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McDermot Exit Won’t Effect Smashed Olive’s Pizza Sales: This Was Never Primarily A Football Stadium Anyway [opinion]

By The Boy -

I commend you to read this piece from Forbes that uses linguistic fancy footwork to distance Daniel Levy from the footballing disaster that’s clearly unfolding at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

Financially, things for ENIC could not be better. Of course, it’s not impossible for things to be better, I mean an alien spaceship could land in Mr. Levy’s parking space at the stadium this evening and leave skip full of used notes behind, but beyond that…

As far as “our” football is concerned, this site has made a rather convincing case for it being an afterthought, in ENIC’s brave new world. Surely even the staunchest fans of Mauricio Pochettino and Daniel Levy are having difficulties reconciling that particular curveball?!

Look, refuse to listen to me. Listen to one of Levy’s enforcers, this was NEVER primarily about football.

“It is an NFL stadium and that’s the key message. From the very start during the design phase, we have had the NFL in mind. The anchor tenant is Tottenham Hotspur, but this is designed to be a permanent home for the NFL outside the US.”

Is being anchor tenant necessarily a bad thing, I am mean, really? “Anchor tenant” used to mean something in retail once upon a time. They were stores that were never going anywhere, like House of Fraser, HMV, British Home Stores, and Debenhams. Times change.

Today, John McDermott bailed on Spurs. The list of personnel that also clearly didn’t buy into ENIC’s brave new world makes for uncomfortable reading. It includes Kyle Walker, Christian Eriksen and anyone else that declined to sign for us recently, including sponsors of the stadium itself. It also remains strange that the NFL is still reluctant to commit to more than 2 games per season.

What does the future hold? Not very much football-wise, one might reasonably speculate.

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Tappaspur
Tappaspur
4 years ago
Reply to  Tappaspur

And contribute to 20% of Haringeys council tax. I should recommend to Haringeys councillor Jo to maybe put it up a bit. But not now though. When the real money starts Rolling in, which won’t be till the Oxbridge lot sort out the thing.

Tappaspur
Tappaspur
4 years ago
Reply to  Tappaspur

TOTTENHAM FOOTBALL IS NEVER GOING AWAY AND WILL ALWAYS TAKE CENTER STAGE IN DEEP ROOTED TOTTENHAM.

Tappaspur
Tappaspur
4 years ago

Football will always be the “maaaaaain event of the eveeeening” at the new place. All other stuff welcome at spurs N17. Proper football and their one on the same day. Love it. “Jerk an ting 185 park lane. Big up all local traders. This is where I’m coming from and how I see it. TOTTENHAM HARINGEY

Harry Hotspur
4 years ago
Reply to  Marbella Spur

Yup

Marbella Spur
Marbella Spur
4 years ago

There are some contributors on this site who have queried the phrase “anchor tenant” which I have also used on a number of occasions to describe the status of our football club. Anybody of integrity, intelligence or talent, whether they be coaches, players, scouts , directors of football or administrators leave THFC once they have realised that it is run by a virus.

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