While Tottenham Hotspur’s season lurches from one disaster to another on the field, off it they are doing little to ease supporter concern at the direction of their club.
The latest move which is sure to stir unrest among fans is Daniel Levy’s bid to rent Wembley Stadium for one season while work is undertaken on their proposed new home at White Hart Lane.
The Spurs chairman has already failed in an attempt to use Upton Park for the 2016-17 campaign, when West Ham relocate to the Olympic Stadium.
But the prospect of trying to fill 90,000-seater Wembley is one which should trouble followers of the North London club.
Just look at the soulless Champions League campaigns endured by neighbours Arsenal when they used the old Wembley in the late Nineties. Over two seasons they failed to emerge from the group stages and soon returned to Highbury with fans unhappy at the financially-motivated move.
Levy claims Spurs have a waiting list which would take their number of season-ticket holders to in excess of 47,000.
That, however, would still leave 43,000 empty seats inside Wembley were they to switch to the national stadium; such waste would hardly prove conducive to an intimidating atmosphere for the opposition, or indeed inspiring for the ‘hosts’.
Written by Steve Milne
