The Football Thread 2018-19 - This is the end.

[Dowbocop]

This Spurs stadium thing is turning into a joke, the pictures today show a stadium that doesn't look close to ready.

I honestly believe Spurs should be deducted points for this. It's an absolute mistake to use the national stadium all last year and then be unable to fulfil games. It gives City an extra game at home if the game is swapped, and unbalanced the league. Teams are not let into the league for not having stadiums up to standard, never mind failing to provide a stadium. I think a 3pt deduction would be fitting in the circumstances.

I agree, but thought with my obvious bias it would be dismissed as too partisan if I posted that. I've heard talk of a run of away games at the start of the season. Surely that means they'll have an easier run in as they'll have played more away games now. I'd say that going forward you can either move ground at the start of the season or after matchday 19/23 to minimise this sort of nonsense.

[Return_of_the_STAR]

This Spurs stadium thing is turning into a joke, the pictures today show a stadium that doesn't look close to ready.

I honestly believe Spurs should be deducted points for this. It's an absolute mistake to use the national stadium all last year and then be unable to fulfil games. It gives City an extra game at home if the game is swapped, and unbalanced the league. Teams are not let into the league for not having stadiums up to standard, never mind failing to provide a stadium. I think a 3pt deduction would be fitting in the circumstances.

Spurs haven't broken any rules so they can't be deducted points for this.

I'm not sure what you mean by City having an extra home game, that wouldn't happen.

Delays happen in construction especially major projects. Assuming everything in the press release and associated stories are correct then it is simply a case of work falling behind and it not being ready early enough for the test events to take place so that safety certificates can be issued.

I believe Levy made an error in gambling to try to spend only one season away from white hart lane. He should have just gone for two full seasons at wembley and not spent half a season at a reduced capacity WHL in the season before. If he had of done so then no one would have batted an eyelid. Chelsea are after all expected to use wembley for at least two seasons if Roman hasn't completed squashed his stadium plans.

[Return_of_the_STAR]

This Spurs stadium thing is turning into a joke, the pictures today show a stadium that doesn't look close to ready.

I honestly believe Spurs should be deducted points for this. It's an absolute mistake to use the national stadium all last year and then be unable to fulfil games. It gives City an extra game at home if the game is swapped, and unbalanced the league. Teams are not let into the league for not having stadiums up to standard, never mind failing to provide a stadium. I think a 3pt deduction would be fitting in the circumstances.

I agree, but thought with my obvious bias it would be dismissed as too partisan if I posted that. I've heard talk of a run of away games at the start of the season. Surely that means they'll have an easier run in as they'll have played more away games now. I'd say that going forward you can either move ground at the start of the season or after matchday 19/23 to minimise this sort of nonsense.

Liverpool played their first three games away a couple of seasons ago due to the overrun on their new stand. Everyone was fine with that.

There is no current plan to swap fixtures. Spurs simply attained permission to play the game against Fulham at Wembley instead of switching it to an away game. They do then have two away fixtures before the home game against liverpool that is now being moved to Wembley. Whether the FA did this on purpose or not i don't know as teams often end up with either multiple away or home fixtures in a row at points in the season. Often due to the knock on effect of trying to avoid big city derby clashes. If you disagree with Spurs being able to play at two different stadiums in one season then thats a different matter but it's not against the rules and has been agreed by the other premier league clubs.

[Mafro]

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[Dowbocop]

This Spurs stadium thing is turning into a joke, the pictures today show a stadium that doesn't look close to ready.

I honestly believe Spurs should be deducted points for this. It's an absolute mistake to use the national stadium all last year and then be unable to fulfil games. It gives City an extra game at home if the game is swapped, and unbalanced the league. Teams are not let into the league for not having stadiums up to standard, never mind failing to provide a stadium. I think a 3pt deduction would be fitting in the circumstances.

I agree, but thought with my obvious bias it would be dismissed as too partisan if I posted that. I've heard talk of a run of away games at the start of the season. Surely that means they'll have an easier run in as they'll have played more away games now. I'd say that going forward you can either move ground at the start of the season or after matchday 19/23 to minimise this sort of nonsense.

Liverpool played their first three games away a couple of seasons ago due to the overrun on their new stand. Everyone was fine with that.

There is no current plan to swap fixtures. Spurs simply attained permission to play the game against Fulham at Wembley instead of switching it to an away game. They do then have two away fixtures before the home game against liverpool that is now being moved to Wembley. Whether the FA did this on purpose or not i don't know as teams often end up with either multiple away or home fixtures in a row at points in the season. Often due to the knock on effect of trying to avoid big city derby clashes. If you disagree with Spurs being able to play at two different stadiums in one season then thats a different matter but it's not against the rules and has been agreed by the other premier league clubs.

Liverpool needing a few extra weeks for a short term project on a stadium that has been sound for over a century isn't the same as not having a fit for purpose ground at all. If worst came to worst they probably could have just played with the Centenary Stand shut, like we did with the North Bank.

Every time they hold an Olympics or World Cup they have this massive panic about whether the stadia will be finished on time, and they always are, even in countries with nowhere near the same experience of large project management to draw on as an organisation in one of the biggest cities in the world. You moved out of WHL for an entire year and spent the time giving it large about how great this ground will be, with your high resolution renders and state of the art low water flush, and it's not even finished. That is an absolutely shambolic situation to be in, and the excuse is "ooh, well it appears the work has run behind" - no strawberry floating gooseberry fool Sherlock! Nobody has a problem with teams moving grounds, they have a problem with your lot fannying around a problem that must have been known about weeks ago, and in the process inconveniencing Liverpool, Cardiff, and NFL fans. And that's for now - who knows when you'll be finished? This should be a potential resigning matter for the senior executives.

[Return_of_the_STAR]

This Spurs stadium thing is turning into a joke, the pictures today show a stadium that doesn't look close to ready.

I honestly believe Spurs should be deducted points for this. It's an absolute mistake to use the national stadium all last year and then be unable to fulfil games. It gives City an extra game at home if the game is swapped, and unbalanced the league. Teams are not let into the league for not having stadiums up to standard, never mind failing to provide a stadium. I think a 3pt deduction would be fitting in the circumstances.

I agree, but thought with my obvious bias it would be dismissed as too partisan if I posted that. I've heard talk of a run of away games at the start of the season. Surely that means they'll have an easier run in as they'll have played more away games now. I'd say that going forward you can either move ground at the start of the season or after matchday 19/23 to minimise this sort of nonsense.

Liverpool played their first three games away a couple of seasons ago due to the overrun on their new stand. Everyone was fine with that.

There is no current plan to swap fixtures. Spurs simply attained permission to play the game against Fulham at Wembley instead of switching it to an away game. They do then have two away fixtures before the home game against liverpool that is now being moved to Wembley. Whether the FA did this on purpose or not i don't know as teams often end up with either multiple away or home fixtures in a row at points in the season. Often due to the knock on effect of trying to avoid big city derby clashes. If you disagree with Spurs being able to play at two different stadiums in one season then thats a different matter but it's not against the rules and has been agreed by the other premier league clubs.

Liverpool needing a few extra weeks for a short term project on a stadium that has been sound for over a century isn't the same as not having a fit for purpose ground at all. If worst came to worst they probably could have just played with the Centenary Stand shut, like we did with the North Bank.

Every time they hold an Olympics or World Cup they have this massive panic about whether the stadia will be finished on time, and they always are, even in countries with nowhere near the same experience of large project management to draw on as an organisation in one of the biggest cities in the world. You moved out of WHL for an entire year and spent the time giving it large about how great this ground will be, with your high resolution renders and state of the art low water flush, and it's not even finished. That is an absolutely shambolic situation to be in, and the excuse is "ooh, well it appears the work has run behind" - no strawberry floating gooseberry fool Sherlock! Nobody has a problem with teams moving grounds, they have a problem with your lot fannying around a problem that must have been known about weeks ago, and in the process inconveniencing Liverpool, Cardiff, and NFL fans. And that's for now - who knows when you'll be finished? This should be a potential resigning matter for the senior executives.

I certainly haven’t been giving it large about how great this ground will be or showing off state of the art low water flush, whatever that is.

I did say in a different comment that I think the club made a big mistake in trying to get this done with only one season away from WHL and it should have been two full seasons but as soon as the precedent was set with Liverpool levy knew he would be afforded a grace period and he went for it.

On Liverpool there was no way they could have played the game with that stand shut as the pitch was being use for the construction access.

I do suspect that there could be more to this than just some safety systems being delayed. It sounds like a deliberate very vague use of terminology.

Also when I responded to you and DML I wasn’t aware that there was any scheduling conflict with the Man City game and the NFL.

[Albert]

[Moggy]

Spurs should be forced to demolish the ground and start again. Delays are unacceptable and should be severely punished.

[gamerforever]

This is a joke, but it seems jealousy has got the better of the media and this forum. You guys literally try to find anything against spurs. We will have the best stadium in europe once it is finished.

[Moggy]

This is a joke, but it seems jealousy has got the better of the media and this forum. You guys literally try to find anything against spurs. We will have the best stadium in N17 once it is finished.

[KK]

Sounds like you’ve just been Tottenham Hotspurned.

[gamerforever]

This forums full of asses

[Moggy]

This forums full of asses

Like opinions, we all have one.

[Winckle]

This is a joke, but it seems jealousy has got the better of the media and this forum. You guys literally try to find anything against spurs. We will have the best stadium in europe once it is finished.

Reads like a Trump tweet.

[Mini E]

This is a joke, but it seems jealousy has got the better of the media and this forum. You guys literally try to find anything against spurs. We will have the best stadium in europe once it is finished.

Reads like a Trump tweet.

I thought exactly the same thing.



Story checks out.

[Dowbocop]

This is a joke, but it seems jealousy has got the better of the media and this forum. You guys literally try to find anything against spurs. We will have the best stadium in N17 once it is finished.

[Moggy]

This is a joke, but it seems jealousy has got the better of the media and this forum. You guys literally try to find anything against spurs. We will have the best stadium in N17 once it is finished.

Coles Park Stadium doesn't look like a toilet. It therefore cannot compete.

[gamerforever]

This place is full of xbots and anti spurs trolls.

[Moggy]

When playing FIFA I only play as Arsenal on my Xbox One X. I have set a custom league up so that Leyton Orient have taken the place of Sp*rs.