.

It means the football club is the primary concern. The anchor that means none of it would exist without the football club.

It’s different from say an Apple Store being the anchor tenant of a shopping mall.

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Oh so the word tenant can be ignored in this example, the term 'anchor tenant' isn't supposed to be taken literally.

If that's the case then it's me that is the idiot, not who I was responding to.

 

[AberdeenYid]

Oh so the word tenant can be ignored in this example, the term 'anchor tenant' isn't supposed to be taken literally.

If that's the case then it's me that is the idiot, not who I was responding to.

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It can, but it’s not easy to ignore. It was said once when talking about the stadium being suitable for NFL. The point was made that whilst it can host NFL, the football team is the “anchor tenant”, corporate speak for “the most important thing”.

But tenancy in this country does suggest rental is being paid. And it’s not.

Not idiotic because it could be misconstrued. Idiotic is knowing it’s been misconstrued and still be banging on about it years later.

 

[McCOYS]

It can, but it’s not easy to ignore. It was said once when talking about the stadium being suitable for NFL. The point was made that whilst it can host NFL, the football team is the “anchor tenant”, corporate speak for “the most important thing”.

But tenancy in this country does suggest rental is being paid. And it’s not.

Not idiotic because it could be misconstrued. Idiotic is knowing it’s been misconstrued and still be banging on about it years later.

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Now that I know not to take the term literally, I no longer have my reason to interject into the discussion.

 

[WillWilliams]

We are by no means the only ones doing this . Liverpool put an extra tier on the Anfield road end. 7k seats and only 1k went to season tickets. 6k corporate . They already have a large section of one of the main stands given to corporate , it’s the lower part of the stand which the cameras look straight at. Always half empty when the second half kicks off , still eating their food and drinking.
Similar capacity now to us. We have 42k season tickets , they have 26k. We are in London which is full of tourists, they are in a working class city as in Liverpool . I think we have 9k corporate seats.
Owners will argue, how can they pay ridiculous money for players combined with even more ridiculous wages ,
The money has to come from somewhere and more often than not it will be the supporters. Even City, with all their billions, are cracking down on season ticket attendance at games.
The cost of attending anything has gone stupid.
Last Ryder cup in Europe it was £200 plus for just an ordinary ticket to get on the course.
Next year in Ireland it is in euros but the equivalent is £434. Yes it’s a full day but that’s over the top

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Foo Fighters are playing at Anfield too this summer.
Clubs are paying out so much on wages now they have no choice but to maximise their revenue.

Liverpool however won’t be building a go kart track there as the last thing they want to do is teach local kids how to drive at age 7.