New stadium thread

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Yid Vicious said:
Okay... <doh>

Why don't you tell us what you're actually basing this on? Each NFL game at Wembley has been very popular and the NFL are clearly keen to get more games played here so please explain, what is this information that the NFL are missing that makes you so sure it isn't popular and won't work?

We're building a stadium so all extra income is welcome and hosting NFL games will create revenue, increase the value of stadium sponsorships and, yes, potentially improve Spurs as a brand.
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Its a niche as I said. Its not going to become a major sport over here.
 
UnitedinRed said:
Its a niche as I said. Its not going to become a major sport over here.
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The NFL isn't trying to launch as a 4 tier professional sport with over 1,800 games a season, it's hosting 4-6 games a year in the UK so it doesn't need to be that popular. Football in America has increased in popularity more rapidly than the NFL would need to(assuming they're already running NFL games inline with demand, which they're not).

You don't need to have huge popularity to sell 61,000 seats 2/3 times a year, you need less than .1% of the population wanting to go.
 
Yid Vicious said:
The NFL isn't trying to launch as a 4 tier professional sport with over 1,800 games a season, it's hosting 4-6 games a year in the UK so it doesn't need to be that popular. Football in America has increased in popularity more rapidly than the NFL would need to(assuming they're already running NFL games inline with demand, which they're not).

You don't need to have huge popularity to sell 61,000 seats 2/3 times a year, you need less than .1% of the population wanting to go.
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Its just a gimmick then really. Not necessary but does make Spurs unique.

Welcome to Tottenham Hotspur! Home of American Football in Europe!
 
UnitedinRed said:
I guess. A few extra million a year is a few extra million.
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Presumably a large part of the thinking here isn't about American Handegg becoming big out here, it's more about Football becoming massive out there.

That has certainly been the pattern of many strategic decisions at Spurs over the past few seasons: Bale becoming the poster boy for NBC sports coverage, that hilarious spoof video with Ted Lasso, Brad being appointed ambassador to the USA.
By any conceivable measure, soccer in the USA is growing exponentially. The flow of big name EPL players moving over there for one last fat pay-cheque has grown steadily from a sporadic trickle to a reliable flow. As much as I loath Lampard and Slippy G, they are big names in English football. The recent success of the US women's team will also serve to raise the sport's profile tremendously.

A friend of mine living and working out in Washington as a soccer coach for semi-professional teams sent me a few articles recently that all add up to the same point: We (the EPL) cannot underestimate the impact of a large, affluent and sports-crazed market such as the USA.

Major League attendance is now growing on average 15-20% per season; the creation of new franchises in New York and Miami (once Beckham gets planning permission) also indicate a rapidly growing increase in interest. Baseball - the most attended sport in the country - sells an average 70 million individual tickets per season. That's a frighteningly large number - basically the entire population of the UK. Imagine building soccer towards that level of popularity and the revenue that would create.

Now, I would guess that the team most clueless Yanks would choose to follow would be the ones based down the road from the Queen, with a well-known and well-liked ambassador, who happen to be the only club in the EPL who regularly hosts NFL games.

Surely your own yankee owners recognise this?
 
First, good to meet you, Citizen Kane. I agree it’s an excellent moniker and avatar.

UnitedinRed said:
American football will never be big here. Ever.

The NFL fans are strongly against it too. They dont want games played outside of the states much like we dont want ganes outside england.
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It certainly would be terrible for us if the NFL paid for a chunk of our stadium and then disappeared. The punch line to that would be Levy finding a buyer willing to shell out big money for assorted only-used-on-Sundays NFL stuff.
 
It's been a great couple of days for the club, first off we had Bentaleb and Winks pen long term deals, then announced the Alderweireld signing and finally topped it off with the new stadium design and plans. Looks bloody amazing and love the 17,000 strong stand, that will be insane, hopefully we could emulate the Yellow Wall of Borussia Dortmund to create an unbelievable atmosphere. I finally got my season ticket last week so I'm hoping that will put me in a good position to get a decent spot amongst that when seating options become available.
 
UnitedinRed said:
Thats the world these days, everyone assumes everything is a wum. Much like how every ****** alive thinks everything is a conspiracy.

I blame the internet.
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If it wasn't for the internet, then who would you rant to? Because i'm sure your friends and family wouldn't put up with the drivel you spout on here.
 
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Goons are showing their usual levels of bitterness, sour grapes, and inability to not talk about us by saying the new stadium looks like a toilet seat.

It hasn't occurred to them that all oval stadiums, such as the Emirates, look like a toilet seat - but that certainly puts Jack Wilshere into context...
 
KingHotspur said:
If it wasn't for the internet, then who would you rant to? Because i'm sure your friends and family wouldn't put up with the drivel you spout on here.
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True, I don't know anyone who would be interested in discussing Tottenham. In fact, I doubt they know who you are.
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
Goons are showing their usual levels of bitterness, sour grapes, and inability to not talk about us by saying the new stadium looks like a toilet seat.

It hasn't occurred to them that all oval stadiums, such as the Emirates, look like a toilet seat - but that certainly puts Jack Wilshere into context...
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When an Arsenal colleague of mine mentioned the same I told him that the Emirates smells like a toilet, probably due to all the **** their fans spout
 
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Richard Scudamore has made several stupid comments about the options we have when WHL shuts down for a season.
“They would have to play in a single stadium for an entire year for the integrity of the competition,”
“You cannot have 19 home games with 10 at Milton Keynes and nine at Wembley. That is completely, completely unfair. That will not be allowed in our competition.”
“They know the rules and what we require. They have to provide a stadium. We can’t have a fettered fixture list.
“Clubs have to be able to deliver 19 home games in the slots that are required. So, if they share with a rugby league club, we cannot be fettered as to when they can play.
“They have to work it out with Wembley or wherever they want to play, and decide if they could deliver that level of commitment to us.”

He even went on to suggest sharing with the Goons, despite clearly knowing that this is an extremely unlikely possibility:
“Premier League fixtures are paired so Liverpool and Everton, Tottenham and Arsenal and Manchester United and Manchester City do not play at home on the same weekend, so it is perfectly possible to have two teams playing in one stadium.
“You might very well argue that in some circumstances that would be desirable but I do know the reasons why it would be difficult.”

First off, why's he shouting his mouth off about it? I'm sure that the club are aware of the rules, so why the public rant?
Secondly, why on earth would it be unfair to play games at different grounds? Surely it's a disadvantage to the home side, if anything?
Lastly, if we did move to Wembley, then there's no reason why we'd have to split our games and also play at MK Dons.
Any event that the stadium is used for that only uses the lower tiers (50,000 capacity) doesn't count towards their number of major events allowed their.
http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...and-make-wembley-temporary-home-10028281.html

Overall, what a pillock. Does he ever do anything but embarrass his organisation?
 
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