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adamsky

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I think that’s why they are holding out on announcing city. They must still think there’s some hope of it being ready. I think new year would the cut off imo and then they would just say whole season Wembley.
I think the more likely reason they are holding off announcing City is that there isn’t an obvious solution. If there was it would make sense just to play at Wembley. They were already delaying and disappointing fans so why put themselves under mor pressure to be ready.
 

Shadydan

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It's a delicate situation, they need to get this announcement right, they've already pissed off the fans as it is.
 

Martin91

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Metalhead

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What is the dailyhotspur?
Is this relating to TalkSport drive time? If so, it's one of Adrian Durham's japes whereby he finds something newsworthy relating to Spurs that he can slag us off about in order to generate the inevitable tweets, phone calls, text messages etc. It used to be the 'daily Arsenal' last season.
 

DanielCHillier

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Is this relating to TalkSport drive time? If so, it's one of Adrian Durham's japes whereby he finds something newsworthy relating to Spurs that he can slag us off about in order to generate the inevitable tweets, phone calls, text messages etc. It used to be the 'daily Arsenal' last season.
States at the end of the tweet that the source is TimesSport.
 

whitesocks

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I think the thing that often gets lost by the workers - the stadium does not need to be "complete" to get a safety certificate to allow Spurs to host matches.

So, a lot of the real interior stuff can be worked on, even after the stadium is open - particularly things outside the view of most fans - like the NFL areas, or even some of the football areas under the stadium.
I realise posters do not want to hear 'we told you so' every 5 minutes, or at all, but these workers did tell us that the stadium would not be ready, and it wasn't. Nothing was lost by them.

DM told us right at the start that these buildings fly up but they are shells.
They look like they are all but done, but the bulk of the work hasn't even begun.
Of course the old shelf, pre-boxes, was just a shell anyway. The fire system was a man with an armband and a bucket of sand. But NWHL is fully fitted out like any other office block and its real progress can only be measured by those on the inside.

Having said that, if we want to believe Levy isn't a lying toad (we do right?), then it seems likely he thought we could get away with opening with much of the stadium incomplete and its guts hanging out the windows. Maybe there was a way to do this safely, but we are told the site is chaotic and we know there have been big problems, so the rumour that the building inspector lost confidence in Mace to organise a staged opening/mixed site safely rings true to me.
 

Sid Tottenham

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Personally speaking and I don't come from a building background but I think it was a massive ask to get that stadium built in the timeframe that was projected.
They tried but Rome wasn't built in a day was it
 

popstar7

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I was chatting to a cousin last night and the subject came up. He worked on the Emirates and Wembley as (I think) a project manager. He said his company spent over a million on a tender for our stadium but withdrew based on the timescales demanded by the club. They told Levy it simply couldn't be done. He also commented that the club would be fine and Mace were idiots to agree to the targets. And will now be screwed by the club and by sub-contractors for missed deadlines and contract breaches.
 

ToDarrenIsToDo

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Oh? Hang on, i’ve got the berlin airport on the phone. Something about it being years and they still wont open until the early 2020’s even though its completed and it all started due to...you guessed it...faulty wiring!

Very good point but two things here:

1 - we don't know the severity of the wiring or what the exact problem is regarding it being the whole stadium etc and...

2 - the wiring of an airport is a far bigger project than the building of a football stadium so it's hard to compare the two. Very interesting that it's taken years and years to fix though. I can't see that it's been a matter of urgency if it's taken so long
 

Lee82

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The comparisons with Berlin are slightly off at present as the issue there goes far deeper than 'faulty safety systems'. Hopefully that is our only problem.

Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) was set to open in 2012 until final safety checks revealed that the smoke extractor system was defective and, in case of fire, risked exploding. With no safety certificate the opening was cancelled at the last minute. Subsequent checks revealed much of the airport had not been built according to the blueprints.
Some 90km of cabling was defective, often sunk in concrete instead of running through shafts. Electric doors had no electricity; no one knew how to turn off the lights; the floors in the car park, even without cars, began to sag because they didn’t contain enough steel girders. The escalator was too short into the underground train station, where – every night – a train passes through to circulate the air and prevent mould.
 

TottenhamMattSpur

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Is this relating to TalkSport drive time? If so, it's one of Adrian Durham's japes whereby he finds something newsworthy relating to Spurs that he can slag us off about in order to generate the inevitable tweets, phone calls, text messages etc. It used to be the 'daily Arsenal' last season.

The same Talksport that called the recent delay before it was announced and were vilified for it?

We need to break the habit of rubbishing people all the time, they're often right whether we like the news or the broadcaster broadcasting it.
 

ToDarrenIsToDo

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The same Talksport that called the recent delay before it was announced and were vilified for it?

We need to break the habit of rubbishing people all the time, they're often right whether we like the news or the broadcaster broadcasting it.

Sometimes they get a scoop, sometimes they get wind of something but most of the time they are full of hot air
 

14/04/91

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Man City tie rearranged to Monday 29th October at Wembley according to TalkShite

From what I’ve read, both clubs have agreed the date. This needs ratifying by the premier league & sky.
No mention of venue specifically.
I imagine we have to lock in the date asap and it’ll be on the assumption the ground won’t be ready. Maybe another couple of weeks before Wembley is confirmed.
 
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