Re: Northumberland Development Project - Archway Have Appealed
I can't see how we can finalise any temporary groundshare without knowing when or if we need it. Archway could win their appeal or more likely drag it on with further appeals. We can't be sure which season we will need an alternative home. I'd be more inclined to believe a story that was about provisional deals and tentative time-frames.
That's my view as well, that until the Archway biz is resolved how can we have a time scale for a ground share?
If/when it does happen I hope it's at the OS with West Ham, as I think that's the best way forward for that one season, maybe two if things go wrong, which is surely possible.
Incidentally, one of the things I did agree with ENIC was that our best option was to build our new stadium at Stratford. All those people who protested and said we must stay in Tottenham, I wonder if any have changed their feelings now considering the problems the NDP has had, and that we surely would have finished the stadium at Stratford long before we do at the 'new Lane'.
Of course, it turns out the club were played as mugs in order to get us to bid for the OS when we had no real chance of winning. Thus allowing West Ham an easy win over us that they've milked for years now, and will be loving it when they have a new stadium and we're where? Who knows, not me.
14 years ago ENIC took over this club, 14 years later we have no more capacity than we did then. It's almost for sure now that sometime in 2017 West Ham will have a bigger stadium than us, so we will have slipped to fourth biggest stadium in London football, as well as third biggest club in London under ENIC. Indeed in the medium term outlook, it's my guess we'll be more likely fighting off West Ham to hang on to our '3rd biggest' tag, rather than challenging Arsenal or Chelsea for second biggest, assuming we're still with ENIC that is.