Spurs’ new stadium

[Father Paul]

City Watch@City_Watch
City are seriously concerned about what state the Wembley pitch will be in when they play Tottenham, with the rescheduled match taking place 24 hours after an NFL game. The delay also means City may have to play 3 games in 6 days (Spurs, Carabao Cup R4, Southampton). [Daily Mail]
4:46 PM . Sep 3, 2018

If this is the case, then we must say no.

Why? Apart from our fans who are been fucked about mindlessly what can we complain about. When else do we play the game? If the pitch is not playable the game will be called off. Probably it will be a bit difficult but it is the same for both teams and will may help us more than Spurs. The Carabao game is a bit of a pain but we can field an entirely different team and probably still win assuming of course we actually get to the next round. Again sorry for our fans but no complaints otherwise it is what it is.

 

[Don Howe]

wrote a few furious paragraphs on matter - probably all been mentioned on here already....

https://www.patreon.com/posts/spurs-stadium-21196871

 

[waspish]

Why? Apart from our fans who are been fucked about mindlessly what can we complain about. When else do we play the game? If the pitch is not playable the game will be called off. Probably it will be a bit difficult but it is the same for both teams and will may help us more than Spurs. The Carabao game is a bit of a pain but we can field an entirely different team and probably still win assuming of course we actually get to the next round. Again sorry for our fans but no complaints otherwise it is what it is.

Whose fault is it that the game will be played on a piss poor pitch? Why should City or spurs chance a bad injury? It’s a disgrace.

 

[St.Pauli support]

1 club, 1 stadium. That's the rule. For some good reason.
Spurs were allowed to break the rule, for err.. financial reasons.

Spurs were allowed to start a season without a home ground.
Spurs were allowed to start a season without a home ground.
Spurs were allowed to start a season without a home ground, as absurd as it sounds.

100% responsible for this situation - and as it seems it will go on like that into 2019 -
is Richard Scudamore, PL Executive Chairman, would be my guess.

What does he say about his decision?

 

[gkmcfc]

What really irks me is that Spurs must've known the stadium wouldn't be ready and instead led the Premier League a merry dance over what was going on. Fans should be compensated and shouldn't be out of pocket over this and Spurs deserve to be fined or even have points deducted. At the end of the day, they're breaking Premier League rules.

 

[tedmak]

City have no legal (or moral) obligation on this but I cannot feel that they are missing a trick.
If they refunded anyone who booked a train ticket to Euston between the match being announced by Sky and then Spurs making the stadium announcement (and who had a seasoncard number), they would be refunding, what, 500 people tops?
Cant see how that could have come to more than £30k.
The free coach down is a nice gesture but it is of no use to the person who now cannot make the Monday.

Does seem a strange thing to diminish goodwill of the most loyal supporters.

My ire is more with Spurs, however, but I suppose Levy would't want to chip in as he has irate supporters who have been severely put out and would want similar treatment.

On a slightly different note - says a lot about the league that the United/Everton match has been shifted as well.
What sort of league disturbs 4 sets of fans when one match has to be postponed?

 

[MAG]

City have no legal (or moral) obligation on this but I cannot feel that they are missing a trick.
If they refunded anyone who booked a train ticket to Euston between the match being announced by Sky and then Spurs making the stadium announcement (and who had a seasoncard number), they would be refunding, what, 500 people tops?
Cant see how that could have come to more than £30k.
The free coach down is a nice gesture but it is of no use to the person who now cannot make the Monday.

Does seem a strange thing to diminish goodwill of the most loyal supporters.

My ire is more with Spurs, however, but I suppose Levy would't want to chip in as he has irate supporters who have been severely put out and would want similar treatment.

On a slightly different note - says a lot about the league that the United/Everton match has been shifted as well.
What sort of league disturbs 4 sets of fans when one match has to be postponed?

It's not a matter of legal (or moral) requirement or what the relative ££ amount could be ... it's a dangerous precedence to set ... they do it once, then they're bad for not doing it the next time ... and we all know this ain't the first time (nor the last) that a fixture is being changed for whatever reason after being confirmed already ...

Wait till we draw a team in LeagueCup R4 (if we beat Oxford United first of course) that CAN play on the Thursday then we'd be moving that Southampton game a day later to the Sunday ... or if we draw one of the big boys with CL game next Tuesday, who can't move their weekend fixtures then we'd be playing Wednesday ...

This is what pisses me the biggest about this scenario, we'd be having to play Monday and Wednesday (which obviously be a weakened and heavily rotated team) thus hindering out chances in the first trophy of the season ...

 

[Gray]

Football's new mantra = "Fuck the Fans".

 

[lancs blue]

Football's new mantra = "Fuck the Fans".

There's nothing "new" about it unfortunately.

 

[tedmak]

It's not a matter of legal (or moral) requirement or what the relative ££ amount could be ... it's a dangerous precedence to set ... they do it once, then they're bad for not doing it the next time ... and we all know this ain't the first time (nor the last) that a fixture is being changed for whatever reason after being confirmed already ...

Wait till we draw a team in LeagueCup R4 (if we beat Oxford United first of course) that CAN play on the Thursday then we'd be moving that Southampton game a day later to the Sunday ... or if we draw one of the big boys with CL game next Tuesday, who can't move their weekend fixtures then we'd be playing Wednesday ...

This is what pisses me the biggest about this scenario, we'd be having to play Monday and Wednesday (which obviously be a weakened and heavily rotated team) thus hindering out chances in the first trophy of the season ...

I hear you and don't disagree with you.
The PL rules are not sufficient. Under no situation on the EPL rules are City or the fans made whole for another party's error. The most viable solution for the whole weekend was to play at London stadium imho.