Spurs’ new stadium

I went last night and honestly I am not sure what I thought of the place.

As an away fan I thought
  • Access to the away end was piss poor either going up a busy road that still allowed cars or through or a covered sainsburys car park,
  • Entry into the ground was what we should have tbf with metal detectors in abundamce to check you prior to getting near the turnstyles, if we had the same say just after the green fences peoole could go through security then mil about and we in theory wouldn't get queues
  • Their turnsyles were an easy jib with the way they are( saw 2 lads run through last night )
  • The away concourse was nowt special still as compact and crowded as any other, not that impressive but the use of sheet steel did make for good noise generation with it being banged on like a drum
  • Toilets were nice but not fit for a football crowd, troffs are better suited and the floor was quickly full of piss and water.
  • Pitchside it is very impressive and the kop end best stand in the country imho
  • Acoustics excellent and even on a quiet day would sound bouncing
  • View and closeness to pitch is very much like an old ground and godd
  • Rail seating, now I am all for it but had mixed feelings with this experience, for me seats seemed more enclosed and tighter, as a replacement for standing in your seat i prefer how we are in the SS now it didn't feel like terracing and really only open terracing would.
  • Leaving the ground took a while but I think it is designed that way for crowd control
Overall I would say 8.5/10 a great stadium and pisses on most modern ones.
 
urban genie said:
I went last night and honestly I am not sure what I thought of the place.

As an away fan I thought
  • Access to the away end was piss poor either going up a busy road that still allowed cars or through or a covered sainsburys car park,
  • Entry into the ground was what we should have tbf with metal detectors in abundamce to check you prior to getting near the turnstyles, if we had the same say just after the green fences peoole could go through security then mil about and we in theory wouldn't get queues
  • Their turnsyles were an easy jib with the way they are( saw 2 lads run through last night )
  • The away concourse was nowt special still as compact and crowded as any other, not that impressive but the use of sheet steel did make for good noise generation with it being banged on like a drum
  • Toilets were nice but not fit for a football crowd, troffs are better suited and the floor was quickly full of piss and water.
  • Pitchside it is very impressive and the kop end best stand in the country imho
  • Acoustics excellent and even on a quiet day would sound bouncing
  • View and closeness to pitch is very much like an old ground and godd
  • Rail seating, now I am all for it but had mixed feelings with this experience, for me seats seemed more enclosed and tighter, as a replacement for standing in your seat i prefer how we are in the SS now it didn't feel like terracing and really only open terracing would.
  • Leaving the ground took a while but I think it is designed that way for crowd control
Overall I would say 8.5/10 a great stadium and pisses on most modern ones.
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Just add to that having the bar straight in front as you went in just created a bottleneck
 
Nice stadium. They really raised the atmosphere to another level but amount of hospitality would not be a fit for our fan base. Correct about the bottleneck it was really poor pushing through a crowd at the bar to get to 115.
 
I agree with @urban genie and was surprised by the space (or lack there of) in the concourse. I'd say it was less than ours on ground level and I was expecting something more akin to Wembley or Arsenal. Despite this, I was impressed by how many bars there were in that space and particularly how many staff they had working, so it didn't take long to get served. The sausage roll was up there with the best.

Access is a bit difficult but thats an inherent problem of its location. Access is always going to be easier at new stadiums built in the middle of nowhere but then there is no other infrastructure around them.

From the seat, you did feel close to the pitch and the single tiered stand looks good and at times generated a lot of noise. It would be better if the top of it was squared off rather than curved though.

We'll never get open terraces in English football, but I quite liked having the bar in front to lean on at times. I didn't sit down at any point, but looked like there would have been comfortable leg room.

My only other criticism is that they ran out of beer at half time, which is frankly unforgivable in a £1bn stadium.
 
cptaidan88 said:
I agree with @urban genie and was surprised by the space (or lack there of) in the concourse. I'd say it was less than ours on ground level and I was expecting something more akin to Wembley or Arsenal. Despite this, I was impressed by how many bars there were in that space and particularly how many staff they had working, so it didn't take long to get served. The sausage roll was up there with the best.

Access is a bit difficult but thats an inherent problem of its location. Access is always going to be easier at new stadiums built in the middle of nowhere but then there is no other infrastructure around them.

From the seat, you did feel close to the pitch and the single tiered stand looks good and at times generated a lot of noise. It would be better if the top of it was squared off rather than curved though.

We'll never get open terraces in English football, but I quite liked having the bar in front to lean on at times. I didn't sit down at any point, but looked like there would have been comfortable leg room.

My only other criticism is that they ran out of beer at half time, which is frankly unforgivable in a £1bn stadium.
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That’s becasue the testing wasn’t completed with a bunch of alky Mancs
 
cptaidan88 said:
My only other criticism is that they ran out of beer at half time, which is frankly unforgivable in a £1bn stadium.
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A £1bn stadium with its own brewery , Mr Levy quite literally couldn't arrange a piss up in a brewery it seems.
 
I felt as though I was in a space age stadium surrounded by Third World transport infrastructure.

The capacity has virtually doubled yet I saw no evidence of improved roads or rail networks.

Our coach started to move at 10:15, and by 11:15, we had travelled 100 yards. In fact, we didn't reach the ETIHAD until 4am.

Amazingly, I got home earlier from Thomas Cook day trips to Napoli and Juventus.
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
I felt as though I was in a space age stadium surrounded by Third World transport infrastructure.

The capacity has virtually doubled yet I saw no evidence of improved roads or rail networks.

Our coach started to move at 10:15, and by 11:15, we had travelled 100 yards. In fact, we didn't reach the ETIHAD until 4am.

Amazingly, I got home earlier from Thomas Cook day trips to Napoli and Juventus.
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We drove an parked at enfield town and train in, was fine enough but going back was a fuck up the stewards at the station all giving different information as where to go to get trains, trains were rammed but I agree double the size of the ground but not update the transport links.
Was always gonna be an issue in such a built up area though
 
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Scaring Europe to Death said:
I felt as though I was in a space age stadium surrounded by Third World transport infrastructure.

The capacity has virtually doubled yet I saw no evidence of improved roads or rail networks.

Our coach started to move at 10:15, and by 11:15, we had travelled 100 yards. In fact, we didn't reach the ETIHAD until 4am.

Amazingly, I got home earlier from Thomas Cook day trips to Napoli and Juventus.
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Not much better driving pal I got in at 3-10am then knocked the vase off as it was dark??? Saw light go on and thought fuck but all was good!!! She’d never liked it apparently anyway
 
Indaparkside said:
Not much better driving pal I got in at 3-10am then knocked the vase off as it was dark??? Saw light go on and thought fuck but all was good!!! She’d never liked it apparently anyway
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I would still buy her another though, mate.

Just in case she changes her mind ;)
 
I managed to blag corporate tickets behind our fans. Great looking stadium and the noise was really good when it got going. I had some handy parking 10 mins away but it looked like organised chaos heading back into central London. Can see there being problems at tastier fixtures against Arsenal, West Ham or Chelsea given the modest segregation between corporate and away fans around the corner - high wall and glass screen that wouldn't stop a determined thug. Corporate lounge had a feel of NFL about but very nice - felt quite crowded though and staff didn't really know what they were doing.

Head hit the pillow in Warrington at 2.45am. Thanks to the knobs who decided to reduce the Nth Circular down to 1 lane from 3 for roadworks and a well timed closure of the M6 meant for a detour towards Tamworth.
 
I wish we had a giant single tier’d stand like theirs but along the side like we used to have at
Maine Road.

A new Kippax along the East Stand.

City culture and all that.

It’d be the main thing you’d see on the tv cameras airing our games n’all.

I can dream on...
 
Bigg Bigg Blue said:
We were in block 117 on row 6 and could not see the corner flag to our left, piss poor in a new ground.
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We were on row 20 in 117 and the view along the near touchline wasn't great.
We parked at Cheshunt and got train to Northumberland Park. We'd heard it was hammered after the game last week so we walked to Tottenham Hale after the game (about 25 minutes) and got first train. - Not a great walk when surrounded by giddy twats.
Then the M25 was closed, the M25/M1 northbound junction was closed, the M6 was closed at Coventry and the M1 also had a closure. Eventually went round the M1 detour and over Woodhead as we had a drop-off in Ashton. Got home at 4-15.
 
The single tiered stand behind the goal was impressive. The rest of the ground to me resembled a baseball stadium: the lower tier didn't have that many rows in and the gradient was quite shallow. (Some people who were in the lower rows along the side on our coach said they couldn't see when the ball was down the other end and ended up watching on the big screen). There were 2 middle tiers of corporate and then a larger upper tier. To me if you are spending £1bn on a football stadium you'd want 4 steep stands close to the pitch (like Dortmund's) not just 1 . It's apparent the stadium isn't just for football but maybe the NFL has had too much influence. With a more substantial lower tier, the stadium could easily have a capacity of 70k+

Going through the security arch metal detectors worked quite well when we went in and they had space for them, although apparently they were used inconsistently with people who entered earlier on our coach having to remove coins, keys etc.

The concourse inside reminded me of a cinema and there wasn't that much space. Having card only outlets for food and drink caught me out. It was railed seating in the away section which showed some foresight

We ventured onto Tottenham High Road before the game and it was remarkable how many people were flooding down it, presumably many of them from Seven Sisters. The road was blocked off to traffic for about 500 yards but transport links aren't good there
 
The fuckin clown who ran on pitch near end of game last night.. 2 games into your brand new stadium & you’ve got a lifetime ban?? well played eh :)
 
East Level 2 said:
We were on row 20 in 117 and the view along the near touchline wasn't great.
We parked at Cheshunt and got train to Northumberland Park. We'd heard it was hammered after the game last week so we walked to Tottenham Hale after the game (about 25 minutes) and got first train. - Not a great walk when surrounded by giddy twats.
Then the M25 was closed, the M25/M1 northbound junction was closed, the M6 was closed at Coventry and the M1 also had a closure. Eventually went round the M1 detour and over Woodhead as we had a drop-off in Ashton. Got home at 4-15.
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1 was in 117 row 14 and the view was as you say not fantastic bit some mates were on row 4 and said it was shite.

We went on the M40 back after the M1 north exit closed on the M25 started flashing.
Ridiculois tgat nearly all lanes on every rpute north was closed.
Never left enfield till 11:30 after waiting 35 mins on WHL station for train, got home 3:15
 
urban genie said:
1 was in 117 row 14 and the view was as you say not fantastic bit some mates were on row 4 and said it was shite.

We went on the M40 back after the M1 north exit closed on the M25 started flashing.
Ridiculois tgat nearly all lanes on every rpute north was closed.
Never left enfield till 11:30 after waiting 35 mins on WHL station for train, got home 3:15
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We were going to park at Enfield but my mate works on the railways and he noticed there were more trains to Cheshunt after the game. We got to Cheshunt at 11-00.
You might have done better walking to Seven Sisters to avoid queues but the High Road was Twat City, Arizona after the game.
 
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