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O.Spurcat said:
Correct. It's the Park Lane end goalmouth which is the main area as it only gets a few days of natural sunlight per year, around Midsummer Day if I remember correctly.
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I assume that this has been addressed with the new stadium plans, then?
Hopefully that will mean that we'll start the season at home occasionally when it's finished.
 
I was born on the summer solstice and have made a bit of a 'thing' about being in certain places to celebrate the old birthday. In the arctic circle, Stonehenge and I am trying to work out how to get to the North and South Pole. Now, I have to get myself into a small corner of WHL next month to bathe in the mystical sunlight before it gets knocked down. Challenge accepted!
 
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gericalo said:
Here's an interesting story about stadium design

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...t-chelsea-liverpool-and-tottenham-to-shame-w/
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Hmm...I dunno...the upper tiers on that beast look f***ing nauseating. I'm not a big fan of heights and just looking at that (which is probably where cheap stingers like myself would get tickets <laugh>) makes me break out in a cold sweat. I've sat at the top of the Nou Camp without any problem...I think it's that strange, inverted structural design that does it...
 
Hey guys do you reckon your tickets in Wembley will be cheaper then WHL wouldn't mind going to a couple of your champions league matches if you draw some decent teams
 
NLDISRED said:
Hey guys do you reckon your tickets in Wembley will be cheaper then WHL wouldn't mind going to a couple of your champions league matches if you draw some decent teams
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You will probably.have to be a member to buy a ticket via the club...and it's good to see you coming over from the dark side <laugh>
 
maggie blanchflower said:
I said goodbye to our ground emotionally sometime in the mid '80s when I was going past one day and was mortified to see the East stand being demolished! I could not believe my eyes. I must confess it brought a few tears to them. The ground I had known all my life being desecrated! Well that's how it seemed at the time but of course it was the start of the ground as it is today which in turn is about to undergo the same treatment. The old ground, for all its deprivations and mere basic amenities will always be the most loved in my heart. The excitement of the first floodlights! Early '50s I think. So modern at the time. A post in each corner with about 9 or 12 light bulbs. Another upgrade I recall is when the 4 corners were filled in where the howling draughts blew through on a wild day. Warren Mitchell (Alf Garnet) gave a little speech at half time regarding these and pointed out his seat in one of them "right behind a bloody post" which gave much mirth to everyone.
There used to be an alphabet along the middle of the east and west stand and at half time a chap would go along putting numbers in front so A may have a 2 and 1,
B a 3 and 0 & so on. Teams from all other matches were listed in the programme with the corresponding letter so at half time we could see at a glance the h/t scores. Now there's technology for you! It worked though. I don't know when the east stand was built but my Dad called it the 'new stand' 'til the day he died in 1992. He used to say he remembered it being built so to him the stadium I knew and loved was very much modernised from his day.
The new stadium when its ready may have all the luxuries & high tech gizmos going but I wouldn't swap it for my time at the old place, not for anything. I can still see the band marching round, ending with our then theme tune Mcnamaras Band (where did that come from, anyone know?) I've been trying to recall the words we put to it, something like:
"Oh the name is Tottenham Hotspur we're the best team in the land
We play the finest football and the spirits something grand
We'll win the league we'll win the cup of that there is no doubt
And that is the reason why the Tottenham fans all shout
La la la for Tottenham Hotspur "etc and of course we did win 'em.
I still love my Spurs, that will never pass but I said my emotional goodbye to the ground in the 1980's.
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Maggie. Love reading your ( or any of our more wizened posters ) anecdotes, keep them coming.

Was thinking about starting a memory lane type thread for everyone to post their experiences, good or bad, from days gone by.
 
Bald Archie said:
Maggie. Love reading your ( or any of our more long standing posters ) anecdotes, keep them coming.

Was thinking about starting a memory lane type thread for everyone to post their experiences, good or bad, from days gone by.
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Bald Archie said:
Maggie. Love reading your ( or any of our more wizened posters ) anecdotes, keep them coming.

Was thinking about starting a memory lane type thread for everyone to post their experiences, good or bad, from days gone by.
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Thank you Bald Archie for your kind comment. Lovely idea to start an 'Old Timers' thread and I will join in when possible. I need something to trigger me off! Big Smithy often got my memory cells going but have not seen him for a while. Perhaps Audrey & Pabird would join in too. We're all in our 70's (I'm the youngest) but I don't know if anyone else is as ancient as us!
 
Bald Archie said:
Maggie. Love reading your ( or any of our more wizened posters ) anecdotes, keep them coming.

Was thinking about starting a memory lane type thread for everyone to post their experiences, good or bad, from days gone by.
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As a relatively young supporter (I'm still the sunny side of 30...just), that sounds like a fantastic idea, especially over the summer when we have nought but Wayne Rooney floating 60-yard diagonal passes out of play to keep us entertained. My Spurs journey began with the mess of 93-94, and it kind of went downhill from there until very recently. Hearing first-hand accounts of the golden era would be a privilege.
 
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I wonder what we're getting paid for hosting the gridiron games?

I'm betting we're due more of that gravy for 2 or 3 games than the London ratepayers are getting for an entire season of PL and some cup games out of Tory Hammers United FC London at the former Olympic Stadium. Still, I bet we didn't send a negotitator with less experience than Barry Hearn's dog? Could we get a percentage of any new franchise perhaps?
 
Citizen Kane said:
As a relatively young supporter (I'm still the sunny side of 30...just), that sounds like a fantastic idea, especially over the summer when we have nought but Wayne Rooney floating 60-yard diagonal passes out of play to keep us entertained. My Spurs journey began with the mess of 93-94, and it kind of went downhill from there until very recently. Hearing first-hand accounts of the golden era would be a privilege.
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While Maggie's was particularly special, I almost invariably enjoy everyone's reminisces. And CK, I hope that you too may eventually think of the sunny side of 30 as the far side. While aging has its faults, the more practice you get learning to live with your own perfections and imperfections, the more comfortable you are in the knowledge that the imperfections are lies spread by jealous people.
"Thanks for that Brian" said:
I was born on the summer solstice and have made a bit of a 'thing' about being in certain places to celebrate the old birthday. In the arctic circle, Stonehenge and I am trying to work out how to get to the North and South Pole. Now, I have to get myself into a small corner of WHL next month to bathe in the mystical sunlight before it gets knocked down. Challenge accepted!
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One summer solstice at midnight I went to the neighborhood cemetery to celebrate the birthday of a friend of mine. A half dozen of us camped out around the Heinz chapel (of ketchup fame--a convenience for me when I travel, since when I'm asked where I'm from I can often point at the ketchup). Rather to our surprise, the grass went up in flames around us. At midnight, in a cemetery, on the summer solstice. The flames rapidly reached a height of about six feet or so. For one longish second we wondered what a S'more feels like. Then the fire died down quickly, and I wanted to congratulate whoever had managed to pour gasoline around us and light it undetected. Or kill them.
 
redwhiteandermblue said:
One summer solstice at midnight I went to the neighborhood cemetery to celebrate the birthday of a friend of mine. A half dozen of us camped out around the Heinz chapel (of ketchup fame--a convenience for me when I travel, since when I'm asked where I'm from I can often point at the ketchup). Rather to our surprise, the grass went up in flames around us. At midnight, in a cemetery, on the summer solstice. The flames rapidly reached a height of about six feet or so. For one longish second we wondered what a S'more feels like. Then the fire died down quickly, and I wanted to congratulate whoever had managed to pour gasoline around us and light it undetected. Or kill them.
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That is an interesting story - would have been very suitable for a programme called the "Tim Vine chat show" that was recorded last month for Radio 4. Basically it was interviewing members of the audience for strange experiences and your story would have been perfect, and far more interesting than mine.
 
Interesting development regarding our CL games next season at Wembley. Apparently incessant pressure from Levy and various supporters groups has led to UEFA convincing the FA and Wembley National Ltd. to open up our CL home games next year to full capacity of 90,000!

I must say this comes as a very pleasant surprise as initial reports suggested that we'd be allocated 50-60,000 and that the club seemed perfectly fine with that arrangement.

Tickets are quite pricey but I've no doubt we'll fill them...what an atmosphere there will be <yikes>

http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/champions-league-ticket-announcement-130716/
 
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