Your Shout - Stay, even in shadows
Published: 27 January, 2011
I WANT to highlight a few pros and cons to all my fellow Arsenal fans about Tottenham’s pending move away from north London.
Club chairman Daniel Levy told Spurs fans this week that their beloved club is likely to move across the capital even if their bid for the Olympic Stadium is unsuccessful.
On the bright side it means an end to all those Woolwich Arsenal jibes and gives Tottenham the chance to move from within the shadows of a rival that they will never eclipse. Hell, maybe we can even buy White Hart Lane and use it as a training complex or something.
It also means that there will be generations of even more Junior Gunners as children in the area will grow-up with one less
local team to choose from when it comes to picking their club colours.
On a slightly negative note, however, it also suggests that as Arsenal’s fan base in the area increases the chances of actually getting tickets to games will become even more impossible.
I’m led to believe that we already have a waiting list of more than 30,000 fans at the Emirates and the thought of that number rising comes with a bittersweet edge.
Yes, we’ll make more money and be an even more successful club, but most of us will only ever be able to see the team play on television.
So dare I say, maybe it would be better for Spurs to stay in the area so that children growing up in north London have at least one more option, even if it does mean they turn to the dark side.
CHRIS KALLAGHAN, N7