Petition: Say NO to 'Stratford Hotspur'

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The Emirates stadium is only 500 yards from the old Highbury stadium though, not six miles and not in a different borough.

Tottenham has a lot of links with Haringey with schools and charities, etc. and that would all have to change.

I know this, but as I was saying maybe because I am not from the Haringey borough this doesn't bother me at all. In fact I don't even like the haringey borough.

The Club would no doubt involve itself with the local area in Stratford in the same way so it would still be a benefit to kids and charities etc.

It would be sad to leave White Heart Lane behind, the memories, family ties etc after all the first game I ever went to was with my Granddad and he is no longer with us so I along with most fans have emotional ties to the club and the stadium.

The pubs we drink in before a game, the chip shop, the guy who sells you a programe before a game etc etc all emotional ties that would be sad to say good bye to.

But, these things I will not forget just because the club relocates and they will always be dear to me.

A new stadium would bring a whole new experience, change is not always a bad things. We would all soon find a new pub to drink in, new place to buy food and a program and within a handful of games we would all be settled in our new home and begin to grow new affections and links.

the place would be very much like home pretty soon, 70k spurs fans flooding into the area would make it so. Those who have been to a wembley match no what it is like to go to a game there, find the pub full of SPurs fans and have a drink and a laugh with a few like minded fans (it's really not that different to a home game) and the more you go there the more familar everything would become.

Maybe if you are from Tottenham or the local area yourself it would be a sad thing to see the club leave, but to me being from West London I only view the club as a london team and wheter I have to travel to Tottenham high road or straford it would really make no difference to me so long as I was still surrounded by Spurs fans and able to watch the team I love.

It's not like the fans are going to beycotte watching games because we move to stratford and the new stadium will be a ghost town while everyone is watching FC Hotspurs play down the marshes is it? and if they do more fool them, more tickets availble for the rest of us who will support the club wheter they are in Stratford or Croydon.

 

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We don't need to move areas to get a bigger stadium.

Planning permission has been granted.

The submission has gone to Boris, which as far as I know means the transport issues, including contributions by the club, have been resolved

I sincerely hope that's true. It would be interesting to have had a Yes/No poll on how SCers feel about moving from N17 though.[/quote]

But it's not quite so easy as YES/NO, Cos.

From my perspective agree wholeheartedly that the ideal solution is to redevelop WHL, then to stay in the locale.

All I am saying is, firsty, all of the uproar starting already over what is probably a bargaining tool may actually hurt the club's bargaining position, and, secondly, I would rather the club move elsewhere than be stifled by facilities that cannot match the ambitious development. I am not even saying this is the BEST option IF the club has to move, just that it is an option. So, accepting these two points, what is the point in everyon getting themselves workd up about it.

And the comparison to Wimbledon/Milton Keynes just don't hunt, I'm afraid.