[The contract for the main structure has already been let.
By the 'main structure', do you mean the main steel and concrete bits? If so, I don't remember that contract being awarded... who got it?
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Christ this is the lasiest journalism on the planet right now. There just is no way in hell that Chel$cum will be ready to build in that season. They haven't even got planning permission for a borough of London that must be ten times harder to achieve permission for a football stadium in than Haringey.
Another reason why contracts habitually run late is that the contractors are pressurised into setting unrealistically short programmes by demands from senior management, because profit is inversely related to time spent on site and because a shorter programme can lead to a more competitive tender.
The same is true of cost consultants, who are pressurised by their developer clients, who prefer to be unrealistically optimistic about how much they can offer for a site by being unrealistically optimistic about how much it will cost to build on it.
These contracts aren't really running "late" at all - only because the original target was never achievable.
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Am I alone in preferring Milton Keynes to a half empty Wembley? For the simple reason that we'll finish the season with a better home record than if we go to play at Wembley for a year, it'll be a lot of teams cup final playing us at Wembley. And the atmosphere will be better at MK. Wembley with the upper tier empty will make for a rubbish atmosphere.
Milton Keynes is a tidy little stadium and there's space to add a third tier so perhaps we could get the capacity increased before going there.
Im sure we could make the big games like the NLD an all stadium event. 90k person crowd for the NLD? Count me in for flying out for that one....as long as 80k+ are Spurs fans.Am I alone in preferring Milton Keynes to a half empty Wembley? For the simple reason that we'll finish the season with a better home record than if we go to play at Wembley for a year, it'll be a lot of teams cup final playing us at Wembley. And the atmosphere will be better at MK. Wembley with the upper tier empty will make for a rubbish atmosphere.
Milton Keynes is a tidy little stadium and there's space to add a third tier so perhaps we could get the capacity increased before going there.
Im sure we could make the big games like the NLD an all stadium event. 90k person crowd for the NLD? Count me in for flying out for that one....as long as 80k+ are Spurs fans.
The only way I could see the FA doing it would be if we had a potentially historic match that they'd want it to be full for in terms of prestige - if we were in the title race in May and had a chance of lifting the league or if we were playing at home in the second leg of a Champions League semi-final maybe.It won't be a "half empty stadium". The entire lower tier will be full and the entire upper tier will be unused. It's not as if there will be gaps and empty seats.
And we're unlikely to be able to open the upper tier for selected events, because there is a limit in the planning consent for the stadium on the number of those they can have per year and every one we have means lost income for the stadium owners.
So we have to pay 15m to rent Wembley but the screaming irons only pay 2m a year rent....
So dodgy.
The only way I could see the FA doing it would be if we had a potentially historic match that they'd want it to be full for in terms of prestige - if we were in the title race in May and had a chance of lifting the league or if we were playing at home in the second leg of a Champions League semi-final maybe.
I think you've misunderstood. The Irons are West Ham, who are paying £2m for The Olympic Stadium. Both Spurs and Chelsea are reported to have offered £15m for Wembley. So Wembley/The FA aren't favouring either club, it was just a comparison with the deal West Ham have negotiated for The Olympic Stadium and how, despite protestations, it appears West Ham have achieved a hugely favourable (and not at-all) commercial deal.So dodgy it won't be true.
Wembley can not be seen to favour one club over the other so those figures are simply impossible.
But Yankspurs said it wouldn't happen, what the hell?!Looks like the NFL rumours/speculation were correct!
While they don't say any more you'd have to say that we're the favourites. It's hard to believe they'd pick anywhere else