White Hart Lane
As Spurs booked their much expected semi-final place a Wembley Stadium, the key today was not the dismantling of a League One side - that was never in question, it was that this FA Cup tie is the last to be played at White Hart Lane.
White Hart Lane saw six of the best to blow past Millwall with a 6-0 win but the significance was this begins the final games that will be played at the ground that connects the 19th Century to the 21st Century - the ground was opened in 1899 and for Tottenham supporters over the years is a bedrock of great memories and great moments, especially on the great European nights under the floodlights, the Lane was a special place.
While a 36,000 capacity made it small by European big boy standards, it is the Tottenham supporters that combined with the smaller size of the Lane created really special moments.
While Tottenham fans have kept the spirit of the football fan alive and well and they travel in their thousands to away games all over the world, the reality of the Premier League is that it is financed by billions of dollars of corporate deals and transfer values of individual players create transfer windows that now are billion pound investment trade, so it is no longer practical to see football as the game of the people - it is today equally the game of billionaires.Whatever the naming rights are once the new stadium is built in the 2018-19 season, there was only one name for Tottenham fans and it was White Hart Lane. In the new future, stadium naming rights can bring in as much as 400 million, to pay for a stadium that will eventually escalate in cost double of that. Another 200 million sit in the form of Spurs two geniunely developing world-class players in Harry Kane and Dele Alli, so depending on things, financing is covered.
As Spurs wait to see who they play in Wembley, they know from Champions League experience (also something that affected Arsenal when they temporarily played at Wembley) that their results are so much better at White Hart Lane and abysmal to date at Wembley Stadium. That is a concern because the next season will see HOME games being played at Wembley. If ever this team needs to learn how to win away from White Hart Lane, it is now.
There are now less than a dozen games left to play at White Hart Lane. Every one of those games will be special, and it will be made even sweeter if Chelsea begin to collapse in form. That seems unlikely but then comebacks have been the recent trend in sports including the incredible comeback by Barcelona to overcome a 0-4 first leg deficit. The FA Cup does represent a statement that Spurs fans know Mauricio Pochettino must win or could win, as we say farewell.
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CityVP Manjit
7 years ago #1
It is the fans that make any sports team special and if the stadium change respects their energy it is progress, but in the case of Arsenal, they built a stadium that does not transmit the energy of fans. Tottenham have learned that lesson in the design of their state-of-the-art new stadium. Ultimately the big loss is that like American sports franchises, the game is less about its working class roots and more about the marketing machine and owners. It is the gentrification of the sports team which mirrors the loss of vitality and heart which cities like San Fransisco are experiencing when digital elites began to buy it up. So long as there are fans that are actually supporters and players that have values more than a multi-million dollar contract, the game can continue to produce new moments of magic and a new history. Sport today is the providence of the rich and yet the poor are remarkably loyal, still finding ways of paying for season tickets that represent a lot of their personal earnings. On the whole Tottenham fans will be happy with the new stadium, for years Tottenham could not compete against teams with bigger grounds, the question is whether that changes the lack of success Tottenham fans have had to put up with in recent years with a bigger stadium. We will soon see. The owners of Tottenham are an investment company and initially understood investment more than they understood football. That shows signs of changing but proof is in the nature of the investment decision - where sports is sweet is when the organization is great leadership off and on the field.