New stadium thread

Lots of the bigger clubs in other countries have multiple sports teams, so I don't know why it's not popular in England.
Barcelona and Galatasary both have basketball teams, for example.

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Seems odd that nobody's attempted to branch out, even if it's just as a branding exercise.
Would appeal to the sponsors at least, I'd have thought.

 

There's a story today that a current Spurs employee has confirmed that vending staff at WHL have been given notice of termination of their employment at the end of this season. This has occurred in the last week.

Gulp,........it's Wembley next season.

 

What's the deadline for taking up the offer of Wembley? Must be close now.

 

We may not do well but we'll all get tickets to all the matches

Look at me being all glass half full


SEE ... IT DON'T FECKING SUIT ME DOES IT, YOU HAPPY CLAPPY GITS?????

 

All current match day staff employed by the club have been given termination letters.

 

Thats a grim day for a lot of people.

 

Very true, although everyone must've seen it coming.
It does beg the question as to how we're going to arrange things at the new ground, though.

West Ham have allowed others to deal with it and it's been a disaster, from what I've seen of it.
The club needs to make sure that everything's sorted out right from the start and set the right tone.
The fans' first impression will be very important to how well received the whole project is.

 

We need to impress the Americans as well as our own fans. We are in charge of our own castle and I would expect us to spend time and money in getting it right and not just spend the time between now and then talking to the hacks about how much bigger ours is than everyone else's.

The Spammers just saw the money. I don'tknow a lot of their fans but those that I've spoken to don't see the move materially improving their performance levels on or off the pitch for a long time. A run in the EL and keeping Payet would have done wonders for the perception. ENIC must understand that this is their one chance to create a real European power. We will be in the top 10 richest clubs in the world. We will need to act like it. There will be no second chances. Balls this up and it's done. We'll suffer the fall out for years.

 

The extended deadline is the end of April, so the letters of notice point firmly in the direction of Wembley next season. Sucks for them but I'd have imagined that the national stadium has its own teams for matchday events and logistics, and will simply be paid as a contracter of THFC. There's nothing to say that the poor folk who will be out of a job at the end of the season can't reapply successfully to work at the new stadium in a year...although I presume that terms under the new job description will include 'deft cheese slicer' and 'competent hops boiler'.

As far as I see it, this is good news. The sooner we get the Wembley season behind us and move into the new place, the better.

 

Are they going to end up in the foundations of new WHL ??

 

I have been made redundant several times and my mrs was made redundant 6 yrs ago...it's really stressful and soul destroyingto lose your job when you aint done nothing wrong and were good at it.
Seems to be a given in football that the players and agents get a fortune but those behind the scenes get dumped on.
Can't imagine they got much of a pay off unlike some will get for signing on and for being sold.
Its a side of football that is ****.
A club gets relegated and some poor sods on £7 / £8 an hr lose their jobs but the players get their money and the manager is sacked with a huge pay off.
Anyway ... think I am off the point.

 

Do they give you the socks to keep as the leaving presents ??

 

You sir are a git

 

You're 100% correct and apologies if I sounded insensitive. Reading my post back, I probably did.

What I meant was that the club in this instance haven't done much wrong: we're moving to Wembley - which in all likelihood has its own, established set-up for all event day logistics. A quick google shows that a company called Delaware North handles anything related to food and drink in the stadium on a match or event day.

The decent thing for the club to have done was to guarantee these guys a job back in 12 months' time. Plus I sincerely hope that the severance pay was respectable (highly unlikely though as you say). The problem again is that an all-purpose, 61,000 seater stadium complete with a brewery, cheese room and aquarium tunnel (I physically shudder when I write these things. Whatever next?!) has quite different demands to a 38,000 seater with a chippie and cold toilets . The cold heart of capitalism argues that our current ground staff may not be the best qualified to manage logistics in the new stadium.

 

I dont think you sounded cold mate...just football is cold to those who are not "stars".

 

A git who was put on a redundancy list only 15 months after entering
industry as a graduate.

 

It's the same in more or less every industry mate. Ever since **** was invented it has had an alarming tendency to fall on the people who can't afford a good dry cleaners.

 

That's ****...but at least you don't get piss socks as a goodbye present

 

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No, I quit 9 months later and said give to charity whatever pennies
were in the whip-round. So if there were any such socks I didn't get them.