Astonishing new stadium brings hope and fear to Tottenham Hotspur | Barney Ronay
Tottenham’s new stadium is a place of wonder underpinned by a crushing anxiety for team success and the money it brings
Welcome back then, Tottenham Hotspur. If the idea was to create something that felt unmistakably like home then the players did their best in the first half against Crystal Palace, producing a performance shot through with anxiety, met by intermittent waves of dread from the home crowd. Hello darkness, my old friend. You can take the twitchy blue-and-white shirts out of White Hart Lane, but you can’t take the Spurs out of Spurs.
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