New Stadium Details And Discussions
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mark87
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whitesocks
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Obviously Knob was wrong about Enic taking such a risk, but I have to say I shared his concerns about anyone taking such a risk.
It looks like the worst is over but Mr Knob might point out that spending £1b was the easy part. We shortly find out if the business plan stacks up, and the stadium pays its way and clears the debts.
Maybe I lack ambition. but if in 10 years we have paid off the majority of the loans, the rest held in bonds or some other device at our convenience, then we have done well, even if the trophy cabinet remains empty.
NickHSpurs
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Sorry to piss on your chips but it wasn't long ago he said we'd be in before Christmas.
SEANSPURS1975
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Sorry to piss on your piss, but if I recall he said "we could be in" not "we'd be in"
The more you look at it the more it really does look like a space ship landed. It’s actually pretty astonishing how we got permission to build it. Now it just totally dominates the whole area. Will be very interesting what happens with the rest of the regeneration.
Amo
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It's all so surreal walking or taking the bus past it. just metres away from this megastructure where there used to be empty space. The area to ahead and past the stadium is completely ordinary, while the other side of the road is the same street as it always was. But in the midst of all that lies a UFO.
Roynie
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Wow, they really are cracking on now with the framework for the veil, three of those machines working on it so close together!
southlondonyiddo
My eyes have seen some of the glory..
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I know the new stadium looks good with the Cockerel on the outside etc but for me (a pretty old git who can remember the old, old stand) you can’t beat the look of the steps leading up to the main stand with the huge letters of the football club emblazoned across it
Call me old fashioned but that look never gets old imo!
Call me old fashioned but that look never gets old imo!
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southlondonyiddo
My eyes have seen some of the glory..
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worcestersauce
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You're old fashioned.
longtimespur
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Not even sure if Levi was born when that coach picture was taken but.....
There's a car under the stand with what looks like the letters LEV in the number plate.
worcestersauce
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Looking at those old pictures it occurred to me that in all the fifty odd years I've been going down the Spurs I've never actually entered the west stand, never walked through that gate(to an actuall match) and never walked up those steps.
southlondonyiddo
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There is no reason that you would have seen much of that entrance If say for example you always stood/sat in the Paxton and you came from Northumberland Park etc
The only reason we'd walk around the ground was to maybe find a programme or If we needed a ticket then to hunt down a tout as they normally hung around outside the west stand entrance
I used to sit with my dad in the old west stand before they knocked it down for the new shiny one. I remember the crushes when I was little coming out trying to get back out through the gates. My feet didn't touch the ground most of the time!
62,000 leaving the new ground is going to be absolutely nuts!!
