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Talking about Thudd´s elbow....

"Redknapp said: "I have looked at it. I´d be a liar if I sat here and said I hadn´t seen it, wouldn´t I? I know some managers do that"

Han er genial ham Scotty. Intet mindre.

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RIP Eddie Baily (Alle der har læst The Glory Game kender Eddie)

Hehe godt disket op Ardiles... Kan godt huske at have læst det indlæg og tænkt hold da helt kæft!

Hep Hep, endnu en sejr, hvor vi vinder, selvom vi var bagud - Rafa klart sæsonens bedste køb indtil videre \o/

Revealed: Tottenham´s secret plans to demolish Olympic Stadium and take White Hart Lane blueprint to Stratford

*Club willing to fund athletics venue to fulfill athletics legacy
*Cost of redeveloping Lane has risen from £400m to £460m in two years
*Bulldozing 2012 Stadium and rebuilding cheaper than WHL redevelopment
*Demands of Haringey Council, English Heritage and Transport for London force plan

Tottenham Hotspur have secret plans to completely demolish the Olympic Stadium and take their redeveloped White Hart Lane blueprint to Stratford, Goal.com UK can reveal.

The Premier League club have also indicated their willingness to either fund a purpose-built athletics venue or redevelop the ailing national stadium at Crystal Palace in an attempt to fulfil the athletics legacy that is key to securing the site.

The remarkable proposal, which can be revealed for the first time by Goal.com UK and is described by insiders as highly sensitive, demonstrates the club’s desire to have a viable alternative to rebuilding White Hart Lane.

Goal.com UK understands the cost of building a 56,250-seat stadium adjacent to the current site has risen £60 million to £460m since the project first began two years ago due to the demands of English Heritage, Haringey Council and Transport for London.

Spurs sources estimate that bulldozing the Olympic Stadium, rebuilding it from scratch and funding an athletics venue will be cheaper than staying in north London.

Publicly, Tottenham have not outlined their plans for the 80,000-capacity 2012 venue although the club’s corporate partners, AEG, briefly broke cover last week to reveal that the stadium’s running track would not remain if Spurs emerge as the preferred bidder of the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC).

The club insisted on Wednesday they are simply following the process outlined by OPLC and refused to comment on any specifics.

Nevertheless, it is understood that Spurs do not believe the venue, which is being built without merchandising and hospitality facilities as part of the minimalist design, can meet their requirements and plan to replace it with a new structure that will be better able to cater for football supporters, including a Kop-style one-tier stand and extended provision for the lucrative corporate hospitality sector.

Tottenham sources insist the club’s priority is to offer the supporters a ‘first-rate football experience’ in a ‘proper football stadium’.

The club’s architects, KSS, said they are bound by a confidentiality agreement with Spurs although it is understood they view the Olympic Stadium as ‘entirely inappropriate for Premier League football’.

Tottenham are confident the scheme makes economic sense because they will be able to sell White Hart Lane to property developers and make full use of the excellent transport links that will be in place at the Olympic Stadium.

The support of AEG — the US sports and entertainment company that turned the Millennium Dome from a white elephant to one of the world’s leading concert venues as the O2 Arena — is regarded as crucial to the financial viability of the venue.

AEG, who plan to host concerts at what it views as a bigger version of the O2, rejected the opportunity to get involved in the White Hart Lane redevelopment but is bullish about its chances of securing the stadium and claimed last week that its partnership with Spurs was the only one that could meet the venue’s commercial potential. The firm have questioned whether rival bidders West Ham would be able to fill a 60,000-seat venue.

One of the sticking points with redeveloping White Hart Lane, which won planning approval a fortnight ago, is the growing cost of funding the upgrading of rail, road, tube and walkway links in the borough.

Spurs are angry that they are being effectively asked to fund the redevelopment of one of the most deprived boroughs in London.

Costs include £3m to redesign the roads around the stadium, £1.23m to implement a Controlled Parking Zone, £1.17m for improved walkways, £300,000 for signage, £1.2m to improve the walking route to White Hart Lane station, £1.36m to build another lane on both sides of Tottenham High Road and £361,000 on improving cycle routes.

But the biggest sticking point is TfL’s demand for a contribution of £5.6m towards upgrading Tottenham Hale station. Spurs have offered £1.3m.

At the same time, Spurs will have to foot the bill to refurbish four historic buildings outside White Hart Lane. Furthermore, the club have been forced to reduce the number of residential units planned to be built to help fund the stadium project from 500 to 200.

Although Tottenham released a statement last week saying their preference remains a redevelopment of White Hart Lane, sources say it is a ’50-50’ split between the two options.

It was widely believed that Tottenham wanted to move into the Olympic Stadium and dump the running track but news that the club intend to knock the entire structure down and rebuild it from scratch without a running track will send shockwaves through football in London.

By comparison, West Ham, who have bid jointly with Newham Borough Council to secure a 120-year lease from OPLC, intend to sub-let the ground to a mixture of international athletics, county cricket and community sport. West Ham’s proposal involves retaining the original structure of the £516m stadium, but reducing its capacity to 60,000 by spacing out the seats.

OPLC is scheduled to come up with final shortlist by November before earmarking a preferred bidder in either December or January and reaching a settled position in March.

“Bidding for the long-term lease of the Olympic Stadium is now closed and the Olympic Park Legacy Company will review the bids over the coming weeks to create a shortlist for formal negotiations,” a spokesperson said.
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Haringey fights to keep Spurs stadium in Northumberland Park

By Elizabeth Pears »

HARINGEY Council officers are working to iron out a financial agreement between themselves and Tottenham Hotspur to ensure the club stays in the borough.

Council leader Claire Kober said talks were ongoing between themselves, Spurs, Transport for London and mayor Boris Johnson who has final say on the £400 million development.

Spurs have clashed with Transport for London (TfL) over the amount of money it wants the club to contribute to improving transport links at Tottenham Hale.

TfL, chaired by London mayor Boris Johnson, has asked for £3million while Tottenham Hotspur are currentl only prepared to donate £2million.

Cllr Kober said: "This is a massive development for Tottenham, and a huge amount of work has gone into it over the past two years.

"We resolved to grant planning permission, and council officers are now working continuously on finalising the scheme and bringing the development to Tottenham."

Officers have until December to get the Section 106 legal agreement signed otherwise the entire application will collapse.

Spurs stunned the community by revealing they planned to bid for the Olympic Stadium, in Stratford, the day after a Haringey planning committee approved its application to build a 53,000 seat stadium, three-storey supermarket and new homes in Northumberland Park.

It would bring hundreds of jobs to the borough and also boost the trade of existing businesses, the committee heard.

Unanimous approval came following two years of negotiations to ensure the £400million scheme would bring maximum benefit to the borough.

On Monday it was revealed that UK Athletics lent its support to West Ham, whose home is east London, who first expressed interested in taking on the Olympic stadium after London 2012.

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