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Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - Licence To Stand
- Thread starter Jordinho
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Because you can then see what's happening there. White Hart Lane had it and Wembley has it. Even the brickhole we're currently playing in has it. I'm not up to speed on the rest, but old grounds often have it in the main stand.
DeleHarry
Jose Dominguez
If there is anything worthwhile happening on the benches then it doesn't matter where the cameras are facing they will pick it up. Other than that the cameras follow the action and not the benches so we see very little of them anyway.
All the major clubs have the tv cameras facing away from the benches.
Legohamster
Cecil Poynton
Think they changed the angle but it was always from the East stand
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
The vast majority of stadiums have the cameras in the west stands, because of the afternoon sun (nearly all pitches run north-south for the same reason). WHL was quite unusual having them on the east.
Daisuk
Les Medley
They've filmed from the East Stand for as long as I can remember (early 90's). The lower camera angle was a recent thing though (something they started toying with a few years back with 3D TV's in mind or some gonad*s).
Sandman
Dean Austin
They always had the Cameras on the East Side. Back before we built the massive two decker Executive stand West Stand the old stand was just not open enough so the cameras were always on the Shelf Side East Stand attached to the upper tier. Then when they redeveloped them they stayed there is various angles. So as long as I can remember ( from early 80's ) they have been on the East.
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Goes right back to the 60s actually. In the very earliest days there was no gantry or anything so the cameras were simply plonked in amongst the crowd at the front of the Shelf in line with the centre circle.
Because it was such a novelty then I still have a clear memory of being stood among those right next to the camera crew for a European night in 1961 when we drew with Feyenoord.
We'd won the first leg 3-1 at their gig so the return at WHL was pretty flat. It was a really frustrating watch but despite this we could hear Kenneth Wolstenholme, the BBC commentator doing his best to make it all sound very exciting. At the end of the game he mingled with the crowd so we all gave him a hard time letting him know exactly how we felt about it. But KW wasn't having it, insisting it was a great game and how it made for great TV. In those early days there was no live tv (except of course for major events like the the FA Cup Final) so only the highlights would have been shown later that night.*
I think by the following season a gantry had been erected for the TV cameras and crew just below and in front of the top deck of the East Stand.
*Edit: just read on Wiki that ITV actually started showing live games in '60-61 but the BBC were still only allowed to show brief highlights.
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SteveAWOL
Colin Calderwood
Wonder if there’s provision for being able to upgrade to a full on Krasnodar style wraparound screen in the future, might help attract major music acts to perform at our new gaff and add some more dosh to the transfer coffers!
Hidden
Luke Young
And this fantastic stadium won't be used during WC18...
CanberraSpur
David Kerslake
It is below the minimum capacity required by FIFA.And this fantastic stadium won't be used during WC18...
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Luke Young
Yeah, I know, but this wasn't the main reason as its capacity could have been expanded while it was being built...
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
It needs to be dark anyway. If it's glass and the sun can get in that will lose the enclosed feeling and affect the atmosphere
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
On this week's timelapse, the raking on Park Lane is all finished now and the ring thing round the back has filled about half the gap that was there. I'd imagine the outer ring will be complete by the end of this week.
All the cabling for the roof lift is on the pitch already. This, from Atletico's stadium, is kind of what will happen next. The estimates are that getting the cabling pulled up will take 2 weeks, followed by 10 weeks filling in all the panels.
PochettinoPochettinoPochettino
Serge Aurier
The roof looks like it is pretty much close to being erected (ooooh matron). The steel to support those elastic bands that will pull the cardboard roof onto the top seems to be nearly complete.