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Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - Licence To Stand
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SteveAWOL
Andy Thompson
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
We haven't taken a good corner since Anderton was here, so it's maybe a tactical thing to give us an advantage
Bedfordspurs
Martin Peters
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Baleforce
Ron Henry
and demand a full and believable explanation
BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
The gap between pitch and slope is way bigger at OT than our stadium. I don’t think any weird perspective stuff is happening to make that the case, it just is much bigger.
For the people saying this is a non-issue, just try running up a slope before kicking a ball precisely at the point where the ground turns flat and see how easy that is. Or try rolling your ankle after running at pace in the angle the slope is right by the pitch and tell me it doesn’t hurt.
I am assuming the club haven’t just overlooked the pitch size to slope ratio in all of their very specific planning, of course. But I am also curious as to what exactly the solution is. Having absolutely no run up to take a corner without falling backwards down a hill would be ridiculous, as would forcing us never to be able to take in swingers. Do the slopes rise to pitch level on game day?
BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
To be clear, I’m not talking about the steepness of the slope itself. It could be ten feet for all I care. I’m talking about the amount of flat space after the pitch before the slope begins. It looks like there is hardly any and I don’t see how any player could take a decent corner. It certainly precludes a long throw in too which would help us, but it’s funny that a stadium is precluding certain football moves by design.
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StephenH
David Ginola
This wins the raffle for me...
Unbelievable when you think of the cost of this stadium.
It beggars belief!
Robbo
Les Ferdinand
BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
Crisis over, I knew I had seen the explanation somewhere and I found the video:
BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
I’m not sure, but it certainly looks in that video that players are walking out onto a flat surface, and that the areas by the corners are raised. I would hope that it is raised and what we saw yesterday wasn’t the match day setup, but until we see a test match we can’t be sure I guess.
BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
Like why would you build it so even when raised you still left a slope? That would just be silly.
StephenH
David Ginola
It’s not a ‘big big deal’ but I would be bloody fuming if I was Daniel and was not correct!
BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
Personally I’d be fuming too. Like literally not having space to take a corner on the new state of the art stadium...it would be ridiculous. But there also isnt really space for a lino to safely sprint up the line, so I’m 90% sure they just need to raise the level and it will all be fine.
Gazza
Nick Barmby
Sorry pal you are not that important for Spurs to feel the need to convince you. Im sure if the engineers built this stadium they would have got these details right also.
Daisuk
Les Medley
It's a bit weird, because it looks like the flaps on the sidelines are fine or as they should be (from the pics from yesterday), but the flaps around the corner flag and behind the goal line don't look elevated enough compared to that video.