https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...ggestions-12bn-final-stadium-bill-inaccurate/ Wow................what a load of bollocks.
I've just been on the OS to look at tickets for the Cardiff game. There are no tickets on sale for the upper tier. It's a Saturday 3.00 pm kick off and pricing is very low. It's £35 for the lower tier and from £40.00 for Club Wembley, so normally I'd expect ticket sales above 50,000. However, the lack of full capacity 'slots' in the limited number available this season, will start to bite hard. For those poorly disposed to swapping stadiums asap, come along and see what playing in a half empty Wembley feels like. I'm going with a slightly sinking feeling building already. Let's win it and get out of there.
Just read a report on an Australian news feed about drinking and drug taking by workers at the stadium site - Mace is denying this. Anyone shed some light on these allegations?
Appears to be the usual unnamed source bullshit, PL. Been doing the rounds here for a few days and discussed above. I would put it into the 'Noah-like flood' story of a few weeks ago. Probably a total exaggeration of a single worker getting caught on site with a spliff and blown up into this. Move on, nothing to see here!....
The real surprise would be if NONE of the builders used drugs. This is London in 2018 it's what happens.
When the likes of Glaxo ,Pfizers etc construct new projects this happens aswell ,1000 plus males on a site do you expect them all to be angels ..no ,that's why drink and drug tests are done on most builds . But you won't see any headlines about that because who is going to write something about this giants . A football club though ....
When I had a local pub that I went in most days, it was mostly full of scaffolders, joiners, plasterers etc. Probably because they were young without kids, finished early and drank straight from work, as I did. Drug taking, mostly coke, was absolutely rife. A dealer used to deal outside the pub on a Friday night. I reckon that every major build in London has someone off their tits on something on most days. Although we own the stadium, Mace run the site until handover. Spurs will have no idea whether workers are sober and clean or incapable of standing up without help. We pay Mace to run the site and they are responsible for what does or doesn't happen there. Even if Spurs insisted Mace only allow workers on site if they could prove they were drunk or coked up, they wouldn't do it. This is a complete non-story but comes out of the 'void' of news coming out of the club, as does the nonsense about the stadium costing £1.2 billion. If the club were more proactive on PR, there'd be less opportunity for this stuff. .
City and Chelsea advertise matches coming up that particular week in on TalkSport and (In Chelsea's case) in the Standard. That suggests their fans are not buying tickets to matches despite them both winning 2 or 3 titles, 3 or 4 FA or League cups and Chelsea winning the EL and CL in the past 10 years. On Wednesday City had around 15-20,000 empty seats for a CL match which they were selling tickets for at £15 for adults. These things suggests their fans are not as happy as you imply.
Thanks Brian, thought as much, but like in the UK our media loves a scandal story even if its partially made up.
Why is this even a story ffs? 'Labourers like smoking weed and sniffing coke shock' There will be people taking drugs on every large building site in the country, fact.
Tis possible that some of the 1000s of workers have been on the new WHL site while intoxicated beyond industry/contractual legal allowances. Construction industry takes this very seriously for elf n safety reasons. Nobody wants a site death caused by impaired (in)action due to intoxication, on their books. So has anyone got : 1. the exact numbers - per N total workers - on each day somebody got caught (by whatever method) 2. construction industry averages for such people caught (per 100 workers, per size of project in terms of total workers)
FootballDotLondon understands that the stadium contractors Mace revealed at a Business Community Liaison Group meeting on Tuesday night at Lilywhite House, alongside the ground, that the new pitch will be laid in October - which is now just 11 days away. Let's hope it's closer to the 1st than the 31st...
Noticed that all the machinery and everything else has been cleared from the pitch area making it ready for the turf installation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45586929 Finally, the club has got some decent publicity out there. There really is a hole where our PR should be. I get that DL and Joe Lewis are private people but the void encourages damaging speculation by hacks. The stadium is an incredible thing. A club has committed to its historic location and to building an incredible new, world class facility for football and myriad other events. It's driving changes in transport that will massively benefit the locality and will encourage the economic and social redevelopment of an area that has become a byword for all manner of problems. It will also transform the future of the football club. The press think that the story is a few months delay on a spectacularly innovative and successful build and allegations of drug use that affects every project and site. I wonder what the reaction will be once it's open?
It won't last long mate. The next thing will be that Spurs will have an unfair advantage over other clubs because the plastic pitch could be used every day of the week and we would still be able to play football on a Saturday. The pitch does not need time to recover. If that starts to generate £300-£500M a year and we use that as a transfer budget/for salaries, we will be accused of cheating. There will probably be rule changes proposed by the blue eyed boys the second that we win anything.
Pitch being laid ' next week'...…. Whether that's fact or a summation from the previous 'next month' comments is another matter
One definite advantage is the pitch should (on paper) be immune to adverse weather conditions. Take it underground when severe rain/snow/frost is incoming, bring it back out when the worst has passed.
“The situation has been compounded for season ticket holders due to incompatible ticketing systems between the new stadium and Wembley - requiring fans to claim a refund from the club for games that have moved and then having to buy a new ticket for the game at Wembley.” Actually that is the only sensible thing they could have done. Gives those who have Season Tickets maximum flexibility. Off to MK this evening. Can get there and to Wembley in an hour from my home. New stadium will take much longer....
