Rorschach
Sonny Walters
I think it's a bit OTT. We all know it is a shelf.
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Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - Licence To Stand
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Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
I've not read anything since the Audi rumour a fortnight or so ago. Maybe we'll wait till after the world cup when it might get noticed?
Bullet
Andy Thompson
I hope it is well reinforced; presuming a LOT of blokes are going to stand on that shelf and proclaim "I stood on the shelf". What are the brackets for, torpedoes?
Sandman
Jermaine Jenas
Its almost laughable they are calling it the shelf anyway. You can see its bricks from the update to the East Stand from Worcestor Avenue so has not actually to do with the Shelf as that was destroyed when they updated the East Stand even though they left a little bit of the terracing behind.
That being said though. The inside of our stadium looks much better than most. A reason reason to come in hours before the game and stay until it starts and stay after as well. With nice restaurants and breweries and not the normal swill they serve us.
On a related note. The new South Stand. Would be nice if that was called the Shelf. I know its not the same side etc but it would be nice to resurrect that name and it be part of the new stadium going forward.
That being said though. The inside of our stadium looks much better than most. A reason reason to come in hours before the game and stay until it starts and stay after as well. With nice restaurants and breweries and not the normal swill they serve us.
On a related note. The new South Stand. Would be nice if that was called the Shelf. I know its not the same side etc but it would be nice to resurrect that name and it be part of the new stadium going forward.
Gazza
Frederic Kanoute
The east stand is often referred to the shelf in all new marketing for the be stadium
Sandman
Jermaine Jenas
That is a shame. The East side of the new Stadium is not going to be the Hub of the singing. Its obviously going to be the new South Stand. And it looks like a massive shelf so would fit a lot better.
for them using the east stand to refer to it as the Shelf just shows they do not know the history correctly.
Gazza
Frederic Kanoute
Sorry mate the south stand is often referred to "the wall of sound" ... they got a cheese room to accommodate to these levels
Sandman
Jermaine Jenas
you may be right. My memory is a little hazy. I seem to remember them keeping the bricks up where the boxes started and then replacing the rest. But I might be wrong.
But my main point was that the rear wall of the East Stand is not the shelf anyway. It was the terracing slabs not the bricks of the whole stand. Its not like the Kop, where the whole
stand was considered the Shelf. It was just the middle tier of standing. It was only in later years after they basically removed it for the boxes that the lower tier started to sing "shelf side" even though technically it was wrong.
The shelf is from before my time mate so im certainly not speaking with authority on the matter - though i don't see anything wrong in using the bricks from the stand/side known by nickname as The Shelf Side in this way - even though i understand what you're saying re the actual shelf being different to The East Stand itself
mephitis
Niko Kranjcar
Well I can remember driving past it one evening around Christmas time in the 60s, my first "visit" to The Lane. Remember thinking at the time that it looked like a factory but it's a memory that's stuck and the reason I had a tear in my eye when that rainbow appeared on the last day.
thfcsteff
George Hunt
In fairness to the club, the East Stand in this new stadium follows some very similar lines and shapes to our more recent East Stands/Shelf-side. There IS a small "shelf" of seating, and whilst it certainly is not the old AL-designed OG Shelf (on which I had a season-ticket) I think it is a key part of making the new stadium unique and not just another, cookie-cutter bowl a la the deathstar. It is a proper stand with proper angles! I think they have every tight to continue the association. As for the South Stand being the singing hub, over the decades that has always seemed to be, even when the Paxton was our "home end" many many years ago. Even the last twenty year+, with the Paxton being our home end and the Park Lane split, the noise always came from the Park Lane. I think they have it right.
MKSpur
Christian Ziege
And follows you everywhere and looks like nice brick after you’ve finished playing!
Helps support the blades of "grass" and gives it a more natural bounce.
Daisuk
Dimitar Berbatov
And its supposedly carcinogenic as fudge!